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LEONARD OF CHIOS (Archbishop of Mytilene)

[Historia Captae a Turca Constantinopolis]   [Italy?, third quarter of… 1450.

THE "MOST AUTHORITATIVE" EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF THE FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE

£47,500

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

£15,000

HORATIUS FLACCUS (Quintus)

[WORKS] Sus obras con la declaracion magistral en… 1599.

INSCRIBED BY THE RECTOR OF SEVILLE'S ENGLISH SEMINARY

£2,750

FRENCH ARTIST

A funeral service, an Illuminated miniature on vellum… 1500.

£2,250

FRENCH ARTIST

A funeral service, an Illuminated miniature on vellum… 1430.

£2,750

PETRUS RIGA

A leaf from Aurora in the first redaction by Aegidius…

£2,250

CORTESE (Cristoforo)

A prophet pointing to his eyes, historiated initial…

£5,000

ALTDORFER (Albrecht)

Alberti Durer Noriberg. German. Icones sacrae. In historiam… 1604.

ALTDORFER'S WOODCUTS DISGUISED AS DÜRER'S WORK

£10,000

GAUTIER DE CHATILLON (Philippe)

Alexandri Magni regis Macedonum vita.   Strasbourg: Reinhard Beck, 1513, 1513.

A FASCINATING SAMMELBAND, WITH THE RARE ALEXANDREIS

£11,000

[OLDFIELD (T.H.B.)].

An Entire and Complete History, Political and Personal,… 1794.

£125

REGINO (Abbot of Prüm)

Annales, non tam de Augustorum vitis, quam aliorum… 1521.

WITH A POSTHUMOUS PORTRAIT OF THE EDITOR

£2,500

KANT (Immanuel).

Anthropologie in pragmatischer Hinsicht abgefasst, 1798.

£650

ERASMUS (Desiderius).

Apophthegmatum opus cum primus frugiferum, vigilanter ab ipso…

SAMMELBAND OF THREE IMPORTANT EDITIONS

£9,500

UBERTINUS (de Casali)

Arbor vitae crucifixae Jesu Christi. Venice, Andreas de… 1485.

THE TREE OF THE CRUCIFIED LIFE OF CHRIST

£7,500

CLAVIUS (Christopher)

Aritmetica Prattica... tradotta da Latino in Italiano dal… 1602.

JESUIT ASSOCIATIONS - A GIFT FROM A FAMOUS MATHEMATICIAN TO A FUTURE MISSIONARY

£5,500

BOOK OF HOURS

Book of Hours, Use of Sarum, in Latin…

THE FITZ-RALPH HOURS

£75,000

FRENCH REVOLUTION

Calendrier Royal pour l'année mil sept cent quatre-vingt-dix, 1789.

PRINTED IN THE FIRST YEAR OF THE REVOLUTION

£2,500

MERIAN (Matthäus sr.).

Cales. [&] Calais [&] Duynkerke, 1650.

£100

GROPPER

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

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

£4,800

TUBERINUS (Johannes)

Carmen ad gravem: sanctumque senatum Lipsensem: de orgijs… 1512.

HEAVILY ANNOTATED

£2,250

NATALIBUS (Petrus de)

Catalogus sanctorum & gestorum eorum ex diversis voluminibus… 1516.

ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF SAINTS, WITH MANUSCRIPT PILATE LETTER

£3,500

[CATHOLIC CHURCH]

Catechismus Romanus, ex decreto Concilij Tridentini, 1567.

WITH ELABORATE OWNERS' ARMS PAINTED ON VELLUM

£1,500

VERDIZOTTI (Giovanni)

Cento favole morali de i piu illustri antichi… 1570.

DESIGNS DRAWN ON THE BLOCKS BY VERDIZOTTI HIMSELF

£6,500

FRENCH ARTIST

Christ Among the Doctors, an illuminated cutting from a…

FROM THE RENOWNED BURCKHARDT-WILDT ALBUM

£6,500

MERIAN (Matthäus sr.).

Civitatis Avignon omniumq[ue]. viarum et aedificiorum eius perfecta… 1650.

£250

ERASMUS (Desiderius).

Collectanea Adagiorum, 1515.

WITH CONTEMPORARY JUVENILE NOTES & DRAWINGS

£11,000

TERENTIUS AFER Publius

Comoediae sex ... Terentij vita ex Aelio Donato.… 1584.

A POCKET EDITION OF TERENCE'S POPULAR PLAYS

£450

[JESUITS]

Constitutiones Cum earum Declarationibus. Rome, In Collegio eiusdem Societatis, 1583.

SIGNED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE JESUITS IN ROME, A CORRESPONDENT OF PLANTIN'S

£2,750

KANT (Immanuel).

Critik der reinen Vernunft, 1781.

CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON

£28,000

TRIGAULT (Nicolas).

De Christianis apvd Japonios trivmphis sive de gravissima… 1623.

FIRST ILLUSTRATED ACCOUNT OF JESUIT MARTYRDOMS IN JAPAN

£16,000

[DUPONT DE NEMOURS (Pierre Samuel).]

De l'origine et des progrès d'une science nouvelle, 1768.

A lovely copy of this important exposition of physiocrat doctrine

£6,500

PEUTINGER (Conrad)

De mirandis Germaniae antiquitatibus, sermones convivales. Strassburg, apud… 1530.

AUGSBURG MERCHANTS' PARTICIPATION IN PORTUGUESE EXPLORATION

£2,800

ERASTUS (Thomas).

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

ON PHARMACOLOGY & THE OCCULT, ANNOTATED BY AN EARLY PHYSICIAN

£4,500

BARTHOLOMAEUS ANGLICUS

De proprietatibus rerum. Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 30 May 1483, 1483.

THE GREATEST MEDIEVAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA

£17,500

POLYDORE VERGIL

De rerum inventoribus libri octo. Basle, Johann Bebel, 1532, 1532.

WITH HOLBEIN'S DANCE OF DEATH ALPHABET

£1,500

CAPRIANO (Giovanni Pietro)

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

SOLE EDITION OF CAPRIANO'S LITERARY CRITICISM

£2,500

FABRICIO (Principio)

Delle allusioni, imprese, et emblemi sopra la vita,… 1588.

THE BUONCOMPAGNI DRAGON

£12,000

KILIAN (Georg Christoph)

Denkmäler des Alten Roms oder Sammlung der vornehmsten… 1767.

RARE FIRST EDITIONS OF TWO SUPERB COLLECTIONS OF PLATES

£6,500

LEO (Johannes).

Description de l'Afrique, 1556.

£25,000

FELIBIEN (André)

Description sommaire du Chasteau de Versailles.  Paris, 1674, 1674.

EARLIEST GUIDE BOOK TO PALACE OF VERSAILLES & PARK

£2,500

PARADIN (Claude)

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

INFLUENTIAL EMBLEMS, OWNED BY A POLISH EMIGRÉ ARISTOCRAT

£5,500