TUBERINUS (Johannes) Carmen ad gravem: sanctumque senatum Lipsensem: de orgijs… 1512. HEAVILY ANNOTATED £2,250
ARRIANUS Flavius Praefatio in libris rerum gestarum Alexandri regis [translated… 1508. FINE SONCINO IMPRINT £2,750
PTOLEMY (Claudius). & BUCKINCK (Arnold). Quinta Asiae Tabula, 1507. Earliest Available Printed Map of Persia £4,500
NEPOS Cornelius Cornelius Nepos. De vita Catonis. senioris [.] Sextus.… 1504. MANUAL FOR A MAN OF ACTION £2,500
FRENCH ARTIST The Stigmatization of St Francis, miniature on a… 1500. FRANCIS OF ASSISSI RECEIVES THE STIGMATA £3,000
LAETUS (Pomponius) Romanae Historiae compendium an interitu Gordani iunioris usque… 1499. POSTHUMOUS FIRST EDITION £2,750
AENEAS SYLVIUS PICCOLOMINI (later Pope Pius II) Epistolae familiares. De Duobus amantibus Euryalo et Lucretia.… 1496. HUMANIST LETTERS BY A FUTURE POPE £10,000
BRUNI ARETINO (Leonardo) Epistolarum Familiarium Libri VIII. (Ed. Antonius Moretus and… 1495. ONE OF ONLY TWO FIFTEENTH-CENTURY EDITIONS £6,500
UBERTINUS (de Casali) Arbor vitae crucifixae Jesu Christi. Venice, Andreas de… 1485. THE TREE OF THE CRUCIFIED LIFE OF CHRIST £7,500
PTOLEMY (Claudius). & BERLINGHIERI (Francesco di Niccolo). Tabula Quarta de Asia, 1482. THE THIRD ENGRAVED MAP OF MESOPOTAMIA AND THE HOLY LAND £4,500
PTOLEMY (Claudius). & BERLINGHIERI (Francesco di Niccolo). Tabula Quinta de Asia, 1482. THE THIRD ENGRAVED MAP OF IRAN £6,500
CAXTON (William), printer, & HIDGEN (Ranulf), author. [Leaf from the Polychronicon mentioning Muhammad.], 1482. AN EARLY PRINTED ACCOUNT OF MUHAMMAD IN ENGLISH Sold
HYGINUS (Gaius Julius) Poetica astronomica. (Edited by Jacobus Sentinus and Johannes… 1482. THE FIRST DEPICTIONS OF THE CONSTELLATIONS IN A PRINTED BOOK £25,000
MASTERS OF THE SUFFRAGES The Adoration of the Three Magi, a large… 1480. ADORATION OF THE MAGI £4,500
GARNIER (Pierre) The Battle of Ibera at which the Romans… 1480. FROM A LAVISH MANUSCRIPT HISTORY OF ROME £13,500
TURRECREMATA (Johannes de) Expositio super toto psalterio. [Augsburg], Johann Schüssler, [not after… 1471. FROM THE LIBRARY OF CHARLES ST JOHN HORNBY £12,500
FRENCH ARTIST The Transfiguration, an illuminated cutting from a Book… 1470. FROM THE RENOWNED BURCKHARDT-WILDT ALBUM £6,000
FRENCH ARTIST The destruction of Job's household, a large initial… 1450. EVOCATIVE FRENCH ILLUMINATION £3,750
KING DAVID BEFORE GOD King David before God, in a historiated initial,… 1450. EXCEPTIONAL FLORENTINE ILLUMINATION £12,500
GIOVANNI DI ANTONIO DA BOLOGNA? The Old Testament Prophet Tobit, in a large… 1450. SUPERB ILLUMINATION OF THE PROPHET TOBIT £10,000
LEONARD OF CHIOS (Archbishop of Mytilene) [Historia Captae a Turca Constantinopolis] [Italy?, third quarter of… 1450. THE "MOST AUTHORITATIVE" EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF THE FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE £47,500
BOOK OF HOURS Use of Angers, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on… 1440. FINELY ILLUMINATED IN BRUGES £45,000
FRENCH ARTIST St. Lawrence, an illuminated miniature on vellum from… 1425. WITH GRIDIRON IN HAND £4,750
[FRENCH ILLUMINATOR] Illuminated leaf on vellum from a Book of… 1408. FROM THE CHESTER BEATTY HOURS £1,850
CIRCLE OF VENTURELLA DI PIETRO St. John the Baptist, a large historiated initial… 1330. UMBRIAN ILLUMINATION £7,500
RAYMOND OF PENAFORT The Decretals of Pope Gregory IX, with the… 1300. ILLUMINATED OPENING LEAF OF THE DECRETALS £15,000
[SHAW (George Bernard)]. & GATTIE (Alfred Warwick). Four Patent Specifications by Alfred Warwick Gattie, Henry… £500