Recent Acquisitions

We are pleased to announce List 18: Recent Acquisitions, containing 30 items in a variety of fields, including history, literature, travel, science, and law.

Highlights include the 1570 first edition of Roger Ascham’s second published work, the first American printing of Seneca, a scarce schoolbook on Newtonian science, and the first Scottish edition of the Wealth of Nations.

You can read or download the list in PDF format here.

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