![Book of Hours, Use of Sarum, in Latin with rubrics in French and a prayer in Middle English, illuminated manuscript on vellum.
[France, Rouen, c. 1440]](https://api.maggs.com/image/f8c1fcf1-55f3-44e3-b5fb-7c0c530ff244/616x770.webp)
BOOK OF HOURS
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum, in Latin…
THE FITZ-RALPH HOURS
£75,000
BOOK OF HOURS
Use of Angers, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on… 1440.
FINELY ILLUMINATED IN BRUGES
£45,000
CORNELIUS NEPOS
Vitae imperatorum, sive De vita illustrium virorum. Venice, Nicolaus… 1471.
EDITIO PRINCEPS - THE PEMBROKE COPY
£35,000
![Cosmographiae universalis Lib.VI. in quibus, iuxta certioris fidei scriptorum traditionem describuntur, omniu[m] habitabilis orbis partiu situs, p[ro]priæq[ue] dotes. Regionum topographicæ effigies. ...](https://api.maggs.com/image/a51a5eab-cf55-4de6-b710-69287ccec0aa/616x770.webp)
MUNSTER (Sebastian).
Cosmographiae universalis Lib.VI. in quibus, iuxta certioris fidei… 1550.
A FINE COPY
£27,500
LEO (Johannes).
Description de l'Afrique, 1556.
£25,000
HYGINUS (Gaius Julius)
Poetica astronomica. (Edited by Jacobus Sentinus and Johannes… 1482.
THE FIRST DEPICTIONS OF THE CONSTELLATIONS IN A PRINTED BOOK
£25,000
BORDONE (Benedetto).
Isolario di ... Nel qual si ragiona ditutte… 1534.
THE FIRST PRINTED MAP OF CONTINENTAL NORTH AMERICA
£25,000
LA POPELLINIERE (Lancelot-Voisin, Seigneur de).
L'Amiral de France, et par occasion, de celuy… 1584.
PROMOTING THE FRENCH COLONIZATION OF THE NEW WORLD
£19,500
![King Robert II of France accepts the surrender of Melun, an illuminated miniature on vellum from the Grandes Chroniques de France.
[Paris, c.1400-1410]](https://api.maggs.com/image/482fa0ed-6604-46e3-aae8-c01f5cbd7341/616x770.webp)
REMIET (Perrin)
King Robert II of France accepts the surrender… 1410.
A SUPERB MINIATURE FROM THE GRANDES CHRONIQUES DE FRANCE
£17,500
TRIGAULT (Nicolas).
De Christianis apvd Iaponios trivmphis sive de gravissima… 1623.
FIRST ILLUSTRATED ACCOUNT OF JESUIT MARTYRDOMS IN JAPAN
£16,000
![The Battle of Ibera at which the Romans defeated Hasdrubal, a miniature from the Romuléon, illuminated manuscript on vellum.
[Eastern France, c. 1480]](https://api.maggs.com/image/676af0d0-13fd-4484-b244-6728661efdd5/616x770.webp)
GARNIER (Pierre)
The Battle of Ibera at which the Romans… 1480.
FROM A LAVISH MANUSCRIPT HISTORY OF ROME
£15,000
ROLEWINCK (Werner)
De regimine rusticorum, 1481.
MORAL ADVICE FOR FARMERS
£15,000
![The Decretals of Pope Gregory IX, with the commentary of Bernard of Parma, in Latin, illuminated manuscript leaf on vellum [France (Paris), c.1300 or early 14th century]](https://api.maggs.com/image/8e9a2ec6-c111-4a7a-826b-e5c9bc5915b8/616x770.webp)
RAYMOND OF PENAFORT
The Decretals of Pope Gregory IX, with the…
ILLUMINATED OPENING LEAF OF THE DECRETALS
£15,000
![[Works, Greek & Latin] Τα σωζομενα συγγραμματα... Quae extant opera, cum Latina intepretatione.
[Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1572](https://api.maggs.com/image/69cf4d82-8791-4851-ba64-62c557264d66/616x770.webp)
PLUTARCHUS
[Works, Greek & Latin] Τα σωζομενα συγγραμματα... Quae… 1572.
FINELY BOUND & RARELY FOUND COMPLETE
£15,000
GHEYN (Jacques de)
Maniement d'armes d'arquebuses, mousquets, & picques Selon l'ordre… 1619.
EXTREMELY RARE - WITH ENGLISH TEXT
£12,500
![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
CHYTRAEUS (David)
Libellus de morte et vita aeterna, editio postrema.… 1590.
WITH UNIQUE DANCE OF DEATH WOODCUTS
£12,500
BARON L'ESTAT
Lali et Sainval drame en trois actes en… 1784.
WRITTEN & PERFORMED FOR CATHERINE THE GREAT
£12,500
![Δειπνοσοφιστων βιβλια πεντεκαιδεκα. Deipnosophistarum libri XV (edited by Isaac Casaubon; tr. J. Dalechamps).
[Geneva, Henri and Paul Estienne, for] Jérôme Commelin, 1598](https://api.maggs.com/image/c6685656-5521-4bb2-874d-726c8c884727/616x770.webp)
ATHENAEUS , of Naucratis
Δειπνοσοφιστων βιβλια πεντεκαιδεκα. Deipnosophistarum libri XV (edited by… 1598.
A CLASSIC OF GASTRONOMY BOUND FOR DE THOU & HIS FIRST WIFE
£12,000
ERASMUS (Desiderius).
Collectanea Adagiorum, 1515.
CONTEMPORARY JUVENILE NOTES & DRAWINGS
£11,000
GAUTIER DE CHATILLON (Phillipe)
Alexandri Magni regis Macedonum vita. Strasbourg: Reinhard Beck, 1513, 1513.
A FASCINATING SAMMELBAND, WITH THE RARE ALEXANDREIS
£11,000
PLINIUS SECUNDUS
Naturae Historiarum libri XXXVII. E castigationibus Hermolai Barbari… 1518.
OWNED BY LUTHER'S TEACHER AND FUTURE FOE
£11,000
![Alberti Durer Noriberg. German. Icones sacrae. In historiam salutis humanae per redemptorem nostrum Iesum Christum Dei & Marium filium instauratae... nunc primum è tenebris in lucem editae...
[Hamburg, G.L. Frobenius], 1604](https://api.maggs.com/image/1be39e4e-bf72-409e-b817-94b24ad9538a/616x770.webp)
ALTDORFER (Albrecht)
Alberti Durer Noriberg. German. Icones sacrae. In historiam… 1604.
ALTDORFER'S WOODCUTS DISGUISED AS DÜRER'S WORK
£10,000
MACHIAVELLI (Niccolò) & [DIECI DI BALÌA]
Manuscript document appointing Bernardino da Bartoli captain of… 1508.
DOCUMENT BEARING MACHIAVELLI'S NAME
£10,000
DIPLOMA
Paduan doctoral degree diploma, illuminated manuscript on vellum, 1641.
A SCOTTISH SCHOLAR IN ITALY, WITH THE ILLUMINATOR'S STRIKING ADVERTISEMENT
£10,000
BOAISTUAU (Pierre)
Histoires prodigieuses... extraictes de plusieurs fameux autheurs, Grecs… 1560.
MONSTERS AND PORTENTS, LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED FIRST EDITION
£10,000
![Discours du roi, prononcé le 5 mai 1789, jour où sa Majesté a fait l’ouverture des Etats-Généraux.
[Paris]: de l’imprimerie de Didot l’Aîné, [1789].](https://api.maggs.com/image/e7bb9291-9f08-48d0-a5f4-06f1fd900a71/616x770.webp)
[FRENCH REVOLUTION].
Discours du roi, prononcé le 5 mai 1789, jour où sa Majesté a fait l’ouverture des Etats-Généraux. [Paris]: de l’imprimerie de Didot l’Aîné, [1789], 1789.
