PARADIN (Claude)
Devises heroiques. Lyon, Jean de Tournes and Guillaume Gazeau, 1557.
INFLUENTIAL EMBLEMS, OWNED BY A POLISH EMIGRÉ ARISTOCRAT
£5,500
![A leaf from Aurora in the first redaction by Aegidius of Paris, in Latin, manuscript on vellum.
[England, second half or late 14th century].](https://api.maggs.com/image/9fc7da30-de50-483e-8edb-85597f32f15b/616x770.webp)
PETRUS RIGA
A leaf from Aurora in the first redaction by Aegidius…
£2,250
PEUTINGER (Conrad)
De mirandis Germaniae antiquitatibus, sermones convivales. Strassburg, apud… 1530.
AUGSBURG MERCHANTS' PARTICIPATION IN PORTUGUESE EXPLORATION
£2,800
![In decem libros M. Vitruvii Pollionis de architectura annotationes… Cum indicibus Graeco et Latino locupletissimis.
(Rome, [printed by Antonio Blado for] Apud Io. Andream Dossena, 1544).](https://api.maggs.com/image/db3c34ce-f0b9-4a64-8f91-0c653efd7363/616x770.webp)
PHILANDRIER (Guillaume)
In decem libros M. Vitruvii Pollionis de architectura… 1544.
EARLY CRITICAL RECEPTION OF VITRUVIUS
£4,500
PISTOFILO (Bonaventura)
Oplomachia di Bonaventura Pistofilo. Siena: Hercole Gori, 1621, 1621.
DEDICATED TO KENELM DIGBY, WITH HIS PORTRAIT
£3,500
![[Works, Greek & Latin] Τα σωζομενα συγγραμματα... Quae extant opera, cum Latina intepretatione.
[Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1572](https://api.maggs.com/image/69cf4d82-8791-4851-ba64-62c557264d66/616x770.webp)
PLUTARCHUS
[Works, Greek & Latin] Τα σωζομενα συγγραμματα... Quae… 1572.
FINELY BOUND & RARELY FOUND COMPLETE
£12,500
POLYDORE VERGIL
De rerum inventoribus libri octo. Basle, Johann Bebel, 1532, 1532.
WITH HOLBEIN'S DANCE OF DEATH ALPHABET
£1,500
![Perspectiva pictorum et architectorum . . . pars prima. Rome: A. De Rossi, 1702. [Pars secunda]. Rome, G. G. Komarek, 1700.](https://api.maggs.com/image/974c0ed3-dd13-48ec-9dac-300edf2a23c9/616x770.webp)
POZZO (Andrea)
Perspectiva pictorum et architectorum . . . pars… 1700.
£3,000
PRUDENTIUS
Poemata omnia: quorum Catalogum proxima à Praefatione pagina… 1562.
RARE PRINTED DONATION EX-LIBRIS
£2,500
![Pseudo-Chrysostom Fragment from Opus imperfectum in Matthaeum in Latin, manuscript on vellum.
[Italy, 12th century].](https://api.maggs.com/image/0da19e88-bedd-44f8-9c26-f88dedfaa2a2/616x770.webp)
PSEUDO-CHRYSOSTOM
Pseudo-Chrysostom Fragment from Opus imperfectum in Matthaeum in…
£1,800
RABELAIS (Francois)
Les Oeuvres de M. Francois Rabelais, Docteur in… 1588.
UNCOMMON EDITION IN CONTEMPORARY BINDING
£4,000
![The Decretals of Pope Gregory IX, with the commentary of Bernard of Parma, in Latin, illuminated manuscript leaf on vellum [France (Paris), c.1300 or early 14th century]](https://api.maggs.com/image/8e9a2ec6-c111-4a7a-826b-e5c9bc5915b8/616x770.webp)
RAYMOND OF PENAFORT
The Decretals of Pope Gregory IX, with the… 1300.
ILLUMINATED OPENING LEAF OF THE DECRETALS
£15,000
REGINO (Abbot of Prüm)
Annales, non tam de Augustorum vitis, quam aliorum… 1521.
WITH A POSTHUMOUS PORTRAIT OF THE EDITOR
£2,500
REINHOLD (Karl Leonhard).
Sendschreiben an J.C. Lavater und J.G. Fichte über… 1799.
£450
![Paschal Vigil for SS. Rufina e Seconda in Trastevere. Fragment of a leaf of the Paschal Vigil from a Liturgical book in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum.
[Italy, probably Rome, 12th century].](https://api.maggs.com/image/e32b6153-da0d-4b44-925c-7d079767f237/616x770.webp)
ROMAN SCRIBE
Paschal Vigil for SS. Rufina e Seconda in…
£2,500
ROSINUS (Johannes)
Romanorum antiquitatum libri decem ex variis scriptoribus simma… 1583.
HANDBOOK OF ANTIQUITIES
£2,250
ROSSI (Giovanni Giacomo de)
Insignium Romae templorum prospectus exteriores interioresque... in lucem… 1684.
£3,000
ROUSSEAU (Jean-Jacques)
Du contrat social, ou principes du droit politique, 1772.
UNCOMMON COUNTERFEIT EDITION OF ROUSSEAU'S MOST FAMOUS WORK
£750
RUSCELLI (Girolamo)
Le impresi illustri . . . aggiuntovi nuovamte.… 1584.
