Recent Acquisitions
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[PSALMS.]
Psalterium Davidis carmine redditum per...
Paris, [(colophon:) Guillaume Morel for]...
Seemingly unrecorded issue of the Psalms...
£1250
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MOUSSON, Pierre.
Tragoediae seu diversarum gentium et imperiorum...
La Flèche, George Griveau, 1621.
First edition, provincially-printed,...
£725
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[HOSPICE SAINT-NICOLAS, METZ.]
Deed granting land to the hospice.
Metz, 5 May 1464.
A significant document recording the...
£450
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GOBINET, Charles.
Instruction sur la vérité du Saint Sacrement,...
Paris, François le Cointe, 1677.
Scarce first edition thus, containing...
£650
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[ORDE, John Powlett.]
A collection of 111 original compositions...
Eton, 1818–1820.
A delightful insight into classical...
£1750
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[LOVE TOKEN.]
Portrait of a woman wearing photographic...
[1850s].
An ambrotype portrait of a young woman...
£375
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RIDOLFI, Luca Antonio.
Aretefila, dialogo, nel quale da una parte...
Lyons, Guillaume Rouillé, 1562.
The third edition (first 1557) of a...
£2800
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[NUPTIALIA.]
Bartolomeo MOLAJONI. Alla neogama donzella...
Viterbo, brothers Poggiarelli, 1811.
Seemingly unrecorded sonnet addressed...
£275
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MOREL DE RUBEMPRÉ, Joseph.
Les secrets de la génération ou l’art...
chez tous les libraires, [c. 1870].
Joseph Morel de Rubempré’s (1812–86)...
£150
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[LE NOBLE, Pierre, and Eustache LE NOBLE (attributed).]
Les Amours d’Anne d’Austriche, Epouse...
‘A Cologne, Chez Pierre Marteau, 1696’...
An early manuscript copy of a salacious...
£850
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[LA ROCHE, Sophie von.]
Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim. ...
Leipzig, bey Weidmanns Erben und Reich, 1771.
First edition of Sophie von La Roche’s...
£750
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[KRÜDENER, Barbara Juliane de Vietinghoff, Freifrau von.]
Valérie, ou Lettres de Gustave de Linar...
Paris, Henrichs, 1804.
Rare first edition of Valérie,...
£400
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[COURTESAN.]
Les confessions d’une courtisane devenue...
‘London’ and Brussels, Le Francq, 1784.
First edition (another appeared in the...
£850
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BARBARO, Francesco.
De re uxoria libri duo, ut venustate sermonis...
Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1639.
An attractive later edition of this...
£275
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[ANON.]
Le moine galant, ou la vie de Don F…...
[s.n.,] 1756.
Scarce first edition of this satirical...
£450
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GERARDE, John; Thomas JOHNSON, editor.
The Herball or general Historie of Plantes...
London, Printed by Adam Islip, Joice Norton,...
Second edition of Gerard’s Herball,...
£3250
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[RICCI, Pellegrino].
Dissertazione sul costume di suonar le...
Faenza, Lodovico Genestri, 1787.
An attractive copy of this rare dissertation...
£475
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DOLCE, Lodovico.
Somma della filosofia d’Aristotele, e...
Venice, Giovanni Battista, & Marchio Sessa,...
First edition of this exposition of...
£2500
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[DOVES PRESS.]
Pervigilium Veneris.
Hammersmith, ‘printed by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson...
One of 150 copies on paper of the elusive...
£950
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PLINY the Elder.
Historiae mundi libri XXXVII, cum castigationibus...
Frankfurt, Claude de Marne and heirs of...
First Frankfurt edition of Pliny’s...
£1400