Recent Acquisitions

  1. 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

  2. [VICTORIA: DIAMOND JUBILEE.]

    Photograph album: ‘Hampton Court “Jubilee”...

    Hereford, F. Preece, 1897.

    An attractive album memorialising a garden...

    £500

  3. [JACOBUS de Gruytrode, attributed.]

    Lavacrum conscientie [omnium sacerdotum].

    [(Colophon:) Cologne, Heinrich Quentell, 1504.]

    Rare edition of this popular late medieval...

    £750

  4. TEICHMAN, Eric, Sir.

    Travels of a consular Officer in eastern...

    Cambridge, University Press, 1922.

    First edition, by the diplomat and orientalist...

    £250

  5. VISCARDI, Giovanni Andrea.

    Precetti morali e civili, con molti, &...

    Venice, Sebastiano Combi, 1600.

    Second, expanded edition of Viscardi’s...

    £1250

  6. VALERIUS MAXIMUS, Gaius.

    Dictorum factorumque memorabilium exempla....

    Carmagnola, Marcantonio Bellone, 1607.

    Rare edition of Valerius Maximus, provincially...

    £450

  7. TEICHMAN, Eric, Sir.

    Travels of a consular Officer in North-West...

    Cambridge, University Press, 1921.

    First edition. ‘The following chapters...

    £250

  8. [SYRIAC.]

    ܟܘܪܣܬܐ ܕܥܢܝܕܵܐ ܒܢܵܝ ܥܠܡܐ...

    Urmia, Archbishop of Canterbury’s Assyrian...

    Extremely rare edition of the Syriac liturgy...

    £1850

  9. [PEACOCK, Thomas Love.]

    Gryll Grange. By the Author of ‘Headlong...

    London, [Savill & Edwards for] Parker,...

    First edition in book form, following serialisation...

    £200

  10. LAKITS, György Zsigmond.

    Juris publici ecclesiastici pars generalis,...

    Venice, Giuseppe Orlandelli, 1790.

    Second Venice editions of two pro-Habsburg...

    £375

  11. [FABLES.]

    Petit fabuliste.

    Paris, [(colophon:) Firmin-Didot], [c. 1840].

    A charming miniature collection of illustrated...

    £200

  12. EUTROPIUS; Sextus AURELIUS VICTOR; Sextus Rufus [FESTUS]. 

    Historiae romanae breviarium, ad codices...

    Paris, brothers Barbou, 1793.

    First edition by Capperonnier of this collection...

    £275

  13. ELIOT, T. S.

    Four Quartets.

    New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1943].

    First edition, first impression, with the...

    £850

  14. ELIOT, T. S.

    The Waste Land.

    New York, Boni and Liveright, [1923].

    First edition, second impression, numbered...

    £1250

  15. 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

  16. DONNOLI, Francesco Alfonso.

    De iis, qui semel in die cibum capiunt....

    Venice, Benedetto Miloco, 1674.

    First edition, an uncut copy of Donnoli’s...

    £1450

  17. [DICKENS, Charles.]

    Children’s Stories from Dickens re-told...

    London, Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1911.

    First limited edition, numbered 224 of...

    £200

  18. CICERO, Marcus Tullius.

    Rheticorum ad Herennium libri IIII. Et...

    Venice, heirs of Giovanni Griffio, 1576.

    An attractive copy of the two earliest...

    £600

  19. CHATEAUBRIAND, François-[René] de.

    Atala; ou Les amours de deux sauvages dans...

    London, Colburn, 1809.

    First London edition in the original French,...

    £350

  20. CAREL DE SAINTE-GARDE, Jacques.

    Les Sarrazins chassez de France. Poëme...

    Paris, Claude Barbin, 1667.

    First edition, very rare, of this poetic...

    £850