![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
![Paschal Vigil for SS. Rufina e Seconda in Trastevere. Fragment of a leaf of the Paschal Vigil from a Liturgical book in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum.
[Italy, probably Rome, 12th century].](https://api.maggs.com/image/e32b6153-da0d-4b44-925c-7d079767f237/616x770.webp)
ROMAN SCRIBE
Paschal Vigil for SS. Rufina e Seconda in…
£2,500
DIPLOMA
Paduan doctoral degree diploma, illuminated manuscript on vellum, 1641.
A SCOTTISH SCHOLAR IN ITALY, WITH THE ILLUMINATOR'S STRIKING ADVERTISEMENT
£10,000
TERENTIUS AFER Publius
P. Terentii afri comoediae sex, infinitis fere locis… 1570.
£800
MERIAN (Matthäus sr.).
Ostia, 1650.
£150
PISTOFILO (Bonaventura)
Oplomachia di Bonaventura Pistofilo. Siena: Hercole Gori, 1621, 1621.
DEDICATED TO KENELM DIGBY, WITH HIS PORTRAIT
£4,000
![Opera ea quae ad inventam ab ipso artem universalem... pertinent. Ut et in eandem quorundam interpretum scripti commentarij [by Giordano Bruno, H. Cornelius Agrippa ]... Accessit index, etc.
Strasbourg, Lazarus Zetzner,](https://api.maggs.com/image/8ad9dd90-b07f-4ed7-ba8c-0023c2dd4b63/616x770.webp)
LULL (Ramon)
Opera ea quae ad inventam ab ipso artem… 1598.
WITH 'REVOLUTIONARY' MOVING PARTS
£7,500
AUSONIUS
Opera, 1575.
£1,500
![Oeuvres. Nouvelle édition.
Paris, [Pierre Prault], 1734](https://api.maggs.com/image/4c8c5764-2f10-4637-870c-77185659fe72/616x770.webp)
MOLIERE (Jean Baptiste Poquelin)
Oeuvres. Nouvelle édition. Paris, [Pierre Prault], 1734, 1734.
A MASTERPIECE OF 18TH CENTURY FRENCH ILLUSTRATION
£5,000
ARGOTE DE MOLINA (Gonzalo)
Nobleza de Andaluzia, 1588.
ANDALUSIAN NOBILITY, EXTENSIVELY ILLUSTRATED
£2,500
MERIAN (Matthäus sr.).
Neapolis, 1650.
£400
PLINIUS SECUNDUS
Naturae Historiarum libri XXXVII. E castigationibus Hermolai Barbari… 1518.
OWNED BY LUTHER'S TEACHER AND FUTURE FOE
£11,000
OVIDIUS NASO
Metamorphoseon libri XV. In singulas quasque fabulas argumeta.… 1567.
WOODCUTS OF VIRGIL SOLIS
£4,500
MERIAN (Matthäus sr.).
Messina, 1650.
£300
MACHIAVELLI (Niccolò) & [DIECI DI BALÌA]
Manuscript document appointing Bernardino da Bartoli captain of… 1508.
DOCUMENT BEARING MACHIAVELLI'S NAME
£10,000
GHEYN (Jacques de)
Maniement d'armes d'arquebuses, mousquets, & picques Selon l'ordre… 1619.
EXTREMELY RARE - WITH ENGLISH TEXT
£12,500
CICERO (Marcus Tullius)
M T Ciceronis Brutus, seu de claris Oratoribus,… 1546.
BEAUTIFULLY PRINTED BY JEAN LOYS
£2,000
MERIAN (Matthäus sr.).
Lyon, 1650.
£200
MARANTA (Bartolomeo)
Lucullianarum quaestionum libri quinque, 1564.
£500
DE GUEVARA (Antonio)
Libro di Marco Aurelio con l'horologio de' prencipi, 1575.
MARCUS AURELIUS AS A MODEL OF PRINCELY BEHAVIOUR
£800
GIANNOTTI (Donato)
Libro de la republica de Vinitiani. (Rome, Antonio… 1542.
£680
CHYTRAEUS (David)
Libellus de morte et vita aeterna, editio postrema.… 1590.
PLAYFUL & MISCHIEVOUS DEATH
£12,500
[MIRABEAU (Victor Riquetti, Marquis de).]
Lettres sur le commerce des grains, 1768.
