Recent Acquisitions

  1. [MOREAN WAR.]

    Journal of the Venetian Campaigne, A.D. 1687. under...

    London, H.C. for R. Taylor, 1688.

    First edition of an important account of...

    £2500

  2. ‘PUBLICOLA’, pseud.

    An answer to an audacious letter from John...

    London, [s.n.], 1732.

    An extremely rare pamphlet of economic...

    £450

  3. JUSTINUS, Marcus Junianus, Lucius Annaeus FLORUS, and Sextus RUFUS.

    Iustini Historia ex Trogo Pompeio quattuor...

    Paris, Jean Petit [and Jean Marchant], [1509].

    A collection of abbreviated Roman histories,...

    £1850

  4. [HIGHWAYMEN.]

    Processo formato contro due famosissimi...

    Milan, Pietro Francesco Malatesta, [1744].

    Seemingly unrecorded printing of the trials...

    £500

  5. GARCÍA LORCA, Federico.

    Mariana Pineda. Romance popular en tres...

    Madrid, La Farsa, 1928.

    First edition of Lorca’s first published...

    £450

  6. [BOOKPLATE.]

    Design for an ex libris for Cortlandt...

    c. 1910?

    The aviator, traveller, and book collector...

    £600

  7. [ALMANACK.]

    Revill’s illustrated Pocket Keepsake...

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

    An unrecorded Christmas gift book, charmingly...

    £225

  8. PRIOR, Matthew.

    Poems on several Occasions.

    London, printed for Jacob Tonson and John...

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

    £5000

  9. LEVI-STRAUSS, Claude.

    Le Père Noël supplicié.

    [Paris, Chantenay, 1952.]

    Rare first separate appearance, a presentation...

    £250

  10. 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

  11. [JUVENILE.]

    The Weasel Family.

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

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

    £375

  12. JENKINS, Edward.

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

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

    A reissue of the illustrated edition, from...

    £100

  13. HARDY, Campbell.

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

    London, Hurst and Blackett, 1855.

    First edition of this most interesting...

    £575

  14. BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett.

    Poems before Congress …

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

    First edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s...

    £200

  15. BLANFORD, William Thomas.

    Observations on the Geology and Zoology...

    London, Macmillan and Co., 1870.

    First edition of the geologist and naturalist...

    £300

  16. 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

  17. [BENDISCIOLI, Faustino.]

    Quadro ossia saggio epilogato del Sistema...

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

    An impassioned tract attacking the claims...

    £200

  18. ARMINESI, Rocco degli.

    Attila flagelum Dei, tradotto dalla vera...

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

    Very rare eighteenth-century edition of...

    £600

  19. BROWNE, Thomas.

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

    [Printed by the Ballantyne Press, and...

    First edition thus, limited to 310 unnumbered...

    £2000

  20. DIONYSIUS of Halicarnassus.

    Antiquitatum Rom. libri XI. Ab Aemylio...

    Geneva, Jacob Stoer, 1614.

    A rare pocket-sized edition of Dionysius...

    £450