Recent Acquisitions

  1. BUXTON, Thomas Fowell.

    An Inquiry, whether Crime and Misery are...

    London, [J. M’Creery] for John & Arthur...

    Third edition, published the same year...

    £195

  2. PERSIUS; [Thomas BREWSTER, translator].

    The Satires of Persius translated into...

    London, Printed for A. Millar, 1751.

    Second edition, with the addition of Bayle’s...

    £375

  3. [CAVALLERI, Paolo Agostino.]

    Lettera dall’Adriatico del signor Antonio...

    Rome, Giovanni Zempel, 1792 (colophon 1793).

    First edition, uncommon, of this counter-revolutionary...

    £375

  4. SHAKESPEARE, William, and Bolemir IZBORSKÝ, pseud. [i.e. Antonín MAREK], translator.

    Omylowé dle Shakespeara wzdělaná weselohra...

    Prague, Jozefa Fetterlowá, ‘in the...

    First edition in Czech, very rare, of A...

    £1100

  5. REYES, Alfonso.

    Corrected carbon typescript, signed, of...

    [Buenos Aires?, c. 1952–3.]

    Corrected carbon typescript of Alfonso...

    £1000

  6. ROSSI, Ottavio, and Bartolomeo FONTANA, compiler.

    Lettere del Sig. Ottavio Rossi. Raccolte...

    Brescia, Bartolomeo Fontana, 1621.

    First edition of over 150 letters by the...

    £1250

  7. [HEMSTERHUIS, François.] 

    Alexis ou de l’age d’or. 

    Riga, Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1787. 

    First edition of Hemsterhuis’s philosophical...

    £375

  8. BEBEL, August, and Daniel DE LEON, translator.

    Woman under socialism. Translated from...

    New York, Labor News Press, 1904.

    First edition in English, first printing,...

    £125

  9. ALFIERI, Vittorio, and Charles LLOYD, translator.

    The Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri; translated...

    London, Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees,...

    First edition of this translation of Alfieri’s...

    £450

  10. DICKENS, Charles; Hablot Knight BROWNE and George CATTERMOLE, illustrators.

    Master Humphrey’s Clock.

    London, Chapman and Hall, 1840–41.

    First edition in book form, of Charles...

    £175

  11. SAUSSURE, Ferdinand de.

    Cours de linguistique générale.

    Lausanne & Paris, Payot, 1916.

    First edition of this seminal textbook...

    £575

  12. [MONTANUS, Arnoldus.]

    Ambassades mémorables de la Compagnie...

    Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs, 1680.

    First edition in French of an important...

    £3500

  13. GUIGNES, Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de.

    Voyages à Peking, Manille et l’Île...

    Paris, l’Imprimerie Impériale, 1808.

    First edition, the complete four-volume...

    £6500

  14. APPIAN of Alexandria.

    Civili. Appiano Alessandrino delle guerre...

    Venice, [Pietro Nicolini da Sabbio for...

    A much-annotated copy of these late Aldine...

    £3000

  15. POUND, Ezra.

    Cantos 110–116 …

    printed & published by the Fuck You /...

    Unauthorised edition (unsurprisingly),...

    £150

  16. WATSON, Sheila.

    ‘The Great War, Wyndham Lewis and the...

    The recordings included are three sections...

    £50

  17. GIOVIO, Paolo. 

    Elogia veris clarorum virorum imaginibus...

    Venice, Michele Tramezzino, 1546. 

    First edition of Giovio’s biographies...

    £3000

  18. MITCHISON, Naomi; Wyndham LEWIS, illustrator.

    Beyond this Limit …

    [London,] Jonathan Cape, [1935].

    First edition. This was Lewis’s only...

    £75

  19. [WOMEN-PEARLS.]

    De Vrouwen-Peirle, ofte dryvoudige historie...

    Ghent, J. Begyn, [1780–1810].

    An attractive copy of the ‘Women-pearls’,...

    £550

  20. DAVIDSON, John.

    Smith: a Tragedy.

    Glasgow, Frederick W. Wilson and Brother, 1888.

    First edition of a rare foray into drama...

    £300