Recent Acquisitions

  1. SHAKESPEARE, William; Alexander POPE, editor.

    The Works of Shakespear. In eight Volumes....

    Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1766.

    First and only Foulis edition, issued in...

    £450

  2. SANFERMO CARIONI PEZZI, Rocco, Giovanni Battista GARAVETTA, and Francesco D’EMILEI.

    Lettera scritta nel castello di S. Felice...

    Verona, 1797.

    One of several editions published immediately...

    £300

  3. PERRET, Jean-Jacques.

    La pogonotomie, ou l’art d’apprendre...

    Brussels, Benoît Le  Francq, 1803.

    Rare Brussels edition (first Paris 1769)...

    £400

  4. LORICH, Gerhard.

    Institutio catholica fidei orthodoxae et...

    [Frankfurt am Main], [(colophon:) Christian...

    First editions of a pair of Reformation-era...

    £1450

  5. EXPILLY, Claude.

    Les poemes de Messire Claude Expilly, Conseiller...

    Grenoble, Pierre Verdier, 1624.

    A wide-margined copy of the expanded second...

    £950

  6. [DE GRAAFT, attributed.]

    Avantures secrettes, et plaisantes. Recueillies...

    Brussels, George de Backer, 1696.

    Scarce first Brussels edition, published...

    £375

  7. [DAMPMARTIN, Pierre de; Charles SOREL, editor.]

    La fortune de la cour. Ouvrage curieux...

    Paris, Nicolas de Sercy, 1642.

    Rare second edition, revised and expanded...

    £500

  8. [DALLAS, Eneas Sweetland.]

    Kettner’s Book of the Table: A Manual...

    London, Dulau and Co., 1877.

    First edition of Dallas’s encyclopaedic...

    £180

  9. CARLUCCI, Luca.

    In difesa delli speziali di medicina dell’Almo...

    Naples, 20 July 1756.

    First edition, seemingly unrecorded, of...

    £1250

  10. [CAJOT, Jean-Joseph.]

    Les plagiats de M. J.J.R. de Genève...

    The Hague and Paris, Durand, 1766.

    First edition of this scathing critique...

    £275

  11. [BOUDIER DE VILLEMERT, Pierre-Joseph.]

    L’ami des femmes.

    Paris, ‘Quay des Augustins’, 1759.

    Uncommon early edition, printed a year...

    £300

  12. BEROALDO, Filippo.

    Opusculum eruditum quo continetur Declamatio...

    [(Colophon:) Paris], Denis Roce, [1 August...

    Second Paris editions (first 1500) of Beroaldo’s...

    £3750

  13. [ARABIAN NIGHTS.]

    Arabian Tales; or, a Continuation of the...

    London, Faulder, and Hookham and Carpenter,...

    First edition of this translation of the...

    £1000

  14. XENOPHON; [Philipp MELANCHTHON, editor].

    Ξενοφωντος απαντα. Xenophontis...

    Schwäbisch Hall, [Peter Braubach], 1540.

    The first complete edition of Xenophon’s...

    £4000

  15. GALUPPI, Baldassare.

    Daniel in lacu leonum modi sacri recinendi...

    Venice, s.n., 1773.

    First edition, very rare, of the libretto...

    £650

  16. FOURCROY DE GUILLERVILLE, Jean-Louis de.

    Les Enfans élevés dans l’ordre de la...

    Paris, brothers Estienne, and Lausanne,...

    Second edition of Fourcroy de Guillerville’s...

    £250

  17. ERASMUS, Desiderius.

    Desid. Erasmi Roterodami Colloquia nunc...

    Amsterdam, Jodocus Janssonius, 1644.

    Later edition of Erasmus’ highly influential...

    £125

  18. COLIN, Hyacinthe.

    Vie de la venerable servante de dieu Marie...

    Paris, Claude-Jean-Baptiste Hérissant, 1744.

    Uncommon first edition of this biography...

    £500

  19. CLAUDIANUS, Claudius; Tommaso MEDINA, translator.

    Il ratto di Proserpina di Claudio Claudiano...

    Brescia, Bettoni, 1804.

    Very rare first edition of a translation...

    £650

  20. CIGAULD, Vincent.

    Allegationes Vincentii … iudicis ordinarii...

    (Colophon:) Paris, Jean Frellon, 23 December...

    Extremely rare first edition of this legal...

    £2500