THE MOST COMPLETE EDITION
£2,750
[BOCCACCIO (Giovanni)] & SALVIATI (Leonardo)
Il Decameron di messer Giovanni Boccacci, cittadini fiorentino,… 1582.
THE DECAMERON, CLEANED UP FOR CENSORS
£2,500
SANCHEZ DE AREVALO (Rodrigo)
Speculum omnium statuum totius orbis terrarum, 1613.
FROM THE LIBRARY OF A BOHEMIAN REBEL AND HIS WIFE
£2,250
[SMITH (Adam).] & SARTORIUS (Georg Friedrich).
Handbok for statshushallningen ester Adam Smiths Grundsattser; forfattad… 1800.
THE DISSEMINATION OF ADAM SMITH IN SWEDEN
£1,200
SAY (Jean-Baptiste).
Traité d'économie politique, ou simple exposition de la… 1826.
£750
SCHILLER (Friedrich).
Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua. Ein republikanisches Trauerspiel, 1788.
£250
SCHOPENHAUER (Arthur).
Ueber den Willen in der Natur. Eine Erörterung… 1836.
Presentation copy of Schopenhauer's On the Will in Nature
£15,000
SEMAINE SAINTE
L'office de la Semaine Sainte a l'usage de… 1743.
£1,500
SFONDRATI (Celestinus)
Innocentia vindicata, in qua gravissimis argumentis ex S.… 1695.
BENEDICTINE EMBLEMS PRINTED AT ST. GALL
£3,500
![Two historiated initials depicting St Mark and Two Men on a leaf from the Mailhac-Faber Bible, illuminated manuscript in Latin on vellum. [Southern France, late 13th or early 14th century]](https://api.maggs.com/image/d4923212-a6aa-416c-ba31-7916749d1a60/616x770.webp)
SOUTHERN FRENCH ARTIST
Two historiated initials depicting St Mark and Two…
TWO SUPERB LARGE INITIALS, ONE OF ST. MARK
£7,500
![The Martyrdom of St. Catherine, in an initial on a choirbook leaf [Southern Netherlands (perhaps Delft), dated 1541 (more probably 1544)].](https://api.maggs.com/image/9c984ec8-e9dd-459f-8a94-d997de27ff52/616x770.webp)
SOUTHERN NETHERLANDS ARTIST
The Martyrdom of St. Catherine, in an initial… 1541.
A VIBRANT MINIATURE
£6,500
STENGEL (Georg)
Ova Paschalia sacro emblemate inscripta descriptaque a Georgio… 1635.
CHARMING, EGG-SHAPED EMBLEMS, WITH EARLY DEPICTIONS OF INDIGENOUS AMERICANS
£5,500
STONING OF ST. STEPHEN
Historiated initial "S" with small miniature of the… 1280.
£1,800
TASSO (Torquato)
La Gerusalemme liberata. Paris, appresso A. Delalain, P.… 1771.
"RELIURE DE PRESENT" DESIGNED BY GRAVELOT FOR THIS EDITION
£5,750
![Comoediae sex ... Terentij vita ex Aelio Donato. Argumenta... Annotationes in margine adscriptae [etc.] Venice: G. Griffio](https://api.maggs.com/image/da8528d8-53ec-4942-a45d-b57b5451b9b8/616x770.webp)
TERENTIUS AFER Publius
Comoediae sex ... Terentij vita ex Aelio Donato.… 1584.
A POCKET EDITION OF TERENCE'S POPULAR PLAYS
£450
TERENTIUS AFER Publius
P. Terentii afri comoediae sex, infinitis fere locis… 1570.
£800
THUCYDIDES
L'histoire... de la guerre qui fut entre les… 1555.
TRANSLATED BY LOUIS XII'S ADVISOR
£850
TRIGAULT (Nicolas).
De Christianis apvd Japonios trivmphis sive de gravissima… 1623.
FIRST ILLUSTRATED ACCOUNT OF JESUIT MARTYRDOMS IN JAPAN
£16,000
TUBERINUS (Johannes)
Carmen ad gravem: sanctumque senatum Lipsensem: de orgijs… 1512.
HEAVILY ANNOTATED
£2,250
![Expositio super toto psalterio.
[Augsburg], Johann Schüssler, [not after 1471].](https://api.maggs.com/image/00191e51-d38b-4e93-8b3f-a03a32685c26/616x770.webp)
TURRECREMATA (Johannes de)
Expositio super toto psalterio. [Augsburg], Johann Schüssler, [not after… 1471.
FROM THE LIBRARY OF CHARLES ST JOHN HORNBY
£12,500
UBERTINUS (de Casali)
Arbor vitae crucifixae Jesu Christi. Venice, Andreas de… 1485.
THE TREE OF THE CRUCIFIED LIFE OF CHRIST
£7,500
VERDIZOTTI (Giovanni)
Cento favole morali de i piu illustri antichi… 1570.
DESIGNS DRAWN ON THE BLOCKS BY VERDIZOTTI HIMSELF
£6,500
ZINCGREF (Julius Wilhelm)
Emblematum Ethico-Politicorum Centuria. Une centaine d'Emblêmes morales &… 1698.
POLYGLOT EMBLEM BOOK WITH MERIAN'S ENGRAVINGS
£2,000
[Anon]
Histoire de palmerin d'olive, fils du roy florendos… 1573.
CASTILIAN CHIVALRIC ROMANCE, CONSIGNED TO THE FLAMES IN DON QUIXOTE
£2,000
