Recent Acquisitions

  1. [GAMBLING.]

    Les desordres du jeu, avec des reflexions....

    Amsterdam, Adrien Braekman, 1691.

    A sammelband of three rare works, all printed...

    £850

  2. DUNN, Thomas.

    A Discourse, delivered in the New Dutch...

    ‘New York, printed, London, re-printed,...

    First London edition of this heartfelt...

    £250

  3. [DUELLING.]

    Pieces en vers composées pour le prix...

    Paris, Claude Barbin, 1671.

    Seemingly unrecorded edition, one of two...

    £850

  4. DANTE Alighieri; Mario CASELLA, editor; H.F. Cary, translator.

    La divina commedia or the divine Vision...

    [London], The Nonesuch Press, 1928.

    First Nonesuch numbered 1292 of 1475 copies,...

    £1000

  5. [BOYER de Bandol, Ange-François-Hilaire-Auguste de.]

    Mémoire … contre Messire Jean-Baptiste...

    [Paris,] C.F. Simon, 1754.

    Two seemingly unrecorded legal documents...

    £225

  6. [BARGAGLI, Girolamo] pseud. ‘Materiale INTRONATE’.

    Dialogo de i giuochi senesi, che nelle...

    Venice, Daniel Zanetti, 1598.

    Later edition (first 1572) of this extremely...

    £450

  7. ALAMANNI, Luigi.

    Opere toscane.

    [(Colophon:) Florence, [Bernardo Giunta],...

    First Florentine edition of this collection...

    £650

  8. ANDREWS, Mark E.

    The Photographer at Work. Documenting Civil...

    Toronto, AE Publications, 2025.

    A beautifully produced catalogue of photographs...

    £85

  9. [ALMANACKS.]

    A bound collection of seven almanacks for 1816.

    London, The Company of Stationers, 1816.

    A standard collection of seven almanacks...

    £125

  10. CICERO, Marcus Tullius.

    De philosophia tomus primus.

    Lyon, Sébastien Gryphe, 1546.

    A small format Lyon edition of Cicero,...

    £300

  11. IRENICUS, Franciscus.

    Germaniae exegeseos volumina duodecima...

    [(Colophon:) Hagenau, Thomas Anshelm for...

    First editions of a pair of sixteenth-century...

    £3500

  12. SHOBERL, Frederic, editor.

    Forget me not; a Christmas and New Year’s,...

    London, [Thomas Davison for] R[udolph]...

    The Anglo-German publisher Rudolph Ackermann’s...

    £150

  13. HIBBERD, James Shirley.

    The Garden Oracle and floricultural Year...

    London, Gardener’s Magazine Office, 1882.

    Edited by James Shirley Hibberd (1825–1890),...

    £100

  14. [JUVENILE.]

    Il piccolo Carlo, o novelle e conversazioni...

    Besançon, [Antonio] Montarsolo e Comp.,...

    Very rare Besançon-printed edition of...

    £450

  15. [ALMANACK.]

    ...

    [Leipzig, Fischer and Wittig for] Berlin,...

    A literary almanack for 1927 with stories...

    £175

  16. [ALMANACK.]

    Альманахъ для всѣхъ. Книга...

    St Petersburg, “Novyi zhurnal dlia vsekh”,...

    First edition, extremely rare, of the second...

    £200

  17. [ALMANACK.]

    Le triomphe de la vertu. Sujets tirés...

    Paris, Janet, [1814].

    A very rare biblical almanack for 1814...

    £300

  18. [ALMANACK.]

    étrennes mignones [sic], curieuses...

    Paris, [Jean-François-Hubert] Guillot, 1790.

    Very rare almanack for 1790, in a handsome...

    £1950

  19. [ALMANACK.]

    London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1785.

    [London,] Printed for the Company of Stationers,...

    A very attractive miniature London Almanack...

    £950

  20. [ALMANACK.]

    Étrennes mignones [sic], curieuses et...

    Paris, Claude-Jacques-Charles [Durand]...

    A very rare Parisian almanack for 1775,...

    £1500