Recent Acquisitions

  1. [BOOKPLATE.]

    Design for an ex libris for Cortlandt...

    c. 1910?

    The aviator, traveller, and book collector...

    £600

  2. [ALMANACK.]

    Revill’s illustrated Pocket Keepsake...

    [London,] Simpkins for M. E. Revill, [1884].

    An unrecorded Christmas gift book, charmingly...

    £225

  3. PRIOR, Matthew.

    Poems on several Occasions.

    London, printed for Jacob Tonson and John...

    First edition, a subscriber’s copy on...

    £5000

  4. LEVI-STRAUSS, Claude.

    Le Père Noël supplicié.

    [Paris, Chantenay, 1952.]

    Rare first separate appearance, a presentation...

    £250

  5. LAING, John.

    An account of a voyage to Spitzbergen;...

    [Balfour for], London, J. Mawman and David...

    First edition of Laing’s account of his...

    £850

  6. [JUVENILE.]

    The Weasel Family.

    London, Edinburgh, and New York, T. Nelson...

    First edition, rare, of a rather charming...

    £375

  7. JENKINS, Edward.

    The Devil’s Chain … Twentieth Thousand....

    [Southwark, M’Corquodale and Co. for]...

    A reissue of the illustrated edition, from...

    £100

  8. HARDY, Campbell.

    Sporting Adventures in the New World; or,...

    London, Hurst and Blackett, 1855.

    First edition of this most interesting...

    £575

  9. BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett.

    Poems before Congress …

    London, [Bradbury and Evans for] Chapman...

    First edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s...

    £200

  10. BLANFORD, William Thomas.

    Observations on the Geology and Zoology...

    London, Macmillan and Co., 1870.

    First edition of the geologist and naturalist...

    £300

  11. ARENA, Antoine.

    Antonius de Arena Provençalis de bragardissima...

    London [i.e. Paris, Joseph-Gérard Barbou],...

    A fine copy of the 1758 edition of this...

    £1100

  12. [PARKER, Richard Green; Junkichi KATAYAMA 片山 淳吉, editor.]

    物理階梯 [Butsuri kaitei; 'A Guide...

    Gifu Prefecture, Ministry of Education,...

    First edition, very rare, of Japan’s...

    £1750

  13. [BENDISCIOLI, Faustino.]

    Quadro ossia saggio epilogato del Sistema...

    Milan, Stamperia [dei Patrioti d’Italia]...

    An impassioned tract attacking the claims...

    £200

  14. ARMINESI, Rocco degli.

    Attila flagelum Dei, tradotto dalla vera...

    Venice, Omobon Bettanino, [mid-eighteenth...

    Very rare eighteenth-century edition of...

    £600

  15. BROWNE, Thomas.

    Religio Medici, Urn Burial, Christian Morals,...

    [Printed by the Ballantyne Press, and...

    First edition thus, limited to 310 unnumbered...

    £2000

  16. DIONYSIUS of Halicarnassus.

    Antiquitatum Rom. libri XI. Ab Aemylio...

    Geneva, Jacob Stoer, 1614.

    A rare pocket-sized edition of Dionysius...

    £450

  17. [BIBLE.]

    Biblia sacra vulgatae editionis Sixti Quinti...

    Antwerp, Jan Moretus ‘ex officina Plantiniana’,...

    Plantin edition of the Clementine Vulgate,...

    £1250

  18. LEE, Laurie.

    Cider with Rosie … with drawings by John Ward.

    London, Hogarth Press, 1959.

    First edition, second impression, the author’s...

    £1000

  19. [DODSLEY, Robert, et al.]

    The Oeconomy of Human Life, in two parts,...

    Newport, J. Mallett, 1783.

    Rare printing, undertaken in Newport on...

    £450

  20. [WISHART, George.]

    I. G. de rebus auspiciis serenssimi,...

    [Amsterdam or The Hague,] 1647.

    First edition, rare, a fine-paper copy...

    £1750