Recent Acquisitions

  1. LUCIAN of Samosata.

    Opera, quae quidem extant, omnia, e Graeco...

    Lyons, Jean Frellon, 1549.

    First Lyons edition of the works of Lucian...

    £3750

  2. [KEIR, James.]

    An Account of the Life and Writings of...

    London, printed for John Stockdale, 1791.

    First edition of this biography of Thomas...

    £1500

  3. BULLA, Paolo.

    Notizie intorno all’osservatorio privato...

    Rome, Tipografia della R. Accademia dei...

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

    £1250

  4. MAUGIN, Jean.

    Histoire du noble Tristan, prince de Leonnois,...

    Paris, Nicolas Bonfons, 1586.

    A scarce edition of the New Tristan,...

    £4750

  5. [EROTICA.]

    Pencil drawing of a woman in eighteenth-century...

    [France, early nineteenth century?]

    A fine erotically-charged figure study...

    £3750

  6. DUER, William Alexander.

    The Life of William Alexander, Earl of...

    New York, Wiley & Putnam for the New Jersey...

    First edition, doubly inscribed ‘To Henry...

    £575

  7. [PALIN, Nils Gustaf.]

    De l’étude des hiéroglyphes. Fragmens....

    Paris, Fain for Delaunay, Colnet, Treuttel,...

    First edition of this curious work on Egyptian...

    £2500

  8. VOLTAIRE, François Marie Arouet de.

    La Henriade, en dix chants; avec l’histoire...

    Edinburgh, J. Watson, 1798.

    Rare Edinburgh edition of Voltaire’s...

    £150

  9. VIRGIL.

    Publii Virgilii Maronis opera, variorum...

    London, ‘typis E. Tyler et R. Holt...

    Rare student edition of the works of Virgil,...

    £650

  10. [REVILLIOD, Gustave.]

    Le Cousin l’Abbé.

    Geneva, Jules-Guillaume Fick, 1884.

    First editions of two rare works by the...

    £450

  11. MUSESTI, Piero; Giovammaria FEBRARI, translator.

    Gesta di Napoleone I. imperator de’...

    Brescia, Tipografia dipartimentale, 1805.

    Uncommon first and only edition of this...

    £550

  12. SANFERMO CARIONI PEZZI, Rocco, Giovanni Battista GARAVETTA, and Francesco D’EMILEI.

    Lettera scritta nel castello di S. Felice...

    Verona, 1797.

    One of several editions published immediately...

    £300

  13. PERRET, Jean-Jacques.

    La pogonotomie, ou l’art d’apprendre...

    Brussels, Benoît Le  Francq, 1803.

    Rare Brussels edition (first Paris 1769)...

    £400

  14. LORICH, Gerhard.

    Institutio catholica fidei orthodoxae et...

    [Frankfurt am Main], [(colophon:) Christian...

    First editions of a pair of Reformation-era...

    £1450

  15. EXPILLY, Claude.

    Les poemes de Messire Claude Expilly, Conseiller...

    Grenoble, Pierre Verdier, 1624.

    A wide-margined copy of the expanded second...

    £950

  16. [DE GRAAFT, attributed.]

    Avantures secrettes, et plaisantes. Recueillies...

    Brussels, George de Backer, 1696.

    Scarce first Brussels edition, published...

    £375

  17. [DAMPMARTIN, Pierre de; Charles SOREL, editor.]

    La fortune de la cour. Ouvrage curieux...

    Paris, Nicolas de Sercy, 1642.

    Rare second edition, revised and expanded...

    £500

  18. [CAJOT, Jean-Joseph.]

    Les plagiats de M. J.J.R. de Genève...

    The Hague and Paris, Durand, 1766.

    First edition of this scathing critique...

    £275

  19. [BOUDIER DE VILLEMERT, Pierre-Joseph.]

    L’ami des femmes.

    Paris, ‘Quay des Augustins’, 1759.

    Uncommon early edition, printed a year...

    £300

  20. GALUPPI, Baldassare.

    Daniel in lacu leonum modi sacri recinendi...

    Venice, s.n., 1773.

    First edition, very rare, of the libretto...

    £650