Recent Acquisitions

  1. FLORUS, L. Annaeus; Lucius AMPELIUS; Claude SAUMAISE, editor.

    [Rerum romanarum libri IV and Epitome...

    Leiden, Elzevir, 1638.

    The attractive Elzevir edition of Florus’...

    £650

  2. [EMBROIDERED BINDING.]

    Etrennes mignonnes, pour l’an de grace...

    Liège, Everard Kints, [1753].

    A charming almanack for 1753 printed in...

    £400

  3. [ALMANACK.]

    L’Esprit des chansonniers, extrain [sic?]...

    Paris, Le Fuel, [1826?].

    A very rare enamelled metal binding with...

    £2750

  4. BURCKHARDT, Johann Ludwig (John Lewis).

    Travels in Arabia, comprehending an account...

    London, Henry Colburn, 1829.

    First edition, in one volume, recounting...

    £3750

  5. [NEW YORK.]

    Notarial instrument attesting to the residence...

    New York, 27 July 1797.

    An interesting notarial document recording...

    £850

  6. [STEREOGRAPH.]

    ‘Going Out’ [and] ‘Coming In’.

    London, Gebhardt, Rottmann & Co., [late...

    An amusing pair of stereos depicting the...

    £70

  7. [STEREOGRAPH.]

    James ELLIOTT, photographer.

    ‘The first Love Letter’ [and] ‘Difference...

    Three hand-tinted albumen prints in stereo...

    £175

  8. [HAMBURG.] 

    A sammelband of material relating to the...

    [Germany, 1842.] 

    A fine and unusual volume of materials...

    £850

  9. GOLDONI, Carlo.

    Scelta di alcune commedie. Per uso de’...

    Livorno, Assunto Barbani, 1816.

    First edition printed in Italy of a collection...

    £175

  10. [LORD LEYCESTER HOSPITAL, WARWICK.]

    Account of the Charity of Leicester’s...

    Warwick, mid-nineteenth century.

    A manuscript copy of the sixteenth-century...

    £350

  11. MILLER, Philip.

    The Gardeners Kalendar, directing what...

    The Fourteenth Edition. London, John Rivington,...

    A very attractive copy of the most popular...

    £165

  12. [LILY, William.]

    A short introduction of grammar compiled...

    London, S. Buckley and T. Longman, 1738.

    Two beautifully printed eighteenth-century...

    £550

  13. KECHT, Johann Sigismund.

    Der verbesserte praktische Weinbau in Gärten...

    Berlin, [Trowitzsch and Son for] the author,...

    Third, expanded edition (first 1813) of...

    £450

  14. GELLIUS, Aulus.

    Auli Gellii luculentissimi scriptoris Noctes...

    Lyon, Sebastian Gryphius, 1555.

    Gryphius edition of Aulus Gellius’ famous...

    £650

  15. BOYLE, Robert.

    Tractatus … Ubi 1. Mira aëris …...

    London, Henry Herringman, 1671 [but printed...

    I. Second edition, very scarce. The first...

    £1750

  16. [VITTORIO EMANUELE II.]

    Alla gloriosa memoria di Vittorio Emanuele...

    New York, Tipografia della scuola italiana,...

    First edition of this work recording a...

    £500

  17. [WALLPAPER.]

    A substantial album of printed wallpaper...

    France, 1923–24.

    A delightful sample album of French wallpapers...

    £4750

  18. CASAL, Gaspar do.

    Axiomata christiana ex divinis scripturis...

    Coimbra, João da Barreira and João Alvares,...

    First edition of Gaspar do Casal’s major...

    £2500

  19. ARISTIDES, Aelius.

    Orationum tomi tres, nunc primum latine...

    Basel, Peter Perna and Heinrich Petrus, 1566.

    First edition in Latin, a remarkable copy...

    £2750

  20. NIEUHOF, Jan, and Georg HORN (translator). 

    Legatio Batavica ad magnum Tartariae chamum...

    Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs, 1668. 

    First edition in Latin, beautifully illustrated,...

    £5000