MARIETTE (Pierre-Jean)
Traité des pierres gravées par P.J. Mariette. Recueil… 1750.
SUMPTUOUSLY ILLUSTRATED, FROM A CONNOISSEUR'S LIBRARY
£8,500
![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]](https://api.maggs.com/image/b5e12baf-c2f3-477d-be2c-d909c0c5c7c0/616x770.webp)
GIOVANNI DI ANTONIO DA BOLOGNA?
St Michael the Archangel, in a large historiated… 1450.
£7,500
![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
![King David before God, in a historiated initial, and other scenes, on a leaf from a very large Gradual, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum
[Italy (Florence), mid-15th century]](https://api.maggs.com/image/f154a09f-22ec-434c-a611-cc85acf318c4/616x770.webp)
KING DAVID BEFORE GOD
King David before God, in a historiated initial,… 1450.
EXCEPTIONAL FLORENTINE ILLUMINATION
£12,500
![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
[Clairville (Joseph Philippe de)]
Plantes et arbustes d'agrément, gravés et enluminés d'après… 1791.
VIVIDLY ILLUSTRATED BOTANY FOR WOMEN
£4,500
[SERVIDIO (Guido)]
Constitutiones Synodales, et decreta, condita a Reverendiss. D.… 1590.
RULES FOR THE CLERGY OF VOLTERRA, IN WASTE VELLUM BINDING
£2,000
VERGILIUS MARO (Publius)
P. Virgilius Maro, et in eum commentationes, &… 1575.
VIRGIL - EXTRA ILLUSTRATED
£3,500
BOUTERWEK (Friedrich).
Idee einer Apodiktik. Ein Beytrag zur menschlichen Selbstverständigung… 1799.
£1,250
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
[MIRABEAU (Victor Riquetti, Marquis de).]
Lettres sur le commerce des grains, 1768.
£1,200
KANT (Immanuel).
Prolegomena zu einer jeden künftigen Metaphysik, 1783.
£1,750
GROPPER
Canones concilii provincialis Coloniensis... celebrati anno 1536. Quibus… 1538.
FROM THE LIBRARY OF JEAN BOYER, ARCHDEACON OF CONQUES (1508-41).
£4,800
Le Decameron. Contes de Bocace, traduction nouvelle; augmentée… 1801.
PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED BOCCACCIO, IN CONTEMPORARY BINDING
£1,500
[HERBERT (Claude Jacques).]
Essai sur la police générale des grains, sur… 1755.
£450
[GALIANI (Ferdinando).]
Dialogues sur le commerce des bleds, 1770.
£2,500
SCHOPENHAUER (Arthur).
Ueber den Willen in der Natur. Eine Erörterung… 1836.
Presentation copy of Schopenhauer's On the Will in Nature
£15,000
[DUPONT DE NEMOURS (Pierre Samuel).]
De l'origine et des progrès d'une science nouvelle, 1768.
A lovely copy of this important exposition of physiocrat doctrine
£6,500
![[Historia Captae a Turca Constantinopolis]
[Italy?, third quarter of 15th century]](https://api.maggs.com/image/f64d82f8-8b29-431e-969a-222ec9044315/616x770.webp)
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
£47,500
AESOP
Fabellas una cum argumentis novis. Brescia, heirs of Ludovico… 1563.
A RARE IMPRINT, PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED - ONLY ONE OTHER COPY KNOWN
£6,000
OVIDIUS NASO
Metamorphoseon libri XV. In singulas quasque fabulas argumeta.… 1567.
WOODCUTS BY VIRGIL SOLIS
£4,500
DESNOUES (Guillaume)
Lettres de G. Desnoues, Professeur d'Anatomie & de… 1706.
ON EMBALMING PRACTICES, BY AN EARLY ANATOMICAL WAX MODELLER
£2,500
ERASMUS (Desiderius).
Colloquies, 1519.
THE MACCLESFIELD COPY
£6,000
ERASMUS (Desiderius).
Apophthegmatum opus cum primus frugiferum, vigilanter ab ipso…
SAMMELBAND OF THREE IMPORTANT EDITIONS
£9,500
![A leaf from Aurora in the first redaction by Aegidius of Paris, in Latin, manuscript on vellum.
