DE LA VEGA (Garcilasso)
Principe de los Poetas Castellanos, 1622.
A RARE EDITION OF DE LA VEGA'S SECULAR POETRY
£4,500
DELAUNE (Etienne)
Suite of six allegorical prints. France, c. 1560-1570, 1570.
MANNERIST ALLEGORY
£1,500
DESNOUES (Guillaume)
Lettres de G. Desnoues, Professeur d'Anatomie & de… 1706.
ON EMBALMING PRACTICES, BY AN EARLY ANATOMICAL WAX MODELLER
£2,500
DIPLOMA
Paduan doctoral degree diploma, illuminated manuscript on vellum, 1641.
A SCOTTISH SCHOLAR IN ITALY, WITH THE ILLUMINATOR'S STRIKING ADVERTISEMENT
£9,500
ERASMUS (Desiderius).
Liber cum primis pius, de praeparatione ad mortem, 1534.
FIRST EDITION - WITH MORE'S EPITAPH
£7,500
ERASMUS (Desiderius).
Collectanea Adagiorum, 1515.
WITH CONTEMPORARY SCHOOLBOY DOODLES AND DRAWINGS
£11,000
ERASMUS (Desiderius).
Apophthegmatum opus cum primus frugiferum, vigilanter ab ipso…
SAMMELBAND OF THREE IMPORTANT EDITIONS
£9,500
ERASMUS (Desiderius).
De immensa dei misericordia, Des. Erasmi Roterodami Concio.… 1524.
£3,000
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
FABER (Johann Heinrich).
Anfangsgründe der schönen Wissenschaften zu dem Gebrauche seiner… 1767.
£300
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
![Von dem greüwelichen laster der trunckenheit so in disen letsten zeiten erst schier mit dem frantzosen auffkom[m]en…[Augsburg, Heinrich Steiner, 1533]](https://api.maggs.com/image/c8dd8428-85cb-4408-a17d-b0f8d45be840/616x770.webp)
FRANCK (Sebastian)
Von dem greüwelichen laster der trunckenheit so in… 1533.
WOODCUT OF FEASTING & DRUNKENNESS BY HANS WEIDITZ
£3,500
FRENCH ARTIST
The Stigmatization of St Francis, miniature on a… 1500.
FRANCIS OF ASSISSI RECEIVES THE STIGMATA
£3,000
FRENCH ARTIST
The destruction of Job's household, a large initial… 1450.
EVOCATIVE FRENCH ILLUMINATION
£3,750
FRENCH ARTIST
A funeral service, an Illuminated miniature on vellum… 1500.
£2,250
![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
![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
![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 ARTIST
A suite of large neo-gothic illuminated initials. [France, c.… 1840.
GOTHIC REVIVAL ILLUMINATION
£4,500
FRENCH ARTIST
Illuminated leaf on vellum from a Book of… 1350.
A STAG HUNT
£3,250
GABLER (Matthias).
Naturlehre zum Gebrauche öffentlicher Erklärungen, 1778.
POPULAR SCIENTIFIC LECTURES
£750
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 ILLUMINATED HISTORY OF ROME
£13,500
GARNIER (Pierre)
The defeat of Antiochus, King of Syria, at… 1480.
FROM A LAVISH ILLUMINATED HISTORY OF ROME
£14,000
GAUTIER DE CHATILLON (Philippe)
Alexandri Magni regis Macedonum vita. Strasbourg: Reinhard Beck, 1513, 1513.
'A MOST WITTY STORY': A HANDSOME 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
![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
![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 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
HAIDLAUFF (Sebastian)
Der Augspurgerischen Confession, und diser verwandtes Predicanten, jetziger newer Grundtfest,… 1573.
£2,500
HELVETIUS (Claude Adrien).
De l'Esprit, 1758.
£800
![Commentarius in sphaeram procli diadochi.
Augustae Vindelicorum [Augsburg], David Franck, 1609.](https://api.maggs.com/image/f4ac7e7c-6636-446a-9fc5-ebe2ef4c7c4a/616x770.webp)
HENISCH Georg
Commentarius in sphaeram procli diadochi. Augustae Vindelicorum [Augsburg], David… 1609.
PRESENTATION COPY TO CONRAD PIUS PEUTINGER
£3,500
HOBBES (Thomas).
Oeuvres philosophiques et politiques de Thomas Hobbes. Tome… 1787.
£450
HORAPOLLO
(Title in Greek, then:) De sacris notis &… 1551.
HORAPOLLO AS AN EMBLEM BOOK
£3,500
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
£22,500
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
