Recent Acquisitions

  1. JUVENAL.

    The Satires … translated: with explanatory...

    London: Printed for J. Nicholson, in...

    Third edition of this parallel-text...

    £1250

  2. ARISTOTLE; Ermolao BARBARO, translator.

    De arte dicendi libri III.

    Paris, [Michel de] Vascosan, 1549.

    Rare first Vascosan edition of Aristotle’s...

    £650

  3. CONTI, Natale.

    Mythologiæ, sive explicationis fabularum,...

    Frankfurt, the heirs of André Wechel, 1584.

    Scarce Frankfurt edition of the Mythologiae...

    £950

  4. THICKNESSE, Philip.

    A Year’s Journey through the Paix Bâs...

    I [all published]. London: Printed...

    First edition, rare, and possibly suppressed,...

    £1850

  5. [PSALMS.]

    Les Pseaumes de David, mis en Vers François,...

    Amsterdam, ‘aux dépens de l’Eglise...

    New edition of the metrical Psalms of...

    £950

  6. [OFFICE OF THE DEAD.] 

    Uffizio de’ morti, ad uso delle confraternite...

    Turin, Bernardino Barberis, 1805. 

    An apparently unrecorded Turin-printed...

    £225

  7. [MASS.]

    Cerimonie piu’ notabili della messa privata;...

    Turin, Gianfranco Mairesse, 1739.

    An apparently unrecorded edition of...

    £300

  8. GUILLON, Pierre.

    Danti voci suae vocem virtutis. Quaestio...

    Poitiers, Jean-Felix Faulcon, [1770].

    An apparently unrecorded broadside giving...

    £275

  9. DARRÉ, G.G.

    ‘Conferences diaconales données par...

    Auch, 1864.

    An attractively written manuscript of...

    £200

  10. [CAPUCHINS.]

    Diploma conferring ‘privilegium maximum’.

    ‘Bojonii’, 22 October 1779.

    An attractive diploma issued by Erhard...

    £450

  11. [ARCICONFRATERNITA DELLA MORTE.]

    Pia unione aggregata all’Arciconfraternita...

    Ferrara, 181[7].

    Ten unrecorded, part-printed receipts...

    £650

  12. [WALSH, William.]

    A Funeral Elegy upon the Death of the Queen....

    London, Printed for Jacob Tonson … 1695.

    First edition of Walsh’s elegy on...

    £350

  13. [VITTORIO EMANUELE II.]

    Alla gloriosa memoria di Vittoria Emanuele...

    New York, Tipografia della scuola italiana,...

    First edition of this work recording...

    £500

  14. STANYHURST, William.

    Veteris hominis per expensa quatuor novissima...

    Antwerp, Cornelius Woons, 1661.

    First edition, rare, of this work on...

    £875

  15. ROSINI, Giovanni. 

    Alla memoria di Maria Antinori vedova del...

    Pisa, Niccolò Capurro, 1852. 

    Scarce first and only edition of this...

    £275

  16. PASSI, Marco Celio.

    Memorie sulla vita di Donna Giuseppina...

    Bergamo, Stamperia Mazzoleni, 1832.

    Scarce first edition of a touching memorial...

    £300

  17. MANCINI, Celso. 

    Il padrino Christiano … per formare i...

    Ferrara, Vittorio Baldini, 1592. 

    Rare first edition of a meditational...

    £950

  18. [GREY, Jane, Lady.]

    ‘The last days of Lady Jane Grey’.

    [c. 1870?].

    A manuscript extract, unfinished or...

    £175

  19. DRYDEN, John.

    Eleonora: a Panegyrical Poem: dedicated...

    London, Printed for Jacob Tonson … 1692.

    First edition of Dryden’s eulogy for...

    £275

  20. DONNE, John.

    Poems … with Elegies on the authors Death …

    London, Printed by M.F. for John Marriot,...

    Second edition, adding seventeen new...

    £4500