Recent Acquisitions

  1. [DA PORTO, Luigi.]

    ‘Lettere di Alvigi da Porto vicentino...

    [Milan, c. 1800].

    A manuscript of an influential and then-unpublished...

    £950

  2. [MASCHERANA, Girolamo.]

    Concordia tra la società e la religione...

    Milan, Cesare Orena nella stamperia Malatesta,...

    Rare second edition, printed in the same...

    £375

  3. LA SERRE, Jean-Puget de.

    Grab-Statt der weltlichen Ergötzlichkeiten,...

    Regensburg, Johann Conrad Peetz und Bader,...

    First edition in German of Tombeau des...

    £375

  4. KOCH, Mansuetus.

    Philosophia transnaturalis, sive metaphysica,...

    Augsburg, Maria Magdalena Utzschneiderin, 1697.

    Only edition (complete despite the pagination)...

    £225

  5. KOCH, Manfred (pr.), Primo SCHLECHTEN and Feliciano SCHARRER (resp.).

    Philosophia rationalis sive logica centum...

    Augsburg, Afra Sturmin, 1695.

    A good copy of this rare dissertation from...

    £275

  6. CHEVRET, Jean.

    Épitre a l’humanité et a la patrie...

    [Paris?], au temple de la vérité, 1789.

    A good copy of this rare essay on the workings...

    £275

  7. [CHARTONNET, Antoine-François.] 

    Considerations sur les devoirs des personnes...

    Paris, chez Edme Couterot, 1695. 

    Rare first edition of this religious manual...

    £275

  8. CARAVADOSSI, Enrico.

    La moderna filosofia convinta d’inganno...

    Turin, Giammichele Brioio, 1793.

    First and seemingly only edition of this...

    £395

  9. [SMITH, John William.] 

    A Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts and...

    London, Letts, Son & Co, [1870s-90s]. 

    A manuscript book catalogue employing a...

    £300

  10. [SARPI, Paolo (pseud.).] ‘Pietro Soave POLANO’. 

    Historia del Concilio Tridentino di Pietro...

    Geneva, Pierre Aubert, 1629. 

    Second edition, the first to omit the extraneous...

    £450

  11. [PAPER TRADE.] 

    Arrest du conseil d’état du roi, portant...

    [Besançon?, 1772?] 

    A seemingly unrecorded issue of this decree...

    £175

  12. KEATE, George. 

    An Account of the Pelew Islands, situated...

    Dublin, Luke White, 1788. 

    First Dublin edition of this popular work,...

    £650

  13. PASCOLI, Alessandro. 

    Nuovo metodo per introdursi ad imitazion...

    Venice, Andrea Poletti, 1721. 

    Scarce second edition (first 1702) of this...

    £450

  14. DEVILLE, Albéric.

    Voyage aux grottes d’Arcy, suivi de poésies...

    Paris, Munier for Gérard, an XI (1802-3).

    Scarce first edition, presented by the...

    £250

  15. GABARO, Antonio. 

    Alla pregiatissima Signora Domenica Schiavon...

    Padua, ‘Nella Tipografia del Seminario’,...

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

    £380

  16. BALLARIN, Vincenzo. 

    Dimostrazione sintetica della quadratura...

    Venice, Fracasso, 1828. 

    First and only edition of this confident...

    £900

  17. [GOLD and SILVER.] 

    Bando generale per gli orefici, argentieri,...

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

    Rare edict governing goldsmiths, silversmiths,...

    £475

  18. ASTRUC, Jean. 

    Tractatus de motus fermentativi causa novam...

    Montpellier, Honoratus Pech, 1702. 

    A dissertation on fermentation published...

    £500

  19. 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

  20. PIEROTTI, A. 

    Il cervello e la difesa delle donne sestine...

    Florence, N. Fabbrini, 1842. 

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

    £375