Recent Acquisitions

  1. [ANON.] 

    Le moine galant, ou la vie de Don F…...

    [S.l., s.n.,] 1756. 

    Scarce first edition of this satirical...

    £450

  2. DOD, John, attributed.

    A Sermon on Malt. [S.l., s.n., c. 1840].

    [c. 1840].

    A seemingly unrecorded printing of the...

    £875

  3. DENISSE, Nicolas.

    Divinis humanisq[ue] dignu[m] conspectibus...

    Rouen, Martin Morin, 15 February 1506 [1507].

    Rare edition of the Speculum mortalium...

    £1650

  4. [SERMONS.]

    [Sermones sensati.]

    [(Colophon:) Gouda, Gerard Leeu, 20 February...

    First and only incunable edition of a rare...

    £8500

  5. PFEFFER DE WYDENBERG, Johannes.

    [Directorium sacerdotale.]

    [Basel, Johann Besicken, after 20 December...

    First and only incunable edition, very...

    £6500

  6. [LANSPERGER, Johannes Justus;] Serafino ACETI DE’ PORTI, translator.

    Pharetra divini amoris, tradotto in volgare...

    Venice, Paolo Gherardo [(colophon:) Comin...

    Third Italian edition, considerably enlarged,...

    £1500

  7. LA VIGNE, André de.

    Le vergier dhonneur nouvellement imprime...

    [(Colophon:) Paris, Philippe le Noir],...

    George Dunn’s copy of a rare early edition...

    £9500

  8. GAGUIN, Robert.

    La mer des croniques et mirouer hystorial...

    Paris, [Bernard Aubry for] Jacques Nyverd,...

    Very rare Paris vernacular edition (first...

    £8500

  9. [CHAMPIER, Symphorien.]

    La vie & les gestes du preux chevalier...

    Lyons, Olivier Arnoullet, [(colophon:)...

    A rare edition of Champier’s account...

    £9500

  10. BELLARMINE, Robert.

    De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis liber unus....

    Rome, Bartolomeo Zannetti, 1613.

    First edition of a remarkable biobibliography...

    £350

  11. PETRONIUS ARBITER, Titus.

    Satyricon; et diversorum poëtarum lusus...

    Utrecht, Gijsbert van Zijll and Dirck...

    A volume of Silver Age satire and lewd...

    £350

  12. KUZMIN, Mikhail Alekseevich.

    Александрійскія Пѣсни...

    St Petersburg, “Prometei”, [1921].

    First separate edition of Kuzmin’s Alexandrian...

    £400

  13. FLEMING, Ian.

    The Spy who loved me.

    London, Jonathan Cape, 1962.

    First edition, first impression, of the...

    £1250

  14. POLLUX, Julius.

    Ονομαστικον εν βιβλιοις...

    Amsterdam, Wetstein, 1706.

    A crisp copy of Pollux’s second-century...

    £300

  15. OVID; Georg SABINUS, editor.

    Metamorphoses seu fabulae poeticae earumque...

    Frankfurt, Nikolaus Hoffmann, 1608.

    A pocket edition of Ovid’s Metamorphoses...

    £325

  16. NOMEXY, Nicolas de.

    Parnassus poeticus … nunc primum in Germania...

    Rome, Guglielmo Facciotti, for Vincenzo...

    A bestselling compilation of Latin verse,...

    £650

  17. [MISSAL.]

    Nouveau paroissien romain, contenant l’offices...

    Lyons, H. Curnier, 1869.

    A pocket Paroissien in a charming...

    £275

  18. MARCHESE, Annibale.

    Poema per la nascita del serenissimo Leopoldo...

    Naples, Felice Mosca, 1716.

    Rare first edition of this verse encomium...

    £650

  19. KRUG, [Wilhelm Traugott].

    Apologia della chiesa protestante contro...

    [S.l., s.n.,] 1822.

    First edition, extremely rare, of this...

    £275

  20. GUSTÁ, Francisco.

    Memorie della rivoluzione francese tanto...

    Assisi, Ottavio Sgariglia, 1793.

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

    £550