[BOCCACCIO (Giovanni)] & SALVIATI (Leonardo)
Il Decameron di messer Giovanni Boccacci, cittadini fiorentino,… 1582.
THE DECAMERON, CLEANED UP FOR CENSORS
£2,500
LA VARENNE (François Pierre de).
Il Cuoco Francese Ove e' Insegnata. La maniera… 1693.
£2,500
BOUTERWEK (Friedrich).
Idee einer Apodiktik. Ein Beytrag zur menschlichen Selbstverständigung… 1799.
£1,250
STONING OF ST. STEPHEN
Historiated initial "S" with small miniature of the… 1280.
£1,800
BOAISTUAU (Pierre)
Histoires prodigieuses... extraictes de plusieurs fameux autheurs, Grecs… 1560.
MONSTERS AND PORTENTS, LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED FIRST EDITION
£10,000
[Anon]
Histoire de palmerin d'olive, fils du roy florendos… 1573.
CASTILIAN CHIVALRIC ROMANCE, CONSIGNED TO THE FLAMES IN DON QUIXOTE
£2,000
[SMITH (Adam).] & SARTORIUS (Georg Friedrich).
Handbok for statshushallningen ester Adam Smiths Grundsattser; forfattad… 1800.
THE DISSEMINATION OF ADAM SMITH IN SWEDEN
£1,200
MERIAN (Matthäus sr.).
Gallipoli, 1650.
£150
MERIAN (Matthäus sr.).
Forte de Fuentes, 1650.
£200
ASCHAM (Roger)
Familiarum Epistolarum Libri tres, magna orationis elegantia conscripti,… 1602.
A DE THOU BINDING, WITH HIS WIFE'S ARMS
£7,500
AESOP
Fables d'Ésope dédiées au Premier Consul Bonaparte, 1801.
ILLUSTRATED AESOP FABLES DEDICATED TO NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
£1,500
AESOP
Fabellas una cum argumentis novis. Brescia, heirs of Ludovico… 1563.
A RARE IMPRINT, PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED - ONLY ONE OTHER COPY KNOWN
£6,000
![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
![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
LUTHER (Martin)
Etliche fürneme Schrifften: Darinn die reine Christliche Lehr… 1597.
£1,250
[HERBERT (Claude Jacques).]
Essai sur la police générale des grains, sur… 1755.
£450
![Esercizio sopra la passione di Gesû Cristo.
[Italy, seventeenth century].](https://api.maggs.com/image/58653b4c-876e-4d54-8041-0584ce307d54/616x770.webp)
[SPIRITUAL EXERCISES]
Esercizio sopra la passione di Gesû Cristo. [Italy, seventeenth… 1700.
£1,250
CICERO (Marcus Tullius)
Epistolarum volumen, earum quae familiares olim dictae... Commentationes… 1577.
£650
BRUNI ARETINO (Leonardo)
Epistolarum Familiarium Libri VIII. (Ed. Antonius Moretus and… 1495.
ONE OF ONLY TWO FIFTEENTH-CENTURY EDITIONS
£6,500
AENEAS SYLVIUS PICCOLOMINI (later Pope Pius II)
Epistolae familiares. De Duobus amantibus Euryalo et Lucretia.… 1496.
HUMANIST LETTERS BY A FUTURE POPE
£10,000
CRUSIUS (Christian August).
Entwurf der nothwendigen Vernunft-Warheiten, wiefern sie den zufälligen… 1753.
£250
ZINCGREF (Julius Wilhelm)
Emblematum Ethico-Politicorum Centuria. Une centaine d'Emblêmes morales &… 1698.
POLYGLOT EMBLEM BOOK WITH MERIAN'S ENGRAVINGS
£2,000
HOROZCO Y COVARRUBIAS (Juan)
Emblemas Morales. Segovia, Juan de la Cuesta, 1589.
THE FIRST EMBLEM BOOK PRINTED IN SPAIN
£7,500
![Echantillon de l'Oeconomie raffinée
[N.p., 3 May, 1697].](https://api.maggs.com/image/0e8dcfcb-ef37-4d11-a094-b4001138af66/616x770.webp)
[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
ROUSSEAU (Jean-Jacques)
Du contrat social, ou principes du droit politique, 1772.
UNCOMMON COUNTERFEIT EDITION OF ROUSSEAU'S MOST FAMOUS WORK
£750
![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].](https://api.maggs.com/image/e7bb9291-9f08-48d0-a5f4-06f1fd900a71/616x770.webp)
[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
GLISSENTI (Fabio)
Discorsi morali contra il dispiacer del morire, detto… 1596.
DEATH IN VENICE WITH WOODCUTS AFTER HOLBEIN
£7,500
![Diepe. [&] St. Malo.](https://api.maggs.com/image/07fcf7e6-8269-4fea-b4cd-fec0ec4b6cb5/616x770.webp)
MERIAN (Matthäus sr.).
Diepe. [&] St. Malo, 1650.
£150
SCHILLER (Friedrich).
Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua. Ein republikanisches Trauerspiel, 1788.
£250
[GALIANI (Ferdinando).]
Dialogues sur le commerce des bleds, 1770.
£2,500
AMBOISE (Adrian d')
Devises royales. Paris, Rolet Boutonne, 1621, 1621.
FRENCH ROYAL DEVICES
£750
PARADIN (Claude)
Devises heroiques. Lyon, Jean de Tournes and Guillaume Gazeau, 1557.
INFLUENTIAL EMBLEMS, OWNED BY A POLISH EMIGRÉ ARISTOCRAT
£5,500
FELIBIEN (André)
Description sommaire du Chasteau de Versailles. Paris, 1674, 1674.
EARLIEST GUIDE BOOK TO PALACE OF VERSAILLES & PARK
£2,500
LEO (Johannes).
Description de l'Afrique, 1556.
£25,000
HAIDLAUFF (Sebastian)
Der Augspurgerischen Confession, und diser verwandtes Predicanten, jetziger newer Grundtfest,… 1573.
£2,500
KANT (Immanuel).
Der einzig mögliche Beweisgrund zu einer Demonstration des… 1763.
An early pre-Critical work on the Existence of God
£2,000
FABRICIO (Principio)
Delle allusioni, imprese, et emblemi sopra la vita,… 1588.
THE BUONCOMPAGNI DRAGON
£12,000
CAPRIANO (Giovanni Pietro)
Della vera poetica libro uno. Al Conte Ulisse… 1555.
SOLE EDITION OF CAPRIANO'S LITERARY CRITICISM
£2,500
POLYDORE VERGIL
De rerum inventoribus libri octo. Basle, Johann Bebel, 1532, 1532.
WITH HOLBEIN'S DANCE OF DEATH ALPHABET
£1,500
ERASTUS (Thomas).
De occultis pharmacorum potestibus. Basle, Pietro Perna, 1574, 1574.
ON PHARMACOLOGY & THE OCCULT, ANNOTATED BY AN EARLY PHYSICIAN
£4,500
PEUTINGER (Conrad)
De mirandis Germaniae antiquitatibus, sermones convivales. Strassburg, apud… 1530.
AUGSBURG MERCHANTS' PARTICIPATION IN PORTUGUESE EXPLORATION
£2,800
[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
