Maggs Bros. Ltd.

NATALIBUS (Petrus de)

Catalogus sanctorum & gestorum eorum ex diversis voluminibus… 1516.

ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF SAINTS, WITH MANUSCRIPT PILATE LETTER

£3,500

CASTELLESI (Adriano)

De sermone Latino, et modis Latine loquendi. Eiusdem… 1524.

LAVISHLY GILT AND GAUFFERED

£2,250

PHILANDRIER (Guillaume)

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

EARLY CRITICAL RECEPTION OF VITRUVIUS

£4,500

OVIDIUS NASO

[Opera] Metamorphoseon libri XV, 1547.

RARE POCKET EDITION OF OVID

£2,500

MELANCHTHON (Philip)

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

EDUCATIONAL SAMMELBAND IN HANDSOME CONTEMPORARY BINDING

£5,750

JUSTINIAN & [HALOANDER (Gregorius)]

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

HANDSOME BINDING, UNRESTORED, FROM THE LIBRARY OF JEAN BALLESDENS

£2,500

GOLTWURM (Caspar)

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

NO COPIES OUTSIDE GERMANY

£5,000

PRUDENTIUS

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

RARE PRINTED DONATION EX-LIBRIS

£2,500

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

PLUTARCH

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

FINELY BOUND & RARELY FOUND COMPLETE

£12,500

RABELAIS (Francois)

Les Oeuvres de M. Francois Rabelais, Docteur in… 1588.

UNCOMMON EDITION IN CONTEMPORARY BINDING

£4,000

LULL (Ramon)

Opera ea quae ad inventam ab ipso artem… 1598.

WITH 'REVOLUTIONARY' MOVING PARTS

£7,500

ASCHAM (Roger)

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

A DE THOU BINDING, WITH HIS WIFE'S ARMS

£7,500

SANCHEZ DE AREVALO (Rodrigo)

Speculum omnium statuum totius orbis terrarum, 1613.

FROM THE LIBRARY OF A BOHEMIAN REBEL AND HIS WIFE

£2,250

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

[DIPLOMA]

Venetian doctoral diploma, illuminated manuscript on vellum, 1644.

DEGREE DIPLOMA FROM A PAPER UNIVERSITY

£8,000

PERSIUS FLACCUS (Aulus) & JUVENALIS Decimus Junius

Satyrae. Cum annotat. Th. Farnabii, 1650.

A SCHOOLMASTER'S EDITION OF JUVENAL

£275

[CATHOLIC CHURCH]

Missale Romanum, 1660.

'ALMOST HEDONISTIC': UNRECORDED ROMAN MISSAL, SUMPTUOUSLY BOUND IN RECYCLED SILK

£6,500

[MONTERCHI (Giuseppe)]

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

BOUND FOR BIBLIOPHILE AND ART COLLECTOR PAULO VAN UCHELEN

£1,500

MOLIERE (Jean Baptiste Poquelin)

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

A MASTERPIECE OF 18TH CENTURY FRENCH ILLUSTRATION

£5,000

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

MARIETTE (Pierre-Jean)

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

SUMPTUOUSLY ILLUSTRATED, FROM A CONNOISSEUR'S LIBRARY

£8,500

UNKNOWN ARTIST.

Saionjike kurumazu. [Illustrations of Saionji style Palanquins], 1750.

A very fine draft scroll with excellent provenance

£4,500

LONGUS

Les Amours pastorales de Daphnis et de Chloé,… 1757.

PASTORAL ROMANCE WITH PARALLEL FRENCH TRANSLATIONS

£1,250

BIBLE

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

£4,000

TASSO (Torquato)

La Gerusalemme liberata. Paris, appresso A. Delalain, P.… 1771.

"RELIURE DE PRESENT" DESIGNED BY GRAVELOT FOR THIS EDITION

£5,750

LONGUS

Les Amours pastorales de Daphnis et Chloé, escrites… 1779.

£750

SCHILLER (Friedrich).

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

£250

BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER

The Book of Common Prayer, 1788.

£1,800

[POPULAR PRINT]

La Gitanilla de madrid...Primera Parte. (Secunda Parte), 1816.

PRINTED BY A WOMAN

£750

MANNEVILLETTE (after).

Instructions de Daprès sur la Navigation des Indes… 1819.

BOUND FOR LOUIS-PHILIPPE, THE LAST KING OF FRANCE.

£5,500

DELESSERT (Édouard).

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

INSCRIBED LIMITED EDITION

£350

SHAKESPEARE (William).

The Works of William Shakespeare, 1864.

£1,500

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

FLETCHER (William Younger)

English Bookbindings in the British Museum [with] Foreign… 1895.

£3,000

[DOWSON, Ernest, ed.]

Ben Jonson His Volpone: Or The Foxe, 1898.

ILLUSTRATED BY AUBREY BEARDSLEY

£2,800

SCOTT (Walter).

The Lady of the Lake, 1898.

£250

SHAKESPEARE (William).

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

A stunning set of Shakespeare's complete works

£7,500

DOVES PRESS. & THE HOLY BIBLE

The English Bible Containing the Old Testament out… 1903.

£17,000

UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER

[Album of hand-coloured photographs showing famous sites of… 1906.

£450