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
![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
TASSO (Torquato)
La Gerusalemme liberata. Paris, appresso A. Delalain, P.… 1771.
"RELIURE DE PRESENT" DESIGNED BY GRAVELOT FOR THIS EDITION
£5,750
![The Nativity, historiated initials on a leaf from an early Book of Hours, in Latin and French, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Northern France (Picardy, Noyon?), 14th century (c. 1370s)]](https://api.maggs.com/image/2e7e05df-aba2-4903-984f-beb453c886f9/616x770.webp)
NORTHERN FRENCH ARTIST
The Nativity, historiated initials on a leaf from… 1370.
£5,500
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
PARADIN (Claude)
Devises heroiques. Lyon, Jean de Tournes and Guillaume Gazeau, 1557.
INFLUENTIAL EMBLEMS, OWNED BY A POLISH EMIGRÉ ARISTOCRAT
£5,500
![Αιλιανου ποικιλης ιστοριας. βιβλια ιδ. Εκ την Ηρακλειδου περι πολιτειων υπομνημα. Πολημωνος φισιογνωμονικων εγχειριδιον... Variae historiae libri XIIII.
Rome: [Antonio Blado], January 1545](https://api.maggs.com/image/bb0a4e52-9594-4405-b1c4-5d6cea111a4e/616x770.webp)
AELIANUS
Αιλιανου ποικιλης ιστοριας. βιβλια ιδ. Εκ την Ηρακλειδου… 1545.
EDITIO PRINCEPS
£5,000
![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
![A prophet pointing to his eyes, historiated initial 'D' on a leaf from an illuminated choirbook on vellum.
[Veneto, second quarter 15th century]](https://api.maggs.com/image/3e99f8b4-ae67-41de-8751-694049d31dc4/616x770.webp)
CORTESE (Cristoforo)
A prophet pointing to his eyes, historiated initial…
£5,000
FRENCH ARTIST
St. Lawrence, an illuminated miniature on vellum from… 1425.
WITH GRIDIRON IN HAND
£4,750
ERASTUS (Thomas).
De occultis pharmacorum potestibus. Basle, Pietro Perna, 1574, 1574.
ON PHARMACOLOGY & THE OCCULT, ANNOTATED BY AN EARLY PHYSICIAN
£4,500
![Embéo e Majaró Lucas.[...] El evangelio segun S. Lucas.
Madrid](https://api.maggs.com/image/b629918d-b075-4511-a9f9-822e978e7684/616x770.webp)
BORROW (George)
Embéo e Majaró Lucas.[...] El evangelio segun S.… 1837.
THE FIRST BOOK PRINTED IN THE ROMANY LANGUAGE
£4,500
![In decem libros M. Vitruvii Pollionis de architectura annotationes… Cum indicibus Graeco et Latino locupletissimis.
(Rome, [printed by Antonio Blado for] Apud Io. Andream Dossena, 1544).](https://api.maggs.com/image/42f7e7d1-0118-4b2a-88d3-e60a6d97def2/616x770.webp)
PHILANDRIER (Guillaume)
In decem libros M. Vitruvii Pollionis de architectura… 1544.
EARLY CRITICAL RECEPTION OF VITRUVIUS
£4,500
FRENCH ARTIST
Illuminated calendar leaf on vellum for November/December from… 1490.
£4,500
FRENCH ARTIST
Illuminated calendar leaf on vellum for May/June from… 1490.
GEMINI & CANCER
£4,500
FRENCH ARTIST
Illuminated calendar leaf on vellum for March/April from… 1490.
SAGITTARIUS & TAURUS
£4,500
ALBERTI (Leon Battista)
L'architettura... tradotta in lingua Fiorentina da C. Bartoli... Venice,… 1565.
FROM THE PINELLI LIBRARY
£4,500
DE LA VEGA (Garcilasso)
Principe de los Poetas Castellanos, 1622.
