Recent Acquisitions

  1. BALLARIN, Vincenzo. 

    Dimostrazione sintetica della quadratura...

    Venice, Fracasso, 1828. 

    First and only edition of this confident...

    £900

  2. [GOLD and SILVER.] 

    Bando generale per gli orefici, argentieri,...

    Rome, ‘nella stamperia della Rev. Camera...

    Rare edict governing goldsmiths, silversmiths,...

    £475

  3. ASTRUC, Jean. 

    Tractatus de motus fermentativi causa novam...

    Montpellier, Honoratus Pech, 1702. 

    A dissertation on fermentation published...

    £500

  4. PAZZI, Antonio de, and Torquato TASSO. 

    Stanze inedite di Antonio de Pazzi e di...

    Venice, Picotti, 1810.

    Scarce first edition of verses ‘in blame...

    £200

  5. PIEROTTI, A. 

    Il cervello e la difesa delle donne sestine...

    Florence, N. Fabbrini, 1842. 

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

    £375

  6. BAUR, Fidelis. 

    Geschichte der Hohenzollernschen Staaten...

    Sigmaringen, Bucher & Liener, 1834-6.

    First edition.  Perched on the Zollenberg,...

    £350

  7. KIRAM, Zeki Hasmet. 

    Vocabularium anatomiae latine-arabice. ...

    Berlin, Morgen- und Abendland-Verlag, 1923.

    First edition of an uncommon glossary of...

    £375

  8. [WARD, Edward, and VOLTAIRE.] 

    The Humourous and Diverting Story of Two...

    6, Punderson’s-Place, Bethnal-Green-Road’,...

    Seemingly unrecorded edition of this humorous...

    £450

  9. LEWIS, Wyndham.

    America and Cosmic Man.

    London and Brussels, Nicholas and Watson...

    First edition, second state binding as...

    £200

  10. [HOMILETIC.] 

    Meditations de la seconde annee. 

    [France, c. 1700.] 

    Apparently unpublished set of meditations...

    £750

  11. WILLIAMS, William Carlos.

    Paterson [Books 1, 2, 3 & 4].

    Norfolk, New Classics, [1951]. [with:]

    First collected edition of Books One...

    £1250

  12. VILLA, Antonio, and Giovanni Battista VILLA. 

    Dispositio systematica conchyliarum terrestrium...

    Milan, ex typis Borroni et Scotti, 1841. 

    First edition of this catalogue of molluscs...

    £275

  13. [POPE, Walter.] 

    The Memoires of Monsieur Du Vall: containing...

    London, Printed for Henry Brome … 1670. 

    First(?) edition of a partly fictitious...

    £750

  14. REXROTH, Kenneth.

    An Autobiographical Novel …

    Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company,...

    First edition, inscribed ‘In friendship...

    £300

  15. AIKEN, Conrad.

    Ushant, an Essay.

    New York & Boston, Duell, Sloan and Pearce...

    First edition, inscribed ‘For Geoffrey...

    £300

  16. AIKEN, Conrad.

    Thee.

    New York, George Braziller, 1967.

    First trade edition, inscribed ‘For Geoffrey...

    £250

  17. LINNAEUS, Carl (or von LINNÉ), and James JENKINSON (translator). 

    A generic and specific Description of British...

    Ashburner, and Lancaster, A. Ashburner,...

    First edition of this provincially printed...

    £225

  18. HUGHES, Langston. 

    Shakespeare in Harlem. 

    New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1942.

    First edition of this wartime collection...

    £1000

  19. LEWIS, Wyndham.

    The Revenge for Love.

    London, Cassell & Co. Ltd., [1937].

    First edition, very scarce in the dust-jacket,...

    £1250

  20. [INTERSEX.]

    Three pamphlets.

    Paris, 1892–1920.

    A collection of rare French pamphlets on...

    £450