Maggs Bros. Ltd.

BONAVENTURA (St.), pseudo

Meditationes devotissimae S. Bonaventurae Card. Super totam vitam… 1555.

£450

THUCYDIDES

L'histoire... de la guerre qui fut entre les… 1555.

TRANSLATED BY LOUIS XII'S ADVISOR

£850

BERNI (Francesco)

Il secondo libro dell'opere burlesche, di M. Francesco… 1555.

£650

CAPRIANO (Giovanni Pietro)

Della vera poetica libro uno. Al Conte Ulisse… 1555.

SOLE EDITION OF CAPRIANO'S LITERARY CRITICISM

£2,500

BOCCHI (Achille)

Symbolicarum quaestionum de universo genere quas serio ludebat… 1555.

FIRST EDITION OF BOCCHI'S EMBLEMS

£4,000

HOLOGNE (Gregoire de)

G. Holonii Catharina, 1556.

NEO-LATIN DRAMA

£1,400

LEO (Johannes).

Description de l'Afrique, 1556.

£25,000

CAMERS (Joannes)

Commentaria in C. Iulii Solini polyhistora. Lucii Flori… 1557.

£1,500

PARADIN (Claude)

Devises heroiques. Lyon, Jean de Tournes and Guillaume Gazeau, 1557.

INFLUENTIAL EMBLEMS, OWNED BY A POLISH EMIGRÉ ARISTOCRAT

£5,500

[PHILIP II OF SPAIN]

[Contemporary manuscript of a decree of pardon]: Minuta… 1558.

PARDONING SO-AND-SO IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY

£350

JACOPONE da Todi

I cantici... con la gionta di alcuni discorsi… 1558.

HANDSOME VOLUME OF CELEBRATED RELIGIOUS POET

£1,850

MARTIALIS (Marcus Valerius)

Epigrammata paucis admodum vel reiectis, vel immutatis nullo Latinitatis… 1558.

CLEAN CLASSICS FOR CHILDREN

£3,500

FLORENTIUS OF HAARLEM

Vera ac syncera vitae Christianae norma seu regula… 1559.

EXPANDED EDITION

£400

COUSTEAU (Pierre)

Le Pegme... mis en Francoys par Lanteaume de… 1560.

EARLY FRENCH EMBLEMS, IN ELABORATE BORDERS

£3,000

BOAISTUAU (Pierre)

Histoires prodigieuses... extraictes de plusieurs fameux autheurs, Grecs… 1560.

MONSTERS AND PORTENTS, LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED FIRST EDITION

£10,000

PTOLEMY (Claudius). & RUSCELLI (Girolamo).

Geographia Cl. Ptolomaei Alexandrini olim a Bilibaldo Pirckheimerio… 1562.

£12,000

PRUDENTIUS

Poemata omnia: quorum Catalogum proxima à Praefatione pagina… 1562.

RARE PRINTED DONATION EX-LIBRIS

£2,500

AESOP

Fabellas una cum argumentis novis.   Brescia, heirs of Ludovico… 1563.

A RARE IMPRINT, PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED - ONLY ONE OTHER COPY KNOWN

£6,000

CARRANZA (Bartolomé), Abp. of Toledo

Summa conciliorum et pontificum a Petro usque ad… 1564.

A THEOLOGIAN'S NOTES FROM THE COUNCIL OF TRENT

£950

GOMARA (Franceso Lopez). & GRAVALIZ (Augustin) Translator.

Historia delle Nuove Indie Occidentali. Con Tutti i… 1564.

SPANISH CONQUESTS IN AMERICA

£1,500

MARANTA (Bartolomeo)

Lucullianarum quaestionum libri quinque, 1564.

£500

GUICCIARDINI (Francesco),

Dell'Historia D'Italia [...] gli ultimi quattro libri non… 1564.

£650

DELLA CASA (Giovanni)

Rime et Prose di M. Giovanni Della Casa.… 1565.

£350

FIORENTINO (Giovanni)

Il Pecorone di Ser Giovanni Fiorentino, 1565.

INSPIRATION FOR THE MERCHANT OF VENICE

£800

EROTIANUS

Vocum, quae apud Hippocratem sunt, collectio. Cum annotationibus… 1566.

£900

LUDOLPHUS DE SAXONIA

Vita Christi . . . ex evangeliis et… 1566.

£450

GUICCIARDINI (Lodovico).

Commentarii di Lodovico Guicciardini, 1566.

£500

BEDE , The Venerable, 673/4-735.

Ecclesiasticae historiae gentis Anglorum, Libri V, 1566.

CAREFULLY COLLATED WITH THE OLD ENGLISH TRANSLATION AND ANNOTATED THROUGHOUT BY THE SCHOLAR FRANCIS TATE

£55,000

SANSOVINO (Francesco).

Del Governo de regni et delle Republiche Antiche… 1567.

£500

JOSEPHUS (Flavius)

Opera... nunc vero ad exemplaria Graeca denuo summa… 1567.

£1,400

[CATHOLIC CHURCH]

Catechismus Romanus, ex decreto Concilij Tridentini, 1567.

WITH ELABORATE OWNERS' ARMS PAINTED ON VELLUM

£1,500

OVIDIUS NASO

Metamorphoseon libri XV. In singulas quasque fabulas argumeta.… 1567.

WOODCUTS BY VIRGIL SOLIS

£4,500

MONLUC (Blaise de).

[Ms. documents concerning the financing of a ship… 1568.

EARLY VOYAGE DOCUMENTS

£2,500

GARGIARIA (Battista)

Aureum caelimundium, seu liber de caelo et mundo, 1569.

EXTREMELY RARE DIGEST ON THE NATURE OF HEAVEN AND EARTH

£2,250

ZONARAS (Joannes)

La prima [- terza] parte dell' historie... tradotta… 1570.

£700

DELAUNE (Etienne)

Suite of six allegorical prints. France, c. 1560-1570, 1570.

MANNERIST ALLEGORY

£1,500

TERENTIUS AFER Publius

P. Terentii afri comoediae sex, infinitis fere locis… 1570.

£800

CARO (Annibale) & ARISTOTLE

De arte rhetorica. Libri tres. Basel, Johann Herwagen,… 1570.

£1,000

GIRAVA (Geronimo).

La Cosmographia y Geographia ... En la qual… 1570.

THE HARMSWORTH - DE SALVA COPY.

£4,250

VALLÉS (Pedro).

Historia del fortissimo y prudentissimo capitan Don Hernando… 1570.

£750

DEMOSTHENES, translated by, & WILSON (Thomas).

The Three Orations of Demosthenes, 1570.

"MOST NEDEFULL TO BE REDDE IN THESE DAUNGEROUS DAYES"

£8,500

VERDIZOTTI (Giovanni)

Cento favole morali de i piu illustri antichi… 1570.

DESIGNS DRAWN ON THE BLOCKS BY VERDIZOTTI HIMSELF

£6,500