Maggs Bros. Ltd.

DELESSERT (Édouard).

Vingt et un jours à la Mer Morte.… 1851.

INSCRIBED LIMITED EDITION

£350

BEAUMONT, Cyril W.

The Mysterious Toyshop

£150

MACHIAVELLI (Niccolo).

Lettere, 1929.

MACHIAVELLI IN A CHRISTMAS BINDING

£250

ELIOT (George).

Romola, 1880.

Eliot’s Romola, bound in vellum and hand-painted, featuring a lion rampant holding a crest of the flag of Florence

£650

NEWCASTLE (William Cavendish, Duke of).

Méthode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux… 1737.

THE GREATEST ENGLISH ILLUSTRATED BOOK ON HORSEMANSHIP IN A MAGNIFICENT CONTEMPORARY BINDING

£65,000

SCHILLER (Friedrich).

Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua. Ein republikanisches Trauerspiel, 1788.

£250

SHAKESPEARE (William).

The Works of William Shakespeare. Edited by Israel… 1899.

£7,500

DANTE

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

THE DIVINE COMEDY, LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED

£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

PHILANDRIER (Guillaume)

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

EARLY CRITICAL RECEPTION OF VITRUVIUS

£4,500

[BLAKE (William).] & GILCHRIST (Alexander).

Life of William Blake, with Selections from his… 1880.

£1,250

AENEAS SYLVIUS PICCOLOMINI (later Pope Pius II)

Epistolae familiares. De Duobus amantibus Euryalo et Lucretia.… 1496.

HUMANIST LETTERS BY A FUTURE POPE

£10,000

BIBLE

(King James Version). The Holy Bible. Contemporary red… 1768.

£4,000

SARTRE (Jean-Paul).

La Nausée, 1938.

INSCRIBED BY SARTRE, IN A REVORIM BINDING BY JEAN DE GONET

£5,000

YEATS (W.B.)

Poems, 1923.

£450

SCOTT (Walter).

The Lady of the Lake, 1898.

£250

KAWAKAMI (Sumio).

Hirado genso [Hirado fantasy], 1977.

The Dutch trading port of Hirado, Nagasaki

£450

MARIETTE (Pierre-Jean)

Traité des pierres gravées par P.J. Mariette. Recueil… 1750.

SUMPTUOUSLY ILLUSTRATED, FROM A CONNOISSEUR'S LIBRARY

£8,500

KAWAKAMI (Sumio).

Ima wa mukashi [Once upon a time], 1967.

Bound with a reverse glass painting

£800

CHELONIIDAE PRESS & BROCKMAN (James) [Binder]

Birds and Beasts of Shakespeare, 1990.

A MASTERFUL BINDING BY JAMES BROCKMAN

£12,000

MITCHELL (Margaret) & DELRUE (Paul) [Binder]

Gone with the Wind, 1936.

FIRST EDITION, BOUND BY PAUL DELRUE

£7,000

RILEY (Dominic) [Binder] & BARNFIELD (Richard)

Richard Barnfield's Sonnets, 2001.

A BEAUTIFUL AND THOUGHTFUL BINDING BY DOMINIC RILEY

£7,500

BROCKMAN (Stuart) [Binder], GROSS (Philip) & REDDICK (Peter)

Abstract Garden, 1996.

FINELY BOUND BY STUART BROCKMAN

£4,500

WILLIAMS (Eric) [Editor], PALMER (Garrick) [Illustrator], OLD STILE PRESS & BROCKMAN (Stuart) [Binder]

Land, 1996.

FINELY BOUND BY STUART BROCKMAN

£5,000

Bacon (Francis), RILEY (Dominic) [Binder] & PENNELL (Betty)

Of Gardens, 1993.

DOMINIC RILEY BINDING INSPIRED BY GARDENS

£6,000

ALLIX (Susan)

Attitudes, 2024.

An artist's book by Susan Allix

£2,500

ALLIX (Susan)

Colours of Persia, 2007.

ONE OF SUSAN ALLIX'S FINEST BOOKS

£4,500

ALLIX (Susan)

Poems of Wyatt and Petrarch, Tudor poetry and… 1989.

PRINTED, ILLUSTRATED AND BOUND BY SUSAN ALLIX

£4,000

FARLEIGH (John) & WOMESLEY (Edward)

The Creative Craftsman, 1950.

A THOUGHTFUL AND UNUSUAL BINDING

£900

PLOUGH PRESS & WAKEMAN (Geoffrey)

English Marbled Papers, A Documentary History, 1985.

THE SPECIAL EDITION WITH 7 ADDITIONAL SAMPLES

£800

KAWAKAMI (Sumio).

Jagatarabumi [Letters from Jakarta], 1941.

The half-Japanese diaspora in Jakarta

£5,000

SAUVAGE (Slyvain) & DE LACLOS (Choderlos)

Les Liaisons Dangereuses, 1930.

EIGHT ORIGINAL WORKS AND FOUR COPPER PLATES BY SAUVAGE

£6,000

KOJIMA (Tokujiro).

Katazome torumpu-e: Te [Stencil-dyed playing cards: Hands], 1986.

Kojima playing cards: Hand-themed

£650

KOJIMA (Tokujiro).

Katazome torumpu-e: Su [Stencil-dyed playing cards: Numbers], 1986.

Kojima playing cards: Number-themed

£650

KOJIMA (Tokujiro).

Katazome torumpu-e: hako [Stencil-dyed playing cards: Boxes], 1986.

Kojima playing cards: Box-themed

£650

KAMISAKI (Sunao).

Toki to ningyo to [Time and dolls], 1986.

Clockmakers and contemplations on time

£550

KAMISAKI (Sunao).

Toki seou [Bearing the weight of time], 1987.

Time: in fourteen influential thinkers

£450

BRUGALLA (Emilio), JUVENAL & DE BECQUE (Maurice)

Satire Sur Les Femmes, 1923.

A FINE ART DECO BINDING BY THE CATALAN MASTER

£4,000

[Anon], LALAU (Maurice), CANAPE (George) [Binder] & CORRIEZ (George) [Binder]

Les Quinze Joyes de Mariage, 1928.

A STRIKING ART DECO BINDING

£2,000

ERAGNY PRESS & BINYON (Laurence)

Dream-Come-True. Poems by Laurence Binyon, 1905.

A DREAM COME TRUE

£1,000

MATISSE (Henri) & MALLARMÉ (Stephane)

Poésies, 1932.

MATISSE'S FIRST LIVRE D'ARTISTE

£82,500

VERLAINE (Paul), YSEUX SR. DE THIERRY-SIMIER [Binder] & CHIMOT (Édouard)

Parallelement, 1931.

THE LAST GASP OF THE 'ROARING TWENTIES'

£4,000