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Αιλιανου ποικιλης ιστοριας. βιβλια ιδ. Εκ την Ηρακλειδου περι πολιτειων υπομνημα. Πολημωνος φισιογνωμονικων εγχειριδιον... Variae historiae libri XIIII.
Rome: [Antonio Blado], January 1545

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

EDITIO PRINCEPS

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

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.

[Works, Greek & Latin] Τα σωζομενα συγγραμματα... Quae extant opera, cum Latina intepretatione.
[Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1572

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

FINELY BOUND & RARELY FOUND COMPLETE

[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

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

[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

[Opere]. La Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri con varie annotazioni e copiosi rami adornata.

[Opere]. La Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri con… 1757.

SPECTACULARLY ILLUSTRATED, ROCOCO DANTE

[Opera] Metamorphoseon libri XV.

[Opera] Metamorphoseon libri XV, 1547.

RARE POCKET EDITION OF OVID

[Historia Captae a Turca Constantinopolis]
[Italy?, third quarter of 15th century]

LEONARD OF CHIOS (Archbishop of Mytilene)

[Historia Captae a Turca Constantinopolis] [Italy?, third quarter of… 1450.

THE "MOST AUTHORITATIVE" EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF THE FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE

Wahre Bildtnuss des Felfens Scyllae, vnd des gefahrlichen ohrtys Charybdis in Calabria ...

MERIAN (Matthäus sr.).

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

Visione in morte di S.E.D. Ottavia odescalchi principessa rospigliosi

BANDETTINI (Teresa)

Visione in morte di S.E.D. Ottavia odescalchi principessa… 1829.

COMMEMORATIVE POETRY BY AN EARLY ITALIAN IMPROVISATRIX

Veterum Germaniae principum.
Paris, Jean Foucher, 1540.

BEBENBURG (Lupold von)

Veterum Germaniae principum. Paris, Jean Foucher, 1540, 1540.

ONE OF THE EARLIEST FRENCH EX-LIBRIS STAMPS RECORDED

Venetian doctoral diploma, illuminated manuscript on vellum.

Venetian doctoral diploma, illuminated manuscript on vellum, 1644.

DEGREE DIPLOMA FROM A PAPER UNIVERSITY

Use of Angers, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum.
Bruges, c. 1440-1450

Use of Angers, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on… 1440.

FINELY ILLUMINATED IN BRUGES

Ueber den Willen in der Natur. Eine Erörterung der Bestätigungen, welche die Philosophie des Verfassers, seit ihrem Auftreten, durch die empirischen Wissenschaften erhalten hat.

SCHOPENHAUER (Arthur).

Ueber den Willen in der Natur. Eine Erörterung… 1836.

Presentation copy of Schopenhauer's On the Will in Nature

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]

SOUTHERN FRENCH ARTIST

Two historiated initials depicting St Mark and Two…

TWO SUPERB LARGE INITIALS, ONE OF ST. MARK

Traité des pierres gravées par P.J. Mariette. Recueil des pierres gravées du Cabinet du Roy.
Paris: de l'imprimerie de l'Auteur, 1750.

MARIETTE (Pierre-Jean)

Traité des pierres gravées par P.J. Mariette. Recueil… 1750.

SUMPTUOUSLY ILLUSTRATED, FROM A CONNOISSEUR'S LIBRARY

Traité d'économie politique, ou simple exposition de la manière dont se forment, se distribuent et se consomment les richesses.

SAY (Jean-Baptiste).

Traité d'économie politique, ou simple exposition de la… 1826.

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

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

FIBRE THEORY FROM AN ANATOMICAL CONNOISSEUR

Tivoli.

MERIAN (Matthäus sr.).

Tivoli, 1650.

The destruction of Job's household, a large initial

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

EVOCATIVE FRENCH ILLUMINATION

The Virgin and Child, historiated initial on a leaf from an early Book of Hours, in Latin and French, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Northern France (Picardy, Noyon?), 14th century (c. 1370s)]

NORTHERN FRENCH ARTIST

The Virgin and Child, historiated initial on a… 1370.

