Recent Acquisitions

  1. CARD, Henry.

    Literary Recreations …

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

    First edition of a scarce collection of...

    £650

  2. [ALMANACK.] 

    Le double Liègeois, almanach journalier...

    Liège and Paris, Stahl, [1841]. 

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

    £225

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

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

    [Malta, 1840].

    First edition, an English grammar and vocabulary...

    £950

  4. [NAPOLEON.]

    Lois et réglemens pour les lycees.

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

    Rare first edition of this extremely interesting...

    £175

  5. MADDOX, Isaac.

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

    London, M. Downing, 1741.

    First edition, containing the often-lacking...

    £650

  6. HENNEQUIN, Pierre.

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

    Moscow, Auguste Semen, 1818.

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

    £950

  7. [AQUHORTIES.]

    Abstract of the Rules and Regulations for...

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

    Broadside rules for the newly established...

    £850

  8. [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

  9. [OVERINGTON.]

    Overington family pedigree.

    Kirdford, c. 1620–1674. 

    A manuscript pedigree on vellum tracing...

    £500

  10. FERRI, Giovanni.

    Discours sur les principes de l’education...

    Angers, Frères Mame, 1806.

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

    £225

  11. GAMON, Christophe de.

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

    [Geneva,] Gédéon Petit, 1609.

    Unauthorised second edition, scarcer than...

    £950

  12. [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

  13. 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

  14. [VERACI, Gaetano.] 

    Nuova cicalata sopra la coda in forma di...

    [S.l., s.n,. c. 1770.] 

    Second edition, extremely rare and significantly...

    £850

  15. [ROUSSEL DE LA TOUR, Claude Pierre GOUJET, and Abbé MINARD, editors.]

    Extraits des assertions dangereuses et...

    Paris, Pierre-Guillaume Simon, 1762.

    First edition of this systematic selection...

    £1500

  16. SCARRON, Paul. 

    Le Marquis ridicule, ou la comtesse faite...

    [Leiden, Elzevier], 1656. 

    First Elzevier editions, very rare, of...

    £800

  17. [ROUSSEAU, Pierre.] 

    Considérations sur le théatre de l’opéra. ...

    [Paris,] de l’imprimerie de Rignoux, [1822].

    Very rare proposal for a new opera house...

    £475

  18. [MURDER.]

    Arrest de la cour du Parlement, qui condamne...

    Paris, Pierre-Guillaume Simon, 1778.

    Very rare decree documenting the crimes...

    £175

  19. [BRISTOL.] 

    The Bristol Contest, being a Collection...

    Bristol, ‘sold by the Printing-Office...

    Extremely rare first edition of this Bristol-printed...

    £650

  20. GELLIUS, Aulus. 

    Noctium Atticarum commentaria per Bonfinem...

    Venice, Giovanni Tacuino, 1517. 

    Second edition of Gellius’s opus with...

    £5500