DIPLOMA
Paduan doctoral degree diploma, illuminated manuscript on vellum, 1641.
A SCOTTISH SCHOLAR IN ITALY, WITH THE ILLUMINATOR'S STRIKING ADVERTISEMENT
£9,500
DUCLOS (Charles Pinot)
Les confessions du comte de ***… huitième edition,… 1776.
£750
ERASMUS (Desiderius).
Apophthegmatum opus cum primus frugiferum, vigilanter ab ipso…
SAMMELBAND OF THREE IMPORTANT EDITIONS
£9,500
ERASMUS (Desiderius).
Liber cum primis pius, de praeparatione ad mortem, 1534.
FIRST EDITION - WITH MORE'S EPITAPH
£7,500
ERASTUS (Thomas).
De occultis pharmacorum potestibus. Basle, Pietro Perna, 1574, 1574.
ON PHARMACOLOGY & THE OCCULT, ANNOTATED BY AN EARLY PHYSICIAN
£4,500
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
FABRICIO (Principio)
Delle allusioni, imprese, et emblemi sopra la vita,… 1588.
THE BUONCOMPAGNI DRAGON
£12,000
FELIBIEN (André)
Description sommaire du Chasteau de Versailles. Paris, 1674, 1674.
EARLIEST GUIDE BOOK TO PALACE OF VERSAILLES & PARK
£2,500
![The Transfiguration, an illuminated cutting from a Book of Hours on vellum.
[France (eastern?), 15th century (c.1470s/80s)]](https://api.maggs.com/image/f80dd2ba-c8ba-43d7-b8af-f5ef00c8399f/616x770.webp)
FRENCH ARTIST
The Transfiguration, an illuminated cutting from a Book… 1470.
FROM THE RENOWNED BURCKHARDT-WILDT ALBUM
£6,000
FRENCH ARTIST
A funeral service, an Illuminated miniature on vellum… 1500.
£2,250
FRENCH ARTIST
The destruction of Job's household, a large initial… 1450.
EVOCATIVE FRENCH ILLUMINATION
£3,750
FRENCH ARTIST
St. Lawrence, an illuminated miniature on vellum from… 1425.
WITH GRIDIRON IN HAND
£4,750
FRENCH ARTIST
The Stigmatization of St Francis, miniature on a… 1500.
FRANCIS OF ASSISSI RECEIVES THE STIGMATA
£3,000
![Christ Among the Doctors, an illuminated cutting from a Book of Hours on vellum. [France (eastern?), 15th century (c.1470s/80s)]](https://api.maggs.com/image/4d5692d3-a655-4a90-9b0a-a62004453af7/616x770.webp)
FRENCH ARTIST
Christ Among the Doctors, an illuminated cutting from a…
FROM THE RENOWNED BURCKHARDT-WILDT ALBUM
£6,500
![A suite of large neo-gothic illuminated initials.
[France, c. 1840-60?]](https://api.maggs.com/image/c1e9a858-78ed-42f4-a536-2141ecfd1ec7/616x770.webp)
FRENCH ILLUMINATOR
A suite of large neo-gothic illuminated initials. [France, c.… 1840.
GOTHIC REVIVAL ILLUMINATION
£4,500
FRENCH REVOLUTION
Calendrier Royal pour l'année mil sept cent quatre-vingt-dix, 1789.
PRINTED IN THE FIRST YEAR OF THE REVOLUTION
£2,500
GALLI DA BIBIENA (Ferdinando)
L'Architettura Civile, preparata su la geometria, e ridotta… 1711.
FIRST EDITION, OWNED BY FATHER-AND-SON PAINTERS
£4,000
![The Battle of Ibera at which the Romans defeated Hasdrubal, a miniature from the Romuléon, illuminated manuscript on vellum.
[Eastern France, c. 1480]](https://api.maggs.com/image/f466a56d-30f7-4c4e-87e1-64155f667067/616x770.webp)
GARNIER (Pierre)
The Battle of Ibera at which the Romans… 1480.
FROM A LAVISH MANUSCRIPT HISTORY OF ROME
£13,500
GAUTIER DE CHATILLON (Philippe)
Alexandri Magni regis Macedonum vita. Strasbourg: Reinhard Beck, 1513, 1513.
A FASCINATING SAMMELBAND, WITH THE RARE ALEXANDREIS
£10,000
GELLI (Giambattista)
La Circe. Florence, (appresso Lorenzo Torrentino, 1 April), 1549.
£1,250
GHEYN (Jacques de)
Maniement d'armes d'arquebuses, mousquets, & picques Selon l'ordre… 1619.
POLYGLOT EDITION WITH ENGLISH TEXT
£12,000
GIANNOTTI (Donato)
Libro de la republica de Vinitiani. (Rome, Antonio… 1542.
