Recent Acquisitions

  1. PLINY the Younger.

    Panegyricus Trajano Augusto dictus.

    Paris, [Charles Crapelet for] Antoine-Augustin...

    An attractive edition of Pliny’s only...

    £275

  2. SIMEONI, Gabriele.

    Le III parti del campo de primi studii...

    [(Colophon:) Venice, Comin da Trino], 1546.

    First edition of this early work by Simeoni,...

    £950

  3. [SANDOW, Eugen, pseud. (i.e. Friedrich Müller).]

    Manuscript manual of exercises for use...

    [France, c. 1920].

    A seemingly unpublished French manuscript...

    £850

  4. [NURSERY SCHOOLS.]

    Intorno alla fondazione ed allo stato attuale...

    Milan, C.G. Bianchi and company, 1837.

    First and only edition, rare, of this report...

    £400

  5. [OXFORD, University of.]

    Parecbolae sive excerpta e corpore statutorum...

    Oxford, e typographeo Clarendoniano, 1771.

    Later edition of this essential student...

    £250

  6. MORE, Hannah.

    Strictures on the modern System of female...

    London, T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1799.

    Third edition, published in the same year...

    £950

  7. LUCAS, John.

    'Select and Original Pieces written at...

    Leeds, 1816 [–1817].

    A handsomely illustrated manuscript on...

    £1375

  8. HODSON, Thomas.

    The Accomplished Tutor; or, complete System...

    London, H. D. Symonds, and Vernor and...

    Second edition, revised, of a voluminous...

    £300

  9. [GEOGRAPHY.]

    Primi principi di geografia ad uso de’...

    [(Colophon:) Bergamo, Pietro Lancellotti,...

    Extremely rare second edition (first 1745)...

    £375

  10. [ART EDUCATION.]

    Der kleine Maler.

    [Germany, mid-nineteenth century.]

    A delightful suite of plates intended to...

    £450

  11. [VENICE.]

    Juventus cesareo-regii gymnasii urbis Venetiarum...

    [(Colophon:) Venice, Francesco Andreola,] 1828.

    A seemingly unrecorded annual report for...

    £350

  12. [TACOLI, Carlotta Munarini, Marchioness.]

    ‘Memorie riguardanti la storia filosofica...

    Modena, 1805.

    An unpublished manuscript introduction...

    £1250

  13. SPURZHEIM, Johann Gaspar.

    A View of the elementary Principles of...

    Boston, Marsh Capen and Lyon, 1832.

    First American edition (first Edinburgh,...

    £125

  14. [SPENCE, Joseph.] Nicholas TINDAL.

    A Guide to classical Learning: or, Polymetis...

    London, J. Dodsley, 1777.

    Second illustrated edition (fourth overall)...

    £250

  15. PARR, Samuel.

    A Discourse on Education and on the Plans...

    [Norwich, John Crouse for] London, T. Cadell...

    First and only edition of this treatise...

    £175

  16. [BECKFORD, William, and Samuel HENLEY, translator.]

    An Arabian Tale, from an unpublished Manuscript....

    London, Printed for W. Clarke … 1809.

    Scarce second edition – in fact a reissue...

    £1500

  17. DU BOS, Jean-Baptiste, Abbé.

    Reflexions critiques sur la poésie et...

    Paris, Pierre-Jean Mariette, 1740.

    Fourth edition, expanded and corrected,...

    £250

  18. [CRIMEAN WAR.]

    Les militaires chrétiens a la guerre d’orient....

    Versailles, Beau jeune, [1856].

    First and only edition, rare, of this unusual...

    £375

  19. [WILSON,] Thomas, Bishop of Sodor and Man.

    A short and plain Instruction for the better...

    London, B. Dod, T. Longman & C. Hitch,...

    Scarce first posthumous edition of this...

    £250

  20. PONSONBY, Emily, Lady.

    De Greville’s en de Lorimers. Twee Familie-Tafereelen,...

    Amsterdam, P. N. Van Kampen, 1851.

    First edition in Dutch of ‘Susan Grenville;...

    £250