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ISACCHI (Giovanni Battista)

Inventioni nelle quali si manifestano varij secreti, & vtili… 1579.

INVENTIONS AND SECRETS

£7,500

CICERO (Marcus Tullius)

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

£650

AUSONIUS

Opera, 1575.

£1,500

DE GUEVARA (Antonio)

Libro di Marco Aurelio con l'horologio de' prencipi, 1575.

MARCUS AURELIUS AS A MODEL OF PRINCELY BEHAVIOUR

£800

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

Explicatio Apocalypsis Iohannis Perspicua & brevis, 1575.

THE APOCALYPSE, WITH EARLY BOHEMIAN PROVENANCE

£4,500

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

PLUTARCH

[Works, Greek & Latin] Τα σωζομενα συγγραμματα... Quae… 1572.

FINELY BOUND & RARELY FOUND COMPLETE

£12,500

DELAUNE (Etienne)

Suite of six allegorical prints. France, c. 1560-1570, 1570.

MANNERIST ALLEGORY

£1,500

TERENTIUS AFER Publius

P. Terentii afri comoediae sex, infinitis fere locis… 1570.

£800

VERDIZOTTI (Giovanni)

Cento favole morali de i piu illustri antichi… 1570.

DESIGNS DRAWN ON THE BLOCKS BY VERDIZOTTI HIMSELF

£6,500

[CATHOLIC CHURCH]

Catechismus Romanus, ex decreto Concilij Tridentini, 1567.

WITH ELABORATE OWNERS' ARMS PAINTED ON VELLUM

£1,500

OVIDIUS NASO

Metamorphoseon libri XV. In singulas quasque fabulas argumeta.… 1567.

WOODCUTS BY VIRGIL SOLIS

£4,500

MARANTA (Bartolomeo)

Lucullianarum quaestionum libri quinque, 1564.

PRIZE COPY OF THIS COMMENTARY ON THE AENEID

£600

DANTE

Dante con l'espositione di Christoforo Landino, et di… 1564.

THE SIGNET LIBRARY COPY

£9,500

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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PRUDENTIUS

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

RARE PRINTED DONATION EX-LIBRIS

£2,500

BOAISTUAU (Pierre)

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

MONSTERS AND PORTENTS

£10,000

COUSTEAU (Pierre)

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

EARLY FRENCH EMBLEMS, IN ELABORATE BORDERS

£3,000

EUSTATHIUS (Archbishop of Thessalonica) & HOMER

Copiae cornu sive oceanus enarrationum Homericarum, ex Eustathii… 1558.

OWNED BY AN EARLY CHAMPION OF WOMEN'S EDUCATION

£7,500

PARADIN (Claude)

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

INFLUENTIAL EMBLEMS, OWNED BY A POLISH EMIGRÉ ARISTOCRAT

£5,500

LEO (Johannes).

Description de l'Afrique, 1556.

£25,000

THUCYDIDES

L'histoire... de la guerre qui fut entre les… 1555.

TRANSLATED BY LOUIS XII'S ADVISOR

£850

CAPRIANO (Giovanni Pietro)

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

SOLE EDITION OF CAPRIANO'S LITERARY CRITICISM

£2,500

JUSTINIAN & [HALOANDER (Gregorius)]

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

HANDSOME BINDING, UNRESTORED, FROM THE LIBRARY OF JEAN BALLESDENS

£2,500

HORAPOLLO

(Title in Greek, then:) De sacris notis &… 1551.

HORAPOLLO AS AN EMBLEM BOOK

£3,500

GELLI (Giambattista)

La Circe. Florence, (appresso Lorenzo Torrentino, 1 April), 1549.

£1,250

MELANCHTHON (Philip)

Initia doctrinae physicae, dicta in academia Vvitebergensi. Wittenberg: J.… 1549.

EDUCATIONAL SAMMELBAND IN HANDSOME CONTEMPORARY BINDING

£5,750

BOOK OF HOURS (French & Latin)

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

A MANNERIST BOOK OF HOURS

£9,500

OVIDIUS NASO

[Opera] Metamorphoseon libri XV, 1547.

RARE POCKET EDITION OF OVID

£2,500

CICERO (Marcus Tullius)

M T Ciceronis Brutus, seu de claris Oratoribus,… 1546.

BEAUTIFULLY PRINTED BY JEAN LOYS

£2,000

BOCCACCIO (Giovanni)

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

OWNED BY A BLETCHLEY CODEBREAKER AND MONUMENTS MAN

£4,750

AELIANUS

Αιλιανου ποικιλης ιστοριας. βιβλια ιδ. Εκ την Ηρακλειδου… 1545.

EDITIO PRINCEPS

£5,000

PHILANDRIER (Guillaume)

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

EARLY CRITICAL RECEPTION OF VITRUVIUS

£4,500

GIANNOTTI (Donato)

Libro de la republica de Vinitiani. (Rome, Antonio… 1542.

£680

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

SOUTHERN NETHERLANDS ARTIST

The Martyrdom of St. Catherine, in an initial… 1541.

A VIBRANT MINIATURE

£6,500

BORDONE (Benedetto).

Isolario di ... Nel qual si ragiona ditutte… 1534.

THE FIRST PRINTED MAP OF CONTINENTAL NORTH AMERICA

£25,000

ERASMUS (Desiderius).

Liber cum primis pius, de praeparatione ad mortem, 1534.

FIRST EDITION - WITH MORE'S EPITAPH

£7,500

FRANCK (Sebastian)

Von dem greüwelichen laster der trunckenheit so in… 1533.

WOODCUT OF FEASTING & DRUNKENNESS BY HANS WEIDITZ

£3,500

PEUTINGER (Conrad)

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

AUGSBURG MERCHANTS' PARTICIPATION IN PORTUGUESE EXPLORATION

£2,800

ERASMUS (Desiderius).

De immensa dei misericordia, Des. Erasmi Roterodami Concio.… 1524.

£3,000