Recent Acquisitions

  1. [WINSLOW, Jacob Benignus.]

    Terrible supplice et cruel désespoir des...

    [Paris, Joseph Bullot, 1752].

    Extremely rare first edition of this anonymous...

    £850

  2. TREVLYN, Valda.

    High Death.

    Falkland, K.D. Duval, 1970.

    One of 100 copies of this poem on death...

    £75

  3. [TOWNLEY, William Dalison.]

    Punch’s Pocket-Book for 1877, containing...

    London, [Bradbury, Agnew, & Co. for]...

    A Punch almanack for 1877 with nearly...

    £450

  4. [SHEPHEARD, James.]

    The Dying Speech of James Shepheard: who...

    [London, s.n., 1718.]

    One of at least five printings of this...

    £750

  5. ROCHESTER, John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of, Wentworth Dillon ROSCOMMON, 4th Earl of, et al.

    A Collection of Poems: viz. the Temple...

    London, printed for Daniel Brown and Benjamin...

    Fourth edition of the important ‘Temple...

    £500

  6. PITOU, Louis-Ange.

    L’Urne des Stuarts et des Bourbons, ou...

    Paris, [Beraud for] L.A. Pitou, 31 August...

    First and only surviving edition of this...

    £650

  7. [NUNS.]

    [Incipit:] Illustrissimi Sigg. Sigg....

    Florence, 20 March 1784.

    Extremely rare broadside confirming the...

    £450

  8. [NOVARA.]

    [Incipit:] Il vescovo di Novara...

    [Novara], 10 May 1805.

    An apparently unrecorded broadside from...

    £175

  9. [MILAN – DEATH DUTIES.]

    [Incipit:] Ad un reale dispaccio...

    Milan, Pirola brothers, [31 October 1787].

    Scarce edict issued by Ferdinand Karl,...

    £500

  10. HOLBEIN, Hans; Wenceslaus HOLLAR, engraver; [Francis DOUCE, editor].

    The Dance of Death, from the original Designs...

    [McMillan] for J. Coxhead, 1816.

    An attractive early nineteenth-century...

    £375

  11. [HÖSS,] Maria Crescentia, Saint.

    ‘Wahre Abbildung der From[m]en Schwester...

    Jahr ihres Alters.’ Mindelheim, Lingauer,...

    Extremely rare devotional engraving of...

    £750

  12. HEINSIUS, Daniel.

    Poematum editio nova; accedunt praeter...

    Leiden, [Isaac] Elzevir and Jean Maire, 1621.

    First Elzevir edition of the poems of Daniel...

    £800

  13. GRÜNEISEN, [Karl].

    Niclaus Manuel: Leben und Werke eines Malers...

    Stuttgart & Tübingen, J.G. Cotta, 1837.

    First and only edition of the first separate...

    £120

  14. [FRANKLAND, William.]

    A large collection of manuscript correspondence...

    [Manchester, Slaidburn, and Blackburn,...

    An interesting archive relating to the...

    £650

  15. [DEATH CERTIFICATES.]

    Certificates recording the deaths of three...

    Rome, 1762–1819.

    An interesting set of death certificates...

    £750

  16. COUPÉ, Jacques-Michel.

    De la moralité des sépultures et de leur...

    Paris, Calixte Vollant, an IX [1800–1801].

    A scarce and most interesting pamphlet...

    £475

  17. [GIRALDI, Giovanni Battista.]

    Giuditio sopra la tragedia di Canace et...

    (Colophon:) Lucca, Vincenzo Busdraghi,...

    First edition of this criticism, in the...

    £650

  18. DELL’UVA, Benedetto.

    Le vergini prudenti.

    Florence, Bartolomeo Sermartelli, 1582.

    First editions of three religious poems...

    £650

  19. DESPAUTÈRE, Jean, and Gabriel DU PRÉAU.

    Universa grammatica, cum doctissimis commentariis,...

    Lyons, Pierre Rigaud, 1608.

    A seemingly unrecorded issue of this comprehensive...

    £400

  20. STANCOVICH, Pietro.

    Dello anfiteatro di Pola, dei gradi marmorei...

    Venice, Giuseppe Picotti, 1822.

    First edition, uncut in the original wrappers,...

    £275