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[Original pen and ink drawings] Four Olympian Gods after frescoes by Polidoro da Caravaggio.

[GOLTZIUS (Hendrick) [Circle of]] & [CALDARA (Polidoro), called Da Caravaggio]

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

£2,500

Institutionum D. Iustiniani sacratissimi principis libri IIII (bound with:) Index rerum et verborum.

JUSTINIAN & [HALOANDER (Gregorius)]

Institutionum D. Iustiniani sacratissimi principis libri IIII (bound… 1551.

HANDSOME BINDING, UNRESTORED, FROM THE LIBRARY OF JEAN BALLESDENS

£2,500

FRENCH REVOLUTION

Calendrier Royal pour l'année mil sept cent quatre-vingt-dix, 1789.

PRINTED IN THE FIRST YEAR OF THE REVOLUTION

£2,500

État général des répartitions de numéraire, farines ordinaries, farines blanches.

[BUREAU GENERAL DE BONFAISANCE]

État général des répartitions de numéraire, farines ordinaries,… 1798.

PRECARIOUS EARLY WELFARE PROVISION IN REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE

£2,500

Symbolorum et emblematum ex re herbaria desmumtorum centuria una collecta.
Frankfurt, Johann Ammonius, 1654

CAMERARIUS (Joachim)

Symbolorum et emblematum ex re herbaria desmumtorum centuria… 1654.

THE BOTANIST GEORGE BENTHAM'S COPY

£2,500

Il Cuoco Francese Ove e' Insegnata. La maniera di condire ogni sorte di Viuande, Edi fare ogni sorte di Pasticcierie, e di Confetti, Conforme le quattro Stagioni dell' Anno.

LA VARENNE (François Pierre de).

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

£2,500

ARGOTE DE MOLINA (Gonzalo)

Nobleza de Andaluzia, 1588.

ANDALUSIAN NOBILITY, EXTENSIVELY ILLUSTRATED

£2,500

Della vera poetica libro uno. Al Conte Ulisse Martinengo.

CAPRIANO (Giovanni Pietro)

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

SOLE EDITION OF CAPRIANO'S LITERARY CRITICISM

£2,500

Annales, non tam de Augustorum vitis, quam aliorum Germanorum gestis.

(Mainz, Johann Schöffer, August 1521.

REGINO (Abbot of Prüm)

Annales, non tam de Augustorum vitis, quam aliorum… 1521.

WITH A POSTHUMOUS PORTRAIT OF THE EDITOR

£2,500

ROMAN SCRIBE

Paschal Vigil for SS. Rufina e Seconda in…

£2,500

Il Decameron di messer Giovanni Boccacci, cittadini fiorentino, Di nuovo ristampato, e riscontrato in Firenze con testi antichi, & alla sua vera lezione ridotto dal Cavalier Lionardo Salviati

[BOCCACCIO (Giovanni)] & SALVIATI (Leonardo)

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

THE DECAMERON, CLEANED UP FOR CENSORS

£2,500

OVIDIUS NASO

[Opera] Metamorphoseon libri XV, 1547.

RARE POCKET EDITION OF OVID

£2,500

LONICER (Johannes)

Ständ und Orden Der H. Römischen Catholischen Kirchen, 1585.

GERMAN EDITION OF THIS INDEX OF RELIGIOUS FIGURES, ILLUSTRATED BY JOST AMMAN

£2,500

Poemata omnia: quorum Catalogum proxima à Praefatione pagina reperies...
Basel: Heinrich Petri, March 1562

PRUDENTIUS

Poemata omnia: quorum Catalogum proxima à Praefatione pagina… 1562.

RARE PRINTED DONATION EX-LIBRIS

£2,500

Lettres de G. Desnoues, Professeur d'Anatomie & de Chirurgie.

DESNOUES (Guillaume)

Lettres de G. Desnoues, Professeur d'Anatomie & de… 1706.

ON EMBALMING PRACTICES, BY AN EARLY ANATOMICAL WAX MODELLER

£2,500

FELIBIEN (André)

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

EARLIEST GUIDE BOOK TO PALACE OF VERSAILLES & PARK

£2,500

[GALIANI (Ferdinando).]