£680
![St Michael the Archangel, in a large historiated initial on a leaf from a very large Antiphonary, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum
[Italy (Bologna or Ferrara?), mid 15th century]](https://api.maggs.com/image/b5e12baf-c2f3-477d-be2c-d909c0c5c7c0/616x770.webp)
GIOVANNI DI ANTONIO DA BOLOGNA?
St Michael the Archangel, in a large historiated… 1450.
£7,500
![The Old Testament Prophet Tobit, in a large historiated initial on a leaf from a very large Antiphonary, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum
[Italy (Bologna or Ferrara?), mid 15th century]](https://api.maggs.com/image/f6e18d77-665b-4021-a9eb-1258ec3db54f/616x770.webp)
GIOVANNI DI ANTONIO DA BOLOGNA?
The Old Testament Prophet Tobit, in a large… 1450.
SUPERB ILLUMINATION OF THE PROPHET TOBIT
£10,000
![The Dormition of the Virgin, in a historiated initial on a very large leaf from an Antiphonary, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum.
[Italy (Venice), mid to late 14th century]](https://api.maggs.com/image/974b0913-8ed9-4d83-83cb-548f5eaea3a6/616x770.webp)
GIUSTINO DI GHERARDINO da Forlì
The Dormition of the Virgin, in a historiated…
14TH-CENTURY VENETIAN ILLUMINATION
£8,500
GLISSENTI (Fabio)
Discorsi morali contra il dispiacer del morire, detto… 1596.
DEATH IN VENICE WITH WOODCUTS AFTER HOLBEIN
£7,500
GROPPER
Canones concilii provincialis Coloniensis... celebrati anno 1536. Quibus… 1538.
FROM THE LIBRARY OF JEAN BOYER, ARCHDEACON OF CONQUES (1508-41).
£4,800
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
HAIDLAUFF (Sebastian)
Der Augspurgerischen Confession, und diser verwandtes Predicanten, jetziger newer Grundtfest,… 1573.
£2,500
HELVETIUS (Claude Adrien).
De l'Esprit, 1758.
£800
HOBBES (Thomas).
Oeuvres philosophiques et politiques de Thomas Hobbes. Tome… 1787.
£450
![[WORKS] Sus obras con la declaracion magistral en lengua Castellana, por el Doctor [Juan] Villen de Biedma.](https://api.maggs.com/image/a67653b2-85d1-4a07-977b-e6a6e6b1ba7b/616x770.webp)
HORATIUS FLACCUS (Quintus)
[WORKS] Sus obras con la declaracion magistral en… 1599.
INSCRIBED BY THE RECTOR OF SEVILLE'S ENGLISH SEMINARY
£2,750
HOROZCO Y COVARRUBIAS (Juan)
Emblemas Morales. Segovia, Juan de la Cuesta, 1589.
THE FIRST EMBLEM BOOK PRINTED IN SPAIN
£7,500
HYGINUS (Gaius Julius)
Poetica astronomica. (Edited by Jacobus Sentinus and Johannes… 1482.
THE FIRST DEPICTIONS OF THE CONSTELLATIONS IN A PRINTED BOOK
£25,000
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
![Pentecost, an historiated initial on a vellum leaf from an Antiphonal, in Latin.
[Italy (Emilia-Romagna, perhaps Bologna), c. 1260-70]](https://api.maggs.com/image/f8e06b91-7478-4ef7-ab73-930c589cc220/616x770.webp)
ITALIAN ARTIST
Pentecost, an historiated initial on a vellum leaf…
£9,500
![FIRENZUOLA (Agnolo). I lucidi. Florence, 1552.
[Bound with]:DOLCE (Lodovico). Il ragazzo. Venice, Francesco detto lo Imperador, 1559.
[And]: PINO DA CAGLI (Bernardino). Gli ingiusti sdegni. Venice, Domenico Farri, 1563.
[And]: SECCHI (Nicolo). L'interesse](https://api.maggs.com/image/8898bf8d-87fe-4f32-b952-31aae5881596/616x770.webp)
ITALIAN THEATRE
FIRENZUOLA (Agnolo). I lucidi. Florence, 1552. [Bound with]:DOLCE (Lodovico).… 1581.
SOURCE FOR SHAKESPEARE'S TWELFTH NIGHT
£1,750
JACOBI (Friedrich Heinrich).
David Hume über den Glauben oder Idealismus und… 1787.
£1,750
JACOBI (Friedrich Heinrich).
Auserlesener Briefwechsel. In zwei Bänden, 1825.
£350
JUSTINIAN & [HALOANDER (Gregorius)]
Institutionum D. Iustiniani sacratissimi principis libri IIII (bound… 1551.
HANDSOME BINDING, UNRESTORED, FROM THE LIBRARY OF JEAN BALLESDENS
£2,500
PERSIUS FLACCUS (Aulus) & JUVENALIS Decimus Junius
Satyrae. Cum annotat. Th. Farnabii, 1650.
A SCHOOLMASTER'S EDITION OF JUVENAL
£275
