Recent Acquisitions

  1. [GEOGRAPHY.]

    Primi principi di geografia ad uso de’...

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

    Extremely rare second edition (first 1745)...

    £375

  2. [ART EDUCATION.]

    Der kleine Maler.

    [Germany, mid-nineteenth century.]

    A delightful suite of plates intended to...

    £450

  3. [VENICE.]

    Juventus cesareo-regii gymnasii urbis Venetiarum...

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

    A seemingly unrecorded annual report for...

    £350

  4. [TACOLI, Carlotta Munarini, Marchioness.]

    ‘Memorie riguardanti la storia filosofica...

    Modena, 1805.

    An unpublished manuscript introduction...

    £1250

  5. SPURZHEIM, Johann Gaspar.

    A View of the elementary Principles of...

    Boston, Marsh Capen and Lyon, 1832.

    First American edition (first Edinburgh,...

    £125

  6. [SPENCE, Joseph.] Nicholas TINDAL.

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

    London, J. Dodsley, 1777.

    Second illustrated edition (fourth overall)...

    £250

  7. 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

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    An Arabian Tale, from an unpublished Manuscript....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

  9. DU BOS, Jean-Baptiste, Abbé.

    Reflexions critiques sur la poésie et...

    Paris, Pierre-Jean Mariette, 1740.

    Fourth edition, expanded and corrected,...

    £250

  10. [CRIMEAN WAR.]

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

    Versailles, Beau jeune, [1856].

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

    £375

  11. [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

  12. 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

  13. GERHARD, Johann.

    Meditationes sacrae. Editio postrema, prioribus...

    Oxford, John Lichfield for Henry Curteyne,...

    First English-printed Latin edition of...

    £950

  14. BURNET, Gilbert.

    A Vindication of the Authority, Constitution,...

    Glasgow, Robert Sanders, 1673.

    One of three editions, all of the same...

    £500

  15. [LE MARCHE.]

    Deed relating to the sale of property in...

    [Rome, 1616.]

    A curiously bound public instrument notarised...

    £850

  16. ADRICHEM, Christian van; Francesco BALDELLI, translator.

    Gerusalemme e suoi dintorni ai tempi di...

    Genoa, Tipografia arcivescovile, 1882.

    Scarce first edition thus of Baldelli’s...

    £200

  17. [TAYLOR, John.]

    The Column called the Monument, described,...

    Bryan … for Samuel Arnott, Keeper of...

    Third edition (first 1787) of this guidebook...

    £350

  18. KAVAN, Anna; Karl Theodor BLUTH.

    The Horse’s Tale.

    London, Gaberbocchus Press, [1949].

    Uncommon first edition of this novel authored...

    £850

  19. DONALDSON, Florence.

    Lepcha Land or six Weeks in the Sikhim...

    London, Sampson Low Marston & Company, 1900.

    First edition of Florence Donaldson’s...

    £400

  20. CORNEILLE, Thomas.

    Il Pirro, tragedia … tradotta dal francese...

    Bologna, Longhi, [1700?].

    A very uncommon set of eight early translations...

    £750