Recent Acquisitions

  1. ALCIATI, Andrea; Joannes THUILIUS, editor.

    Emblemata cum commentariis Claudi Minois...

    Padua, [(colophon:) Lorenzo Pasquato for]...

    First ‘magisterial’ edition (Manning,...

    £1250

  2. ALCIATI, Andrea; Claude MIGNAULT, editor; Fédéric MOREL.

    Omnia … emblemata, cum commentariis,...

    Paris, Jean Richer for François Gueffier,...

    The final Paris printing of Mignault’s...

    £850

  3. ALCIATI, Andrea.

    Les emblemes … mis en rime francoyse...

    Paris, Chrestien Wechel, 1539.

    Third edition of Jean Lefevre’s French...

    £1750

  4. AESOP.

    Les fables d’Ésope, mises en françois,...

    Lyon, Amable Leroy, 1809.

    An illustrated Lyon schoolboy edition of...

    £250

  5. AESOP; Jean-Baptiste Morvan de BELLEGARDE, translator.

    Les fables d’Esope phrygien, avec celles...

    Utrecht, Jacob van Poolsum, 1734.

    Aesop’s Fables in the translation...

    £650

  6. [ACCADEMIA DELL’ARCADIA.]

    Favola di due gatti e della scimia coll’appello...

    Florence, Bernardo Paperini, 1730.

    First combined edition, rare, of two fables...

    £475

  7. VIGNOLA, [Giacomo Barozzi da].

    Regles des cinq ordres d’architecture...

    ...

    An exceptionally rare French pocket edition...

    £875

  8. VALERIUS FLACCUS, Gaius; Giovanni Battista PIO, editor.

    Argonautica. Joan. Baptistae Pii carmen...

    Lyon, Sébastien Gryphe, 1548.

    A pocket-sized edition of several poetic...

    £475

  9. SPIZEL, Gottlieb.

    Herrn Joh. Jacob Thurms der freyen Künsten...

    Augsburg, Jacob Koppmayer, 1670.

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

    £850

  10. SMITH, Samuel.

    Aditus ad logicam. In usum eorum qui primò...

    Oxford, Henry Hall for Richard Davis, 1649.

    A sammelband of two seventeenth-century...

    £675

  11. PINDER, Richard.

    The Spirit of Error, found, and discovered,...

    [(Colophon:) London, Robert Wilson, 1660.]

    First and only edition of this tract by...

    £750

  12. PECHLIN, Johann Nicolas.

    Theophilus bibaculus, sive de potu theae...

    Kiel & Frankfurt, for Johann Sebastian...

    Scarce first edition of Pechlin’s dialogue...

    £1500

  13. [PASSAU.]

    Ursprung der Wallfahrt Maria Hilf bei Passau.

    [Passau?] 1845.

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

    £175

  14. [MICHELS, Eleonora.]

    Seraphische Bruderschaft der HH. fünf...

    Frankfurt am Main, Johannes Bayrhoffer,...

    A seemingly unrecorded sign-up sheet and...

    £575

  15. [LATIN.]

    Advertencias y preceptos utiles, con veinte...

    Monterrey, Francisco Molina, 1841.

    Two unrecorded Latin primers provincially...

    £750

  16. LEMASSON, Albert.

    Two pencil and watercolour sketches for...

    [Saint-Mars-du-Désert, c. 1942.]

    An attractive pair of sketches for Lemasson’s...

    £375

  17. [ALMANACK.]

    Almanach journalier, très-curieux & ‘augmente’...

    Le Mans, Ch. Monnoyer, [1762].

    A seemingly unrecorded Le Mans-printed...

    £475

  18. LA QUINTINIE, [Jean-Baptiste] de; John EVELYN, translator.

    The Compleat Gard’ner; or, Directions...

    London, Matthew Gillyflower and James...

    First edition in English, translated by...

    £2000

  19. JUSTIN.

    Justini ex Trogo Pompeio Historia, fidelissima...

    Cologne, Johann Gymnich [III], 1580.

    Very rare Cologne edition of Justin’s...

    £650

  20. HOOPER, William.

    ‘Liverpool Independence Cricket Club....

    [Liverpool, 3 April to 2 October 1880.]

    A pocketbook record of matches for the...

    £250