Recent Acquisitions

  1. [BROWN, Thomas.]

    The Bower of Spring, with other Poems …

    Edinburgh, Archibald Constable & Co.,...

    First edition of this lively verse collection,...

    £375

  2. [ALMANACKS.]

    A bound collection of seven almanacks for 1818.

    London, the Company of Stationers, 1817.

    A collection of seven almanacks for 1818...

    £175

  3. HERMES TRISMEGISTUS; Marsilio FICINO, translator.

    Liber de potestate et sapientia Dei …

    [(Colophon:) Venice, Damianus de Mediolano,...

    An attractive Venetian edition of the first...

    £7500

  4. ARIOSTO, Ludovico.

    Orlando furioso.

    Birmingham, John Baskerville for Pietro...

    A handsomely bound set of the attractive...

    £1850

  5. AMADUZZI, Giovanni Cristoforo.

    Epistola ad Johannem Baptistam Bodonium...

    [(Colophon:) Parma, Bodoni, 1791.]

    First edition of Amaduzzi’s philological...

    £275

  6. SIBILLA, Bartolomeo.

    Speculum peregrinarum quaestionum … Tres...

    [(Colophon:) Lyon, Jacques Myt, 9 August 1521.]

    Second Lyon edition of Sibilla’s popular...

    £1500

  7. [NUNS.]

    Il paradiso in terra aperto alle sagre...

    Rome, Ottavio Puccinelli, 1747.

    Second edition (first 1718) of an anonymous...

    £1750

  8. GEREMIA, Pietro.

    Opus. Sermones in adventum Domini. Sermones...

    [(Colophons:) Brescia, Giacomo Britannico,...

    First edition of Geremia’s sermons, in...

    £2800

  9. [CONGREGAZIONE DELL’ORATORIO DI ROMA.]

    Sammelband of fourteen libretti.

    Rome, 1765–1768.

    A sammelband of rare devotional libretti...

    £1750

  10. WEST INDIA DOCK COMPANY.

    Three documents concerning the financing...

    London, 1799–1810.

    Three key documents concerning the financing...

    £1350

  11. [CHAMPIER, Symphorien.]

    La vie & les gestes du preux Chevalier...

    [(Colophon:) Poitiers, Jacques Bouchet...

    An otherwise unrecorded late sixteenth-century...

    £8750

  12. [BILLARDON DE SAUVIGNY, Edme-Louis.]

    Voyage de Madame et de Madame Victoire.

    Lunéville, Messuy, [1761].

    Four rare works describing visits by the...

    £975

  13. [THOM, Robert].

    王嬌鸞百年長恨 Wang Keaou Lẅan...

    Canton, Canton Press Office, 1839.

    First and only edition, scarce, loosely...

    £1750

  14. [STANFORD, John Frederick].

    John Bull and his wonderful Lamp. A new...

    London, John Petherham, 1849.

    First edition, a rare hand-coloured presentation...

    £600

  15. FENN, John, Sir.

    Original Letters written during the Reigns...

    London, G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1787.

    Second edition, published in the same year...

    £1200

  16. [COSTUME.]

    Dresses of different Nations or the Companion...

    [N.p., 1810s?]

    Very rare costume book, possibly a Scottish...

    £1500

  17. CHIANG Yee.

    The Silent Traveller in Edinburgh.

    [Edinburgh, Constable, for] London, Methuen,...

    First edition, signed, of this unusual...

    £180

  18. [CARLYLE.]

    Illustrated memorial Volume of the Carlyle’s...

    London, The Carlyle’s House Memorial...

    First edition of an uncommon commemorative...

    £325

  19. BARRIE, James Matthew.

    A set of seven first editions, and one...

    London, 1888–1896.

    An attractive set of J. M. Barrie’s...

    £650

  20. LUNESCHLOS, Joannes de.

    Thesaurus mathematum reseratus per algebram...

    Padua, Giulio Crivellari, 1646.

    An uncommon mathematical text, written...

    £8500