Recent Acquisitions
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BEAUMONT, Joseph.
Psyche: or Loves Mysterie in XX. Canto’s:...
London, Printed by John Dawson for George...
First edition of this lengthy religious...
£1250
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[BONIOHANNES de Messana, attributed.]
Speculum sapiencie beati Cirilli episcopi...
[Basel, Michael Wenssler, c. 1475.]
An attractive early incunable edition of...
£7250
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[BIBLE – OLD TESTAMENT.]
Los cinco libros de la ley divina. De nuevo...
Amsterdam, ‘en casa, y a costa de Selomoh...
An uncommon and handsomely produced Pentateuch...
£1850
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MESNY, William.
Mesny’s Chinese Miscellany. A Text Book...
Shanghai, printed at the “China Gazette...
The first volume, collecting the first...
£1500
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FLORIO, Blasco.
Lettera sopra alcuni ostacoli che la logica,...
Messina, Giuseppe Fiumara, 1825.
Very rare first edition of this work on...
£475
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[ANON.]
Le moine galant, ou la vie de Don F…...
[S.l., s.n.,] 1756.
Scarce first edition of this satirical...
£450
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DOD, John, attributed.
A Sermon on Malt. [S.l., s.n., c. 1840].
[c. 1840].
A seemingly unrecorded printing of the...
£875
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DENISSE, Nicolas.
Divinis humanisq[ue] dignu[m] conspectibus...
Rouen, Martin Morin, 15 February 1506 [1507].
Rare edition of the Speculum mortalium...
£1650
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[SERMONS.]
[Sermones sensati.]
[(Colophon:) Gouda, Gerard Leeu, 20 February...
First and only incunable edition of a rare...
£8500
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PFEFFER DE WYDENBERG, Johannes.
[Directorium sacerdotale.]
[Basel, Johann Besicken, after 20 December...
First and only incunable edition, very...
£6500
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[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
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LA VIGNE, André de.
Le vergier dhonneur nouvellement imprime...
[(Colophon:) Paris, Philippe le Noir],...
George Dunn’s copy of a rare early edition...
£9500
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GAGUIN, Robert.
La mer des croniques et mirouer hystorial...
Paris, [Bernard Aubry for] Jacques Nyverd,...
Very rare Paris vernacular edition (first...
£8500
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[CHAMPIER, Symphorien.]
La vie & les gestes du preux chevalier...
Lyons, Olivier Arnoullet, [(colophon:)...
A rare edition of Champier’s account...
£9500
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ACQUAVIVA, Claudio.
Meditationes in Psalmum XLIV, & CXVIII.
Rome, Bartolomeo Zanetti, 1616.
First edition of these Jesuit meditations...
£1550
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BELLARMINE, Robert.
De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis liber unus....
Rome, Bartolomeo Zannetti, 1613.
First edition of a remarkable biobibliography...
£350
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PETRONIUS ARBITER, Titus.
Satyricon; et diversorum poëtarum lusus...
Utrecht, Gijsbert van Zijll and Dirck...
A volume of Silver Age satire and lewd...
£350
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KUZMIN, Mikhail Alekseevich.
Александрійскія Пѣсни...
St Petersburg, “Prometei”, [1921].
First separate edition of Kuzmin’s Alexandrian...
£400
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FLEMING, Ian.
The Spy who loved me.
London, Jonathan Cape, 1962.
First edition, first impression, of the...
£1250
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SCOTT, Walter, Sir.
Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field.
Edinburgh, Archibald Constable; London,...
Tenth edition of Scott’s historical verse...
£1200