Maggs Bros. Ltd.

HELVETIUS (Claude Adrien).

De l'Esprit, 1758.

£800

CAPRIANO (Giovanni Pietro)

Della vera poetica libro uno. Al Conte Ulisse… 1555.

SOLE EDITION OF CAPRIANO'S LITERARY CRITICISM

£2,500

FABRICIO (Principio)

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

THE BUONCOMPAGNI DRAGON

£12,000

[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

PEUTINGER (Conrad)

De mirandis Germaniae antiquitatibus, sermones convivales. Strassburg, apud… 1530.

AUGSBURG MERCHANTS' PARTICIPATION IN PORTUGUESE EXPLORATION

£2,800

ERASTUS (Thomas).

De occultis pharmacorum potestibus. Basle, Pietro Perna, 1574, 1574.

ON PHARMACOLOGY & THE OCCULT, ANNOTATED BY AN EARLY PHYSICIAN

£4,500

HAIDLAUFF (Sebastian)

Der Augspurgerischen Confession, und diser verwandtes Predicanten, jetziger newer Grundtfest,… 1573.

£2,500

LEO (Johannes).

Description de l'Afrique, 1556.

£25,000

FELIBIEN (André)

Description sommaire du Chasteau de Versailles.  Paris, 1674, 1674.

EARLIEST GUIDE BOOK TO PALACE OF VERSAILLES & PARK

£2,500

CASTELLESI (Adriano)

De sermone Latino, et modis Latine loquendi. Eiusdem… 1524.

LAVISHLY GILT AND GAUFFERED

£2,250

PARADIN (Claude)

Devises heroiques. Lyon, Jean de Tournes and Guillaume Gazeau, 1557.

INFLUENTIAL EMBLEMS, OWNED BY A POLISH EMIGRÉ ARISTOCRAT

£5,500

AMBOISE (Adrian d')

Devises royales. Paris, Rolet Boutonne, 1621, 1621.

FRENCH ROYAL DEVICES

£750

SCHILLER (Friedrich).

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

£250

[FRENCH REVOLUTION]. & [FRENCH MONARCHY]

Discours du roi, prononcé le 5 mai 1789, jour où sa Majesté a fait l’ouverture des Etats-Généraux.   [Paris]: de l’imprimerie de Didot l’Aîné, [1789], 1789.

PRINTED ON SILK BY DIDOT

£7,500

ROUSSEAU (Jean-Jacques)

Du contrat social, ou principes du droit politique, 1772.

UNCOMMON COUNTERFEIT EDITION OF ROUSSEAU'S MOST FAMOUS WORK

£750

[MAHIEU M. de]

Echantillon de l'Oeconomie raffinée [N.p., 3 May, 1697], 1697.

ADMINISTRATING NEW TERRITORIES UNDER THE SUN KING - ONLY ONE COPY KNOWN

£4,000

HOROZCO Y COVARRUBIAS (Juan)

Emblemas Morales. Segovia, Juan de la Cuesta, 1589.

THE FIRST EMBLEM BOOK PRINTED IN SPAIN

£7,500

JUNIUS (Hadrianus)

Emblemata, 1596.

POCKET EMBLEMS

£1,250

ZINCGREF (Julius Wilhelm)

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

POLYGLOT EMBLEM BOOK WITH MERIAN'S ENGRAVINGS

£2,000

CRUSIUS (Christian August).

Entwurf der nothwendigen Vernunft-Warheiten, wiefern sie den zufälligen… 1753.

£250

CICERO (Marcus Tullius)

Epistolarum volumen, earum quae familiares olim dictae... Commentationes… 1577.

£650

[SPIRITUAL EXERCISES]

Esercizio sopra la passione di Gesû Cristo.   [Italy, seventeenth… 1700.

£1,250

LUTHER (Martin)

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

£1,250

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

Explicatio Apocalypsis Iohannis Perspicua & brevis, 1575.

THE APOCALYPSE, WITH EARLY BOHEMIAN PROVENANCE

£4,500

AESOP

Fabellas una cum argumentis novis.   Brescia, heirs of Ludovico… 1563.

A RARE IMPRINT, PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED - ONLY ONE OTHER COPY KNOWN

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AESOP

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

ILLUSTRATED AESOP FABLES DEDICATED TO NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

£1,500

ASCHAM (Roger)

Familiarum Epistolarum Libri tres, magna orationis elegantia conscripti,… 1602.

A DE THOU BINDING, WITH HIS WIFE'S ARMS

£7,500

ITALIAN THEATRE

FIRENZUOLA (Agnolo). I lucidi. Florence, 1552. [Bound with]:DOLCE (Lodovico).… 1581.

SOURCE FOR SHAKESPEARE'S TWELFTH NIGHT

£1,750

MERIAN (Matthäus sr.).

Forte de Fuentes, 1650.

£200

MERIAN (Matthäus sr.).

Gallipoli, 1650.

£150

[SMITH (Adam).] & SARTORIUS (Georg Friedrich).

Handbok for statshushallningen ester Adam Smiths Grundsattser; forfattad… 1800.

THE DISSEMINATION OF ADAM SMITH IN SWEDEN

£1,200

BOOK OF HOURS (French & Latin)

Heures en Francoys & Latin a l'usaige de… 1549.

A MANNERIST BOOK OF HOURS

£9,500

BOAISTUAU (Pierre)

Histoires prodigieuses... extraictes de plusieurs fameux autheurs, Grecs… 1560.

MONSTERS AND PORTENTS

£10,000

STONING OF ST. STEPHEN

Historiated initial "S" with small miniature of the… 1280.

£1,800

BOUTERWEK (Friedrich).

Idee einer Apodiktik. Ein Beytrag zur menschlichen Selbstverständigung… 1799.

£1,250

LA VARENNE (François Pierre de).

Il Cuoco Francese Ove e' Insegnata. La maniera… 1693.

£2,500

[BOCCACCIO (Giovanni)] & SALVIATI (Leonardo)

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

THE DECAMERON, CLEANED UP FOR CENSORS

£2,500

BOCCACCIO (Giovanni)

Il Decamerone di M. Giovanni Boccaccio di nuovo… 1546.

OWNED BY A BLETCHLEY CODEBREAKER AND MONUMENTS MAN

£4,750

FRENCH ARTIST

Illuminated leaf on vellum from a Book of… 1350.

A STAG HUNT

£3,250

[FRENCH ILLUMINATOR]

Illuminated leaf on vellum from a Book of… 1408.

FROM THE CHESTER BEATTY HOURS

£1,850

[POPE GREGORY I]

Incomincia il prologo del vulgarizatore del dyalogo di… 1515.

RARE EDITION OF THE DIALOGI, FROM THE LIBRARY OF CHARLES FAIRFAX MURRAY

£1,750

PHILANDRIER (Guillaume)

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

EARLY CRITICAL RECEPTION OF VITRUVIUS

£4,500