Recent Acquisitions
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CRESSWELL, [Thomas Estcourt].
A Narrative of the Affair between Mr. Creswell,...
London, Charles Green, and sold at the...
First editions, presenting both sides in...
£350
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[FABLES.]
Petit fabuliste.
Paris, [(colophon:) Firmin-Didot], [c. 1840].
A charming miniature collection of illustrated...
£200
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CAREL DE SAINTE-GARDE, Jacques.
Les Sarrazins chassez de France. Poëme...
Paris, Claude Barbin, 1667.
First edition, very rare, of this poetic...
£850
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[RARITIES AND PROVERBS.]
Lyste van Rariteiten, die verkocht zullen...
‘Gedrukt in Arabien, midden op de Zand-Zee,...
A bizarre series of fictitious auction...
£5500
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PÉREZ DE HERRERA, Cristóbal.
Proverbios morales, y consejos christianos...
Adornadas con trece emblemas … Madrid,...
Second edition, the Stirling Maxwell copy,...
£1450
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ARMINESI, Rocco degli.
Attila flagelum Dei, tradotto dalla vera...
Venice, Omobon Bettanino, [mid-eighteenth...
Very rare eighteenth-century edition of...
£600
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AMADUZZI, Giovanni Cristoforo.
Epistola ad Johannem Baptistam Bodonium...
[(Colophon:) Parma, Bodoni, 1791.]
First edition of Amaduzzi’s philological...
£275
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[POETRY.]
The Muse in a moral Humour: being, a Collection...
London, Francis Noble, and John Noble,...
First edition, scarce, complete in two...
£350
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COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor.
The Poems … edited by Derwent and Sara...
London, Edward Moxon, 1854.
Second edition thus, first published 1852...
£350
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[ROSSETTIS.] [PERIODICAL EXTRACTS.]
A collection of thirty items, mostly articles...
1860s to 1880s.
A characteristic tract volume assembled...
£1800
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WOODCROFT, Bennet, editor; [J. G. GREENWOOD, translator].
The Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria. From...
London, Charles Whittingham, 1851.
First edition of this English translation...
£300
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[POOR CLARES.]
A Pious Collection of severall profitable...
Douai, M. Mairesse, [1684.]
First edition, rare, of A Pious Collection...
£5000
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[TEA AND COFFEE.]
Tea & Coffee Directory of India and the World.
Baroda (Vadodara), Shri Laxmi Printing...
An apparently unrecorded Gujarat-printed...
£750
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[SERGEANT, John.]
Transnatural Philosophy, treating of the...
London, for the Author, and to be sold...
An unusual tract volume of publishing curiosities...
£1250
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[LEE-WARNER, Henry James.]
Reasons for being a Conservative, and for...
Mitchell & Co., [1863–4].
First and only edition, very rare, a presentation...
£500
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[SALMON DU CHÂTELIER, Charles-Louis, attributed.]
Essai sur le principe de la souveraineté....
London, Cox, Son, and Baylis for A. Dulau...
First edition, rare, of this anonymous...
£250
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RIDINGER, Johann Elias.
[A Book of Stags.] Six engravings of deer...
[London,] Robert Sayer, [1770s?].
A rare and attractive drawing-book, likely...
£600
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REYRAC, [François-Philippe de Laurens,] Abbé de.
Hymne au soleil, suivi de plusieurs morceaux...
‘Amsterdam’ [Paris], ‘aux dépens...
Sixth edition, published under a false...
£95
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MONCHABLON, Étienne Jean.
Dizionario compendioso d’antichità per...
Venice, Sebastiano Coleti, 1795.
Very rare edition of this Italian translation...
£200
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KÖSTER, Christian.
Zerstreute Gedanken-Blätter über Kunst....
Heidelberg, Christian Friedrich Winter,...
First editions, very rare, of Köster’s...
£175