Recent Acquisitions

  1. [BENDISCIOLI, Faustino.]

    Quadro ossia saggio epilogato del Sistema...

    Milan, Stamperia [dei Patrioti d’Italia]...

    An impassioned tract attacking the claims...

    £200

  2. ARMINESI, Rocco degli.

    Attila flagelum Dei, tradotto dalla vera...

    Venice, Omobon Bettanino, [mid-eighteenth...

    Very rare eighteenth-century edition of...

    £600

  3. DIONYSIUS of Halicarnassus.

    Antiquitatum Rom. libri XI. Ab Aemylio...

    Geneva, Jacob Stoer, 1614.

    A rare pocket-sized edition of Dionysius...

    £450

  4. LEE, Laurie.

    Cider with Rosie … with drawings by John Ward.

    London, Hogarth Press, 1959.

    First edition, second impression, the author’s...

    £1000

  5. [DODSLEY, Robert, et al.]

    The Oeconomy of Human Life, in two parts,...

    Newport, J. Mallett, 1783.

    Rare printing, undertaken in Newport on...

    £450

  6. [WISHART, George.]

    I. G. de rebus auspiciis serenssimi,...

    [Amsterdam or The Hague,] 1647.

    First edition, rare, a fine-paper copy...

    £1750

  7. TREVLYN, Valda.

    High Death.

    Falkland, K.D. Duval, 1970.

    One of 100 copies of this poem on death...

    £75

  8. [TOWNLEY, William Dalison.]

    Punch’s Pocket-Book for 1877, containing...

    London, [Bradbury, Agnew, & Co. for]...

    A Punch almanack for 1877 with nearly...

    £450

  9. ROCHESTER, John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of, Wentworth Dillon ROSCOMMON, 4th Earl of, et al.

    A Collection of Poems: viz. the Temple...

    London, printed for Daniel Brown and Benjamin...

    Fourth edition of the important ‘Temple...

    £500

  10. PITOU, Louis-Ange.

    L’Urne des Stuarts et des Bourbons, ou...

    Paris, [Beraud for] L.A. Pitou, 31 August...

    First and only surviving edition of this...

    £650

  11. [NUNS.]

    [Incipit:] Illustrissimi Sigg. Sigg....

    Florence, 20 March 1784.

    Extremely rare broadside confirming the...

    £450

  12. [NOVARA.]

    [Incipit:] Il vescovo di Novara...

    [Novara], 10 May 1805.

    An apparently unrecorded broadside from...

    £175

  13. [MILAN – DEATH DUTIES.]

    [Incipit:] Ad un reale dispaccio...

    Milan, Pirola brothers, [31 October 1787].

    Scarce edict issued by Ferdinand Karl,...

    £500

  14. HOLBEIN, Hans; Wenceslaus HOLLAR, engraver; [Francis DOUCE, editor].

    The Dance of Death, from the original Designs...

    [McMillan] for J. Coxhead, 1816.

    An attractive early nineteenth-century...

    £375

  15. GRÜNEISEN, [Karl].

    Niclaus Manuel: Leben und Werke eines Malers...

    Stuttgart & Tübingen, J.G. Cotta, 1837.

    First and only edition of the first separate...

    £120

  16. [FRANKLAND, William.]

    A large collection of manuscript correspondence...

    [Manchester, Slaidburn, and Blackburn,...

    An interesting archive relating to the...

    £650

  17. [DEATH CERTIFICATES.]

    Certificates recording the deaths of three...

    Rome, 1762–1819.

    An interesting set of death certificates...

    £750

  18. COUPÉ, Jacques-Michel.

    De la moralité des sépultures et de leur...

    Paris, Calixte Vollant, an IX [1800–1801].

    A scarce and most interesting pamphlet...

    £475

  19. [GIRALDI, Giovanni Battista.]

    Giuditio sopra la tragedia di Canace et...

    (Colophon:) Lucca, Vincenzo Busdraghi,...

    First edition of this criticism, in the...

    £650

  20. DELL’UVA, Benedetto.

    Le vergini prudenti.

    Florence, Bartolomeo Sermartelli, 1582.

    First editions of three religious poems...

    £650