Recent Acquisitions

  1. WILLIAMS, William Carlos.

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

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

    First collected edition of Books One...

    £1250

  2. 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

  3. [POPE, Walter.] 

    The Memoires of Monsieur Du Vall: containing...

    London, Printed for Henry Brome … 1670. 

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

    £750

  4. REXROTH, Kenneth.

    An Autobiographical Novel …

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

    First edition, inscribed ‘In friendship...

    £300

  5. AIKEN, Conrad.

    Ushant, an Essay.

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

    First edition, inscribed ‘For Geoffrey...

    £300

  6. AIKEN, Conrad.

    Thee.

    New York, George Braziller, 1967.

    First trade edition, inscribed ‘For Geoffrey...

    £250

  7. 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

  8. LEWIS, Wyndham.

    The Revenge for Love.

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

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

    £1250

  9. [INTERSEX.]

    Three pamphlets.

    Paris, 1892–1920.

    A collection of rare French pamphlets on...

    £450

  10. DE LUCA, Giovanni Battista. 

    Il Cardinale della S.R. Chiesa pratico...

    Rome, nella stamperia della Reverenda...

    Scarce first edition of this thorough work...

    £300

  11. SYKES, Arthur Ashley. 

    The Duty of Love to God, and to our Neighbours. ...

    London, J. Darby & T. Browne for Chelmsford,...

    First and only edition of this sermon given...

    £150

  12. LEWIS, Wyndham. 

    Doom of Youth …

    London, Chatto & Windus, 1932. 

    First English edition, one of Lewis’s...

    £2000

  13. SMITH, Robert. 

    The Universal Directory for taking alive...

    London, printed for the author, 1768. 

    First edition of a guide to catching and...

    £500

  14. [SAINTE-HILAIRE, Émile Marco de.]

    Réclamation addressée à S. Ece. Mgr....

    Paris, chez les marchands de nouveautés, 1821.

    Rare first edition of this work on Parisian...

    £850

  15. CAIROL, M. de.

    Réflexions historiques et politiques,...

    Amsterdam and Toulouse, Joseph Robert, 1786.

    Very rare essay on the state of agriculture...

    £450

  16. [LAPINI, Bernardo.]

    Vita di Madonna Onorata scritta da Bernardo...

    Milan, Giuseppe Bernardoni, 1843.

    First appearance in print of this life...

    £350

  17. SURTEES, Robert Smith.

    The Horseman’s Manual, being a Treatise...

    London, M.A. Pittman for Alfred Miller, 1831.

    First edition of Surtees’s first work,...

    £1250

  18. DESFORGES, Pierre Choudard.

    Tom Jones a Londres, Comédie en cinq actes...

    Paris, Chez Prault, Imprimeur du Roi … 1789.

    Later edition, first published 1782. Desforges’s...

    £95

  19. [UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, OXFORD.]

    Subscription list for repairs to the College...

    [Oxford, c. 1860].

    A printed appeal from University College,...

    £50