Maggs Bros. Ltd.

CHYTRAEUS (David)

Libellus de morte et vita aeterna, editio postrema.… 1590.

PLAYFUL & MISCHIEVOUS DEATH

£10,000

GLISSENTI (Fabio)

Discorsi morali contra il dispiacer del morire, detto… 1596.

DEATH IN VENICE WITH WOODCUTS AFTER HOLBEIN

£7,500

LUTHER (Martin)

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

£1,250

LULL (Ramon)

Opera ea quae ad inventam ab ipso artem… 1598.

WITH 'REVOLUTIONARY' MOVING PARTS

£7,500

HORATIUS FLACCUS (Quintus)

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

INSCRIBED BY THE RECTOR OF SEVILLE'S ENGLISH SEMINARY

£2,750

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

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

INK SKETCHES AFTER GOLTZIUS, AFTER POLIDORO DA CARAVAGGIO

£2,000

CLAVIUS (Christopher)

Aritmetica Prattica... tradotta da Latino in Italiano dal… 1602.

JESUIT ASSOCIATIONS - A GIFT FROM A FAMOUS MATHEMATICIAN TO A FUTURE MISSIONARY

£5,500

ASCHAM (Roger)

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

BOUND IN RED MOROCCO FOR DE THOU

£7,500

ALTDORFER (Albrecht)

Alberti Durer Noriberg. German. Icones sacrae. In historiam… 1604.

ALTDORFER'S WOODCUTS DISGUISED AS DÜRER'S WORK

£9,000

SANCHEZ DE AREVALO (Rodrigo)

Speculum omnium statuum totius orbis terrarum, 1613.

FROM THE LIBRARY OF A BOHEMIAN REBEL AND HIS WIFE

£2,250

GHEYN (Jacques de)

Maniement d'armes d'arquebuses, mousquets, & picques Selon l'ordre… 1619.

POLYGLOT EDITION WITH ENGLISH TEXT

£12,000

ISSELBURG (Peter)

Künstliche Waffenhandlung der Musqueten und Piquen oder Langen… 1620.

RARE EDITION, WITH FINE ENGRAVINGS

£5,500

AMBOISE (Adrian d')

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

FRENCH ROYAL DEVICES

£750

PISTOFILO (Bonaventura)

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

DEDICATED TO KENELM DIGBY, WITH HIS PORTRAIT

£3,500

MASCARDI (Agostino)

Silvarum Libri IV, 1622.

WITH TITLE PAGE BY RUBENS, FUNDED BY THE AUTHOR

£2,000

DE LA VEGA (Garcilasso)

Principe de los Poetas Castellanos, 1622.

A RARE EDITION OF DE LA VEGA'S SECULAR POETRY

£4,500

TRIGAULT (Nicolas).

De Christianis apvd Japonios trivmphis sive de gravissima… 1623.

FIRST ILLUSTRATED ACCOUNT OF JESUIT MARTYRDOMS IN JAPAN

£16,000

GROSSE (Henning)

Magica de spectris et apparitionibus spiritum de vaticiniis,… 1632.

TALES OF DEMONIC PHENOMENA AND THEOLOGIANS ON TRIAL: A CURIOUS CONTRAST OF WORKS BOUND TOGETHER IN THE 17TH CENTURY

£1,250

CATS (Jacob)

Spiegel vanden Ouden ende Nieuwen Tiijdt. Dordrecht, Hendrick van… 1633.

£850

STENGEL (Georg)

Ova Paschalia sacro emblemate inscripta descriptaque a Georgio… 1635.

CHARMING, EGG-SHAPED EMBLEMS, WITH EARLY DEPICTIONS OF INDIGENOUS AMERICANS

£5,500

DIPLOMA

Paduan doctoral degree diploma, illuminated manuscript on vellum, 1641.

A SCOTTISH SCHOLAR IN ITALY, WITH THE ILLUMINATOR'S STRIKING ADVERTISEMENT

£9,500

[DIPLOMA]

Venetian doctoral diploma, illuminated manuscript on vellum, 1644.

DEGREE DIPLOMA FROM A PAPER UNIVERSITY

£8,000

MERIAN (Matthäus sr.).

Gallipoli, 1650.

£150

MERIAN (Matthäus sr.).

Silvanectum Senlis. [&] Lemovicum Limoges, 1650.

£150

MERIAN (Matthäus sr.).

Forte de Fuentes, 1650.

£200

MERIAN (Matthäus sr.).

Lauretum, 1650.

£150

MERIAN (Matthäus sr.).

Wahre Bildtnuss des Felfens Scyllae, vnd des gefahrlichen… 1650.

£150

MERIAN (Matthäus sr.).

Cales. [&] Calais [&] Duynkerke, 1650.

£100

MERIAN (Matthäus sr.).

Sinus Puteolanus, 1650.

£200

MERIAN (Matthäus sr.).

Messina, 1650.

£300

MERIAN (Matthäus sr.).

Reims en Champagne, 1650.

£150

MERIAN (Matthäus sr.).

Diepe. [&] St. Malo, 1650.

£150

MERIAN (Matthäus sr.).

Ostia, 1650.

£150

MERIAN (Matthäus sr.).

Lyon, 1650.

£200

MERIAN (Matthäus sr.).

La Rochelle, 1650.

£250

MERIAN (Matthäus sr.).

Civitatis Avignon omniumq[ue]. viarum et aedificiorum eius perfecta… 1650.

£250

MERIAN (Matthäus sr.).

Neapolis, 1650.

£400

MERIAN (Matthäus sr.).

Tivoli, 1650.

£200

PERSIUS FLACCUS (Aulus) & JUVENALIS Decimus Junius

Satyrae. Cum annotat. Th. Farnabii, 1650.

A SCHOOLMASTER'S EDITION OF JUVENAL

£275

CAMERARIUS (Joachim)

Symbolorum et emblematum ex re herbaria desmumtorum centuria… 1654.

THE BOTANIST GEORGE BENTHAM'S COPY

£2,500

FELIBIEN (André)

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

EARLIEST GUIDE BOOK TO PALACE OF VERSAILLES & PARK

£2,500

[MONTERCHI (Giuseppe)]

Scelta de medaglioni piu rari nella Bibliotheca dell'… 1679.

BOUND FOR BIBLIOPHILE AND ART COLLECTOR PAULO VAN UCHELEN

£1,500