PRINTED ON SILK BY DIDOT
£9,500
![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
FABRICIO (Principio)
Delle allusioni, imprese, et emblemi sopra la vita,… 1588.
THE BUONCOMPAGNI DRAGON
£9,500
ISACCHI (Giovanni Battista)
Inventioni nelle quali si manifestano varij secreti, & vtili… 1579.
INVENTIONS AND SECRETS
£8,500
[DIPLOMA]
Venetian doctoral diploma, illuminated manuscript on vellum, 1644.
DEGREE DIPLOMA FROM A PAPER UNIVERSITY
£8,000
UBERTINUS (de Casali)
Arbor vitae crucifixae Jesu Christi. Venice, Andreas de… 1485.
THE TREE OF THE CRUCIFIED LIFE OF CHRIST
£7,500
ASCHAM (Roger)
Familiarum Epistolarum Libri tres, magna orationis elegantia conscripti,… 1602.
BOUND IN RED MOROCCO FOR DE THOU
£7,500
![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/5b1bcd6e-09a3-4eac-96d5-73f58382d5d4/616x770.webp)
LULL (Ramon)
Opera ea quae ad inventam ab ipso artem… 1598.
WITH THREE COMPLETE VOLVELLES
£7,500
![Two historiated initials depicting St Mark and Two Men on a leaf from the Mailhac-Faber Bible, illuminated manuscript in Latin on vellum. [Southern France, late 13th or early 14th century]](https://api.maggs.com/image/d4923212-a6aa-416c-ba31-7916749d1a60/616x770.webp)
SOUTHERN FRENCH ARTIST
Two historiated initials depicting St Mark and Two…
TWO SUPERB LARGE INITIALS, ONE OF ST. MARK
£7,500
HOROZCO Y COVARRUBIAS (Juan)
Emblemas Morales. Segovia, Juan de la Cuesta, 1589.
THE FIRST EMBLEM BOOK PRINTED IN SPAIN
£7,500
CIRCLE OF VENTURELLA DI PIETRO
St. John the Baptist, a large historiated initial… 1330.
UMBRIAN ILLUMINATION
£7,500
KILIAN (Georg Christoph)
Denkmäler des Alten Roms oder Sammlung der vornehmsten… 1767.
RARE FIRST EDITIONS OF TWO SUPERB COLLECTIONS OF PLATES
£6,500
![The Martyrdom of St. Catherine, in an initial on a choirbook leaf [Southern Netherlands (perhaps Delft), dated 1541 (more probably 1544)].](https://api.maggs.com/image/9c984ec8-e9dd-459f-8a94-d997de27ff52/616x770.webp)
SOUTHERN NETHERLANDS ARTIST
The Martyrdom of St. Catherine, in an initial… 1541.
A VIBRANT MINIATURE
£6,500
BRUNI ARETINO (Leonardo)
Epistolarum Familiarium Libri VIII. (Ed. Antonius Moretus and… 1495.
ONE OF ONLY TWO FIFTEENTH-CENTURY EDITIONS
£6,500
![Christ Among the Doctors, an illuminated cutting from a Book of Hours on vellum. [France (eastern?), 15th century (c.1470s/80s)]](https://api.maggs.com/image/4d5692d3-a655-4a90-9b0a-a62004453af7/616x770.webp)
FRENCH ARTIST
Christ Among the Doctors, an illuminated cutting from a…
FROM THE RENOWNED BURCKHARDT-WILDT ALBUM
£6,500
![The Transfiguration, an illuminated cutting from a Book of Hours on vellum.
[France (eastern?), 15th century (c.1470s/80s)]](https://api.maggs.com/image/f80dd2ba-c8ba-43d7-b8af-f5ef00c8399f/616x770.webp)
FRENCH ARTIST
The Transfiguration, an illuminated cutting from a Book… 1470.
FROM THE RENOWNED BURCKHARDT-WILDT ALBUM
£6,000
