Recent Acquisitions
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BORSO D’ESTE, Duke of Modena, Duke of Ferrara.
Letter in his name in Italian, addressed...
Modena, 3 July 1453.
A letter from early in Borso d’Este’s...
£750
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[DOVES PRESS.]
Pervigilium Veneris.
Hammersmith, ‘printed by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson...
One of 150 copies on paper of the elusive...
£950
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PLAUTUS.
M. Accius Plautus ex fide, atque auctoritate...
Paris, Jean Le Blanc for Jean Macé, 1577...
Reissue of the 1576 first edition of...
£650
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[MARRIAGE LOTTERY.]
The Sure Chance; or, a new Million Adventure. ...
London, J. Whitlock, 1694.
First edition, very rare, a satire on...
£6250
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JACQUEMOT, Jean.
Variorum poematium liber.
[Lyons,] Jean de Tournes, 1601.
Very rare first edition of this collection...
£875
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FENOUILLOT DE FALBAIRE, Charles-Georges.
Le fabricant de Londres, drame en cinq...
Paris, chez Delalain, 1771.
First edition of a London-set play by...
£250
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MONTLOSIER, Francois-Dominique de Reynaud, comte de.
Le peuple Anglais bouffi d’orgueil, de...
Paris, chez Surosne, An IX (1803).
First edition, scarce on the market,...
£375
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SOWERBY, J[ohn] G[eorge], and Thomas CRANE, illustrators. [Eliza KEARY.]
At Home.
London and Belfast, Marcus Ward & Co.,...
Original maquette for this charming...
£500
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[VERACI, Gaetano.]
Nuova cicalata sopra la coda in forma di...
[S.l., s.n,. c. 1770.]
Second edition, extremely rare and significantly...
£850
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RINUCCINI, Giovanni Battista.
Le capucin Escossois. Histoire merveilleuse,...
Paris, Jean Guignard, 1650.
First edition of François Barrault’s...
£1250
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PEPE, Stefano.
[Half-title: ‘Il Cappuccino d’Este...
[Italy, second half of the seventeenth...
A seemingly unpublished life of Alfonso...
£1250
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APULEIUS, Lucius.
L. Apuleii Metamorphoseos, sive lusus...
Venice, ‘in aedibus Aldi et Andreae...
First Aldine edition of the works of...
£2000
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[ROUSSEL DE LA TOUR, Claude Pierre GOUJET, and Abbé MINARD, editors.]
Extraits des assertions dangereuses et...
Paris, Pierre-Guillaume Simon, 1762.
First edition of this systematic selection...
£1500
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STANYHURST, William.
Veteris hominis per expensa quatuor novissima...
Antwerp, Cornelius Woons, 1661.
First edition, rare, of this work on...
£875
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SCARRON, Paul.
Le Marquis ridicule, ou la comtesse faite...
[Leiden, Elzevier], 1656.
First Elzevier editions, very rare,...
£800
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[ROUSSEAU, Pierre.]
Considérations sur le théatre de l’opéra. ...
[Paris,] de l’imprimerie de Rignoux, [1822].
Very rare proposal for a new opera house...
£475
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[WALLOON CHURCH AMSTERDAM.]
Ordres et reglemens de la maison des orphelins,...
Amsterdam, David Pierre Humbert, 1772.
Very rare set of regulations governing...
£1450
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PEETERS, Jacob.
L’Atlas en abregé, ou nouvelle Description...
Antwerp, chez l’auteur, 1692.
First edition of a charming atlas, the...
£2500
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[MURAT, J.-B. de.]
La destinée d’une jolie femme, poème...
Paris, Langlois for Mongie, An XI (1803).
First and only edition, very scarce,...
£650
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[MURDER.]
Arrest de la cour du Parlement, qui condamne...
Paris, Pierre-Guillaume Simon, 1778.
Very rare decree documenting the crimes...
£175