NIDER (Johannes) OP Praeceptorium Divinae legis. Augsburg, Anton Sorg, "circiter" 24 May… 1475. SIGNED BY THE RUBRICATOR £12,500
GROSSE (Henning) Magica de spectris et apparitionibus spiritum de vaticiniis,… 1632. TALES OF DEMONIC PHENOMENA AND THEOLOGIANS ON TRIAL: A CURIOUS CONTRAST OF WORKS BOUND TOGETHER IN THE 17TH CENTURY £1,250
AESOP Fabulas de la vida del sabio y clarísimo… 1818. SPANISH AESOP, FROM THE LIBRARY OF A 'FORGOTTEN HISPANIST' £750
MARCELLUS (Christophorus) Sacrarum cerimoniarum Romanae Ecclesiae libri tres non ante… UNAUTHORISED WORK REVEALING THE SACRED CEREMONIES OF THE PAPAL CHAPEL £3,000
GROPPER Canones concilii provincialis Coloniensis... celebrati anno 1536. Quibus… 1538. FROM THE LIBRARY OF JEAN BOYER, ARCHDEACON OF CONQUES (1508-41). £4,800
BOCCACCIO Le Decameron. Contes de Bocace, traduction nouvelle; augmentée… 1801. PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED BOCCACCIO, IN CONTEMPORARY BINDING £1,500
SCHOPENHAUER (Arthur). Ueber den Willen in der Natur. Eine Erörterung… 1836. Presentation copy of Schopenhauer's On the Will in Nature £15,000
[DUPONT DE NEMOURS (Pierre Samuel).] De l'origine et des progrès d'une science nouvelle, 1768. A lovely copy of this important exposition of physiocrat doctrine £6,500
BARTHOLOMAEUS ANGLICUS De proprietatibus rerum. Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 30 May 1483, 1483. THE GREATEST MEDIEVAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA £17,500
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
VERDIZOTTI (Giovanni) Cento favole morali de i piu illustri antichi… 1570. DESIGNS DRAWN ON THE BLOCKS BY VERDIZOTTI HIMSELF £6,500
OVIDIUS NASO Metamorphoseon libri XV. In singulas quasque fabulas argumeta.… 1567. WOODCUTS OF VIRGIL SOLIS £4,500
DESNOUES (Guillaume) Lettres de G. Desnoues, Professeur d'Anatomie & de… 1706. ON EMBALMING PRACTICES, BY AN EARLY ANATOMICAL WAX MODELLER £2,500
ERASMUS (Desiderius). Apophthegmatum opus cum primus frugiferum, vigilanter ab ipso… SAMMELBAND OF THREE IMPORTANT EDITIONS £9,500
AENEAS SYLVIUS PICCOLOMINI (later Pope Pius II) Epistolae familiares. De Duobus amantibus Euryalo et Lucretia.… 1496. HUMANIST LETTERS BY A FUTURE POPE £10,000
ALBERTI (Leon Battista) L'architettura... tradotta in lingua Fiorentina da C. Bartoli... Venice,… 1565. FROM THE PINELLI LIBRARY £4,500
[MONTERCHI (Giuseppe)] Scelta de medaglioni piu rari nella Bibliotheca dell'… 1679. BOUND FOR BIBLIOPHILE AND ART COLLECTOR PAULO VAN UCHELEN £1,500
AMADIS DE GAULE Le premier (-vingt uniesme et dernier) livre d'Amadis… 1577. INSCRIBED BY A YOUNG HENRY PERCY, THE FUTURE 'WIZARD EARL' £12,500
GARNIER (Pierre) The Battle of Ibera at which the Romans… 1480. FROM A LAVISH MANUSCRIPT HISTORY OF ROME £15,000
[CONDORCET (Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de).] & [BAUDEAU (Abbe Nicolas).] Éclaircissements demandés à M. N**[ecker], sur ses principes… 1775. £2,500
PHILANDRIER (Guillaume) In decem libros M. Vitruvii Pollionis de architectura… 1544. EARLY CRITICAL RECEPTION OF VITRUVIUS £4,500
PARADIN (Claude) Devises heroiques. Lyon, Jean de Tournes and Guillaume Gazeau, 1557. INFLUENTIAL EMBLEMS, OWNED BY A POLISH EMIGRÉ ARISTOCRAT £5,500
FELIBIEN (André) Description sommaire du Chasteau de Versailles. Paris, 1674, 1674. EARLIEST GUIDE BOOK TO PALACE OF VERSAILLES & PARK £2,500
FABRICIO (Principio) Delle allusioni, imprese, et emblemi sopra la vita,… 1588. THE BUONCOMPAGNI DRAGON £12,000
COUSTEAU (Pierre) Le Pegme... mis en Francoys par Lanteaume de… 1560. EARLY FRENCH EMBLEMS, IN ELABORATE BORDERS £3,000
ERASTUS (Thomas). De occultis pharmacorum potestibus. Basle, Pietro Perna, 1574, 1574. ON PHARMACOLOGY & THE OCCULT, ANNOTATED BY AN EARLY PHYSICIAN £4,500
TASSO (Torquato) La Gerusalemme liberata. Paris, appresso A. Delalain, P.… 1771. "RELIURE DE PRESENT" DESIGNED BY GRAVELOT FOR THIS EDITION £5,750
[JESUITS] Constitutiones Cum earum Declarationibus. Rome, In Collegio eiusdem Societatis, 1583. SIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE JESUITS IN ROME, A CORRESPONDENT OF PLANTIN'S £2,750