Recent Acquisitions

  1. [OXFORD, University of.]

    Parecbolae sive excerpta e corpore statutorum...

    Oxford, e typographeo Clarendoniano, 1771.

    Later edition of this essential student...

    £250

  2. 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

  3. LUCAS, John.

    'Select and Original Pieces written at...

    Leeds, 1816 [–1817].

    A handsomely illustrated manuscript on...

    £1375

  4. HODSON, Thomas.

    The Accomplished Tutor; or, complete System...

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

    Second edition, revised, of a voluminous...

    £300

  5. [GEOGRAPHY.]

    Primi principi di geografia ad uso de’...

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

    Extremely rare second edition (first 1745)...

    £375

  6. [ART EDUCATION.]

    Der kleine Maler.

    [Germany, mid-nineteenth century.]

    A delightful suite of plates intended to...

    £450

  7. [VENICE.]

    Juventus cesareo-regii gymnasii urbis Venetiarum...

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

    A seemingly unrecorded annual report for...

    £350

  8. [TACOLI, Carlotta Munarini, Marchioness.]

    ‘Memorie riguardanti la storia filosofica...

    Modena, 1805.

    An unpublished manuscript introduction...

    £1250

  9. SPURZHEIM, Johann Gaspar.

    A View of the elementary Principles of...

    Boston, Marsh Capen and Lyon, 1832.

    First American edition (first Edinburgh,...

    £125

  10. [SPENCE, Joseph.] Nicholas TINDAL.

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

    London, J. Dodsley, 1777.

    Second illustrated edition (fourth overall)...

    £250

  11. 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

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    An Arabian Tale, from an unpublished Manuscript....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

  13. DU BOS, Jean-Baptiste, Abbé.

    Reflexions critiques sur la poésie et...

    Paris, Pierre-Jean Mariette, 1740.

    Fourth edition, expanded and corrected,...

    £250

  14. [CRIMEAN WAR.]

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

    Versailles, Beau jeune, [1856].

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

    £375

  15. [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

  16. 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

  17. GERHARD, Johann.

    Meditationes sacrae. Editio postrema, prioribus...

    Oxford, John Lichfield for Henry Curteyne,...

    First English-printed Latin edition of...

    £950

  18. BURNET, Gilbert.

    A Vindication of the Authority, Constitution,...

    Glasgow, Robert Sanders, 1673.

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

    £500

  19. 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

  20. [TAYLOR, John.]

    The Column called the Monument, described,...

    Bryan … for Samuel Arnott, Keeper of...

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

    £350