Recent Acquisitions

  1. CARACCIOLI, Louis-Antoine, Marquis.

    The Travels of Reason in Europe. Translated...

    London, J. Johnson, and W. Charnley...

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

    £1200

  2. [DARTON, William.]

    Little Jack of all Trades, with suitable...

    London, printed and sold by Darton and...

    Extremely rare early editions of this popular...

    £750

  3. EVELYN, John.

    Sylva, or a Discourse of Forest-Trees,...

    London, John Martyn, 1679.

    Third, enlarged edition of Evelyn’s Sylva,...

    £1500

  4. GOETHE, [Johann Wolfgang von].

    Goethe’s Werke. Vollständige Ausgabe...

    Stuttgart & Tübingen, J. G. Cotta, 1828.

    First edition, first impression, of the...

    £3500

  5. [HÉRISSANT, Louis Théodore.]

    Le fablier françois, ou élite des meilleures...

    Paris, Lottin le jeune, 1771.

    First edition, rare, of what has a claim...

    £650

  6. HERODIAN; [Angelo POLIZIANO, translator; Thomas SPARK, editor].

    Ηρωδιανου ιστοριων βιβλια...

    Oxford, Sheldonian Theatre, for G. West...

    A finely bound copy of Herodian’s moralising...

    £250

  7. [PSALMS.] J. T. BARRETT, editor.

    A Course of Psalms, adapted to the Services...

    London, J. Cochran, 1827.

    Fifth edition of the Course of Psalms...

    £175

  8. VISHNU SHARMA, attributed, et al; Jean Antoine DUBOIS, translator.

    Le Pantcha-tantra, ou les cinq ruses, fables...

    Paris, J.-S. Merlin, 1826.

    First edition of this French translation...

    £1850

  9. [WILD & Co.]

    Large sample book of printed textiles.

    [Turin, c. 1920?]

    A large collection of samples of printed...

    £1250

  10. BOUTMY, C.

    ‘Exercitium quotidianum dedicatum perillustri...

    [Belgium, 1760.]

    An attractively bound unpublished devotional...

    £450

  11. [DOVES PRESS.] 

    Pervigilium Veneris. 

    Hammersmith, ‘printed by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson...

    One of 150 copies on paper of the elusive...

    £950

  12. GUSTÁ, Francisco.

    Memorie della rivoluzione francese tanto...

    Assisi, Ottavio Sgariglia, 1793.

    Apparent first edition, very rare, of Gustá’s...

    £550

  13. SORBOLI, Girolamo.

    Celestina, favola pastorale.

    Ferrara, Vittorio Baldini, 1586.

    First and only edition, rare, of this verse...

    £750

  14. ALCIATI, Andrea; Claude MIGNAULT, editor; Fédéric MOREL.

    Omnia … emblemata, cum commentariis,...

    Paris, Jean Richer for François Gueffier,...

    The final Paris printing of Mignault’s...

    £850

  15. ALCIATI, Andrea.

    Les emblemes … mis en rime francoyse...

    Paris, Chrestien Wechel, 1539.

    Third edition of Jean Lefevre’s French...

    £1750

  16. AESOP.

    Les fables d’Ésope, mises en françois,...

    Lyon, Amable Leroy, 1809.

    An illustrated Lyon schoolboy edition of...

    £250

  17. AESOP; Jean-Baptiste Morvan de BELLEGARDE, translator.

    Les fables d’Esope phrygien, avec celles...

    Utrecht, Jacob van Poolsum, 1734.

    Aesop’s Fables in the translation...

    £650

  18. [ACCADEMIA DELL’ARCADIA.]

    Favola di due gatti e della scimia coll’appello...

    Florence, Bernardo Paperini, 1730.

    First combined edition, rare, of two fables...

    £475

  19. VALERIUS FLACCUS, Gaius; Giovanni Battista PIO, editor.

    Argonautica. Joan. Baptistae Pii carmen...

    Lyon, Sébastien Gryphe, 1548.

    A pocket-sized edition of several poetic...

    £475

  20. SMITH, Samuel.

    Aditus ad logicam. In usum eorum qui primò...

    Oxford, Henry Hall for Richard Davis, 1649.

    A sammelband of two seventeenth-century...

    £675