Recent Acquisitions
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STANHUF, Michael.
De meteoris libri duo, quorum prior tradit...
Wittenberg, [Johann Krafft for Samuel...
An attractive sammelband of two scarce...
£2750
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SOLVYNS, François Baltazard.
The Costume of Hindostan, elucidated by...
London, W. Bulmer and Co. for Edward...
First edition in book form (originally...
£4500
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RICCI, Matteo, and Nicolas TRIGAULT.
De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas suscepta...
Augsburg, Christoph Mang, 1615.
First edition. The ‘most influential...
£7500
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MÜLLER, Gerhard Friedrich.
Voyages from Asia to America, for completing...
London, T. Jefferys, 1764.
Second edition (first 1761) of this...
£6500
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GOSSELIN, Charles-Robert.
Plan d’éducation, en réponse aux académies...
Amsterdam, 1785.
A most interesting sammelband of three...
£875
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SYKES, Arthur Ashley.
The Duty of Love to God, and to our Neighbours. ...
London, J. Darby & T. Browne for Chelmsford,...
First and only edition of this sermon...
£150
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[BRISTOL.]
The Bristol Contest, being a Collection...
Bristol, ‘sold by the Printing-Office...
Extremely rare first edition of this...
£650
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PELLISSON, [Paul].
Histoire de l’Academie Françoise par...
Amsterdam, Jean Frederic Bernard, 1717.
An attractive prize copy of Pellisson’s...
£150
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LEWIS, Wyndham.
Doom of Youth …
London, Chatto & Windus, 1932.
First English edition, one of Lewis’s...
£2000
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[DENNIS, John, and George DUCKETT?]
Pope Alexander’s Supremacy and Infallibility...
London, J. Roberts, 1729.
First edition, very scarce in commerce,...
£3250
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FAGNANI, Giovanni Marco.
De bello Arriano libri sex.
Milan, heirs of Pacifico da Ponte and...
First and only edition of the sole published...
£900
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[OFFICE OF THE DEAD.]
Uffizio de’ morti, ad uso delle confraternite...
Turin, Bernardino Barberis, 1805.
An apparently unrecorded Turin-printed...
£225
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SUETONIUS, and Isaac CASAUBON (editor).
C. Suetoni Tranquilli De XII. Caesaribus...
Geneva, Etienne Gamonet, 1605.
Second edition of Casaubon’s Suetonius....
£375
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GROTIUS, Hugo.
De veritate religionis Christianae, editio...
[Amsterdam, Jan Jansson?] ‘Juxta exemplar...
A pocket-edition of Grotius’s argument...
£275
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[DODSLEY, Robert, et al.]
The Oeconomy of Human Life, in two parts,...
Newport, J. Mallett, 1783.
Rare printing, undertaken in Newport...
£450
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SMITH, Robert.
The Universal Directory for taking alive...
London, printed for the author, 1768.
First edition of a guide to catching...
£500
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RIDOLFI, Luca Antonio.
Aretefila, dialogo, nel quale da una parte...
Lyons, Guillaume Rouillé, 1562.
Annotated copy, once owned by a music...
£2800
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LEWIS, Wyndham.
America and Cosmic Man.
London and Brussels, Nicholas and Watson...
First edition, second state binding as...
£200
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LEWIS, Wyndham.
The Revenge for Love.
London, Cassell & Co. Ltd., [1937].
First edition, very scarce in the dust-jacket,...
£1250
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MITCHISON, Naomi; Wyndham LEWIS, illustrator.
Beyond this Limit …
[London,] Jonathan Cape, [1935].
First edition. This was Lewis’s only...
£75