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ROUSSEAU (Jean-Jacques)

Du contrat social, ou principes du droit politique, 1772.

UNCOMMON COUNTERFEIT EDITION OF ROUSSEAU'S MOST FAMOUS WORK

£750

POLYDORE VERGIL

De rerum inventoribus libri octo. Basle, Johann Bebel, 1532, 1532.

WITH HOLBEIN'S DANCE OF DEATH ALPHABET

£1,500

PLUTARCHUS

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

FINELY BOUND & RARELY FOUND COMPLETE

£12,500

HORATIUS FLACCUS (Quintus)

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

INSCRIBED BY THE RECTOR OF SEVILLE'S ENGLISH SEMINARY

£2,750

ARRIANUS Flavius

Praefatio in libris rerum gestarum Alexandri regis [translated… 1508.

FINE SONCINO IMPRINT

£2,750

SANCHEZ DE AREVALO (Rodrigo)

Speculum omnium statuum totius orbis terrarum, 1613.

FROM THE LIBRARY OF A BOHEMIAN REBEL AND HIS WIFE

£2,250

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

FRENCH ARTIST

Christ Among the Doctors, an illuminated cutting from a…

FROM THE RENOWNED BURCKHARDT-WILDT ALBUM

£6,500

FRENCH ARTIST

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

FROM THE RENOWNED BURCKHARDT-WILDT ALBUM

£6,000

[CATHOLIC CHURCH]

Catechismus Romanus, ex decreto Concilij Tridentini, 1567.

WITH ELABORATE OWNERS' ARMS PAINTED ON VELLUM

£1,500

BOCCHI (Achille)

Symbolicarum quaestionum de universo genere quas serio ludebat… 1555.

FIRST EDITION OF BOCCHI'S EMBLEMS

£4,000

CAMERARIUS (Joachim)

Symbolorum et emblematum ex re herbaria desmumtorum centuria… 1654.

THE BOTANIST GEORGE BENTHAM'S COPY

£2,500

AMBOISE (Adrian d')

Devises royales. Paris, Rolet Boutonne, 1621, 1621.

FRENCH ROYAL DEVICES

£750

CATS (Jacob)

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

£850

[BUREAU GENERAL DE BONFAISANCE]

État général des répartitions de numéraire, farines ordinaries,… 1798.

PRECARIOUS EARLY WELFARE PROVISION IN REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE

£2,500

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

[SPIRITUAL EXERCISES]

Esercizio sopra la passione di Gesû Cristo.   [Italy, seventeenth… 1700.

£1,250

SFONDRATI (Celestinus)

Innocentia vindicata, in qua gravissimis argumentis ex S.… 1695.

BENEDICTINE EMBLEMS PRINTED AT ST. GALL

£3,500

CHYTRAEUS (David)

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

PLAYFUL & MISCHIEVOUS DEATH

£10,000

BARON L'ESTAT

Lali et Sainval drame en trois actes en… 1784.

WRITTEN & PERFORMED FOR CATHERINE THE GREAT

£12,500

JUSTINIAN & [HALOANDER (Gregorius)]

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

HANDSOME BINDING, UNRESTORED, FROM THE LIBRARY OF JEAN BALLESDENS

£2,500

OVIDIUS NASO

[Opera] Metamorphoseon libri XV, 1547.

RARE POCKET EDITION OF OVID

£2,500

DE GUEVARA (Antonio)

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

MARCUS AURELIUS AS A MODEL OF PRINCELY BEHAVIOUR

£800

CAPRIANO (Giovanni Pietro)

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

SOLE EDITION OF CAPRIANO'S LITERARY CRITICISM

£2,500

CORTESE (Cristoforo)

A prophet pointing to his eyes, historiated initial…

£5,000

ERASMUS (Desiderius).

Collectanea Adagiorum, 1515.

WITH CONTEMPORARY SCHOOLBOY DOODLES AND DRAWINGS

£11,000

[FLORESTA (Pedro de la)]

La historia de los mui nobles, y valientes… 1700.

RARE EDITION OF THIS CHIVALRIC ROMANCE

£1,250

CICERO (Marcus Tullius)

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

BEAUTIFULLY PRINTED BY JEAN LOYS

£2,000

ARGOTE DE MOLINA (Gonzalo)

Nobleza de Andaluzia, 1588.

ANDALUSIAN NOBILITY, EXTENSIVELY ILLUSTRATED

£2,500

ROSSI (Giovanni Giacomo de)

Insignium Romae templorum prospectus exteriores interioresque... in lucem… 1684.

£3,000

POZZO (Andrea)

Perspectiva pictorum et architectorum . . . pars… 1700.

£3,000

GALLI DA BIBIENA (Ferdinando)

L'Architettura Civile, preparata su la geometria, e ridotta… 1711.

FIRST EDITION, OWNED BY FATHER-AND-SON PAINTERS

£4,000

RABELAIS (Francois)

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

UNCOMMON EDITION IN CONTEMPORARY BINDING

£4,000

HOROZCO Y COVARRUBIAS (Juan)

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

THE FIRST EMBLEM BOOK PRINTED IN SPAIN

£7,500

[Anon]

Histoire de palmerin d'olive, fils du roy florendos… 1573.

CASTILIAN CHIVALRIC ROMANCE, CONSIGNED TO THE FLAMES IN DON QUIXOTE

£2,000

DE LA VEGA (Garcilasso)

Principe de los Poetas Castellanos, 1622.

A RARE EDITION OF DE LA VEGA'S SECULAR POETRY

£4,500

BOAISTUAU (Pierre)

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

MONSTERS AND PORTENTS

£10,000

FRENCH REVOLUTION

Calendrier Royal pour l'année mil sept cent quatre-vingt-dix, 1789.

PRINTED IN THE FIRST YEAR OF THE REVOLUTION

£2,500

ALTDORFER (Albrecht)

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

ALTDORFER'S WOODCUTS DISGUISED AS DÜRER'S WORK

£9,000

FRENCH ARTIST

A funeral service, an Illuminated miniature on vellum… 1500.

£2,250

FRENCH ARTIST

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

EVOCATIVE FRENCH ILLUMINATION

£3,750

CIRCLE OF VENTURELLA DI PIETRO

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

UMBRIAN ILLUMINATION

£7,500