Recent Acquisitions

  1. HORSFIELD, Thomas Walker.

    The History, Antiquities, and Topography...

    Lewes, John Baxter, and London, Nichols...

    First edition, a handsome set extensively...

    £3750

  2. [GAME.]

    English–French card game for children.

    [Britain, c. 1820.]

    A delightful and apparently unrecorded...

    £650

  3. [GUASCO, Francesco Eugenio.]

    Lettera del primicerio di Mondorbopoli...

    ‘In Mondorbopoli’ [Alessandria?], 1788.

    Rare first edition of this anti-Jansenist...

    £275

  4. GIACOMETTI, Francesco.

    Nouveau jeu d’échecs ou Le jeu de la...

    Genoa, Jean Barthelemy Como, 1801 (‘An...

    Very rare first edition in French, thoroughly...

    £1250

  5. [FOCQUENBERGUES, Jean de, attributed.]

    Le voyage de Bethel, avec des méditations...

    Guernsey, Chevalier and Mauger, 1819.

    A seemingly unrecorded Guernsey edition...

    £350

  6. [FIELDING, Henry.]

    A Proper Answer to a late scurrilous Libel,...

    London, M. Cooper, 1748.

    Second edition, scarce, published only...

    £500

  7. FIELDING, Henry.

    An Enquiry into the Causes of the late...

    London, A. Millar, 1751.

    Second edition, published two months after...

    £300

  8. [DAVIS, Julia Sophia; John Stevens Cabot ABBOTT, editor.]

    Memoir of Julia Sophia Davis, who died...

    Worcester (Massachusetts), Dorr, Howland,...

    First and only edition of this posthumous...

    £175

  9. [CORNAND DE LACROZE, Jean, et al.]

    Tract volume of ten pamphlets in French...

    The Netherlands, various publishers, 1686...

    A fine exchange of rare political propaganda...

    £1200

  10. BURNET, Gilbert.

    Bishop Burnet’s Travels through France,...

    London, T. Payne, 1750.

    Later edition of Burnet’s account of...

    £150

  11. BERNEY, Thomas.

    An Address presented to the honourable...

    [(Colophon:) Westminster, Vacher & Sons],...

    One of several closely related printings...

    £300

  12. [ALMANACK.]

    XIX Jahrhundert. Der Wanderer am Bodensee....

    Constance (Konstanz), the widow of Josef...

    A seemingly unrecorded almanack for 1833,...

    £375

  13. MALTHUS, T. R.

    Principles of political Economy considered...

    London, John Murray, 1820.

    First edition of Malthus’s broadest treatment...

    £5000

  14. [BREVIARY, Use of Passau.]

    Breviarium s[ecundu]m chorum alme Ecclesie...

    [(Colophon:) Venice, Petrus Liechtenstein...

    A rare Passau breviary with numerous woodcut...

    £4500

  15. SCHOPPER, Hartmann, translator.

    Speculum vitae aulicae. De admirabili fallacia...

    Frankfurt, [(colophon:) Nikolaus Basse], 1595.

    Fifth and final edition of the first Latin...

    £850

  16. [GAVARD, Franz.]

    ‘Ritratto di Francesco Gavard Tedesco,...

    Rome, ‘si stampeno [sic] incontro il...

    Seemingly unrecorded popular engraving...

    £350

  17. CLÜVER, Philipp.

    Introductio in universam geographiam tam...

    Wolfenbüttel, Caspar Johann Bismarck...

    The 1686 edition of perhaps the most important...

    £1750

  18. [BIBLE – OLD TESTAMENT and APOCRYPHA, Greek; Johann LONITZER, editor.]

    Της θειας γραφης παλαιας...

    Strasbourg, Wolfgang Köpfel, 1526.

    The first edition of the Old Testament...

    £8500

  19. WILLAN, Leonard.

    The exact Politician, or, compleat Statesman:...

    London, Dorman Newman, 1670.

    First edition, second issue, employing...

    £850

  20. TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord.

    The Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Poet...

    London, Macmillan & Co., 1894.

    An exceptionally attractive turn-of-the-century...

    £675