Recent Acquisitions
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[ORDE, John Powlett.]
A collection of 111 original compositions...
Eton, 1818–1820.
A delightful insight into classical...
£1750
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[LOVE TOKEN.]
Portrait of a woman wearing photographic...
[1850s].
An ambrotype portrait of a young woman...
£375
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RIDOLFI, Luca Antonio.
Aretefila, dialogo, nel quale da una parte...
Lyons, Guillaume Rouillé, 1562.
The third edition (first 1557) of a...
£2800
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[NUPTIALIA.]
Bartolomeo MOLAJONI. Alla neogama donzella...
Viterbo, brothers Poggiarelli, 1811.
Seemingly unrecorded sonnet addressed...
£275
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MOREL DE RUBEMPRÉ, Joseph.
Les secrets de la génération ou l’art...
chez tous les libraires, [c. 1870].
Joseph Morel de Rubempré’s (1812–86)...
£150
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[LE NOBLE, Pierre, and Eustache LE NOBLE (attributed).]
Les Amours d’Anne d’Austriche, Epouse...
‘A Cologne, Chez Pierre Marteau, 1696’...
An early manuscript copy of a salacious...
£850
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[LA ROCHE, Sophie von.]
Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim. ...
Leipzig, bey Weidmanns Erben und Reich, 1771.
First edition of Sophie von La Roche’s...
£750
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[KRÜDENER, Barbara Juliane de Vietinghoff, Freifrau von.]
Valérie, ou Lettres de Gustave de Linar...
Paris, Henrichs, 1804.
Rare first edition of Valérie,...
£400
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[COURTESAN.]
Les confessions d’une courtisane devenue...
‘London’ and Brussels, Le Francq, 1784.
First edition (another appeared in the...
£850
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BARBARO, Francesco.
De re uxoria libri duo, ut venustate sermonis...
Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1639.
An attractive later edition of this...
£275
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[ANON.]
Le moine galant, ou la vie de Don F…...
[s.n.,] 1756.
Scarce first edition of this satirical...
£450
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GERARDE, John; Thomas JOHNSON, editor.
The Herball or general Historie of Plantes...
London, Printed by Adam Islip, Joice Norton,...
Second edition of Gerard’s Herball,...
£3250
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[RICCI, Pellegrino].
Dissertazione sul costume di suonar le...
Faenza, Lodovico Genestri, 1787.
An attractive copy of this rare dissertation...
£475
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DOLCE, Lodovico.
Somma della filosofia d’Aristotele, e...
Venice, Giovanni Battista, & Marchio Sessa,...
First edition of this exposition of...
£2500
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[DOVES PRESS.]
Pervigilium Veneris.
Hammersmith, ‘printed by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson...
One of 150 copies on paper of the elusive...
£950
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PLINY the Elder.
Historiae mundi libri XXXVII, cum castigationibus...
Frankfurt, Claude de Marne and heirs of...
First Frankfurt edition of Pliny’s...
£1400
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[WISHART, George.]
I. G. de rebus auspiciis serenssimi, &...
[Amsterdam or The Hague,] 1647.
First edition, rare, a fine paper copy...
£1750
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CHEVALIER, André-Joseph, professor; A.J. BERENTS, compiler.
‘Tractatus De Fide, Spe et Charitate...
[Douai, 9 March – 4 August] 1787.
A manuscript treatise concerning the...
£375
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[THOMAS À KEMPIS.]
Messer Giovanni Gerson. Utile & divota...
Florence, Piero Pacini da Pescia, 16 April...
Scarce edition of an anonymous Italian...
£4000
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[VALLI, Francesco di Andrea.]
Manuscript receipt book.
Villa di Vaglie, Cortona, 1735-1767.
An interesting manuscript receipt book...
£375