Recent Acquisitions

  1. [LANSPERGER, Johannes Justus;] Serafino ACETI DE’ PORTI, translator.

    Pharetra divini amoris, tradotto in volgare...

    Venice, Paolo Gherardo [(colophon:) Comin...

    Third Italian edition, considerably enlarged,...

    £1500

  2. LA VIGNE, André de.

    Le vergier dhonneur nouvellement imprime...

    [(Colophon:) Paris, Philippe le Noir],...

    George Dunn’s copy of a rare early edition...

    £9500

  3. GAGUIN, Robert.

    La mer des croniques et mirouer hystorial...

    Paris, [Bernard Aubry for] Jacques Nyverd,...

    Very rare Paris vernacular edition (first...

    £8500

  4. [CHAMPIER, Symphorien.]

    La vie & les gestes du preux chevalier...

    Lyons, Olivier Arnoullet, [(colophon:)...

    A rare edition of Champier’s account...

    £9500

  5. BELLARMINE, Robert.

    De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis liber unus....

    Rome, Bartolomeo Zannetti, 1613.

    First edition of a remarkable biobibliography...

    £350

  6. PETRONIUS ARBITER, Titus.

    Satyricon; et diversorum poëtarum lusus...

    Utrecht, Gijsbert van Zijll and Dirck...

    A volume of Silver Age satire and lewd...

    £350

  7. KUZMIN, Mikhail Alekseevich.

    Александрійскія Пѣсни...

    St Petersburg, “Prometei”, [1921].

    First separate edition of Kuzmin’s Alexandrian...

    £400

  8. FLEMING, Ian.

    The Spy who loved me.

    London, Jonathan Cape, 1962.

    First edition, first impression, of the...

    £1250

  9. POLLUX, Julius.

    Ονομαστικον εν βιβλιοις...

    Amsterdam, Wetstein, 1706.

    A crisp copy of Pollux’s second-century...

    £300

  10. OVID; Georg SABINUS, editor.

    Metamorphoses seu fabulae poeticae earumque...

    Frankfurt, Nikolaus Hoffmann, 1608.

    A pocket edition of Ovid’s Metamorphoses...

    £325

  11. NOMEXY, Nicolas de.

    Parnassus poeticus … nunc primum in Germania...

    Rome, Guglielmo Facciotti, for Vincenzo...

    A bestselling compilation of Latin verse,...

    £650

  12. [MISSAL.]

    Nouveau paroissien romain, contenant l’offices...

    Lyons, H. Curnier, 1869.

    A pocket Paroissien in a charming...

    £275

  13. MARCHESE, Annibale.

    Poema per la nascita del serenissimo Leopoldo...

    Naples, Felice Mosca, 1716.

    Rare first edition of this verse encomium...

    £650

  14. KRUG, [Wilhelm Traugott].

    Apologia della chiesa protestante contro...

    [S.l., s.n.,] 1822.

    First edition, extremely rare, of this...

    £275

  15. GUSTÁ, Francisco.

    Memorie della rivoluzione francese tanto...

    Assisi, Ottavio Sgariglia, 1793.

    Apparent first edition, very rare, of Gustá’s...

    £550

  16. FERRAZZI, Marc’Antonio.

    Dissertationes criticae in linguam hebraicam …

    Padua, ‘Typis Seminarii’, 1691.

    Rare first edition of this philological...

    £600

  17. DONI, Anton Francesco.

    Mondi celesti, terrestri, et infernali,...

    Venice, Domenico Farri, 1567.

    A handsome copy of the second edition of...

    £850

  18. [CHARLES VII.]

    ‘Trauer- und Todten-Gerüste, worauf...

    Augsburg, Johann Andreas Steißlinger, [1745].

    An attractive broadside mourning the death...

    £275

  19. XENOPHON; Antonmaria SALVINI, translator.

    Di Senofonte Efesio degli amori di Abrocome...

    London (i.e. Florence?), ‘presso gli...

    Second edition of this erotic work on the...

    £650

  20. ZAND, Nathalie.

    [Drop-head title:] Les olives inférieures...

    [Paris, 31 December 1927.]

    Scarce offprint of a work on the inferior...

    £550