Recent Acquisitions
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OVID.
In hoc volumine h[a]ec co[n]tinentur. P....
[(Colophon:) Venice, Bernardino Stagnino,...
Very rare pocket-sized edition of selected...
£1250
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[MEIN, Robert.]
A Nominal Encomium on the Election of Magistrates...
[Edinburgh, 1764.]
First edition, very rare, a poem...
£450
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LIPSIUS, Justus.
De amphitheatro liber. In quo forma ipsa...
Antwerp [i.e. Leiden], Christophe Plantin,...
Two works by the great Flemish humanist...
£950
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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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ALABASTER, William.
Roxana tragaedia olim Cantabrigiae, acta...
London, R. Badger for Andrew Crook, 1632.
The pirated first edition (the first...
£1500
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PLINY the Elder.
Historiae mundi libri XXXVII, cum castigationibus...
Frankfurt, Claude de Marne and heirs of...
First Frankfurt edition of Pliny’s...
£1400
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[LORD LEYCESTER HOSPITAL, WARWICK.]
Account of the Charity of Leicester’s...
Warwick, mid-nineteenth century.
A manuscript copy of the sixteenth-century...
£350
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MILLER, Philip.
The Gardeners Kalendar, directing what...
The Fourteenth Edition. London, John Rivington,...
A very attractive copy of the most popular...
£165
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[LILY, William.]
A short introduction of grammar compiled...
London, S. Buckley and T. Longman, 1738.
Two beautifully printed eighteenth-century...
£550
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KECHT, Johann Sigismund.
Der verbesserte praktische Weinbau in Gärten...
Berlin, [Trowitzsch and Son for] the author,...
Third, expanded edition (first 1813)...
£450
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BORGHESI, Giovanni, and Giovanni Mario de’ CRESCIMBENI, translator.
Lettera scritta da Pondisceri a’ 10 di...
Rome, [Gaetano degli] Zenobi, ‘Stampatore,...
First edition of this account of a physician’s...
£1500
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GELLIUS, Aulus.
Auli Gellii luculentissimi scriptoris Noctes...
Lyon, Sebastian Gryphius, 1555.
Gryphius edition of Aulus Gellius’...
£650
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[BIBLE.]
Biblia sacra vulgatae editionis … [with:]...
Paris, Jacques Vincent, 1741/1740.
An attractively bound copy of the Old...
£975
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BACON, Francis.
Historia vitae et mortis.
Amsterdam, Johannes van Ravesteyn, 1663.
Pocket-sized Amsterdam editions of three...
£975
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MOUSSON, Pierre.
Tragoediae seu diversarum gentium et imperiorum...
La Flèche, George Griveau, 1621.
First edition, provincially-printed,...
£725
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[MARY I.] VISDOMINI, Francesco.
Oratione funebre fatta in Napoli nell’hon. essequie...
[Naples, Raimondo Amato, 1559.]
First edition, extremely rare, of this...
£1800
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[PSALMS; Basil WOODD, editor.]
The Psalms of David, and other Portions...
London, Watts & Bridgewaters, Rivingtons,...
A pocket-sized Psalm- and prayerbook...
£2000
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[PREDIERI, Luca Antonio, composer; Apostolo ZENO, librettist.]
La tirannide vendicata, drama per musica,...
Pesaro, Gavelli, 1726.
First edition, very rare, of the libretto...
£1250
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DEUBER, A. X.
Poetische Versuche.
Bamberg, [cover: ‘im Komptoir der Zeitung’,]...
First and only edition, very rare, preserving...
£650
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KLEINKNECHT, Conrad Daniel.
Des himmlischen Salomons erquickliches...
Ulm, ‘im Verlag der Stettinschen und...
Two very rare Protestant prayerbooks...
£850