Recent Acquisitions

  1. CASAL, Gaspar do.

    Axiomata christiana ex divinis scripturis...

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

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

    £2500

  2. ARISTIDES, Aelius.

    Orationum tomi tres, nunc primum latine...

    Basel, Peter Perna and Heinrich Petrus, 1566.

    First edition in Latin, a remarkable copy...

    £2750

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

    Legatio Batavica ad magnum Tartariae chamum...

    Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs, 1668. 

    First edition in Latin, beautifully illustrated,...

    £5000

  4. GIBELLI, Giacinto. 

    Due dissertazioni sopra li vantaggi, che...

    Genoa, Paolo Scionico, 1767. 

    First and only edition, rare, of these...

    £600

  5. PIERTZ, Leonhard, Praesidens; Johann Ernst SCHLERETH, Respondens.

    De sacramentis in specie, Eucharistia et...

    Würzburg, Johann Michael Kleyer, 1703.

    A good copy of this rare Würzburg dissertation...

    £175

  6. [KAFKA, Franz, Max BROD, et al.]

    Das bunte Buch.

    Leipzig, Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1914.

    First edition of this literary almanack,...

    £250

  7. [POETRY.]

    ‘Récueil de differentes pieces de vers,...

    [Belgium, 1777 and later].

    An interesting commonplace of verses, songs,...

    £750

  8. NICHOLSON, Joseph Shield.

    Tenant’s Gain not Landlord’s Loss,...

    Edinburgh, David Douglas, 1883.

    First edition. ‘The vitality of popular...

    £250

  9. RUYRA, Joaquim and Carles FONTSERÈ, illustrator.

    La fi del món a Girona.

    Paris, [Gaston Hallépée], [31 July] 1946.

    First separate edition, one of fifteen...

    £450

  10. TENNYSON, Alfred, [later Lord]; A. L. BOND, illustrator.

    The Miller’s Daughter …

    London, Published by W. Kent & Co late...

    A handsome edition of The Miller’s...

    £120

  11. PRIESTLEY, J. B.

    Angel Pavement …

    London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1930.

    First edition, the deluxe issue, no. 308...

    £150

  12. YARRELL, William.

    A History of British Fishes … illustrated...

    London, Samuel Bentley for John van Voorst,...

    First collected editions, with an autograph...

    £750

  13. COSTER, François. 

    Piarum et Christ. institutionum libri...

    Douai, Jean Bogard, 1582. 

    Very rare Douai edition of this devotional...

    £675

  14. THICKNESSE, Philip.

    A Year’s Journey through the Paix Bâs...

    I [all published]. London: Printed...

    First edition, rare, and possibly suppressed,...

    £1850

  15. [PSALMS.]

    Les Pseaumes de David, mis en Vers François,...

    Amsterdam, ‘aux dépens de l’Eglise...

    New edition of the metrical Psalms of the...

    £950

  16. [MASS.]

    Cerimonie piu’ notabili della messa privata;...

    Turin, Gianfranco Mairesse, 1739.

    An apparently unrecorded edition of...

    £300

  17. DARRÉ, G.G.

    ‘Conferences diaconales données par...

    Auch, 1864.

    An attractively written manuscript of Abbé...

    £200

  18. [CAPUCHINS.]

    Diploma conferring ‘privilegium maximum’.

    ‘Bojonii’, 22 October 1779.

    An attractive diploma issued by Erhard...

    £450

  19. [WALSH, William.]

    A Funeral Elegy upon the Death of the Queen....

    London, Printed for Jacob Tonson … 1695.

    First edition of Walsh’s elegy on the...

    £350

  20. ROSINI, Giovanni. 

    Alla memoria di Maria Antinori vedova del...

    Pisa, Niccolò Capurro, 1852. 

    Scarce first and only edition of this poem...

    £275