Dialogues sur le commerce des bleds, 1770.

£2,500

Éclaircissements demandés à M. N**[ecker], sur ses principes économiques, & sur ses projets de législation; au nom des propriétaires fonciers & des cultivateurs françois. [bound with:] Lettres sur le commerce des grains.

[CONDORCET (Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de).] & [BAUDEAU (Abbe Nicolas).]

Éclaircissements demandés à M. N**[ecker], sur ses principes… 1775.

£2,500

Le impresi illustri . . . aggiuntovi nuovamte. il quadro libro da Vicenzo Ruscelli da Viterbo. Al serenissimo principe Guglielmo Gonzaga Duca di Mantova et Monferato.
Venice: Francesco de' Franceschi, 1584

RUSCELLI (Girolamo)

Le impresi illustri . . . aggiuntovi nuovamte.… 1584.

THE MOST COMPLETE EDITION

£2,750

Praefatio in libris rerum gestarum Alexandri regis [translated by Bartolomeo Facio].
Pesaro: Girolamo Soncino, 9 June 1508

ARRIANUS Flavius

Praefatio in libris rerum gestarum Alexandri regis [translated… 1508.

FINE SONCINO IMPRINT

£2,750

[JESUITS]

Constitutiones Cum earum Declarationibus. Rome, In Collegio eiusdem Societatis, 1583.

SIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE JESUITS IN ROME, A CORRESPONDENT OF PLANTIN'S

£2,750

DA CASTIGLIONE (Sabba)

Ricordi overo ammaestramenti, 1554.

WITH UNUSUAL WOODCUT DEPICTION OF THE LEFT-HANDED SCHOLAR

£2,750

[WORKS] Sus obras con la declaracion magistral en lengua Castellana, por el Doctor [Juan] Villen de Biedma.

HORATIUS FLACCUS (Quintus)

[WORKS] Sus obras con la declaracion magistral en… 1599.

INSCRIBED BY THE RECTOR OF SEVILLE'S ENGLISH SEMINARY

£2,750

De mirandis Germaniae antiquitatibus, sermones convivales. Strassburg, apud Christianum Egenolphum,

PEUTINGER (Conrad)

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

AUGSBURG MERCHANTS' PARTICIPATION IN PORTUGUESE EXPLORATION

£2,800

Insignium Romae templorum prospectus exteriores interioresque... in lucem editi anno MDCLXXXIIII. Rome: Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, 1684. (bound with:) Disegni vari altari e cappelle nelle chiese di Roma (Roma: Domenico de Rossi figlio et erede di Gio. Gia

ROSSI (Giovanni Giacomo de)

Insignium Romae templorum prospectus exteriores interioresque... in lucem… 1684.

£3,000

Perspectiva pictorum et architectorum . . . pars prima. Rome: A. De Rossi, 1702. [Pars secunda]. Rome, G. G. Komarek, 1700.

POZZO (Andrea)

Perspectiva pictorum et architectorum . . . pars… 1700.

£3,000

The Stigmatization of St Francis, miniature on a vellum leaf probably from a Book of Hours. France (Paris), c.1500-

FRENCH ARTIST

The Stigmatization of St Francis, miniature on a… 1500.

FRANCIS OF ASSISSI RECEIVES THE STIGMATA

£3,000

Le Pegme... mis en Francoys par Lanteaume de Romieu gentilhomme d'Arles.
Lyons, Macé Bonhomme, 1560

COUSTEAU (Pierre)

Le Pegme... mis en Francoys par Lanteaume de… 1560.

EARLY FRENCH EMBLEMS, IN ELABORATE BORDERS

£3,000

Innocentia vindicata, in qua gravissimis argumentis ex S. Thoma petitis ostenditur. Pars prior: Theologica, pars posterior: Symbolica.
St. Gall, Jakob Müller (for the monastery), 1695

SFONDRATI (Celestinus)

Innocentia vindicata, in qua gravissimis argumentis ex S.… 1695.

