Recent Acquisitions

  1. ‘RIZZA, Zanclevio’, pseud. [i.e. Vincenzo LAZZARI GUERRA], editor and contributor.

    Piccola raccolta di composizioni satiriche...

    ‘Medina’ [i.e. Mori], ‘Frangipane...

    A very rare collection of satirical verses...

    £500

  2. PASSI, Carlo.

    La selva di varia istoria … la quale...

    Venice, Altobello Salicato, 1572.

    An unsophisticated copy of Passi and Ruscelli’s...

    £500

  3. [GAMES AND RECREATION.]

    Trattato de’ giochi e de’ divertimenti...

    Rome, Michel'Angelo Barbiellini, 1768.

    First edition of a treatise on games and...

    £650

  4. [CHARITY.]

    Reglement du 11 Juin 1752, concernant la...

    Dijon, Antoine Defay, [1752].

    Very rare work detailing the regulations...

    £850

  5. CHALMERS, David.

    Histoire abbregee de tous les roys de France,...

    Paris, Jean Fevrier, 1579.

    First edition of Chalmer’s historical...

    £950

  6. ‘SANIVAL, Marchesa di’, pseud. [i.e. SALVANI, Fausto].

    La difesa delle donne o sia risposta apologetica...

    Siena, Luigi and Benedetto Bindi, 1786.

    Very rare first edition, printed on blue...

    £1500

  7. [PSALMS.]

    Psalmi Davidis regis et vatis inclyti,...

    Antwerp, [(colophon:) Jan Verwithagen...

    A collection of verse paraphrases of the...

    £975

  8. ‘PIETRO da VICOVARO’, i.e. Giuseppe CORTESE.

    Apparecchio per accompagnare Maria Santissima...

    Rome, Komarek, 1735.

    Very rare devotional work dedicated to...

    £550

  9. [MILITARIA.]

    Instruction provisoire arrêtée par le...

    Montauban, Vincent Teulières, 1788.

    A seemingly unrecorded edition of these...

    £750

  10. BLANCHET, Joseph.

    L’art, ou les principes philosophiques...

    Paris, Augustin-Martin Lottin, Michel...

    First edition, though designated as the...

    £750

  11. D’URFEY, Thomas.

    Wit and Mirth: or Pills to purge Melancholy;...

    Pearson for J. Tonson, 1719 [– 1720].

    The first complete edition, second issue...

    £2250

  12. ADORNO, Theodor W., Else FRENKEL-BRUNSWIK, Daniel J. LEVINSON, and R. Nevitt SANFORD

    The Authoritarian Personality.

    New York, Harper Brothers, 1950.

    First edition of this groundbreaking work...

    £225

  13. [SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley.]

    The School for Scandal. A Comedy. As it...

    [Dublin], Printed for the Booksellers, 1793.

    First separate illustrated edition of Sheridan’s...

    £750

  14. PACE, Giulio.

    Artis Lullianae emendatae libri IV. Quibus...

    Naples, Secondino Roncagliolo, 1631.

     Rare third edition (first 1618) of this...

    £750

  15. BENZI, Ugo; Giovanni Lodovico BERTALDI, commentator.

    Regole della sanità et della natura de...

    Turin, heirs of Giovanni Domenico Tarino, 1618.

    Scarce first vernacular edition of the...

    £2500

  16. BALZAC, Jean-Louis Guez de.

    Aristippus, or, Monsr. de Balsac’s Masterpiece,...

    London, Tho. Newcomb for Nat. Eakins and...

    First edition in English of Balzac’s...

    £750

  17. RICHARDUS ANGLICUS.

    Correctorium alchymiae ... Das is reformierte...

    Strasbourg, Bernard Jobin, 1581.

    First edition of ‘a very rare collection’...

    £4500

  18. [WASHINGTON, George.] PAINE, Thomas.

    An Eulogy on the Life of General George...

    Newburyport, Edmund M. Blunt, 1800.

    First edition of this eulogy on Washington,...

    £250

  19. BEAUMONT, Joseph.

    Psyche: or Loves Mysterie in XX. Canto’s:...

    London, Printed by John Dawson for George...

    First edition of this lengthy religious...

    £1250

  20. [IMAGINARY VOYAGE.]

    Admirable Travels of Messieurs Thomas Jenkins...

    London, ‘for the Benefit of Robert Barker,...

    Rare, a lively chapbook novella of adventures...

    £1500