Maggs Bros. Ltd.

DUCLOS (Charles Pinot)

Les confessions du comte de ***… huitième edition,… 1776.

£750

MACHIAVELLI (Niccolo).

Lettere, 1929.

MACHIAVELLI IN A CHRISTMAS BINDING

£250

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

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

£1,250

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

MOLIERE (Jean Baptiste Poquelin)

Oeuvres. Nouvelle édition. Paris, [Pierre Prault], 1734, 1734.

A MASTERPIECE OF 18TH CENTURY FRENCH ILLUSTRATION

£5,000

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

Of Gardens, 1993.

DOMINIC RILEY BINDING INSPIRED BY GARDENS

£6,000

ALLIX (Susan) & LEON BATTISTA (Alberti)

On Painting. Translated from the original Italian, abridged… 1999.

ALBERTI'S MANUAL OF PAINTING, VIA SUSAN ALLIX

£4,500

LULL (Ramon)

Opera ea quae ad inventam ab ipso artem… 1598.

WITH 'REVOLUTIONARY' MOVING PARTS

£7,500

STENGEL (Georg)

Ova Paschalia sacro emblemate inscripta descriptaque a Georgio… 1635.

CHARMING, EGG-SHAPED EMBLEMS, WITH EARLY DEPICTIONS OF INDIGENOUS AMERICANS

£5,500

DIPLOMA

Paduan doctoral degree diploma, illuminated manuscript on vellum, 1641.

A SCOTTISH SCHOLAR IN ITALY, WITH THE ILLUMINATOR'S STRIKING ADVERTISEMENT

£9,500

MACLAGAN (Philip Douglas) & RICKETTS (Charles)

Pages on Art, 1913.

£800

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

Parallelement, 1931.

THE LAST GASP OF THE 'ROARING TWENTIES'

£4,000

PRUDENTIUS

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

RARE PRINTED DONATION EX-LIBRIS

£2,500

ALLIX (Susan)

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

PRINTED, ILLUSTRATED AND BOUND BY SUSAN ALLIX

£4,000

YEATS (W.B.)

Poems, 1923.

£450

MATISSE (Henri) & MALLARMÉ (Stephane)

Poésies, 1932.

MATISSE'S FIRST LIVRE D'ARTISTE

£82,500

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

Richard Barnfield's Sonnets, 2001.

A BEAUTIFUL AND THOUGHTFUL BINDING BY DOMINIC RILEY

£7,500

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

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

Satire Sur Les Femmes, 1923.

A FINE ART DECO BINDING BY THE CATALAN MASTER

£4,000

PERSIUS FLACCUS (Aulus) & JUVENALIS Decimus Junius

Satyrae. Cum annotat. Th. Farnabii, 1650.

A SCHOOLMASTER'S EDITION OF JUVENAL

£275

[MONTERCHI (Giuseppe)]

Scelta de medaglioni piu rari nella Bibliotheca dell'… 1679.

BOUND FOR BIBLIOPHILE AND ART COLLECTOR PAULO VAN UCHELEN

£1,500

KAWAKAMI (Sumio).

Shonen shojo [Boys and Girls], 1952.

Reflecting on childhood and the passing of time

£850

SANCHEZ DE AREVALO (Rodrigo)

Speculum omnium statuum totius orbis terrarum, 1613.

FROM THE LIBRARY OF A BOHEMIAN REBEL AND HIS WIFE

£2,250

LALANDE (Joseph de) & BOCEL (Joëlle)

The Art of Papermaking, 1976.

£3,500

FARLEIGH (John) & WOMESLEY (Edward)

The Creative Craftsman, 1950.

A THOUGHTFUL AND UNUSUAL BINDING

£900

CRANACH PRESS & VERGILIUS MARO (Publius)

The Eclogues of Vergil. In the original Latin… 1927.

One of the greatest achievements of 20th century fine printing

£8,000

SCOTT (Walter).

The Lady of the Lake, 1898.

£250

OLIVER (Nicky) & GIONO (Jean)

The Man Who Planted Trees, 2015.

£1,000

BEAUMONT, Cyril W.

The Mysterious Toyshop

£150

SAYENKO (Dmitry) & BODMAN (Sarah) [Text adaptation by]

The Royal Hunt. Selected historical observations, 2016.

POWERFUL & STRIKING LINOCUTS

£1,750

SHAKESPEARE (William).

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

£7,500

KAMISAKI (Sunao).

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

Time: in fourteen influential thinkers

£450

KAMISAKI (Sunao).

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

Clockmakers and contemplations on time

£550

MARIETTE (Pierre-Jean)

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

SUMPTUOUSLY ILLUSTRATED, FROM A CONNOISSEUR'S LIBRARY

£8,500

[DIPLOMA]

Venetian doctoral diploma, illuminated manuscript on vellum, 1644.

DEGREE DIPLOMA FROM A PAPER UNIVERSITY

£8,000

DELESSERT (Édouard).

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

INSCRIBED LIMITED EDITION

£350

GREGYNOG PRESS & MILLER PARKER (Agnes)

Wood Engravings From the Fables of Esope, with… 1996.

A SURVEY OF AGNES MILLER PARKER'S ENGRAVINGS

£1,500

CHINESE REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT.

Zongli fengan shilu. [A Record of the Prime… 1929.

£3,800

OVIDIUS NASO

[Opera] Metamorphoseon libri XV, 1547.

RARE POCKET EDITION OF OVID

£2,500

PLUTARCHUS

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

FINELY BOUND & RARELY FOUND COMPLETE

£12,500

KRULL (Germaine)

Études de Nu, 1930.

'Why make nudes? because it has always been beautiful and I liked it one summer morning'

£8,500