Recent Acquisitions

  1. GUIGNES, Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de.

    Voyages à Peking, Manille et l’Île...

    Paris, l’Imprimerie Impériale, 1808.

    First edition, the complete four-volume...

    £6500

  2. APPIAN of Alexandria.

    Civili. Appiano Alessandrino delle guerre...

    Venice, [Pietro Nicolini da Sabbio for...

    A much-annotated copy of these late Aldine...

    £3000

  3. WATSON, Sheila.

    ‘The Great War, Wyndham Lewis and the...

    The recordings included are three sections...

    £50

  4. GIOVIO, Paolo. 

    Elogia veris clarorum virorum imaginibus...

    Venice, Michele Tramezzino, 1546. 

    First edition of Giovio’s biographies...

    £3000

  5. MITCHISON, Naomi; Wyndham LEWIS, illustrator.

    Beyond this Limit …

    [London,] Jonathan Cape, [1935].

    First edition. This was Lewis’s only...

    £75

  6. [WOMEN-PEARLS.]

    De Vrouwen-Peirle, ofte dryvoudige historie...

    Ghent, J. Begyn, [1780–1810].

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

    £550

  7. DAVIDSON, John.

    Smith: a Tragedy.

    Glasgow, Frederick W. Wilson and Brother, 1888.

    First edition of a rare foray into drama...

    £300

  8. 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

  9. [NAPOLEONIC ITALY.] 

    Alla società delle gentilissime signore...

    Turin, Giacomo Fea, 1799.

    An unrecorded sonnet addressed to the to...

    £375

  10. GRUBBE, Margaret Julia Maria.

    Archive of drawings, watercolours, and...

    England and Scotland, c. 1900 – 1960s.

    A charming archive of the Suffolk artist...

    £1500

  11. CARD, Henry.

    Literary Recreations …

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

    First edition of a scarce collection of...

    £650

  12. [ALMANACK.] 

    Le double Liègeois, almanach journalier...

    Liège and Paris, Stahl, [1841]. 

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

    £225

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

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

    [Malta, 1840].

    First edition, an English grammar and vocabulary...

    £950

  14. [NAPOLEON.]

    Lois et réglemens pour les lycees.

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

    Rare first edition of this extremely interesting...

    £175

  15. HENNEQUIN, Pierre.

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

    Moscow, Auguste Semen, 1818.

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

    £950

  16. [AQUHORTIES.]

    Abstract of the Rules and Regulations for...

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

    Broadside rules for the newly established...

    £850

  17. [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

  18. [OVERINGTON.]

    Overington family pedigree.

    Kirdford, c. 1620–1674. 

    A manuscript pedigree on vellum tracing...

    £500

  19. FERRI, Giovanni.

    Discours sur les principes de l’education...

    Angers, Frères Mame, 1806.

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

    £225

  20. GAMON, Christophe de.

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

    [Geneva,] Gédéon Petit, 1609.

    Unauthorised second edition, scarcer than...

    £950