Maggs Bros. Ltd.

ALTDORFER (Albrecht)

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

ALTDORFER'S WOODCUTS DISGUISED AS DÜRER'S WORK

£9,000

ASCHAM (Roger)

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

A DE THOU BINDING, WITH HIS WIFE'S ARMS

£7,500

BOOK OF HOURS

Book of Hours, Use of Sarum, in Latin… 1440.

'TROWT FEND ME': THE FITZ-RALPH HOURS, ILLUMINATED BY THE TALBOT MASTER

£75,000

BOOK OF HOURS

Use of Angers, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on… 1440.

FINELY ILLUMINATED IN BRUGES

£45,000

BOOK OF HOURS (French & Latin)

Heures en Francoys & Latin a l'usaige de… 1549.

A MANNERIST BOOK OF HOURS

£9,500

CASTELLESI (Adriano)

De sermone Latino, et modis Latine loquendi. Eiusdem… 1524.

LAVISHLY GILT AND GAUFFERED

£2,250

CHYTRAEUS (David)

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

PLAYFUL & MISCHIEVOUS DEATH

£10,000

DANTE

[Opere]. La Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri con… 1757.

SPECTACULARLY ILLUSTRATED, ROCOCO DANTE

£10,000

ERASMUS (Desiderius).

Apophthegmatum opus cum primus frugiferum, vigilanter ab ipso…

SAMMELBAND OF THREE IMPORTANT EDITIONS

£9,500

ERASTUS (Thomas).

De occultis pharmacorum potestibus. Basle, Pietro Perna, 1574, 1574.

ON PHARMACOLOGY & THE OCCULT, ANNOTATED BY AN EARLY PHYSICIAN

£4,500

FRENCH ARTIST

Christ Among the Doctors, an illuminated cutting from a…

FROM THE RENOWNED BURCKHARDT-WILDT ALBUM

£6,500

FRENCH REVOLUTION

Calendrier Royal pour l'année mil sept cent quatre-vingt-dix, 1789.

PRINTED IN THE FIRST YEAR OF THE REVOLUTION

£2,500

GHEYN (Jacques de)

Maniement d'armes d'arquebuses, mousquets, & picques Selon l'ordre… 1619.

POLYGLOT EDITION WITH ENGLISH TEXT

£12,000

HYGINUS (Gaius Julius)

Poetica astronomica. (Edited by Jacobus Sentinus and Johannes… 1482.

THE FIRST DEPICTIONS OF THE CONSTELLATIONS IN A PRINTED BOOK

£25,000

ISACCHI (Giovanni Battista)

Inventioni nelle quali si manifestano varij secreti, & vtili… 1579.

INVENTIONS AND SECRETS

£7,500

ISSELBURG (Peter)

Künstliche Waffenhandlung der Musqueten und Piquen oder Langen… 1620.

RARE EDITION, WITH FINE ENGRAVINGS

£5,500

KANT (Immanuel).

Critik der reinen Vernunft, 1781.

A VERY FINE COPY OF KANT'S CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON

£47,500

MARIETTE (Pierre-Jean)

Traité des pierres gravées par P.J. Mariette. Recueil… 1750.

SUMPTUOUSLY ILLUSTRATED, FROM A CONNOISSEUR'S LIBRARY

£8,500

PARADIN (Claude)

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

INFLUENTIAL EMBLEMS, OWNED BY A POLISH EMIGRÉ ARISTOCRAT

£5,500

PISTOFILO (Bonaventura)

Oplomachia di Bonaventura Pistofilo. Siena: Hercole Gori, 1621, 1621.

DEDICATED TO KENELM DIGBY, WITH HIS PORTRAIT

£3,500

PLUTARCHUS

[Works, Greek & Latin] Τα σωζομενα συγγραμματα... Quae… 1572.

FINELY BOUND & RARELY FOUND COMPLETE

£12,500

ROLEWINCK (Werner)

De regimine rusticorum, 1481.

MORAL ADVICE FOR FARMERS

£15,000

ROUSSEAU (Jean-Jacques)

Du contrat social, ou principes du droit politique, 1772.

UNCOMMON COUNTERFEIT EDITION OF ROUSSEAU'S MOST FAMOUS WORK

£750

SCHOPENHAUER (Arthur).

Ueber die vierfache Wurzel des Satzes vom zureichenden… 1813.

SCHOPENHAUER'S FIRST BOOK: ON THE FOURFOLD ROOT OF THE PRINCIPLE OF SUFFICIENT REASON

£17,500

THUCYDIDES

Thucidide historico greco delle guerre fatte fra i… 1564.

HANDSOMELY BOUND THUCYDIDES

£1,250

[ACCOUNT BOOK]

Weiteren Register auf das 1663, 1663.

BOUND IN MANUSCRIPT WASTE

£1,250

[BUREAU GENERAL DE BONFAISANCE]

État général des répartitions de numéraire, farines ordinaries,… 1798.

PRECARIOUS WELFARE PROVISION IN REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE

£2,500

[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

[CATHOLIC CHURCH]

Missale Romanum, 1660.

'ALMOST HEDONISTIC': UNRECORDED ROMAN MISSAL, SUMPTUOUSLY BOUND IN RECYCLED SILK

£6,500

[CIRCLE OF BENEDETTO BORDONE]

Processional leaf with historiated initial C containing skull… 1520.

FROM THE OFFICE OF THE DEAD

£5,500

[DIPLOMA]

Venetian doctoral diploma, illuminated manuscript on vellum, 1644.

DEGREE DIPLOMA FROM A PAPER UNIVERSITY

£8,000

[MASTER OF MORGAN 947]

Book of Hours, Use of Arras & Tournai,… 1400.

A LONG-LOST MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF HOURS, STRIKINGLY ILLUMINATED

£35,000