Recent Acquisitions

  1. CARAVADOSSI, Enrico.

    La moderna filosofia convinta d’inganno...

    Turin, Giammichele Brioio, 1793.

    First and seemingly only edition of this...

    £395

  2. [SMITH, John William.] 

    A Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts and...

    London, Letts, Son & Co, [1870s-90s]. 

    A manuscript book catalogue employing a...

    £300

  3. [SARPI, Paolo (pseud.).] ‘Pietro Soave POLANO’. 

    Historia del Concilio Tridentino di Pietro...

    Geneva, Pierre Aubert, 1629. 

    Second edition, the first to omit the extraneous...

    £450

  4. [PAPER TRADE.] 

    Arrest du conseil d’état du roi, portant...

    [Besançon?, 1772?] 

    A seemingly unrecorded issue of this decree...

    £175

  5. KEATE, George. 

    An Account of the Pelew Islands, situated...

    Dublin, Luke White, 1788. 

    First Dublin edition of this popular work,...

    £650

  6. PASCOLI, Alessandro. 

    Nuovo metodo per introdursi ad imitazion...

    Venice, Andrea Poletti, 1721. 

    Scarce second edition (first 1702) of this...

    £450

  7. DEVILLE, Albéric.

    Voyage aux grottes d’Arcy, suivi de poésies...

    Paris, Munier for Gérard, an XI (1802-3).

    Scarce first edition, presented by the...

    £250

  8. GABARO, Antonio. 

    Alla pregiatissima Signora Domenica Schiavon...

    Padua, ‘Nella Tipografia del Seminario’,...

    First and only edition, very rare, of a...

    £380

  9. BALLARIN, Vincenzo. 

    Dimostrazione sintetica della quadratura...

    Venice, Fracasso, 1828. 

    First and only edition of this confident...

    £900

  10. [GOLD and SILVER.] 

    Bando generale per gli orefici, argentieri,...

    Rome, ‘nella stamperia della Rev. Camera...

    Rare edict governing goldsmiths, silversmiths,...

    £475

  11. ASTRUC, Jean. 

    Tractatus de motus fermentativi causa novam...

    Montpellier, Honoratus Pech, 1702. 

    A dissertation on fermentation published...

    £500

  12. PAZZI, Antonio de, and Torquato TASSO. 

    Stanze inedite di Antonio de Pazzi e di...

    Venice, Picotti, 1810.

    Scarce first edition of verses ‘in blame...

    £200

  13. PIEROTTI, A. 

    Il cervello e la difesa delle donne sestine...

    Florence, N. Fabbrini, 1842. 

    First and only edition, very rare, of this...

    £375

  14. BAUR, Fidelis. 

    Geschichte der Hohenzollernschen Staaten...

    Sigmaringen, Bucher & Liener, 1834-6.

    First edition.  Perched on the Zollenberg,...

    £350

  15. KIRAM, Zeki Hasmet. 

    Vocabularium anatomiae latine-arabice. ...

    Berlin, Morgen- und Abendland-Verlag, 1923.

    First edition of an uncommon glossary of...

    £375

  16. [WARD, Edward, and VOLTAIRE.] 

    The Humourous and Diverting Story of Two...

    6, Punderson’s-Place, Bethnal-Green-Road’,...

    Seemingly unrecorded edition of this humorous...

    £450

  17. LEWIS, Wyndham.

    America and Cosmic Man.

    London and Brussels, Nicholas and Watson...

    First edition, second state binding as...

    £200

  18. [HOMILETIC.] 

    Meditations de la seconde annee. 

    [France, c. 1700.] 

    Apparently unpublished set of meditations...

    £750

  19. WILLIAMS, William Carlos.

    Paterson [Books 1, 2, 3 & 4].

    Norfolk, New Classics, [1951]. [with:]

    First collected edition of Books One...

    £1250

  20. VILLA, Antonio, and Giovanni Battista VILLA. 

    Dispositio systematica conchyliarum terrestrium...

    Milan, ex typis Borroni et Scotti, 1841. 

    First edition of this catalogue of molluscs...

    £275