£1,200
NOVERRE (Jean Georges)
Lettres sur la danse, et sur les ballets.… 1760.
A REVOLUTION IN BALLET
£1,400
DESNOUES (Guillaume)
Lettres de G. Desnoues, Professeur d'Anatomie & de… 1706.
ON EMBALMING PRACTICES, BY AN EARLY ANATOMICAL WAX MODELLER
£2,500
RABELAIS (Francois)
Les Oeuvres de M. Francois Rabelais, Docteur in… 1588.
UNCOMMON EDITION IN CONTEMPORARY BINDING
£4,000
DUCLOS (Charles Pinot)
Les confessions du comte de ***… huitième edition,… 1776.
£750
![Les Amours pastorales de Daphnis et de Chloé, par Longus. Double traduction du grec en françois, de Mr. Amiot et d'un Anonime [Antoine Le Camus] mises en paralelle, et ornées des estampes originales du fameux B. Audran, gravées aux dépens du feu duc d'Or](https://api.maggs.com/image/c4280234-f7d2-4cdd-9365-99bc11087ac8/616x770.webp)
LONGUS
Les Amours pastorales de Daphnis et de Chloé,… 1757.
PASTORAL ROMANCE WITH PARALLEL FRENCH TRANSLATIONS
£1,250
![Les Amours pastorales de Daphnis et Chloé, escrites en grec par Longus, & translatées en françois par Jacques Amyot.
Londres [Paris], 1779](https://api.maggs.com/image/90a0c73f-6119-463c-81ed-e43f352b813d/616x770.webp)
LONGUS
Les Amours pastorales de Daphnis et Chloé, escrites… 1779.
£750
![Leaf from a finely illuminated manuscript Missal - with an almost nude man and two men’s heads within the initials, in Latin on vellum
[Italy, Umbria (probably Assisi), c. 1290]](https://api.maggs.com/image/8c50389c-db85-46d0-9ab0-00ca140b4c0c/616x770.webp)
ITALIAN ILLUMINATOR
Leaf from a finely illuminated manuscript Missal -… 1290.
UNRECORDED LEAF FROM AN OPULENTLY DECORATED MISSAL
£5,750
![Le premier (-vingt uniesme et dernier) livre d'Amadis de Gaule [translated by Nicolas d'Herbelay des Essars, G. Chappuys, and others.]](https://api.maggs.com/image/dead8cfc-a258-4af2-beab-3ccda0120d36/616x770.webp)
AMADIS DE GAULE
Le premier (-vingt uniesme et dernier) livre d'Amadis… 1577.
INSCRIBED BY A YOUNG HENRY PERCY, THE FUTURE 'WIZARD EARL'
£12,500
COUSTEAU (Pierre)
Le Pegme... mis en Francoys par Lanteaume de… 1560.
EARLY FRENCH EMBLEMS, IN ELABORATE BORDERS
£3,000
RUSCELLI (Girolamo)
Le impresi illustri . . . aggiuntovi nuovamte.… 1584.
THE MOST COMPLETE EDITION
£2,750
BOCCACCIO
Le Decameron. Contes de Bocace, traduction nouvelle; augmentée… 1801.
PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED BOCCACCIO, IN CONTEMPORARY BINDING
£1,500
MERIAN (Matthäus sr.).
Lauretum, 1650.
£150
BARON L'ESTAT
Lali et Sainval drame en trois actes en… 1784.
WRITTEN & PERFORMED FOR CATHERINE THE GREAT
£12,500
MERIAN (Matthäus sr.).
La Rochelle, 1650.
£250
[FLORESTA (Pedro de la)]
La historia de los mui nobles, y valientes… 1700.
RARE EDITION OF THIS CHIVALRIC ROMANCE
£1,250
TASSO (Torquato)
La Gerusalemme liberata. Paris, appresso A. Delalain, P.… 1771.
"RELIURE DE PRESENT" DESIGNED BY GRAVELOT FOR THIS EDITION
£5,750
GELLI (Giambattista)
La Circe. Florence, (appresso Lorenzo Torrentino, 1 April), 1549.
£1,250
SEMAINE SAINTE
L'office de la Semaine Sainte a l'usage de… 1743.
£1,500
THUCYDIDES
L'histoire... de la guerre qui fut entre les… 1555.
TRANSLATED BY LOUIS XII'S ADVISOR
£850