[England, second half or late 14th century].](https://api.maggs.com/image/9fc7da30-de50-483e-8edb-85597f32f15b/616x770.webp)
PETRUS RIGA
A leaf from Aurora in the first redaction by Aegidius…
£2,250
![Paschal Vigil for SS. Rufina e Seconda in Trastevere. Fragment of a leaf of the Paschal Vigil from a Liturgical book in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum.
[Italy, probably Rome, 12th century].](https://api.maggs.com/image/e32b6153-da0d-4b44-925c-7d079767f237/616x770.webp)
ROMAN SCRIBE
Paschal Vigil for SS. Rufina e Seconda in…
£2,500
![Pseudo-Chrysostom Fragment from Opus imperfectum in Matthaeum in Latin, manuscript on vellum.
[Italy, 12th century].](https://api.maggs.com/image/0da19e88-bedd-44f8-9c26-f88dedfaa2a2/616x770.webp)
PSEUDO-CHRYSOSTOM
Pseudo-Chrysostom Fragment from Opus imperfectum in Matthaeum in…
£1,800
KANT (Immanuel).
Anthropologie in pragmatischer Hinsicht abgefasst, 1798.
£650
[OLDFIELD (T.H.B.)].
An Entire and Complete History, Political and Personal,… 1794.
£125
[MONTERCHI (Giuseppe)]
Scelta de medaglioni piu rari nella Bibliotheca dell'… 1679.
BOUND FOR BIBLIOPHILE AND ART COLLECTOR PAULO VAN UCHELEN
£1,500
![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)]](https://api.maggs.com/image/2e7e05df-aba2-4903-984f-beb453c886f9/616x770.webp)
NORTHERN FRENCH ARTIST
The Nativity, historiated initials on a leaf from… 1370.
£5,500
![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.](https://api.maggs.com/image/9bf41627-84ae-4874-a429-98f88a68c999/616x770.webp)
[CONDORCET (Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de).] & [BAUDEAU (Abbe Nicolas).]
Éclaircissements demandés à M. N**[ecker], sur ses principes… 1775.
£2,500
PARADIN (Claude)
Devises heroiques. Lyon, Jean de Tournes and Guillaume Gazeau, 1557.
INFLUENTIAL EMBLEMS, OWNED BY A POLISH EMIGRÉ ARISTOCRAT
£5,500
FELIBIEN (André)
Description sommaire du Chasteau de Versailles. Paris, 1674, 1674.
EARLIEST GUIDE BOOK TO PALACE OF VERSAILLES & PARK
£2,500
COUSTEAU (Pierre)
Le Pegme... mis en Francoys par Lanteaume de… 1560.
EARLY FRENCH EMBLEMS, IN ELABORATE BORDERS
£3,000
LIST (Friedrich).
Système national d'économie politique. Traduit de l'Allemand par… 1851.
£750
[SMITH (Adam).] & SARTORIUS (Georg Friedrich).
Handbok for statshushallningen ester Adam Smiths Grundsattser; forfattad… 1800.
THE DISSEMINATION OF ADAM SMITH IN SWEDEN
£1,200
ERASTUS (Thomas).
De occultis pharmacorum potestibus. Basle, Pietro Perna, 1574, 1574.
ON PHARMACOLOGY & THE OCCULT, ANNOTATED BY AN EARLY PHYSICIAN
£4,500
TASSO (Torquato)
La Gerusalemme liberata. Paris, appresso A. Delalain, P.… 1771.
"RELIURE DE PRESENT" DESIGNED BY GRAVELOT FOR THIS EDITION
£5,750
[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
![Opera ea quae ad inventam ab ipso artem universalem... pertinent. Ut et in eandem quorundam interpretum scripti commentarij [by Giordano Bruno, H. Cornelius Agrippa ]... Accessit index, etc.
Strasbourg, Lazarus Zetzner,](https://api.maggs.com/image/8ad9dd90-b07f-4ed7-ba8c-0023c2dd4b63/616x770.webp)
LULL (Ramon)
Opera ea quae ad inventam ab ipso artem… 1598.
WITH 'REVOLUTIONARY' MOVING PARTS
£7,500
![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…
THE FITZ-RALPH HOURS
£75,000
