Recent Acquisitions

  1. GARCÍA LORCA, Federico.

    Mariana Pineda. Romance popular en tres...

    Madrid, La Farsa, 1928.

    First edition of Lorca’s first published...

    £450

  2. [BOOKPLATE.]

    Design for an ex libris for Cortlandt...

    c. 1910?

    The aviator, traveller, and book collector...

    £600

  3. [ALMANACK.]

    Revill’s illustrated Pocket Keepsake...

    [London,] Simpkins for M. E. Revill, [1884].

    An unrecorded Christmas gift book, charmingly...

    £225

  4. LEVI-STRAUSS, Claude.

    Le Père Noël supplicié.

    [Paris, Chantenay, 1952.]

    Rare first separate appearance, a presentation...

    £250

  5. LAING, John.

    An account of a voyage to Spitzbergen;...

    [Balfour for], London, J. Mawman and David...

    First edition of Laing’s account of his...

    £850

  6. [JUVENILE.]

    The Weasel Family.

    London, Edinburgh, and New York, T. Nelson...

    First edition, rare, of a rather charming...

    £375

  7. JENKINS, Edward.

    The Devil’s Chain … Twentieth Thousand....

    [Southwark, M’Corquodale and Co. for]...

    A reissue of the illustrated edition, from...

    £100

  8. HARDY, Campbell.

    Sporting Adventures in the New World; or,...

    London, Hurst and Blackett, 1855.

    First edition of this most interesting...

    £575

  9. BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett.

    Poems before Congress …

    London, [Bradbury and Evans for] Chapman...

    First edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s...

    £200

  10. BLANFORD, William Thomas.

    Observations on the Geology and Zoology...

    London, Macmillan and Co., 1870.

    First edition of the geologist and naturalist...

    £300

  11. ARENA, Antoine.

    Antonius de Arena Provençalis de bragardissima...

    London [i.e. Paris, Joseph-Gérard Barbou],...

    A fine copy of the 1758 edition of this...

    £1100

  12. [BENDISCIOLI, Faustino.]

    Quadro ossia saggio epilogato del Sistema...

    Milan, Stamperia [dei Patrioti d’Italia]...

    An impassioned tract attacking the claims...

    £200

  13. ARMINESI, Rocco degli.

    Attila flagelum Dei, tradotto dalla vera...

    Venice, Omobon Bettanino, [mid-eighteenth...

    Very rare eighteenth-century edition of...

    £600

  14. [DODSLEY, Robert, et al.]

    The Oeconomy of Human Life, in two parts,...

    Newport, J. Mallett, 1783.

    Rare printing, undertaken in Newport on...

    £450

  15. [WISHART, George.]

    I. G. de rebus auspiciis serenssimi,...

    [Amsterdam or The Hague,] 1647.

    First edition, rare, a fine-paper copy...

    £1750

  16. TREVLYN, Valda.

    High Death.

    Falkland, K.D. Duval, 1970.

    One of 100 copies of this poem on death...

    £75

  17. ROCHESTER, John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of, Wentworth Dillon ROSCOMMON, 4th Earl of, et al.

    A Collection of Poems: viz. the Temple...

    London, printed for Daniel Brown and Benjamin...

    Fourth edition of the important ‘Temple...

    £500

  18. PITOU, Louis-Ange.

    L’Urne des Stuarts et des Bourbons, ou...

    Paris, [Beraud for] L.A. Pitou, 31 August...

    First and only surviving edition of this...

    £650

  19. [NUNS.]

    [Incipit:] Illustrissimi Sigg. Sigg....

    Florence, 20 March 1784.

    Extremely rare broadside confirming the...

    £450

  20. [NOVARA.]

    [Incipit:] Il vescovo di Novara...

    [Novara], 10 May 1805.

    An apparently unrecorded broadside from...

    £175