Recent Acquisitions
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HODSON, Thomas.
The Accomplished Tutor; or, complete System...
London, H. D. Symonds, and Vernor and...
Second edition, revised, of a voluminous...
£300
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HAMILTON, Elizabeth.
Letters on the elementary Principles of...
Bath, R. Cruttwell for G. and J. Robinson,...
Second edition, published in the same year...
£400
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[GEOGRAPHY.]
Primi principi di geografia ad uso de’...
[(Colophon:) Bergamo, Pietro Lancellotti,...
Extremely rare second edition (first 1745)...
£375
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[ART EDUCATION.]
Der kleine Maler.
[Germany, mid-nineteenth century.]
A delightful suite of plates intended to...
£450
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[TACOLI, Carlotta Munarini, Marchioness.]
‘Memorie riguardanti la storia filosofica...
Modena, 1805.
An unpublished manuscript introduction...
£1250
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[VENICE.]
Juventus cesareo-regii gymnasii urbis Venetiarum...
[(Colophon:) Venice, Francesco Andreola,] 1828.
A seemingly unrecorded annual report for...
£350
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SPURZHEIM, Johann Gaspar.
A View of the elementary Principles of...
Boston, Marsh Capen and Lyon, 1832.
First American edition (first Edinburgh,...
£125
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[SPENCE, Joseph.] Nicholas TINDAL.
A Guide to classical Learning: or, Polymetis...
London, J. Dodsley, 1777.
Second illustrated edition (fourth overall)...
£250
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PARR, Samuel.
A Discourse on Education and on the Plans...
[Norwich, John Crouse for] London, T. Cadell...
First and only edition of this treatise...
£175
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[BECKFORD, William, and Samuel HENLEY, translator.]
An Arabian Tale, from an unpublished Manuscript....
London, Printed for W. Clarke … 1809.
Scarce second edition – in fact a reissue...
£1500
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DU BOS, Jean-Baptiste, Abbé.
Reflexions critiques sur la poésie et...
Paris, Pierre-Jean Mariette, 1740.
Fourth edition, expanded and corrected,...
£250
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[CRIMEAN WAR.]
Les militaires chrétiens a la guerre d’orient....
Versailles, Beau jeune, [1856].
First and only edition, rare, of this unusual...
£375
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[WILSON,] Thomas, Bishop of Sodor and Man.
A short and plain Instruction for the better...
London, B. Dod, T. Longman & C. Hitch,...
Scarce first posthumous edition of this...
£250
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PONSONBY, Emily, Lady.
De Greville’s en de Lorimers. Twee Familie-Tafereelen,...
Amsterdam, P. N. Van Kampen, 1851.
First edition in Dutch of ‘Susan Grenville;...
£250
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MAXIMUS the Confessor; Jean PICOT, translator.
Sanctissimi patris magistrique, Maximi,...
[(Colophon:) Paris,] Guillaume Morel, [1560].
First edition of Jean Picot’s Latin translation...
£850
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GERHARD, Johann.
Meditationes sacrae. Editio postrema, prioribus...
Oxford, John Lichfield for Henry Curteyne,...
First English-printed Latin edition of...
£950
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‘DORNIS, Jean’ [pseud. Élena BEER].
La voie douloureuse.
[Évreux, Charles Hérissey for] Paris,...
First edition of Jean Dornis’ first novel,...
£275
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BURNET, Gilbert.
A Vindication of the Authority, Constitution,...
Glasgow, Robert Sanders, 1673.
One of three editions, all of the same...
£500
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PROPERTIUS; Oliffe Legh RICHMOND, editor.
Sexti Properti quae supersunt opera, edidit...
Cambridge, University Press, 1928.
First edition of Richmond’s controversial...
£400
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[LE MARCHE.]
Deed relating to the sale of property in...
[Rome, 1616.]
A curiously bound public instrument notarised...
£850