Maggs Bros. Ltd.

MAFFEI (Giovanni Pietro).

Historiarum Indicarum libri XVI selectarum item, ex India epistolarum,… 1589.

£2,500

DONI (Anton Francesco)

La Zucca del Doni Fiorentino, 1589.

£500

[COUNCIL OF TEN]

Sommario delle Parti prese nell'illustriss. Conseglio di Diese… 1589.

THE 'TRIBUNAL OF BLOOD' REGULATES THE CARRYING OF WEAPONS

£1,750

HOROZCO Y COVARRUBIAS (Juan)

Emblemas Morales. Segovia, Juan de la Cuesta, 1589.

THE FIRST EMBLEM BOOK PRINTED IN SPAIN

£7,500

MAFFEI (Giovanni Pietro).

Historiarum Indecorum libri XVI, 1589.

£2,500

CHYTRAEUS (David)

Libellus de morte et vita aeterna, editio postrema.… 1590.

PLAYFUL & MISCHIEVOUS DEATH

£10,000

MAFFEI (Giovanni Camillo)

Scala naturale, overo fantasia dolcissima... Intorno alle cose… 1591.

HANDSOME LITTLE EDITION ON NATURAL HISTORY

£1,100

MAZZELLA (Scipione)

Sito et antichità della città di Pozzuolo. [Bound… 1591.

HANDSOMELY ILLUSTRATED TEXT ON POZZUOLI

£1,500

[PSALTER]

Psalterium Davidis carmine redditum per Eobanum Hessum. Cui… 1591.

BOUND IN THE STYLE OF CASPAR MEUSER

£3,500

PIGAFETTA (Filippo) & LOPEZ DUARTE

Relatione del Reame di Congo et delle Circonvicine… 1591.

WITH THE IMPORTANT MAP OF WEST AFRICA

£25,000

BENCI (Francesco), SJ

Orationes & carmina. Quae partim nunquam antehac, partim… 1592.

WITH MURET'S FUNERAL ORATION

£1,100

MAFFEI (Giovanni Pietro).

Ioan. Petri Maffeii, Bergomatis e Societate Iesu, Historiarum… 1593.

PORTUGUESE MISSIONARY ACCOUNTS, WITH LENGTHY PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION

£7,500

HASENMULLER (Elias)

Historia Iesuitici Ordinis, Das ist: Grundliche Beschreibung deß… 1594.

CONTROVERSIAL ACCOUNT OF THE JESUITS BY A CONVERT TO LUTHERANISM

£1,750

AMMIRATO (Scipione).

Orazione di Scipione Ammirato alla Maesta Cattolica del… 1594.

£850

PANIGAROLA (Francesco), Bp. of Asti

Cento ragionamenti sopra la passione di N. Signore.… 1597.

£1,250

JULIANUS the theurgist

Zoroastris, seu magorum qui à Zoroastre prodierunt, oracula… 1597.

ORACLES OF JULIANUS THE THEURGIST TRANSLATED INTO LATIN

£400

LUTHER (Martin)

Etliche fürneme Schrifften: Darinn die reine Christliche Lehr… 1597.

£1,250

LOPEZ MADERA (Gregorio).

Excelencias de la Monarchia y Reyno de España, 1597.

£1,750

APULEIUS (Lucius)

Apuleio dell'asino d'oro. Tradotto per M. Agnolo Firenzuola… 1598.

£675

PASSE (Crispin van de, sr.)

[Engraved portrait of Sir Francis Drake with a… 1598.

£2,500

LULL (Ramon)

Opera ea quae ad inventam ab ipso artem… 1598.

WITH 'REVOLUTIONARY' MOVING PARTS

£7,500

WITEKIND, monk of Corbie (fl. 966)

Annales . . . editi de fide codicis… 1599.

£320

VEER (Gerrit de).

Tre Navigationi fatte dagli Olandesi, e Zelandesi Al… 1599.

THE DISCOVERY OF SPITZBERGEN AND A FIRST ARCTIC WINTERING

£6,000

PTOLEMY (Claudius). & RUSCELLI (Girolamo).

Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino, Tradotto di Greco… 1599.

£8,000

ECCLESIASTICAL APPOINTMENT

Copy of an English 13th century document, written… 1600.

£250

BOTERO (Giovanni).

Le Relationi Universali di Giovanni Botero, divise in… 1600.

Includes maps of the four continents, based on Ortelius

£3,500

LEO AFRICANUS.

A Geographical Historie of Africa, 1600.

WILFRED THESIGER'S COPY: FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH.

£30,000

FRISCHLIN (Nicodemus)

Facetiae Selectiores: quibus ob argumenti similitudinem accesserunt Henrici… 1600.

£375

[GOLTZIUS (Hendrick) [Circle of]] & [CALDARA (Polidoro), called Da Caravaggio]

[Original pen and ink drawings] Four Olympian Gods… 1600.

INK SKETCHES AFTER GOLTZIUS, AFTER POLIDORO DA CARAVAGGIO

£2,000

GUARINI (Giovanni Battista)

Il Pastor Fido, Tragicommedia Pastorale, 1602.

£750

ASCHAM (Roger)

Familiarum Epistolarum Libri tres, magna orationis elegantia conscripti,… 1602.

A DE THOU BINDING, WITH HIS WIFE'S ARMS

£7,500

CLAVIUS (Christopher)

Aritmetica Prattica... tradotta da Latino in Italiano dal… 1602.

JESUIT ASSOCIATIONS - A GIFT FROM A FAMOUS MATHEMATICIAN TO A FUTURE MISSIONARY

£5,500

ALTDORFER (Albrecht)

Alberti Durer Noriberg. German. Icones sacrae. In historiam… 1604.

ALTDORFER'S WOODCUTS DISGUISED AS DÜRER'S WORK

£9,000

PIGNORIA (Lorenzo)

Vetustissimae tabulae aeneae sacris Aegyptiorum . . .… 1605.

£1,200

CAYET (Pierre Victoire).

Chronologie Septenaire de l'Histoire de la Paix entre… 1605.

£850

PHILIP III OF SPAIN

[Sale of offices in the Spanish Empire]: Paraque… 1606.

£325

LITTLETON (Sir Thomas).

Les Tenures de Monsieur Littleton:, 1608.

LAW - PRECISION BEFORE PEDANTRY

£900

ESTIENNE (Charles).

Dictionarium historicum geographicum poeticum, 1608.

£450

VEEN (Otto van)

Amorum emblemata, 1608.

SCARCE ISSUE WITH ENGLISH VERSES BY A CATHOLIC SPY

£7,000

MEDINA (Pietro da).

Arte del Navigare dell'Eccel. Dottor Pietro da Medina… 1609.

£3,000

HENISCH Georg

Commentarius in sphaeram procli diadochi. Augustae Vindelicorum [Augsburg], David… 1609.

PRESENTATION COPY TO CONRAD PIUS PEUTINGER

£3,500

TORNIELLO (Augustino).

Situs Partium Praecipuarum Totius Orbis Terrarum, 1609.

£1,200