Recent Acquisitions
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STANYHURST, William.
Veteris hominis per expensa quatuor novissima...
Antwerp, Cornelius Woons, 1661.
First edition, rare, of this work on...
£875
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PROPERTIUS; Oliffe Legh RICHMOND, editor.
Sexti Properti quae supersunt opera, edidit...
Cambridge, University Press, 1928.
First edition of Richmond’s controversial...
£400
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POPE, William.
Manuscript arithmetic schoolbook.
[Tiverton?] ‘Sunday Octr 24.th 1804’.
A manuscript arithmetic schoolbook belonging...
£850
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[LE MARCHE.]
Deed relating to the sale of property in...
[Rome, 1616.]
A curiously bound public instrument...
£850
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[MONS.]
Histoire de l’institution de l’ecole...
Mons, J. B. Varret, 1748.
First and only edition, very rare, of...
£975
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ADRICHEM, Christian van; Francesco BALDELLI, translator.
Gerusalemme e suoi dintorni ai tempi di...
Genoa, Tipografia arcivescovile, 1882.
Scarce first edition thus of Baldelli’s...
£200
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[TAYLOR, John.]
The Column called the Monument, described,...
Bryan … for Samuel Arnott, Keeper of...
Third edition (first 1787) of this guidebook...
£350
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[SHEPHEARD, James.]
The Dying Speech of James Shepheard: who...
[London, s.n., 1718.]
One of at least five printings of this...
£750
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MOORE, George.
Manuscript commonplace book of poems, songs,...
1805–1855.
An appealing commonplace book of verses...
£550
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KAVAN, Anna; Karl Theodor BLUTH.
The Horse’s Tale.
London, Gaberbocchus Press, [1949].
Uncommon first edition of this novel...
£850
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DONALDSON, Florence.
Lepcha Land or six Weeks in the Sikhim...
London, Sampson Low Marston & Company, 1900.
First edition of Florence Donaldson’s...
£400
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MATTHEW OF KRAKÓW; HEINRICH VON LANGENSTEIN.
Incipit dialogus rac[i]onis et co[n]scientie...
[Cologne, Ulrich Zell, not after 1470].
Four works by two important fourteenth-century...
£5500
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BENTLEY, Richard, et al.; [Charles BURNEY, editor].
Richardi Bentleii et doctorum virorum epistolae,...
London, William Bulmer, 1807.
First edition of the correspondence...
£1750
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HERODIAN.
His History of twenty Roman Caesars and...
London, Hugh Perry, 1629.
First edition of this translation, attributed...
£600
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CORNEILLE, Thomas.
Il Pirro, tragedia … tradotta dal francese...
Bologna, Longhi, [1700?].
A very uncommon set of eight early translations...
£750
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ROCCA, Bernardino.
De’ discorsi di guerra … libri Quattro,...
Venice, Damiano Zenaro, 1582.
First edition of Rocca’s military...
£450
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‘RIZZA, Zanclevio’, pseud. [i.e. Vincenzo LAZZARI GUERRA], editor and contributor.
Piccola raccolta di composizioni satiriche...
‘Medina’ [i.e. Mori], ‘Frangipane...
A very rare collection of satirical...
£500
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PASSI, Carlo.
La selva di varia istoria … la quale...
Venice, Altobello Salicato, 1572.
An unsophisticated copy of Passi and...
£500
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MEFFRET, Johann.
Sermones Meffreth alias Ortulus regine...
[Basel, Nicolaus Kesler, not after 1485.]
A volume of sermons with early English...
£6500
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[GAMES AND RECREATION.]
Trattato de’ giochi e de’ divertimenti...
Rome, Michel'Angelo Barbiellini, 1768.
First edition of a treatise on games...
£650