Recent Acquisitions

  1. [ALMANACKS.]

    A bound collection of seven almanacks for 1816.

    London, The Company of Stationers, 1816.

    A standard collection of seven almanacks...

    £125

  2. CICERO, Marcus Tullius.

    De philosophia tomus primus.

    Lyon, Sébastien Gryphe, 1546.

    A small format Lyon edition of Cicero,...

    £300

  3. IRENICUS, Franciscus.

    Germaniae exegeseos volumina duodecima...

    [(Colophon:) Hagenau, Thomas Anshelm for...

    First editions of a pair of sixteenth-century...

    £3500

  4. SHOBERL, Frederic, editor.

    Forget me not; a Christmas and New Year’s,...

    London, [Thomas Davison for] R[udolph]...

    The Anglo-German publisher Rudolph Ackermann’s...

    £150

  5. HIBBERD, James Shirley.

    The Garden Oracle and floricultural Year...

    London, Gardener’s Magazine Office, 1882.

    Edited by James Shirley Hibberd (1825–1890),...

    £100

  6. [JUVENILE.]

    Il piccolo Carlo, o novelle e conversazioni...

    Besançon, [Antonio] Montarsolo e Comp.,...

    Very rare Besançon-printed edition of...

    £450

  7. [ALMANACK.]

    ...

    [Leipzig, Fischer and Wittig for] Berlin,...

    A literary almanack for 1927 with stories...

    £175

  8. [ALMANACK.]

    Альманахъ для всѣхъ. Книга...

    St Petersburg, “Novyi zhurnal dlia vsekh”,...

    First edition, extremely rare, of the second...

    £200

  9. [ALMANACK.]

    Le triomphe de la vertu. Sujets tirés...

    Paris, Janet, [1814].

    A very rare biblical almanack for 1814...

    £300

  10. [ALMANACK.]

    London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1785.

    [London,] Printed for the Company of Stationers,...

    A very attractive miniature London Almanack...

    £950

  11. [ALMANACK.]

    Étrennes mignones [sic], curieuses et...

    Paris, Claude-Jacques-Charles [Durand]...

    A very rare Parisian almanack for 1775,...

    £1500

  12. [ALMANACK.]

    The Daily Journal. Or, the Gentleman's...

    London, R. Baldwin, 1761.

    An interesting and extremely rare account...

    £850

  13. LE PLAY, Frédéric.

    Les ouvriers européens. Tome premier [-6me].

    Tours, Alfred Mame et Fils, 1879. 

    Second, greatly enlarged edition. This...

    £750

  14. KEYNES, John Maynard.

    The General Theory of Employment, Interest...

    New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1936. 

    First American edition (includes the Erratum...

    £300

  15. MURDOCH, Iris.

    Sartre. Romantic Rationalist.

    Cambridge, Bowes & Bowes, 1953.

    First edition, the first published book...

    £200

  16. [BANK OF SCOTLAND.]

    Act of Parliament for erecting a Bank in...

    Edinburgh, printed by the heirs and successors...

    Very rare edition of the Act of Parliament...

    £650

  17. LAUDERDALE, James Maitland.

    An Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of...

    and London, T.N. Longman & O. Rees, 1804.

    First edition. Lauderdale ‘was the first...

    £900

  18. MANDEVILLE, Bernard.

    The Fable of the Bees, or Private Vices,...

    London, Wishart and Co., 1934.

    First edition thus. Mandeville’s Fable...

    £190

  19. HICKS, J. R.

    The Theory of Wages.

    London, MacMillan and Co, 1932.

    First edition, scarce on the market, of...

    £200

  20. CAMPANELLA, Tommaso.

    La città del sole. Traduzione del latino.

    Lugano, G. Ruggia, 1836.

    Rare first Italian translation of Campanella’s...

    £500