Maggs Bros. Ltd.

NORTHERN FRENCH ARTIST

A Funeral Service, historiated initials on a leaf… 1370.

£4,500

NORTHERN FRENCH ARTIST

The Virgin and Child, historiated initial on a… 1370.

£4,500

FABRICIO (Principio)

Delle allusioni, imprese, et emblemi sopra la vita,… 1588.

THE BUONCOMPAGNI DRAGON

£12,000

ROSINUS (Johannes)

Romanorum antiquitatum libri decem ex variis scriptoribus simma… 1583.

HANDBOOK OF ANTIQUITIES

£2,250

SCHILLER (Friedrich).

Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua. Ein republikanisches Trauerspiel, 1788.

£250

KANT (Immanuel).

Critik der reinen Vernunft, 1781.

A FINE COPY OF KANT'S CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON

£47,500

[KANT (Immanuel).] & [REINER (Gregor Leonhard).]

Kant's Theorie der Reinmoralischen Religion mit Rücksicht auf… 1796.

£325

REINHOLD (Karl Leonhard).

Sendschreiben an J.C. Lavater und J.G. Fichte über… 1799.

£450

GLISSENTI (Fabio)

Discorsi morali contra il dispiacer del morire, detto… 1596.

DEATH IN VENICE WITH WOODCUTS AFTER HOLBEIN

£7,500

TURRECREMATA (Johannes de)

Expositio super toto psalterio. [Augsburg], Johann Schüssler, [not after… 1471.

FROM THE LIBRARY OF CHARLES ST JOHN HORNBY

£12,500

[BOCCACCIO (Giovanni)] & SALVIATI (Leonardo)

Il Decameron di messer Giovanni Boccacci, cittadini fiorentino,… 1582.

THE DECAMERON, CLEANED UP FOR CENSORS

£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

[DE BALAGNY (Gauthier)]

Recueil de bonnes et mauvaises poisies, de diferens… 1587.

A MANUSCRIPT MISCELLANY SPANNING MORE THAN A CENTURY

£25,000

EUSTATHIUS (Archbishop of Thessalonica) & HOMER

Copiae cornu sive oceanus enarrationum Homericarum, ex Eustathii… 1558.

OWNED BY AN EARLY CHAMPION OF WOMEN'S EDUCATION

£7,500

DANTE

Dante con l'espositione di Christoforo Landino, et di… 1564.

THE DIVINE COMEDY, LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED

£9,500

CHYTRAEUS (David), [APOCALYPSE], AEMILIUS (Georg) & MELANCHTHON (Phillip)

Explicatio Apocalypsis Iohannis Perspicua & brevis, 1575.

FABULOUSLY ILLUSTRATED APOCALYPSE

£4,500

STENGEL (Georg)

Ova Paschalia sacro emblemate inscripta descriptaque a Georgio… 1635.

CHARMING, EGG-SHAPED EMBLEMS, WITH EARLY DEPICTIONS OF INDIGENOUS AMERICANS

£5,500

BOCCACCIO (Giovanni)

Le Philocope de Messire Jehan Boccace florentin, contena(n)t… 1542.

OWNED BY A PICARDY COUNTESS IN THE LATE SIXTEENTH CENTURY

£9,500

BANDETTINI (Teresa)

Visione in morte di S.E.D. Ottavia odescalchi principessa… 1829.

COMMEMORATIVE POETRY BY AN EARLY ITALIAN IMPROVISATRIX

£4,000

[D'AGUERRE (Chrétienne), Comtesse de Sault]

Manuscript notarial account book for regional Provence, 1584.

LA COMTESSE DE SAULT FINANCES THE FRENCH CATHOLIC LEAGUE

£12,500

PHILANDRIER (Guillaume)

In decem libros M. Vitruvii Pollionis de architectura… 1544.

EARLY CRITICAL RECEPTION OF VITRUVIUS

£4,500

ZINCGREF (Julius Wilhelm)

Emblematum Ethico-Politicorum Centuria. Une centaine d'Emblêmes morales &… 1698.

POLYGLOT EMBLEM BOOK WITH MERIAN'S ENGRAVINGS

£2,000

[FRENCH ILLUMINATOR]

Illuminated leaf on vellum from a Book of… 1408.

FROM THE CHESTER BEATTY HOURS

£1,850

[FRENCH ILLUMINATOR]

Single leaf on vellum from Book of Hours, 1500.

£1,500

AESOP

Fables d'Ésope dédiées au Premier Consul Bonaparte, 1801.

ILLUSTRATED AESOP FABLES DEDICATED TO NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

£1,500

AENEAS SYLVIUS PICCOLOMINI (later Pope Pius II)

Epistolae familiares. De Duobus amantibus Euryalo et Lucretia.… 1496.

HUMANIST LETTERS BY A FUTURE POPE

£10,000

DA CASTIGLIONE (Sabba)

Ricordi overo ammaestramenti, 1554.

WITH UNUSUAL WOODCUT DEPICTION OF THE LEFT-HANDED SCHOLAR

£2,750

LEWIS (Matthew Gregory).

The Monk: A Romance, 1807.

A charming edition English-language edition published in Paris.

£1,250

JACOBI (Friedrich Heinrich).

Auserlesener Briefwechsel. In zwei Bänden, 1825.

£350

MASCARDI (Agostino)

Silvarum Libri IV, 1622.

WITH TITLE PAGE BY RUBENS, FUNDED BY THE AUTHOR

£2,000

BEDE , the Venerable

Large fragment, almost a full leaf, from Bede's…

BEDE'S COMMENTARY ON ST MARK

£2,000

[Anon]

A chi toca toca, 1796.

RARE, PLAYFUL ALMANAC IN VENETIAN DIALECT

£550

FRENCH ILLUMINATOR

A suite of large neo-gothic illuminated initials. [France, c.… 1840.

GOTHIC REVIVAL ILLUMINATION

£4,500

VERDIZOTTI (Giovanni)

Cento favole morali de i piu illustri antichi… 1570.

DESIGNS DRAWN ON THE BLOCKS BY VERDIZOTTI HIMSELF

£6,500

GARNIER (Pierre)

The Battle of Ibera at which the Romans… 1480.

FROM A LAVISH MANUSCRIPT HISTORY OF ROME

£13,500

HYGINUS (Gaius Julius)

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

THE FIRST DEPICTIONS OF THE CONSTELLATIONS IN A PRINTED BOOK

£25,000

GHEYN (Jacques de)

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

POLYGLOT EDITION WITH ENGLISH TEXT

£12,000

KANT (Immanuel).

Zerstreute Aufsätze, 1793.

'What is Enlightenment?'

£750

[INSCRIPTIONS]

Veterum Inscriptionum Delectus.  Np, 1853[-1887], 1853.

MANUSCRIPT REPRODUCTIONS OF BEAUTIFUL LATIN AND GREEK INSCRIPTIONS, FOLLOWED BY NOTES ON ROMAN HISTORY AND COSTUMES

£750

SAY (Jean-Baptiste).

Traité d'économie politique, ou simple exposition de la… 1826.

£750

LUTHER (Martin)

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

£1,250

TRIGAULT (Nicolas).

De Christianis apvd Japonios trivmphis sive de gravissima… 1623.

FIRST ILLUSTRATED ACCOUNT OF JESUIT MARTYRDOMS IN JAPAN

£16,000