Recent Acquisitions

  1. COUPÉ, Jacques-Michel.

    De la moralité des sépultures et de leur...

    Paris, Calixte Vollant, an IX [1800–1801].

    A scarce and most interesting pamphlet...

    £475

  2. [GIRALDI, Giovanni Battista.]

    Giuditio sopra la tragedia di Canace et...

    (Colophon:) Lucca, Vincenzo Busdraghi,...

    First edition of this criticism, in the...

    £650

  3. DELL’UVA, Benedetto.

    Le vergini prudenti.

    Florence, Bartolomeo Sermartelli, 1582.

    First editions of three religious poems...

    £650

  4. DESPAUTÈRE, Jean, and Gabriel DU PRÉAU.

    Universa grammatica, cum doctissimis commentariis,...

    Lyons, Pierre Rigaud, 1608.

    A seemingly unrecorded issue of this comprehensive...

    £400

  5. STANCOVICH, Pietro.

    Dello anfiteatro di Pola, dei gradi marmorei...

    Venice, Giuseppe Picotti, 1822.

    First edition, uncut in the original wrappers,...

    £275

  6. MARSILIUS of Inghen, GILES of Rome, and ALBERT of Saxony.

    Marsilii de genera[tione et corruptione]....

    [(Colophon:) Venice, [Boneto Locatello...

    A trio of late thirteenth- and fourteenth-century...

    £1500

  7. NONIUS MARCELLUS.

    De proprietate sermonum. Iam demum innumeris...

    Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1565.

    First critical edition of this grammar...

    £450

  8. [MARIAN DEVOTION.]

    Embroidered silk panel depicting the Virgin...

    [Netherlands, early eighteenth century?]

    A delightful silk panel, embroidered over...

    £600

  9. PLINY the Younger.

    Panegyricus Trajano Augusto dictus.

    Paris, [Charles Crapelet for] Antoine-Augustin...

    An attractive edition of Pliny’s only...

    £275

  10. SIMEONI, Gabriele.

    Le III parti del campo de primi studii...

    [(Colophon:) Venice, Comin da Trino], 1546.

    First edition of this early work by Simeoni,...

    £950

  11. [SANDOW, Eugen, pseud. (i.e. Friedrich Müller).]

    Manuscript manual of exercises for use...

    [France, c. 1920].

    A seemingly unpublished French manuscript...

    £850

  12. [NURSERY SCHOOLS.]

    Intorno alla fondazione ed allo stato attuale...

    Milan, C.G. Bianchi and company, 1837.

    First and only edition, rare, of this report...

    £400

  13. [OXFORD, University of.]

    Parecbolae sive excerpta e corpore statutorum...

    Oxford, e typographeo Clarendoniano, 1771.

    Later edition of this essential student...

    £250

  14. MORE, Hannah.

    Strictures on the modern System of female...

    London, T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1799.

    Third edition, published in the same year...

    £950

  15. LUCAS, John.

    'Select and Original Pieces written at...

    Leeds, 1816 [–1817].

    A handsomely illustrated manuscript on...

    £1375

  16. HODSON, Thomas.

    The Accomplished Tutor; or, complete System...

    London, H. D. Symonds, and Vernor and...

    Second edition, revised, of a voluminous...

    £300

  17. [GEOGRAPHY.]

    Primi principi di geografia ad uso de’...

    [(Colophon:) Bergamo, Pietro Lancellotti,...

    Extremely rare second edition (first 1745)...

    £375

  18. [ART EDUCATION.]

    Der kleine Maler.

    [Germany, mid-nineteenth century.]

    A delightful suite of plates intended to...

    £450

  19. [VENICE.]

    Juventus cesareo-regii gymnasii urbis Venetiarum...

    [(Colophon:) Venice, Francesco Andreola,] 1828.

    A seemingly unrecorded annual report for...

    £350

  20. [TACOLI, Carlotta Munarini, Marchioness.]

    ‘Memorie riguardanti la storia filosofica...

    Modena, 1805.

    An unpublished manuscript introduction...

    £1250