Recent Acquisitions

  1. ERNST, Max.

    Une semaine de bonté ou les sept éléments...

    Paris, Éditions Jeanne Bucher, 1934.

    First edition, no. 706 of 800 copies on...

    £4500

  2. [LORD LEYCESTER HOSPITAL, WARWICK.]

    Account of the Charity of Leicester’s...

    Warwick, mid-nineteenth century.

    A manuscript copy of the sixteenth-century...

    £350

  3. MILLER, Philip.

    The Gardeners Kalendar, directing what...

    The Fourteenth Edition. London, John Rivington,...

    A very attractive copy of the most popular...

    £165

  4. [LILY, William.]

    A short introduction of grammar compiled...

    London, S. Buckley and T. Longman, 1738.

    Two beautifully printed eighteenth-century...

    £550

  5. KECHT, Johann Sigismund.

    Der verbesserte praktische Weinbau in Gärten...

    Berlin, [Trowitzsch and Son for] the author,...

    Third, expanded edition (first 1813) of...

    £450

  6. GELLIUS, Aulus.

    Auli Gellii luculentissimi scriptoris Noctes...

    Lyon, Sebastian Gryphius, 1555.

    Gryphius edition of Aulus Gellius’ famous...

    £650

  7. BOYLE, Robert.

    Tractatus … Ubi 1. Mira aëris …...

    London, Henry Herringman, 1671 [but printed...

    I. Second edition, very scarce. The first...

    £1750

  8. [VITTORIO EMANUELE II.]

    Alla gloriosa memoria di Vittorio Emanuele...

    New York, Tipografia della scuola italiana,...

    First edition of this work recording a...

    £500

  9. [WALLPAPER.]

    A substantial album of printed wallpaper...

    France, 1923–24.

    A delightful sample album of French wallpapers...

    £4750

  10. CASAL, Gaspar do.

    Axiomata christiana ex divinis scripturis...

    Coimbra, João da Barreira and João Alvares,...

    First edition of Gaspar do Casal’s major...

    £2500

  11. ARISTIDES, Aelius.

    Orationum tomi tres, nunc primum latine...

    Basel, Peter Perna and Heinrich Petrus, 1566.

    First edition in Latin, a remarkable copy...

    £2750

  12. NIEUHOF, Jan, and Georg HORN (translator). 

    Legatio Batavica ad magnum Tartariae chamum...

    Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs, 1668. 

    First edition in Latin, beautifully illustrated,...

    £5000

  13. GIBELLI, Giacinto. 

    Due dissertazioni sopra li vantaggi, che...

    Genoa, Paolo Scionico, 1767. 

    First and only edition, rare, of these...

    £600

  14. [BEER.]

    Jenaischer allgemeiner Bier-Comment nebst...

    ‘Eschwig, Otter & Kunitz, 183*.’

    An apparently unrecorded humorous handbook...

    £375

  15. PIERTZ, Leonhard, Praesidens; Johann Ernst SCHLERETH, Respondens.

    De sacramentis in specie, Eucharistia et...

    Würzburg, Johann Michael Kleyer, 1703.

    A good copy of this rare Würzburg dissertation...

    £175

  16. [KAFKA, Franz, Max BROD, et al.]

    Das bunte Buch.

    Leipzig, Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1914.

    First edition of this literary almanack,...

    £250

  17. SUETONIUS Tranquillus, Gaius, and HERODIAN OF ANTIOCH.

    Vita di duodeci imperatori… nuovamente...

    Venice, Venturino di Rossinelli [for Curzio...

    Annotated copy of a scarce edition of this...

    £1250

  18. ‘MAWE, Thomas’ [but John ABERCROMBIE]. 

    Every Man his own Gardener.  Being a new,...

    London: Printed for W. Griffith … 1767. 

    Second edition, published in the same year...

    £225

  19. [POETRY.]

    ‘Récueil de differentes pieces de vers,...

    [Belgium, 1777 and later].

    An interesting commonplace of verses, songs,...

    £750

  20. NICHOLSON, Joseph Shield.

    Tenant’s Gain not Landlord’s Loss,...

    Edinburgh, David Douglas, 1883.

    First edition. ‘The vitality of popular...

    £250