Recent Acquisitions
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[TOWNLEY, William Dalison.]
Punch’s Pocket-Book for 1877, containing...
London, [Bradbury, Agnew, & Co. for]...
A Punch almanack for 1877 with nearly...
£450
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ROCHESTER, John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of, Wentworth Dillon ROSCOMMON, 4th Earl of, et al.
A Collection of Poems: viz. the Temple...
London, printed for Daniel Brown and Benjamin...
Fourth edition of the important ‘Temple...
£500
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PITOU, Louis-Ange.
L’Urne des Stuarts et des Bourbons, ou...
Paris, [Beraud for] L.A. Pitou, 31 August...
First and only surviving edition of this...
£650
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[NUNS.]
[Incipit:] Illustrissimi Sigg. Sigg....
Florence, 20 March 1784.
Extremely rare broadside confirming the...
£450
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[MILAN – DEATH DUTIES.]
[Incipit:] Ad un reale dispaccio...
Milan, Pirola brothers, [31 October 1787].
Scarce edict issued by Ferdinand Karl,...
£500
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[NOVARA.]
[Incipit:] Il vescovo di Novara...
[Novara], 10 May 1805.
An apparently unrecorded broadside from...
£175
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HOLBEIN, Hans; Wenceslaus HOLLAR, engraver; [Francis DOUCE, editor].
The Dance of Death, from the original Designs...
[McMillan] for J. Coxhead, 1816.
An attractive early nineteenth-century...
£375
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GRÜNEISEN, [Karl].
Niclaus Manuel: Leben und Werke eines Malers...
Stuttgart & Tübingen, J.G. Cotta, 1837.
First and only edition of the first separate...
£120
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[FRANKLAND, William.]
A large collection of manuscript correspondence...
[Manchester, Slaidburn, and Blackburn,...
An interesting archive relating to the...
£650
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[DEATH CERTIFICATES.]
Certificates recording the deaths of three...
Rome, 1762–1819.
An interesting set of death certificates...
£750
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COUPÉ, Jacques-Michel.
De la moralité des sépultures et de leur...
Paris, Calixte Vollant, an IX [1800–1801].
A scarce and most interesting pamphlet...
£475
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DESPAUTÈRE, Jean, and Gabriel DU PRÉAU.
Universa grammatica, cum doctissimis commentariis,...
Lyons, Pierre Rigaud, 1608.
A seemingly unrecorded issue of this comprehensive...
£400
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STANCOVICH, Pietro.
Dello anfiteatro di Pola, dei gradi marmorei...
Venice, Giuseppe Picotti, 1822.
First edition, uncut in the original wrappers,...
£275
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MARSILIUS of Inghen, GILES of Rome, and ALBERT of Saxony.
Marsilii de genera[tione et corruptione]....
[(Colophon:) Venice, [Boneto Locatello...
A trio of late thirteenth- and fourteenth-century...
£1500
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NONIUS MARCELLUS.
De proprietate sermonum. Iam demum innumeris...
Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1565.
First critical edition of this grammar...
£450
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[MARIAN DEVOTION.]
Embroidered silk panel depicting the Virgin...
[Netherlands, early eighteenth century?]
A delightful silk panel, embroidered over...
£600
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PLINY the Younger.
Panegyricus Trajano Augusto dictus.
Paris, [Charles Crapelet for] Antoine-Augustin...
An attractive edition of Pliny’s only...
£275
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[SANDOW, Eugen, pseud. (i.e. Friedrich Müller).]
Manuscript manual of exercises for use...
[France, c. 1920].
A seemingly unpublished French manuscript...
£850
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[NURSERY SCHOOLS.]
Intorno alla fondazione ed allo stato attuale...
Milan, C.G. Bianchi and company, 1837.
First and only edition, rare, of this report...
£400
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[OXFORD, University of.]
Parecbolae sive excerpta e corpore statutorum...
Oxford, e typographeo Clarendoniano, 1771.
Later edition of this essential student...
£250