Recent Acquisitions

  1. [WOMEN-PEARLS.]

    De Vrouwen-Peirle, ofte dryvoudige historie...

    Ghent, J. Begyn, [1780–1810].

    An attractive copy of the ‘Women-pearls’,...

    £550

  2. DAVIDSON, John.

    Smith: a Tragedy.

    Glasgow, Frederick W. Wilson and Brother, 1888.

    First edition of a rare foray into drama...

    £300

  3. TYRE, William, Archbishop of, and Giuseppe OROLOGGI (translator).

    Historia della guerra sacra di Gierusalemme,...

    Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1562.

    First Italian edition of William of Tyre’s...

    £2800

  4. [NAPOLEONIC ITALY.] 

    Alla società delle gentilissime signore...

    Turin, Giacomo Fea, 1799.

    An unrecorded sonnet addressed to the to...

    £375

  5. GRUBBE, Margaret Julia Maria.

    Archive of drawings, watercolours, and...

    England and Scotland, c. 1900 – 1960s.

    A charming archive of the Suffolk artist...

    £1500

  6. [WINCHESTER COLLEGE.]

    Printed and manuscript election roll.

    [Winchester,] ‘1 November 1782’.

    A remarkable eighteenth-century part-printed...

    £1250

  7. [WALL, Thomas].

    A Second Christian Warning-Piece; wherein...

    London, 1681-2.

    First edition, very rare, of a vehement...

    £1750

  8. CARD, Henry.

    Literary Recreations …

    London, Printed by W. Wilson … for Longman,...

    First edition of a scarce collection of...

    £650

  9. [ALMANACK.] 

    Le double Liègeois, almanach journalier...

    Liège and Paris, Stahl, [1841]. 

    Rare issue of the long-running and highly...

    £225

  10. [SHIDYĀQ, Ahmad Fāris, attributed author.]

    Kitāb al-muhāwarah al-unsīyah fī al-lughatayn...

    [Malta, 1840].

    First edition, an English grammar and vocabulary...

    £950

  11. [NAPOLEON.]

    Lois et réglemens pour les lycees.

    Paris, ‘de l’imprimerie de la République,...

    Rare first edition of this extremely interesting...

    £175

  12. MADDOX, Isaac.

    A Sermon preach’d in the Parish-Church...

    London, M. Downing, 1741.

    First edition, containing the often-lacking...

    £650

  13. HENNEQUIN, Pierre.

    Nouveau cours de rhétorique, à l’usage...

    Moscow, Auguste Semen, 1818.

    Only edition, very uncommon, of this guide...

    £950

  14. [AQUHORTIES.]

    Abstract of the Rules and Regulations for...

    Edinburgh, Printed by J. Moir, Paterson’s...

    Broadside rules for the newly established...

    £850

  15. [ARCHCONFRATERNITY OF THE MOST HOLY CRUCIFIX.]

    Distinta descrizione della machina, luminari,...

    Rome, per il Casaletti, 1775.

    Rare record of a procession made by members...

    £250

  16. [OVERINGTON.]

    Overington family pedigree.

    Kirdford, c. 1620–1674. 

    A manuscript pedigree on vellum tracing...

    £500

  17. FERRI, Giovanni.

    Discours sur les principes de l’education...

    Angers, Frères Mame, 1806.

    Only edition, rare, of this speech by the...

    £225

  18. GAMON, Christophe de.

    La semaine, ou création du monde du sieur...

    [Geneva,] Gédéon Petit, 1609.

    Unauthorised second edition, scarcer than...

    £950

  19. [CARDUCCI, Giosuè, Olindo GUERRINI, et al., editors.] 

    Il Matto.  Anno I – Num. 1 [– Num. 13;...

    Bologna, 19 April [– 29 June] 1874. 

    Very rare complete run of this short-lived...

    £1000

  20. FENOUILLOT DE FALBAIRE, Charles-Georges. 

    Le fabricant de Londres, drame en cinq...

    Paris, chez Delalain, 1771. 

    First edition of a London-set play by the...

    £250