![Book of Hours, Use of Sarum, in Latin with rubrics in French and a prayer in Middle English, illuminated manuscript on vellum.
[France, Rouen, c. 1440]](https://api.maggs.com/image/f8c1fcf1-55f3-44e3-b5fb-7c0c530ff244/616x770.webp)
BOOK OF HOURS
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum, in Latin… 1440.
'TROWT FEND ME': THE FITZ-RALPH HOURS, ILLUMINATED BY THE TALBOT MASTER
£75,000
KANT (Immanuel).
Critik der reinen Vernunft, 1781.
A VERY FINE COPY OF KANT'S CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON
£47,500
BOOK OF HOURS
Use of Angers, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on… 1440.
FINELY ILLUMINATED IN BRUGES
£45,000
![Book of Hours, Use of Arras & Tournai, in Latin with some Picard French.
Illuminated manuscript on parchment. [Northern France, c.1400]](https://api.maggs.com/image/1bb63a65-0e04-4293-b792-89422ace51c5/616x770.webp)
[MASTER OF MORGAN 947]
Book of Hours, Use of Arras & Tournai,… 1400.
A LONG-LOST MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF HOURS, STRIKINGLY ILLUMINATED
£35,000
LEO (Johannes).
Description de l'Afrique, 1556.
£25,000
BORDONE (Benedetto).
Isolario di ... Nel qual si ragiona ditutte… 1534.
THE FIRST PRINTED MAP OF CONTINENTAL NORTH AMERICA
£25,000
[DE BALAGNY (Gauthier)]
Recueil de bonnes et mauvaises poisies, de diferens… 1587.
A MANUSCRIPT MISCELLANY SPANNING MORE THAN A CENTURY
£25,000
HYGINUS (Gaius Julius)
Poetica astronomica. (Edited by Jacobus Sentinus and Johannes… 1482.
THE FIRST DEPICTIONS OF THE CONSTELLATIONS IN A PRINTED BOOK
£22,500
DANTE
Le terze rime, 1502.
THE ALDINE DANTE
£20,000
LA POPELLINIERE (Lancelot-Voisin, Seigneur de).
L'Amiral de France, et par occasion, de celuy… 1584.
PROMOTING THE FRENCH COLONIZATION OF THE NEW WORLD
£18,750
TRIGAULT (Nicolas).
De Christianis apvd Japonios trivmphis sive de gravissima… 1623.
FIRST ILLUSTRATED ACCOUNT OF JESUIT MARTYRDOMS IN JAPAN
£16,000
ROLEWINCK (Werner)
De regimine rusticorum, 1481.
MORAL ADVICE FOR FARMERS
£15,000
SCHOPENHAUER (Arthur).
Ueber den Willen in der Natur. Eine Erörterung… 1836.
Presentation copy of Schopenhauer's On the Will in Nature
£15,000
GARNIER (Pierre)
The defeat of Antiochus, King of Syria, at… 1480.
FROM A LAVISH ILLUMINATED HISTORY OF ROME
£14,000
![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
BARON L'ESTAT
Lali et Sainval drame en trois actes en… 1784.
WRITTEN & PERFORMED FOR CATHERINE THE GREAT
£12,500
![[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)
PLUTARCH
[Works, Greek & Latin] Τα σωζομενα συγγραμματα... Quae… 1572.
FINELY BOUND & RARELY FOUND COMPLETE
£12,500
[D'AGUERRE (Chrétienne), Comtesse de Sault]
Manuscript notarial account book for regional Provence, 1584.
LA COMTESSE DE SAULT FINANCES THE FRENCH CATHOLIC LEAGUE
£12,500
GHEYN (Jacques de)
Maniement d'armes d'arquebuses, mousquets, & picques Selon l'ordre… 1619.
POLYGLOT EDITION WITH ENGLISH TEXT
£12,000
FABRICIO (Principio)
Delle allusioni, imprese, et emblemi sopra la vita,… 1588.
THE BUONCOMPAGNI DRAGON
£12,000
ERASMUS (Desiderius).
Collectanea Adagiorum, 1515.
WITH CONTEMPORARY SCHOOLBOY DOODLES AND DRAWINGS
£11,000
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
BOAISTUAU (Pierre)
Histoires prodigieuses... extraictes de plusieurs fameux autheurs, Grecs… 1560.
MONSTERS AND PORTENTS
£10,000
CHYTRAEUS (David)
Libellus de morte et vita aeterna, editio postrema.… 1590.
PLAYFUL & MISCHIEVOUS DEATH
£10,000
![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
![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
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).
Apophthegmatum opus cum primus frugiferum, vigilanter ab ipso…
SAMMELBAND OF THREE IMPORTANT EDITIONS
£9,500
DANTE
Dante con l'espositione di Christoforo Landino, et di… 1564.
THE SIGNET LIBRARY COPY
£9,500
![Heures en Francoys & Latin a l'usaige de Romme, corrigées & augmentées de plusieurs suffrages & oraisons. Avec figures nouvelles, appropriées chascune en son lieu.
Lyon, [Macé Bonhomme for] Guillaume Rouillé, 1549](https://api.maggs.com/image/3322790b-1590-4f18-b740-cb106dbcda72/616x770.webp)
BOOK OF HOURS (French & Latin)
Heures en Francoys & Latin a l'usaige de… 1549.
A MANNERIST BOOK OF HOURS
£9,500
BOCCACCIO (Giovanni)
Le Philocope de Messire Jehan Boccace florentin, contena(n)t… 1542.
OWNED BY A PICARDY COUNTESS IN THE LATE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
£9,500
![Alberti Durer Noriberg. German. Icones sacrae. In historiam salutis humanae per redemptorem nostrum Iesum Christum Dei & Marium filium instauratae... nunc primum è tenebris in lucem editae...
[Hamburg, G.L. Frobenius], 1604](https://api.maggs.com/image/1be39e4e-bf72-409e-b817-94b24ad9538a/616x770.webp)
ALTDORFER (Albrecht)
Alberti Durer Noriberg. German. Icones sacrae. In historiam… 1604.
ALTDORFER'S WOODCUTS DISGUISED AS DÜRER'S WORK
£9,000
![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
[DIPLOMA]
Venetian doctoral diploma, illuminated manuscript on vellum, 1644.
DEGREE DIPLOMA FROM A PAPER UNIVERSITY
£8,000
ERASMUS (Desiderius).
Liber cum primis pius, de praeparatione ad mortem, 1534.
FIRST EDITION - WITH MORE'S EPITAPH
£7,500
ISACCHI (Giovanni Battista)
Inventioni nelle quali si manifestano varij secreti, & vtili… 1579.
INVENTIONS AND SECRETS
£7,500
![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
ASCHAM (Roger)
Familiarum Epistolarum Libri tres, magna orationis elegantia conscripti,… 1602.
A DE THOU BINDING, WITH HIS WIFE'S ARMS
£7,500
UBERTINUS (de Casali)
Arbor vitae crucifixae Jesu Christi. Venice, Andreas de… 1485.
THE TREE OF THE CRUCIFIED LIFE OF CHRIST
£7,500
CIRCLE OF VENTURELLA DI PIETRO
St. John the Baptist, a large historiated initial… 1330.
UMBRIAN ILLUMINATION
£7,500
![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
HOROZCO Y COVARRUBIAS (Juan)
Emblemas Morales. Segovia, Juan de la Cuesta, 1589.
THE FIRST EMBLEM BOOK PRINTED IN SPAIN
£7,500
