Recent Acquisitions
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[POOR CLARES.]
A Pious Collection of severall profitable...
Douai, M. Mairesse, [1684.]
First edition, rare, of A Pious Collection...
£5000
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[TEA AND COFFEE.]
Tea & Coffee Directory of India and the World.
Baroda (Vadodara), Shri Laxmi Printing...
An apparently unrecorded Gujarat-printed...
£750
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[SERGEANT, John.]
Transnatural Philosophy, treating of the...
London, for the Author, and to be sold...
An unusual tract volume of publishing curiosities...
£1250
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[LEE-WARNER, Henry James.]
Reasons for being a Conservative, and for...
Mitchell & Co., [1863–4].
First and only edition, very rare, a presentation...
£500
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[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
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RIDINGER, Johann Elias.
[A Book of Stags.] Six engravings of deer...
[London,] Robert Sayer, [1770s?].
A rare and attractive drawing-book, likely...
£600
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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
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MONCHABLON, Étienne Jean.
Dizionario compendioso d’antichità per...
Venice, Sebastiano Coleti, 1795.
Very rare edition of this Italian translation...
£200
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KÖSTER, Christian.
Zerstreute Gedanken-Blätter über Kunst....
Heidelberg, Christian Friedrich Winter,...
First editions, very rare, of Köster’s...
£175
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HORSFIELD, Thomas Walker.
The History, Antiquities, and Topography...
Lewes, John Baxter, and London, Nichols...
First edition, a handsome set extensively...
£3750
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[GAME.]
English–French card game for children.
[Britain, c. 1820.]
A delightful and apparently unrecorded...
£650
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[GUASCO, Francesco Eugenio.]
Lettera del primicerio di Mondorbopoli...
‘In Mondorbopoli’ [Alessandria?], 1788.
Rare first edition of this anti-Jansenist...
£275
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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
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[FOCQUENBERGUES, Jean de, attributed.]
Le voyage de Bethel, avec des méditations...
Guernsey, Chevalier and Mauger, 1819.
A seemingly unrecorded Guernsey edition...
£350
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[FIELDING, Henry.]
A Proper Answer to a late scurrilous Libel,...
London, M. Cooper, 1748.
Second edition, scarce, published only...
£500
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FIELDING, Henry.
An Enquiry into the Causes of the late...
London, A. Millar, 1751.
Second edition, published two months after...
£300
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[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
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[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
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BURNET, Gilbert.
Bishop Burnet’s Travels through France,...
London, T. Payne, 1750.
Later edition of Burnet’s account of...
£150
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BERNEY, Thomas.
An Address presented to the honourable...
[(Colophon:) Westminster, Vacher & Sons],...
One of several closely related printings...
£300