Recent Acquisitions

  1. LAKITS, György Zsigmond.

    Juris publici ecclesiastici pars generalis,...

    Venice, Giuseppe Orlandelli, 1790.

    Second Venice editions of two pro-Habsburg...

    £375

  2. EUTROPIUS; Sextus AURELIUS VICTOR; Sextus Rufus [FESTUS]. 

    Historiae romanae breviarium, ad codices...

    Paris, brothers Barbou, 1793.

    First edition by Capperonnier of this collection...

    £275

  3. DUNMORE, Charles Adolphus Murray, Earl of.

    The Pamirs; being a Narrative of a Year’s...

    London, John Murray, ‘1893’ [1894]. 

    Second edition (first 1893) recounting...

    £275

  4. DONNOLI, Francesco Alfonso.

    De iis, qui semel in die cibum capiunt....

    Venice, Benedetto Miloco, 1674.

    First edition, an uncut copy of Donnoli’s...

    £1450

  5. [BROWN, Thomas.]

    The Bower of Spring, with other Poems …

    Edinburgh, Archibald Constable & Co.,...

    First edition of this lively verse collection,...

    £375

  6. [ALMANACKS.]

    A bound collection of seven almanacks for 1818.

    London, the Company of Stationers, 1817.

    A collection of seven almanacks for 1818...

    £175

  7. ARIOSTO, Ludovico.

    Orlando furioso.

    Birmingham, John Baskerville for Pietro...

    A handsomely bound set of the attractive...

    £1850

  8. SIBILLA, Bartolomeo.

    Speculum peregrinarum quaestionum … Tres...

    [(Colophon:) Lyon, Jacques Myt, 9 August 1521.]

    Second Lyon edition of Sibilla’s popular...

    £1500

  9. [CONGREGAZIONE DELL’ORATORIO DI ROMA.]

    Sammelband of fourteen libretti.

    Rome, 1765–1768.

    A sammelband of rare devotional libretti...

    £1750

  10. WEST INDIA DOCK COMPANY.

    Three documents concerning the financing...

    London, 1799–1810.

    Three key documents concerning the financing...

    £1350

  11. [CHAMPIER, Symphorien.]

    La vie & les gestes du preux Chevalier...

    [(Colophon:) Poitiers, Jacques Bouchet...

    An otherwise unrecorded late sixteenth-century...

    £8750

  12. [BILLARDON DE SAUVIGNY, Edme-Louis.]

    Voyage de Madame et de Madame Victoire.

    Lunéville, Messuy, [1761].

    Four rare works describing visits by the...

    £975

  13. [THOM, Robert].

    王嬌鸞百年長恨 Wang Keaou Lẅan...

    Canton, Canton Press Office, 1839.

    First and only edition, scarce, loosely...

    £1750

  14. FENN, John, Sir.

    Original Letters written during the Reigns...

    London, G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1787.

    Second edition, published in the same year...

    £1200

  15. CHIANG Yee.

    The Silent Traveller in Edinburgh.

    [Edinburgh, Constable, for] London, Methuen,...

    First edition, signed, of this unusual...

    £180

  16. [CARLYLE.]

    Illustrated memorial Volume of the Carlyle’s...

    London, The Carlyle’s House Memorial...

    First edition of an uncommon commemorative...

    £325

  17. BARRIE, James Matthew.

    A set of seven first editions, and one...

    London, 1888–1896.

    An attractive set of J. M. Barrie’s...

    £650

  18. BOYLE, Robert.

    Certain physiological Essays and other...

    London, Henry Herringman, 1669.

    Second edition in English, enlarged. ‘The...

    £1500

  19. MILLER, Henry.

    Tropic of Cancer.

    London, John Calder, 1963.

    First UK editions of Miller’s autobiographical...

    £1500

  20. LUCIAN of Samosata.

    Opera, quae quidem extant, omnia, e Graeco...

    Lyons, Jean Frellon, 1549.

    First Lyons edition of the works of Lucian...

    £3750