Recent Acquisitions
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HORSFIELD, Thomas Walker.
The History, Antiquities, and Topography...
Lewes, John Baxter, and London, Nichols...
First edition, a handsome set extensively...
£3750
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[GAME.]
English–French card game for children.
[Britain, c. 1820.]
A delightful and apparently unrecorded...
£650
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[GUASCO, Francesco Eugenio.]
Lettera del primicerio di Mondorbopoli...
‘In Mondorbopoli’ [Alessandria?], 1788.
Rare first edition of this anti-Jansenist...
£275
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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
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[FOCQUENBERGUES, Jean de, attributed.]
Le voyage de Bethel, avec des méditations...
Guernsey, Chevalier and Mauger, 1819.
A seemingly unrecorded Guernsey edition...
£350
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[FIELDING, Henry.]
A Proper Answer to a late scurrilous Libel,...
London, M. Cooper, 1748.
Second edition, scarce, published only...
£500
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FIELDING, Henry.
An Enquiry into the Causes of the late...
London, A. Millar, 1751.
Second edition, published two months after...
£300
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[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
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[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
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BURNET, Gilbert.
Bishop Burnet’s Travels through France,...
London, T. Payne, 1750.
Later edition of Burnet’s account of...
£150
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BERNEY, Thomas.
An Address presented to the honourable...
[(Colophon:) Westminster, Vacher & Sons],...
One of several closely related printings...
£300
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[ALMANACK.]
XIX Jahrhundert. Der Wanderer am Bodensee....
Constance (Konstanz), the widow of Josef...
A seemingly unrecorded almanack for 1833,...
£375
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MALTHUS, T. R.
Principles of political Economy considered...
London, John Murray, 1820.
First edition of Malthus’s broadest treatment...
£5000
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[BREVIARY, Use of Passau.]
Breviarium s[ecundu]m chorum alme Ecclesie...
[(Colophon:) Venice, Petrus Liechtenstein...
A rare Passau breviary with numerous woodcut...
£4500
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SCHOPPER, Hartmann, translator.
Speculum vitae aulicae. De admirabili fallacia...
Frankfurt, [(colophon:) Nikolaus Basse], 1595.
Fifth and final edition of the first Latin...
£850
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[GAVARD, Franz.]
‘Ritratto di Francesco Gavard Tedesco,...
Rome, ‘si stampeno [sic] incontro il...
Seemingly unrecorded popular engraving...
£350
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CLÜVER, Philipp.
Introductio in universam geographiam tam...
Wolfenbüttel, Caspar Johann Bismarck...
The 1686 edition of perhaps the most important...
£1750
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[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
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WILLAN, Leonard.
The exact Politician, or, compleat Statesman:...
London, Dorman Newman, 1670.
First edition, second issue, employing...
£850
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TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord.
The Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Poet...
London, Macmillan & Co., 1894.
An exceptionally attractive turn-of-the-century...
£675