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

Explicatio Apocalypsis Iohannis Perspicua & brevis, 1575.

THE APOCALYPSE, WITH EARLY BOHEMIAN PROVENANCE

£4,500

STENGEL (Georg)

Ova Paschalia sacro emblemate inscripta descriptaque a Georgio… 1635.

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

£5,500

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

BANDETTINI (Teresa)

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

COMMEMORATIVE POETRY BY AN EARLY ITALIAN IMPROVISATRIX

£4,000

[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

PHILANDRIER (Guillaume)

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

EARLY CRITICAL RECEPTION OF VITRUVIUS

£4,500

ZINCGREF (Julius Wilhelm)

Emblematum Ethico-Politicorum Centuria. Une centaine d'Emblêmes morales &… 1698.

POLYGLOT EMBLEM BOOK WITH MERIAN'S ENGRAVINGS

£2,000

[FRENCH ILLUMINATOR]

Illuminated leaf on vellum from a Book of… 1408.

FROM THE CHESTER BEATTY HOURS

£1,850

AESOP

Fables d'Ésope dédiées au Premier Consul Bonaparte, 1801.

ILLUSTRATED AESOP FABLES DEDICATED TO NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

£1,500

AENEAS SYLVIUS PICCOLOMINI (later Pope Pius II)

Epistolae familiares. De Duobus amantibus Euryalo et Lucretia.… 1496.

HUMANIST LETTERS BY A FUTURE POPE

£10,000

DA CASTIGLIONE (Sabba)

Ricordi overo ammaestramenti, 1554.

WITH UNUSUAL WOODCUT DEPICTION OF THE LEFT-HANDED SCHOLAR

£2,750

LEWIS (Matthew Gregory).

The Monk: A Romance, 1807.

A charming English-language edition published in Paris.

£1,250

JACOBI (Friedrich Heinrich).

Auserlesener Briefwechsel. In zwei Bänden, 1825.

£350

MASCARDI (Agostino)

Silvarum Libri IV, 1622.

WITH TITLE PAGE BY RUBENS, FUNDED BY THE AUTHOR

£2,000

BEDE , the Venerable

Large fragment, almost a full leaf, from Bede's…

BEDE'S COMMENTARY ON ST MARK

£2,000

[Anon]

A chi toca toca, 1796.

RARE, PLAYFUL ALMANAC IN VENETIAN DIALECT

£550

FRENCH ARTIST

A suite of large neo-gothic illuminated initials. [France, c.… 1840.

GOTHIC REVIVAL ILLUMINATION

£4,500

VERDIZOTTI (Giovanni)

Cento favole morali de i piu illustri antichi… 1570.

DESIGNS DRAWN ON THE BLOCKS BY VERDIZOTTI HIMSELF

£6,500

FRENCH ARTIST

Illuminated leaf on vellum for July/August from the… 1490.

WITH DELIGHTFUL SEASONAL MINIATURES

£4,500

GARNIER (Pierre)

The Battle of Ibera at which the Romans… 1480.

FROM A LAVISH MANUSCRIPT HISTORY OF ROME

£13,500

HYGINUS (Gaius Julius)

Poetica astronomica. (Edited by Jacobus Sentinus and Johannes… 1482.

THE FIRST DEPICTIONS OF THE CONSTELLATIONS IN A PRINTED BOOK

£25,000

GHEYN (Jacques de)

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

POLYGLOT EDITION WITH ENGLISH TEXT

£12,000

SAY (Jean-Baptiste).

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

£750

LUTHER (Martin)

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

£1,250

TRIGAULT (Nicolas).

De Christianis apvd Japonios trivmphis sive de gravissima… 1623.

FIRST ILLUSTRATED ACCOUNT OF JESUIT MARTYRDOMS IN JAPAN

£16,000

MARIETTE (Pierre-Jean)

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

SUMPTUOUSLY ILLUSTRATED, FROM A CONNOISSEUR'S LIBRARY

£8,500

GIOVANNI DI ANTONIO DA BOLOGNA?

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

£7,500

GIOVANNI DI ANTONIO DA BOLOGNA?

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

SUPERB ILLUMINATION OF THE PROPHET TOBIT

£10,000

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

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

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

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