Maggs Bros. Ltd.

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

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

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

GAUTIER DE CHATILLON (Philippe)

Alexandri Magni regis Macedonum vita.   Strasbourg: Reinhard Beck, 1513, 1513.

'A MOST WITTY STORY': A HANDSOME SAMMELBAND, WITH THE RARE ALEXANDREIS

£10,000

UBERTINUS (de Casali)

Arbor vitae crucifixae Jesu Christi. Venice, Andreas de… 1485.

THE TREE OF THE CRUCIFIED LIFE OF CHRIST

£7,500

ITALIAN ARTIST

Pentecost, an historiated initial on a vellum leaf…

£9,500

MARANTA (Bartolomeo)

Lucullianarum quaestionum libri quinque, 1564.

PRIZE COPY OF THIS COMMENTARY ON THE AENEID

£600

AUSONIUS

Opera, 1575.

£1,500

PISTOFILO (Bonaventura)

Oplomachia di Bonaventura Pistofilo. Siena: Hercole Gori, 1621, 1621.

DEDICATED TO KENELM DIGBY, WITH HIS PORTRAIT

£3,500

BOOK OF HOURS

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

FINELY ILLUMINATED IN BRUGES

£45,000

RUSCELLI (Girolamo)

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

THE MOST COMPLETE EDITION

£2,750

[POPE GREGORY I]

Incomincia il prologo del vulgarizatore del dyalogo di… 1515.

RARE EDITION OF THE DIALOGI, FROM THE LIBRARY OF CHARLES FAIRFAX MURRAY

£1,750

[MAHIEU M. de]

Echantillon de l'Oeconomie raffinée [N.p., 3 May, 1697], 1697.

ADMINISTRATING NEW TERRITORIES UNDER THE SUN KING - ONLY ONE COPY KNOWN

£4,000

[ST. FARRE]

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

FIBRE THEORY FROM AN ANATOMICAL CONNOISSEUR

£2,250

ASCHAM (Roger)

Familiarum Epistolarum Libri tres, magna orationis elegantia conscripti,… 1602.

A DE THOU BINDING, WITH HIS WIFE'S ARMS

£7,500

JACOBI (Friedrich Heinrich).

David Hume über den Glauben oder Idealismus und… 1787.

£1,750

MELANCHTHON (Philip)

Initia doctrinae physicae, dicta in academia Vvitebergensi. Wittenberg: J.… 1549.

EDUCATIONAL SAMMELBAND IN HANDSOME CONTEMPORARY BINDING

£5,750

[FRENCH REVOLUTION]. & [FRENCH MONARCHY]

Discours du roi, prononcé le 5 mai 1789, jour où sa Majesté a fait l’ouverture des Etats-Généraux.   [Paris]: de l’imprimerie de Didot l’Aîné, [1789], 1789.

PRINTED ON SILK BY DIDOT

£7,500

HAIDLAUFF (Sebastian)

Der Augspurgerischen Confession, und diser verwandtes Predicanten, jetziger newer Grundtfest,… 1573.

£2,500

[TURGOT (Anne Robert Jacques). (Translator).] & TUCKER (Josiah).

Questions importantes sur le commerce, à l'occasion des… 1755.

£2,500

ISSELBURG (Peter)

Künstliche Waffenhandlung der Musqueten und Piquen oder Langen… 1620.

RARE EDITION, WITH FINE ENGRAVINGS

£5,500

ISACCHI (Giovanni Battista)

Inventioni nelle quali si manifestano varij secreti, & vtili… 1579.

INVENTIONS AND SECRETS

£7,500

SOUTHERN NETHERLANDS ARTIST

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

A VIBRANT MINIATURE

£6,500

HELVETIUS (Claude Adrien).

De l'Esprit, 1758.

£800

MERIAN (Matthäus sr.).

Gallipoli, 1650.

£150

MERIAN (Matthäus sr.).

Cales. [&] Calais [&] Duynkerke, 1650.

£100

MERIAN (Matthäus sr.).

La Rochelle, 1650.

£250

MERIAN (Matthäus sr.).

Lyon, 1650.

£200

MERIAN (Matthäus sr.).

Silvanectum Senlis. [&] Lemovicum Limoges, 1650.

£150