BENEDICTINE EMBLEMS PRINTED AT ST. GALL

£3,500

PISTOFILO (Bonaventura)

Oplomachia di Bonaventura Pistofilo. Siena: Hercole Gori, 1621, 1621.

DEDICATED TO KENELM DIGBY, WITH HIS PORTRAIT

£3,500

Catalogus sanctorum & gestorum eorum ex diversis voluminibus collectus . . . multis novis additionibus decoratus.

Venice: Nicolaus de Frankfordia, 1 Dec.

NATALIBUS (Petrus de)

Catalogus sanctorum & gestorum eorum ex diversis voluminibus… 1516.

ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF SAINTS, WITH MANUSCRIPT PILATE LETTER

£3,500

FRENCH ARTIST

The destruction of Job's household, a large initial… 1450.

EVOCATIVE FRENCH ILLUMINATION

£3,750

Principes d'economie politique, ouvrage couronné par l'Institut national, dans sa séance du 15 Nivôse an IX (5 janvier 1801); et depuis revu, corrigé et augmenté par l'auteur.

CANARD (Nicolas François).

Principes d'economie politique, ouvrage couronné par l'Institut national,… 1801.

"A SOLITARY PRECURSOR OF MODERN MATHEMATICAL ECONOMICS"

£3,750

KANT (Immanuel).

Critik der practischen Vernunft, 1788.

CRITIQUE OF PRACTICAL REASON

£3,750

[Original pen and ink drawings] Four Olympian Gods… 1600.

Der einzig mögliche Beweisgrund zu einer Demonstration des… 1763.

A funeral service, an Illuminated miniature on vellum… 1500.

Carmen ad gravem: sanctumque senatum Lipsensem: de orgijs… 1512.

A leaf from Aurora in the first redaction by Aegidius…

Speculum omnium statuum totius orbis terrarum, 1613.

Traite d'Anatomie tome premier osteologie. A LHermitage, 1777, 1777.

Romanorum antiquitatum libri decem ex variis scriptoribus simma… 1583.

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

Institutionum D. Iustiniani sacratissimi principis libri IIII (bound… 1551.

Calendrier Royal pour l'année mil sept cent quatre-vingt-dix, 1789.

État général des répartitions de numéraire, farines ordinaries,… 1798.

Symbolorum et emblematum ex re herbaria desmumtorum centuria… 1654.

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

Nobleza de Andaluzia, 1588.

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

Annales, non tam de Augustorum vitis, quam aliorum… 1521.

Paschal Vigil for SS. Rufina e Seconda in…

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

[Opera] Metamorphoseon libri XV, 1547.

Ständ und Orden Der H. Römischen Catholischen Kirchen, 1585.

Poemata omnia: quorum Catalogum proxima à Praefatione pagina… 1562.

Lettres de G. Desnoues, Professeur d'Anatomie & de… 1706.

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

Dialogues sur le commerce des bleds, 1770.

Éclaircissements demandés à M. N**[ecker], sur ses principes… 1775.

Le impresi illustri . . . aggiuntovi nuovamte.… 1584.

Praefatio in libris rerum gestarum Alexandri regis [translated… 1508.

Constitutiones Cum earum Declarationibus. Rome, In Collegio eiusdem Societatis, 1583.

Ricordi overo ammaestramenti, 1554.

[WORKS] Sus obras con la declaracion magistral en… 1599.

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

Insignium Romae templorum prospectus exteriores interioresque... in lucem… 1684.

Perspectiva pictorum et architectorum . . . pars… 1700.

The Stigmatization of St Francis, miniature on a… 1500.

Le Pegme... mis en Francoys par Lanteaume de… 1560.

Innocentia vindicata, in qua gravissimis argumentis ex S.… 1695.

Oplomachia di Bonaventura Pistofilo. Siena: Hercole Gori, 1621, 1621.

Catalogus sanctorum & gestorum eorum ex diversis voluminibus… 1516.

The destruction of Job's household, a large initial… 1450.

Principes d'economie politique, ouvrage couronné par l'Institut national,… 1801.

Critik der practischen Vernunft, 1788.

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