Recent Acquisitions

  1. [PEACOCK, Thomas Love.]

    Gryll Grange. By the Author of ‘Headlong...

    London, [Savill & Edwards for] Parker,...

    First edition in book form, following serialisation...

    £200

  2. LAKITS, György Zsigmond.

    Juris publici ecclesiastici pars generalis,...

    Venice, Giuseppe Orlandelli, 1790.

    Second Venice editions of two pro-Habsburg...

    £375

  3. [FABLES.]

    Petit fabuliste.

    Paris, [(colophon:) Firmin-Didot], [c. 1840].

    A charming miniature collection of illustrated...

    £200

  4. EUTROPIUS; Sextus AURELIUS VICTOR; Sextus Rufus [FESTUS]. 

    Historiae romanae breviarium, ad codices...

    Paris, brothers Barbou, 1793.

    First edition by Capperonnier of this collection...

    £275

  5. ELIOT, T. S.

    Four Quartets.

    New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1943].

    First edition, first impression, with the...

    £850

  6. ELIOT, T. S.

    The Waste Land.

    New York, Boni and Liveright, [1923].

    First edition, second impression, numbered...

    £1250

  7. DUNMORE, Charles Adolphus Murray, Earl of.

    The Pamirs; being a Narrative of a Year’s...

    London, John Murray, ‘1893’ [1894]. 

    Second edition (first 1893) recounting...

    £275

  8. DONNOLI, Francesco Alfonso.

    De iis, qui semel in die cibum capiunt....

    Venice, Benedetto Miloco, 1674.

    First edition, an uncut copy of Donnoli’s...

    £1450

  9. CHATEAUBRIAND, François-[René] de.

    Atala; ou Les amours de deux sauvages dans...

    London, Colburn, 1809.

    First London edition in the original French,...

    £350

  10. CAREL DE SAINTE-GARDE, Jacques.

    Les Sarrazins chassez de France. Poëme...

    Paris, Claude Barbin, 1667.

    First edition, very rare, of this poetic...

    £850

  11. [BROWN, Thomas.]

    The Bower of Spring, with other Poems …

    Edinburgh, Archibald Constable & Co.,...

    First edition of this lively verse collection,...

    £375

  12. [ALMANACKS.]

    A bound collection of seven almanacks for 1818.

    London, the Company of Stationers, 1817.

    A collection of seven almanacks for 1818...

    £175

  13. ARIOSTO, Ludovico.

    Orlando furioso.

    Birmingham, John Baskerville for Pietro...

    A handsomely bound set of the attractive...

    £1850

  14. AMADUZZI, Giovanni Cristoforo.

    Epistola ad Johannem Baptistam Bodonium...

    [(Colophon:) Parma, Bodoni, 1791.]

    First edition of Amaduzzi’s philological...

    £275

  15. SIBILLA, Bartolomeo.

    Speculum peregrinarum quaestionum … Tres...

    [(Colophon:) Lyon, Jacques Myt, 9 August 1521.]

    Second Lyon edition of Sibilla’s popular...

    £1500

  16. GEREMIA, Pietro.

    Opus. Sermones in adventum Domini. Sermones...

    [(Colophons:) Brescia, Giacomo Britannico,...

    First edition of Geremia’s sermons, in...

    £2800

  17. [CONGREGAZIONE DELL’ORATORIO DI ROMA.]

    Sammelband of fourteen libretti.

    Rome, 1765–1768.

    A sammelband of rare devotional libretti...

    £1750

  18. WEST INDIA DOCK COMPANY.

    Three documents concerning the financing...

    London, 1799–1810.

    Three key documents concerning the financing...

    £1350

  19. [CHAMPIER, Symphorien.]

    La vie & les gestes du preux Chevalier...

    [(Colophon:) Poitiers, Jacques Bouchet...

    An otherwise unrecorded late sixteenth-century...

    £8750

  20. [BILLARDON DE SAUVIGNY, Edme-Louis.]

    Voyage de Madame et de Madame Victoire.

    Lunéville, Messuy, [1761].

    Four rare works describing visits by the...

    £975