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[DIPLOMA]

Venetian doctoral diploma, illuminated manuscript on vellum, 1644.

DEGREE DIPLOMA FROM A PAPER UNIVERSITY

£8,000

DIPLOMA

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

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

£9,500

STENGEL (Georg)

Ova Paschalia sacro emblemate inscripta descriptaque a Georgio… 1635.

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

£5,500

CATS (Jacob)

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

£850

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

TRIGAULT (Nicolas).

De Christianis apvd Japonios trivmphis sive de gravissima… 1623.

FIRST ILLUSTRATED ACCOUNT OF JESUIT MARTYRDOMS IN JAPAN

£16,000

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

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

ISSELBURG (Peter)

Künstliche Waffenhandlung der Musqueten und Piquen oder Langen… 1620.

RARE EDITION, WITH FINE ENGRAVINGS

£5,500

GHEYN (Jacques de)

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

POLYGLOT EDITION WITH ENGLISH TEXT

£12,000

SANCHEZ DE AREVALO (Rodrigo)

Speculum omnium statuum totius orbis terrarum, 1613.

FROM THE LIBRARY OF A BOHEMIAN REBEL AND HIS WIFE

£2,250

HENISCH Georg

Commentarius in sphaeram procli diadochi. Augustae Vindelicorum [Augsburg], David… 1609.

PRESENTATION COPY TO CONRAD PIUS PEUTINGER

£3,500

VEEN (Otto van)

Amorum emblemata, 1608.

SCARCE ISSUE WITH ENGLISH VERSES BY A CATHOLIC SPY

£7,000

ALTDORFER (Albrecht)

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

ALTDORFER'S WOODCUTS DISGUISED AS DÜRER'S WORK

£9,000

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.

A DE THOU BINDING, WITH HIS WIFE'S ARMS

£7,500

[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

HORATIUS FLACCUS (Quintus)

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

INSCRIBED BY THE RECTOR OF SEVILLE'S ENGLISH SEMINARY

£2,750

LULL (Ramon)

Opera ea quae ad inventam ab ipso artem… 1598.

WITH 'REVOLUTIONARY' MOVING PARTS

£7,500

LUTHER (Martin)

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

£1,250

CHYTRAEUS (David)

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

PLAYFUL & MISCHIEVOUS DEATH

£10,000

HOROZCO Y COVARRUBIAS (Juan)

Emblemas Morales. Segovia, Juan de la Cuesta, 1589.

THE FIRST EMBLEM BOOK PRINTED IN SPAIN

£7,500

RABELAIS (Francois)

Les Oeuvres de M. Francois Rabelais, Docteur in… 1588.

UNCOMMON EDITION IN CONTEMPORARY BINDING

£4,000

FABRICIO (Principio)

Delle allusioni, imprese, et emblemi sopra la vita,… 1588.

THE BUONCOMPAGNI DRAGON

£12,000

ARGOTE DE MOLINA (Gonzalo)

Nobleza de Andaluzia, 1588.

ANDALUSIAN NOBILITY, EXTENSIVELY ILLUSTRATED

£2,500

[DE BALAGNY (Gauthier)]

Recueil de bonnes et mauvaises poisies, de diferens… 1587.

A MANUSCRIPT MISCELLANY SPANNING MORE THAN A CENTURY

£25,000

LONICER (Johannes)

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

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

£2,500

TERENTIUS AFER Publius

Comoediae sex ... Terentij vita ex Aelio Donato.… 1584.

A POCKET EDITION OF TERENCE'S POPULAR PLAYS

£450

RUSCELLI (Girolamo)

Le impresi illustri . . . aggiuntovi nuovamte.… 1584.

THE MOST COMPLETE EDITION

£2,750

LA POPELLINIERE (Lancelot-Voisin, Seigneur de).

L'Amiral de France, et par occasion, de celuy… 1584.

PROMOTING THE FRENCH COLONIZATION OF THE NEW WORLD

£18,750

[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

[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

ROSINUS (Johannes)

Romanorum antiquitatum libri decem ex variis scriptoribus simma… 1583.

HANDBOOK OF ANTIQUITIES

£2,250

[BOCCACCIO (Giovanni)] & SALVIATI (Leonardo)

Il Decameron di messer Giovanni Boccacci, cittadini fiorentino,… 1582.

THE DECAMERON, CLEANED UP FOR CENSORS

£2,500

ITALIAN THEATRE

FIRENZUOLA (Agnolo). I lucidi. Florence, 1552. [Bound with]:DOLCE (Lodovico).… 1581.

SOURCE FOR SHAKESPEARE'S TWELFTH NIGHT

£1,750

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