Recent Acquisitions

  1. [SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley.]

    The School for Scandal. A Comedy. As it...

    [Dublin], Printed for the Booksellers, 1793.

    First separate illustrated edition of Sheridan’s...

    £750

  2. PACE, Giulio.

    Artis Lullianae emendatae libri IV. Quibus...

    Naples, Secondino Roncagliolo, 1631.

     Rare third edition (first 1618) of this...

    £750

  3. BENZI, Ugo; Giovanni Lodovico BERTALDI, commentator.

    Regole della sanità et della natura de...

    Turin, heirs of Giovanni Domenico Tarino, 1618.

    Scarce first vernacular edition of the...

    £2500

  4. BALZAC, Jean-Louis Guez de.

    Aristippus, or, Monsr. de Balsac’s Masterpiece,...

    London, Tho. Newcomb for Nat. Eakins and...

    First edition in English of Balzac’s...

    £750

  5. RICHARDUS ANGLICUS.

    Correctorium alchymiae ... Das is reformierte...

    Strasbourg, Bernard Jobin, 1581.

    First edition of ‘a very rare collection’...

    £4500

  6. [WASHINGTON, George.] PAINE, Thomas.

    An Eulogy on the Life of General George...

    Newburyport, Edmund M. Blunt, 1800.

    First edition of this eulogy on Washington,...

    £250

  7. BEAUMONT, Joseph.

    Psyche: or Loves Mysterie in XX. Canto’s:...

    London, Printed by John Dawson for George...

    First edition of this lengthy religious...

    £1250

  8. [IMAGINARY VOYAGE.]

    Admirable Travels of Messieurs Thomas Jenkins...

    London, ‘for the Benefit of Robert Barker,...

    Rare, a lively chapbook novella of adventures...

    £1500

  9. TASSO, Torquato; Giovanni Francesco NEGRI, translator.

    [Drop-head title:] Della tradottione...

    [Bologna, 1628.]

    Rare first edition of Tasso’s Gerusalemme...

    £1500

  10. POMPONIO LETO, Giulio.

    In omnia quae quidem extant, P. Vergilii...

    Basel, [Johann Oporinus, 1544].

    Second edition of Leto’s influential...

    £450

  11. CLÜVER, Philipp.

    Introductio in universam geographiam tam...

    Wolfenbüttel, Caspar Johann Bismarck...

    The 1686 edition of perhaps the most important...

    £2500

  12. GUILLIM, John.

    A Display of Heraldrie: manifesting a more...

    London, Thomas Cotes for Jacob Blome, 1638.

    Third edition, corrected and enlarged,...

    £950

  13. ARISTOTLE; THEOPHRASTUS; Theodorus GAZA and Pietro ALCIONIO, translators.

    Historiae. Cum de natura Animalium, tum...

    Lyons, [Nicolas Bacquenois for] Guillaume...

    A union of Aristotle on animals and Theophrastus...

    £800

  14. [LILY, William.]

    A short introduction of grammar generally...

    Oxford, Sheldonian Theatre, 1709.

    Later editions (likely issued together)...

    £350

  15. GOELICKE, Andreas Ottomar.

    Disputatio physica experimentalis exhibens...

    Halle, Johann Montag, [1704].

    Scarce academic disputation on experimental...

    £275

  16. [BREWER, George.]

    The Siamese Tales, being a Collection of...

    London, Vernor & Hood and Champante &...

    First edition of an anonymously published...

    £950

  17. BOUTMY, C.

    ‘Exercitium quotidianum dedicatum perillustri...

    [Belgium, 1760.]

    An attractively bound unpublished devotional...

    £450

  18. DANETT, Thomas.

    A Continuation of the Historie of France,...

    London, Printed by Thomas East for Thomas...

    First edition, an original history composed...

    £1800

  19. [ABC.]

    Petite géographie amusante abécédaire...

    C. Lehuby, ‘Librairie de l’enfance...

    A charming and very rare ABC intended to...

    £3750

  20. LEE, Edwin.

    The Principal Baths of Germany [– The...

    London, Whittaker & Cp., Paris, Galignani...

    First edition, scarce, of Edwin Lee’s...

    £350