The Transfiguration, an illuminated cutting from a Book of Hours on vellum.
[France (eastern?), 15th century (c.1470s/80s)]

The Transfiguration, an illuminated cutting from a Book… 1470.

FROM THE RENOWNED BURCKHARDT-WILDT ALBUM

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

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

FRANCIS OF ASSISSI RECEIVES THE STIGMATA

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]

GIOVANNI DI ANTONIO DA BOLOGNA?

The Old Testament Prophet Tobit, in a large… 1450.

SUPERB ILLUMINATION OF THE PROPHET TOBIT

The Nativity, historiated initials on a leaf from an early Book of Hours, in Latin and French, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Northern France (Picardy, Noyon?), 14th century (c. 1370s)]

NORTHERN FRENCH ARTIST

The Nativity, historiated initials on a leaf from… 1370.

The Monk: A Romance.

LEWIS (Matthew Gregory).

The Monk: A Romance, 1807.

A charming English-language edition published in Paris.

The Martyrdom of St. Catherine, in an initial on a choirbook leaf [Southern Netherlands (perhaps Delft), dated 1541 (more probably 1544)].

SOUTHERN NETHERLANDS ARTIST

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

A VIBRANT MINIATURE

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]

GIUSTINO DI GHERARDINO da Forlì

The Dormition of the Virgin, in a historiated…

14TH-CENTURY VENETIAN ILLUMINATION

The Decretals of Pope Gregory IX, with the commentary of Bernard of Parma, in Latin, illuminated manuscript leaf on vellum [France (Paris), c.1300 or early 14th century]

RAYMOND OF PENAFORT

The Decretals of Pope Gregory IX, with the… 1300.

ILLUMINATED OPENING LEAF OF THE DECRETALS

The Battle of Ibera at which the Romans defeated Hasdrubal, a miniature from the Romuléon, illuminated manuscript on vellum.
[Eastern France, c. 1480]

GARNIER (Pierre)

The Battle of Ibera at which the Romans… 1480.

FROM A LAVISH MANUSCRIPT HISTORY OF ROME

The Adoration of the Three Magi, a large illuminated initial 'E' depicting on a full vellum leaf from a Gradual.
Leiden(?), c. 1480-90

MASTERS OF THE SUFFRAGES

The Adoration of the Three Magi, a large… 1480.

ADORATION OF THE MAGI

Système national d'économie politique. Traduit de l'Allemand par Henri Richelot, avec une préface, une notice biographique et des notes par le traducteur.

LIST (Friedrich).

Système national d'économie politique. Traduit de l'Allemand par… 1851.

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

Symbolicarum quaestionum de universo genere quas serio ludebat libri quinque.
Bologna, Nova Academica Bocchiana,

BOCCHI (Achille)

Symbolicarum quaestionum de universo genere quas serio ludebat… 1555.

FIRST EDITION OF BOCCHI'S EMBLEMS

Sur L'Administration de M. Necker. Par Lui-Même.

NECKER (Jacques).

Sur L'Administration de M. Necker. Par Lui-Même, 1791.

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

DELAUNE (Etienne)

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

MANNERIST ALLEGORY

Ständ und Orden Der H. Römischen Catholischen Kirchen

LONICER (Johannes)

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

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

St. Lawrence, an illuminated miniature on vellum from a Book of Hours . Amiens, c.

St. Lawrence, an illuminated miniature on vellum from… 1425.

WITH GRIDIRON IN HAND

St. John the Baptist, a large historiated initial

CIRCLE OF VENTURELLA DI PIETRO

St. John the Baptist, a large historiated initial… 1330.

UMBRIAN ILLUMINATION

St Michael the Archangel, 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]

GIOVANNI DI ANTONIO DA BOLOGNA?

St Michael the Archangel, in a large historiated… 1450.

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

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