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ERASTUS (Thomas).

De occultis pharmacorum potestibus. Basle, Pietro Perna, 1574, 1574.

ON PHARMACOLOGY & THE OCCULT, ANNOTATED BY AN EARLY PHYSICIAN

£4,500

HAIDLAUFF (Sebastian)

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

£2,500

[Anon]

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

CASTILIAN CHIVALRIC ROMANCE, CONSIGNED TO THE FLAMES IN DON QUIXOTE

£2,000

PLUTARCH

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

FINELY BOUND & RARELY FOUND COMPLETE

£12,500

DELAUNE (Etienne)

Suite of six allegorical prints. France, c. 1560-1570, 1570.

MANNERIST ALLEGORY

£1,500

TERENTIUS AFER Publius

P. Terentii afri comoediae sex, infinitis fere locis… 1570.

£800

VERDIZOTTI (Giovanni)

Cento favole morali de i piu illustri antichi… 1570.

DESIGNS DRAWN ON THE BLOCKS BY VERDIZOTTI HIMSELF

£6,500

[CATHOLIC CHURCH]

Catechismus Romanus, ex decreto Concilij Tridentini, 1567.

WITH ELABORATE OWNERS' ARMS PAINTED ON VELLUM

£1,500

OVIDIUS NASO

Metamorphoseon libri XV. In singulas quasque fabulas argumeta.… 1567.

WOODCUTS BY VIRGIL SOLIS

£4,500

MARANTA (Bartolomeo)

Lucullianarum quaestionum libri quinque, 1564.

PRIZE COPY OF THIS COMMENTARY ON THE AENEID

£600

THUCYDIDES

Thucidide historico greco delle guerre fatte fra i… 1564.

HANDSOMELY BOUND THUCYDIDES

£1,250

DANTE

Dante con l'espositione di Christoforo Landino, et di… 1564.

THE SIGNET LIBRARY COPY

£9,500

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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PRUDENTIUS

Poemata omnia: quorum Catalogum proxima à Praefatione pagina… 1562.

RARE PRINTED DONATION EX-LIBRIS

£2,500

COUSTEAU (Pierre)

Le Pegme... mis en Francoys par Lanteaume de… 1560.

EARLY FRENCH EMBLEMS, IN ELABORATE BORDERS

£3,000

BOAISTUAU (Pierre)

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

MONSTERS AND PORTENTS

£10,000

GOLTWURM (Caspar)

Biblische Chronica, darinn die fürtrefliche Geschicht der heiligen… 1558.

NO COPIES OUTSIDE GERMANY

£5,000

EUSTATHIUS (Archbishop of Thessalonica) & HOMER

Copiae cornu sive oceanus enarrationum Homericarum, ex Eustathii… 1558.

OWNED BY AN EARLY CHAMPION OF WOMEN'S EDUCATION

£7,500

PARADIN (Claude)

Devises heroiques. Lyon, Jean de Tournes and Guillaume Gazeau, 1557.

INFLUENTIAL EMBLEMS, OWNED BY A POLISH EMIGRÉ ARISTOCRAT

£5,500

LEO (Johannes).

Description de l'Afrique, 1556.

£25,000

THUCYDIDES

L'histoire... de la guerre qui fut entre les… 1555.

TRANSLATED BY LOUIS XII'S ADVISOR

£850

CAPRIANO (Giovanni Pietro)

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

SOLE EDITION OF CAPRIANO'S LITERARY CRITICISM

£2,500

BOCCHI (Achille)

Symbolicarum quaestionum de universo genere quas serio ludebat… 1555.

FIRST EDITION OF BOCCHI'S EMBLEMS

£4,000

DA CASTIGLIONE (Sabba)

Ricordi overo ammaestramenti, 1554.

WITH UNUSUAL WOODCUT DEPICTION OF THE LEFT-HANDED SCHOLAR

£2,750

JUSTINIAN & [HALOANDER (Gregorius)]

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

HANDSOME BINDING, UNRESTORED, FROM THE LIBRARY OF JEAN BALLESDENS

£2,500

HORAPOLLO

(Title in Greek, then:) De sacris notis &… 1551.

HORAPOLLO AS AN EMBLEM BOOK

£3,500

GELLI (Giambattista)

La Circe. Florence, (appresso Lorenzo Torrentino, 1 April), 1549.

£1,250

MELANCHTHON (Philip)

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

EDUCATIONAL SAMMELBAND IN HANDSOME CONTEMPORARY BINDING

£5,750

BOOK OF HOURS (French & Latin)

Heures en Francoys & Latin a l'usaige de… 1549.

A MANNERIST BOOK OF HOURS

£9,500

VICO (Enea) & ZANTANI (Antonio) &

Le imagini con tutti i riversi trovati et le vite de… 1548.

UNUSUAL NEAR CONTEMPORARY OWNERSHIP STAMP

£4,000

OVIDIUS NASO

[Opera] Metamorphoseon libri XV, 1547.

RARE POCKET EDITION OF OVID

£2,500

CICERO (Marcus Tullius)

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

BEAUTIFULLY PRINTED BY JEAN LOYS

£2,000

AELIANUS

Αιλιανου ποικιλης ιστοριας. βιβλια ιδ. Εκ την Ηρακλειδου… 1545.

EDITIO PRINCEPS

£5,000

PHILANDRIER (Guillaume)

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

EARLY CRITICAL RECEPTION OF VITRUVIUS

£4,500

GIANNOTTI (Donato)

Libro de la republica de Vinitiani. (Rome, Antonio… 1542.

£680

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

SOUTHERN NETHERLANDS ARTIST

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

A VIBRANT MINIATURE

£6,500

BEBENBURG (Lupold von)

Veterum Germaniae principum.  Paris, Jean Foucher, 1540, 1540.

ONE OF THE EARLIEST FRENCH EX-LIBRIS STAMPS RECORDED

£1,250

GROPPER

Canones concilii provincialis Coloniensis... celebrati anno 1536. Quibus… 1538.

FROM THE LIBRARY OF JEAN BOYER, ARCHDEACON OF CONQUES (1508-41).

£4,800

BORDONE (Benedetto).

Isolario di ... Nel qual si ragiona ditutte… 1534.

THE FIRST PRINTED MAP OF CONTINENTAL NORTH AMERICA

£25,000

ERASMUS (Desiderius).

Liber cum primis pius, de praeparatione ad mortem, 1534.

FIRST EDITION - WITH MORE'S EPITAPH

£7,500

FRANCK (Sebastian)

Von dem greüwelichen laster der trunckenheit so in… 1533.

WOODCUT OF FEASTING & DRUNKENNESS BY HANS WEIDITZ

£3,500