Recent Acquisitions
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DESPAUTÈRE, Jean, and Gabriel DU PRÉAU.
Universa grammatica, cum doctissimis commentariis,...
Lyons, Pierre Rigaud, 1608.
A seemingly unrecorded issue of this comprehensive...
£400
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STANCOVICH, Pietro.
Dello anfiteatro di Pola, dei gradi marmorei...
Venice, Giuseppe Picotti, 1822.
First edition, uncut in the original wrappers,...
£275
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MARSILIUS of Inghen, GILES of Rome, and ALBERT of Saxony.
Marsilii de genera[tione et corruptione]....
[(Colophon:) Venice, [Boneto Locatello...
A trio of late thirteenth- and fourteenth-century...
£1500
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[MARIAN DEVOTION.]
Embroidered silk panel depicting the Virgin...
[Netherlands, early eighteenth century?]
A delightful silk panel, embroidered over...
£600
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PLINY the Younger.
Panegyricus Trajano Augusto dictus.
Paris, [Charles Crapelet for] Antoine-Augustin...
An attractive edition of Pliny’s only...
£275
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[SANDOW, Eugen, pseud. (i.e. Friedrich Müller).]
Manuscript manual of exercises for use...
[France, c. 1920].
A seemingly unpublished French manuscript...
£850
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[NURSERY SCHOOLS.]
Intorno alla fondazione ed allo stato attuale...
Milan, C.G. Bianchi and company, 1837.
First and only edition, rare, of this report...
£400
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MORE, Hannah.
Strictures on the modern System of female...
London, T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1799.
Third edition, published in the same year...
£950
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[GEOGRAPHY.]
Primi principi di geografia ad uso de’...
[(Colophon:) Bergamo, Pietro Lancellotti,...
Extremely rare second edition (first 1745)...
£375
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[VENICE.]
Juventus cesareo-regii gymnasii urbis Venetiarum...
[(Colophon:) Venice, Francesco Andreola,] 1828.
A seemingly unrecorded annual report for...
£350
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[TACOLI, Carlotta Munarini, Marchioness.]
‘Memorie riguardanti la storia filosofica...
Modena, 1805.
An unpublished manuscript introduction...
£1250
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SPURZHEIM, Johann Gaspar.
A View of the elementary Principles of...
Boston, Marsh Capen and Lyon, 1832.
First American edition (first Edinburgh,...
£125
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[SPENCE, Joseph.] Nicholas TINDAL.
A Guide to classical Learning: or, Polymetis...
London, J. Dodsley, 1777.
Second illustrated edition (fourth overall)...
£250
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PARR, Samuel.
A Discourse on Education and on the Plans...
[Norwich, John Crouse for] London, T. Cadell...
First and only edition of this treatise...
£175
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[BECKFORD, William, and Samuel HENLEY, translator.]
An Arabian Tale, from an unpublished Manuscript....
London, Printed for W. Clarke … 1809.
Scarce second edition – in fact a reissue...
£1500
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DU BOS, Jean-Baptiste, Abbé.
Reflexions critiques sur la poésie et...
Paris, Pierre-Jean Mariette, 1740.
Fourth edition, expanded and corrected,...
£250
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[CRIMEAN WAR.]
Les militaires chrétiens a la guerre d’orient....
Versailles, Beau jeune, [1856].
First and only edition, rare, of this unusual...
£375
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[WILSON,] Thomas, Bishop of Sodor and Man.
A short and plain Instruction for the better...
London, B. Dod, T. Longman & C. Hitch,...
Scarce first posthumous edition of this...
£250
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PONSONBY, Emily, Lady.
De Greville’s en de Lorimers. Twee Familie-Tafereelen,...
Amsterdam, P. N. Van Kampen, 1851.
First edition in Dutch of ‘Susan Grenville;...
£250
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BURNET, Gilbert.
A Vindication of the Authority, Constitution,...
Glasgow, Robert Sanders, 1673.
One of three editions, all of the same...
£500