Recent Acquisitions

  1. [MISSAL.]

    Nouveau paroissien romain, contenant l’offices...

    Lyons, H. Curnier, 1869.

    A pocket Paroissien in a charming...

    £275

  2. DONI, Anton Francesco.

    Mondi celesti, terrestri, et infernali,...

    Venice, Domenico Farri, 1567.

    A handsome copy of the second edition of...

    £850

  3. POUND, Ezra.

    Cantos 110–116 …

    printed & published by the Fuck You /...

    Unauthorised edition (unsurprisingly),...

    £150

  4. VALERIUS MAXIMUS, Gaius.

    Dictorum factorumque memorabilium exempla....

    Carmagnola, Marcantonio Bellone, 1607.

    Rare edition of Valerius Maximus, provincially...

    £450

  5. CICERO, Marcus Tullius.

    Rheticorum ad Herennium libri IIII. Et...

    Venice, heirs of Giovanni Griffio, 1576.

    An attractive copy of the two earliest...

    £600

  6. 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

  7. [VICTORIA: DIAMOND JUBILEE.]

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

    Hereford, F. Preece, 1897.

    An attractive album memorialising a garden...

    £500

  8. [JACOBUS de Gruytrode, attributed.]

    Lavacrum conscientie [omnium sacerdotum].

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

    Rare edition of this popular late medieval...

    £750

  9. TEICHMAN, Eric, Sir.

    Travels of a consular Officer in eastern...

    Cambridge, University Press, 1922.

    First edition, by the diplomat and orientalist...

    £250

  10. VISCARDI, Giovanni Andrea.

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

    Venice, Sebastiano Combi, 1600.

    Second, expanded edition of Viscardi’s...

    £1250

  11. TEICHMAN, Eric, Sir.

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

    Cambridge, University Press, 1921.

    First edition. ‘The following chapters...

    £250

  12. [SYRIAC.]

    ܟܘܪܣܬܐ ܕܥܢܝܕܵܐ ܒܢܵܝ ܥܠܡܐ...

    Urmia, Archbishop of Canterbury’s Assyrian...

    Extremely rare edition of the Syriac liturgy...

    £1850

  13. [PEACOCK, Thomas Love.]

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

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

    First edition in book form, following serialisation...

    £200

  14. LAKITS, György Zsigmond.

    Juris publici ecclesiastici pars generalis,...

    Venice, Giuseppe Orlandelli, 1790.

    Second Venice editions of two pro-Habsburg...

    £375

  15. [FABLES.]

    Petit fabuliste.

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

    A charming miniature collection of illustrated...

    £200

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

    Historiae romanae breviarium, ad codices...

    Paris, brothers Barbou, 1793.

    First edition by Capperonnier of this collection...

    £275

  17. ELIOT, T. S.

    Four Quartets.

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

    First edition, first impression, with the...

    £850

  18. ELIOT, T. S.

    The Waste Land.

    New York, Boni and Liveright, [1923].

    First edition, second impression, numbered...

    £1250

  19. 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

  20. DONNOLI, Francesco Alfonso.

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

    Venice, Benedetto Miloco, 1674.

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

    £1450