![Two historiated initials depicting St Mark and Two Men on a leaf from the Mailhac-Faber Bible, illuminated manuscript in Latin on vellum. [Southern France, late 13th or early 14th century]](https://api.maggs.com/image/d4923212-a6aa-416c-ba31-7916749d1a60/616x770.webp)
SOUTHERN FRENCH ARTIST
Two historiated initials depicting St Mark and Two…
TWO SUPERB LARGE INITIALS, ONE OF ST. MARK
£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
![Pentecost, an historiated initial on a vellum leaf from an Antiphonal, in Latin.
[Italy (Emilia-Romagna, perhaps Bologna), c. 1260-70]](https://api.maggs.com/image/f8e06b91-7478-4ef7-ab73-930c589cc220/616x770.webp)
ITALIAN ARTIST
Pentecost, an historiated initial on a vellum leaf…
£9,500
MARANTA (Bartolomeo)
Lucullianarum quaestionum libri quinque, 1564.
£500
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
![Echantillon de l'Oeconomie raffinée
[N.p., 3 May, 1697].](https://api.maggs.com/image/0e8dcfcb-ef37-4d11-a094-b4001138af66/616x770.webp)
[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
BRUNI ARETINO (Leonardo)
Epistolarum Familiarium Libri VIII. (Ed. Antonius Moretus and… 1495.
ONE OF ONLY TWO FIFTEENTH-CENTURY EDITIONS
£6,500
![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].](https://api.maggs.com/image/e7bb9291-9f08-48d0-a5f4-06f1fd900a71/616x770.webp)
[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
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
![The Martyrdom of St. Catherine, in an initial on a choirbook leaf [Southern Netherlands (perhaps Delft), dated 1541 (more probably 1544)].](https://api.maggs.com/image/9c984ec8-e9dd-459f-8a94-d997de27ff52/616x770.webp)
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
£1,800
PERSIUS FLACCUS (Aulus) & JUVENALIS Decimus Junius
Satyrae. Cum annotat. Th. Farnabii, 1650.
A SCHOOLMASTER'S EDITION OF JUVENAL
£275
HELVETIUS (Claude Adrien).
De l'Esprit, 1758.
£800
MERIAN (Matthäus sr.).
Gallipoli, 1650.
£150
![Cales. [&] Calais [&] Duynkerke.](https://api.maggs.com/image/2f7d0fd3-d46a-4938-b573-b9323b99dca0/616x770.webp)
MERIAN (Matthäus sr.).
Cales. [&] Calais [&] Duynkerke, 1650.
£100
MERIAN (Matthäus sr.).
La Rochelle, 1650.
£250
MERIAN (Matthäus sr.).
Lyon, 1650.
£200
![Silvanectum Senlis. [&] Lemovicum Limoges.](https://api.maggs.com/image/3e8aef6e-731b-4a6f-b7b0-26047219507b/616x770.webp)
MERIAN (Matthäus sr.).
Silvanectum Senlis. [&] Lemovicum Limoges, 1650.
£150
![Civitatis Avignon omniumq[ue]. viarum et aedificiorum eius perfecta delineatio 1635.](https://api.maggs.com/image/2c3b6393-0a66-42d7-bde3-630ac0b8768b/616x770.webp)
MERIAN (Matthäus sr.).
Civitatis Avignon omniumq[ue]. viarum et aedificiorum eius perfecta… 1650.
£250
MERIAN (Matthäus sr.).
Reims en Champagne, 1650.
£150
MERIAN (Matthäus sr.).
Messina, 1650.
£300
MERIAN (Matthäus sr.).
Ostia, 1650.
£150
MERIAN (Matthäus sr.).
Forte de Fuentes, 1650.
£200
MERIAN (Matthäus sr.).
Lauretum, 1650.
£150
MERIAN (Matthäus sr.).
Tivoli, 1650.
£200
MERIAN (Matthäus sr.).
Neapolis, 1650.
£400
MERIAN (Matthäus sr.).
Sinus Puteolanus, 1650.
£200
TERENTIUS AFER Publius
P. Terentii afri comoediae sex, infinitis fere locis… 1570.
£800
ERASMUS (Desiderius).
Liber cum primis pius, de praeparatione ad mortem, 1534.
FIRST EDITION - WITH MORE'S EPITAPH
£7,500
MASTERS OF THE SUFFRAGES
The Adoration of the Three Magi, a large… 1480.
ADORATION OF THE MAGI
£4,500
FRENCH ARTIST
The Stigmatization of St Francis, miniature on a… 1500.
FRANCIS OF ASSISSI RECEIVES THE STIGMATA
£3,000
