Recent Acquisitions
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ADORNO, Theodor W., Else FRENKEL-BRUNSWIK, Daniel J. LEVINSON, and R. Nevitt SANFORD
The Authoritarian Personality.
New York, Harper Brothers, 1950.
First edition of this groundbreaking work...
£225
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[VICTORIA: DIAMOND JUBILEE.]
Photograph album: ‘Hampton Court “Jubilee”...
Hereford, F. Preece, 1897.
An attractive album memorialising a garden...
£500
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[JACOBUS de Gruytrode, attributed.]
Lavacrum conscientie [omnium sacerdotum].
[(Colophon:) Cologne, Heinrich Quentell, 1504.]
Rare edition of this popular late medieval...
£750
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TEICHMAN, Eric, Sir.
Travels of a consular Officer in eastern...
Cambridge, University Press, 1922.
First edition, by the diplomat and orientalist...
£250
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VISCARDI, Giovanni Andrea.
Precetti morali e civili, con molti, &...
Venice, Sebastiano Combi, 1600.
Second, expanded edition of Viscardi’s...
£1250
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VALERIUS MAXIMUS, Gaius.
Dictorum factorumque memorabilium exempla....
Carmagnola, Marcantonio Bellone, 1607.
Rare edition of Valerius Maximus, provincially...
£450
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TEICHMAN, Eric, Sir.
Travels of a consular Officer in North-West...
Cambridge, University Press, 1921.
First edition. ‘The following chapters...
£250
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[SYRIAC.]
ܟܘܪܣܬܐ ܕܥܢܝܕܵܐ ܒܢܵܝ ܥܠܡܐ...
Urmia, Archbishop of Canterbury’s Assyrian...
Extremely rare edition of the Syriac liturgy...
£1850
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[PEACOCK, Thomas Love.]
Gryll Grange. By the Author of ‘Headlong...
London, [Savill & Edwards for] Parker,...
First edition in book form, following serialisation...
£200
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LAKITS, György Zsigmond.
Juris publici ecclesiastici pars generalis,...
Venice, Giuseppe Orlandelli, 1790.
Second Venice editions of two pro-Habsburg...
£375
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[FABLES.]
Petit fabuliste.
Paris, [(colophon:) Firmin-Didot], [c. 1840].
A charming miniature collection of illustrated...
£200
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EUTROPIUS; Sextus AURELIUS VICTOR; Sextus Rufus [FESTUS].
Historiae romanae breviarium, ad codices...
Paris, brothers Barbou, 1793.
First edition by Capperonnier of this collection...
£275
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ELIOT, T. S.
Four Quartets.
New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1943].
First edition, first impression, with the...
£850
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ELIOT, T. S.
The Waste Land.
New York, Boni and Liveright, [1923].
First edition, second impression, numbered...
£1250
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DUNMORE, Charles Adolphus Murray, Earl of.
The Pamirs; being a Narrative of a Year’s...
London, John Murray, ‘1893’ [1894].
Second edition (first 1893) recounting...
£275
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DONNOLI, Francesco Alfonso.
De iis, qui semel in die cibum capiunt....
Venice, Benedetto Miloco, 1674.
First edition, an uncut copy of Donnoli’s...
£1450
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[DICKENS, Charles.]
Children’s Stories from Dickens re-told...
London, Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1911.
First limited edition, numbered 224 of...
£200
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CICERO, Marcus Tullius.
Rheticorum ad Herennium libri IIII. Et...
Venice, heirs of Giovanni Griffio, 1576.
An attractive copy of the two earliest...
£600
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CHATEAUBRIAND, François-[René] de.
Atala; ou Les amours de deux sauvages dans...
London, Colburn, 1809.
First London edition in the original French,...
£350
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CAREL DE SAINTE-GARDE, Jacques.
Les Sarrazins chassez de France. Poëme...
Paris, Claude Barbin, 1667.
First edition, very rare, of this poetic...
£850