Recent Acquisitions

  1. [POOR CLARES.]

    A Pious Collection of severall profitable...

    Douai, M. Mairesse, [1684.]

    First edition, rare, of A Pious Collection...

    £5000

  2. [TEA AND COFFEE.]

    Tea & Coffee Directory of India and the World.

    Baroda (Vadodara), Shri Laxmi Printing...

    An apparently unrecorded Gujarat-printed...

    £750

  3. [SERGEANT, John.]

    Transnatural Philosophy, treating of the...

    London, for the Author, and to be sold...

    An unusual tract volume of publishing curiosities...

    £1250

  4. [LEE-WARNER, Henry James.]

    Reasons for being a Conservative, and for...

    Mitchell & Co., [1863–4].

    First and only edition, very rare, a presentation...

    £500

  5. [SALMON DU CHÂTELIER, Charles-Louis, attributed.]

    Essai sur le principe de la souveraineté....

    London, Cox, Son, and Baylis for A. Dulau...

    First edition, rare, of this anonymous...

    £250

  6. RIDINGER, Johann Elias.

    [A Book of Stags.] Six engravings of deer...

    [London,] Robert Sayer, [1770s?].

    A rare and attractive drawing-book, likely...

    £600

  7. REYRAC, [François-Philippe de Laurens,] Abbé de.

    Hymne au soleil, suivi de plusieurs morceaux...

    ‘Amsterdam’ [Paris], ‘aux dépens...

    Sixth edition, published under a false...

    £95

  8. MONCHABLON, Étienne Jean.

    Dizionario compendioso d’antichità per...

    Venice, Sebastiano Coleti, 1795.

    Very rare edition of this Italian translation...

    £200

  9. KÖSTER, Christian.

    Zerstreute Gedanken-Blätter über Kunst....

    Heidelberg, Christian Friedrich Winter,...

    First editions, very rare, of Köster’s...

    £175

  10. HORSFIELD, Thomas Walker.

    The History, Antiquities, and Topography...

    Lewes, John Baxter, and London, Nichols...

    First edition, a handsome set extensively...

    £3750

  11. [GAME.]

    English–French card game for children.

    [Britain, c. 1820.]

    A delightful and apparently unrecorded...

    £650

  12. [GUASCO, Francesco Eugenio.]

    Lettera del primicerio di Mondorbopoli...

    ‘In Mondorbopoli’ [Alessandria?], 1788.

    Rare first edition of this anti-Jansenist...

    £275

  13. GIACOMETTI, Francesco.

    Nouveau jeu d’échecs ou Le jeu de la...

    Genoa, Jean Barthelemy Como, 1801 (‘An...

    Very rare first edition in French, thoroughly...

    £1250

  14. [FOCQUENBERGUES, Jean de, attributed.]

    Le voyage de Bethel, avec des méditations...

    Guernsey, Chevalier and Mauger, 1819.

    A seemingly unrecorded Guernsey edition...

    £350

  15. [FIELDING, Henry.]

    A Proper Answer to a late scurrilous Libel,...

    London, M. Cooper, 1748.

    Second edition, scarce, published only...

    £500

  16. FIELDING, Henry.

    An Enquiry into the Causes of the late...

    London, A. Millar, 1751.

    Second edition, published two months after...

    £300

  17. [DAVIS, Julia Sophia; John Stevens Cabot ABBOTT, editor.]

    Memoir of Julia Sophia Davis, who died...

    Worcester (Massachusetts), Dorr, Howland,...

    First and only edition of this posthumous...

    £175

  18. [CORNAND DE LACROZE, Jean, et al.]

    Tract volume of ten pamphlets in French...

    The Netherlands, various publishers, 1686...

    A fine exchange of rare political propaganda...

    £1200

  19. BURNET, Gilbert.

    Bishop Burnet’s Travels through France,...

    London, T. Payne, 1750.

    Later edition of Burnet’s account of...

    £150

  20. BERNEY, Thomas.

    An Address presented to the honourable...

    [(Colophon:) Westminster, Vacher & Sons],...

    One of several closely related printings...

    £300