A RARE EDITION OF DE LA VEGA'S SECULAR POETRY
£4,500
DUCALE
Frontispiece to a Ducale, issued by the Doge… 1530.
A VENETIAN COMMISSION, WITH PORTRAIT OF ST SEBASTIAN
£4,250
PISTOFILO (Bonaventura)
Oplomachia di Bonaventura Pistofilo. Siena: Hercole Gori, 1621, 1621.
DEDICATED TO KENELM DIGBY, WITH HIS PORTRAIT
£4,000
![Echantillon de l'Oeconomie raffinée
[N.p., 3 May, 1697].](https://api.maggs.com/image/0e8dcfcb-ef37-4d11-a094-b4001138af66/616x770.webp)
[MAHIEU M. de]
Echantillon de l'Oeconomie raffinée [N.p., 3 May, 1697], 1697.
ADMINISTRATING NEW TERRITORIES UNDER THE SUN KING - ONLY ONE COPY KNOWN
£4,000
BOCCHI (Achille)
Symbolicarum quaestionum de universo genere quas serio ludebat… 1555.
FIRST EDITION OF BOCCHI'S EMBLEMS
£4,000
BOISSARD (Jean Jacques)
Emblematum liber. Ipsa Emblemata ab auctore delineata: a… 1593.
A COMPLEX EMBLEM BOOK
£4,000
RABELAIS (Francois)
Les Oeuvres de M. Francois Rabelais, Docteur in… 1588.
UNCOMMON EDITION IN CONTEMPORARY BINDING
£4,000
GALLI DA BIBIENA (Ferdinando)
L'Architettura Civile, preparata su la geometria, e ridotta… 1711.
FIRST EDITION, OWNED BY FATHER-AND-SON PAINTERS
£4,000
FRENCH ARTIST
The destruction of Job's household, a large initial… 1450.
EVOCATIVE FRENCH ILLUMINATION
£3,750
NATALIBUS (Petrus de)
Catalogus sanctorum & gestorum eorum ex diversis voluminibus… 1516.
ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF SAINTS, WITH MANUSCRIPT PILATE LETTER
£3,500
SFONDRATI (Celestinus)
Innocentia vindicata, in qua gravissimis argumentis ex S.… 1695.
BENEDICTINE EMBLEMS PRINTED AT ST. GALL
£3,500
FRENCH ARTIST
The Stigmatization of St Francis, miniature on a… 1500.
£3,000
![Perspectiva pictorum et architectorum . . . pars prima. Rome: A. De Rossi, 1702. [Pars secunda]. Rome, G. G. Komarek, 1700.](https://api.maggs.com/image/974c0ed3-dd13-48ec-9dac-300edf2a23c9/616x770.webp)
POZZO (Andrea)
Perspectiva pictorum et architectorum . . . pars… 1700.
£3,000
ROSSI (Giovanni Giacomo de)
Insignium Romae templorum prospectus exteriores interioresque... in lucem… 1684.
£3,000
COUSTEAU (Pierre)
Le Pegme... mis en Francoys par Lanteaume de… 1560.
EARLY FRENCH EMBLEMS, IN ELABORATE BORDERS
£3,000
PEUTINGER (Conrad)
De mirandis Germaniae antiquitatibus, sermones convivales. Strassburg, apud… 1530.
AUGSBURG MERCHANTS' PARTICIPATION IN PORTUGUESE EXPLORATION
£2,800
[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
![Calendar, apparently from a Breviary of the Use of Cologne, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum.
[Germany (doubtless Cologne), 14th century]](https://api.maggs.com/image/0f9095d2-1996-4c2b-8833-d069b81001bc/616x770.webp)
[CALENDAR]
Calendar, apparently from a Breviary of the Use…
C14th MANUSCRIPT CALENDAR, IN USE A CENTURY LATER
£2,750
FRENCH ARTIST
A funeral service, an Illuminated miniature on vellum… 1430.
£2,750
CALVIN (Jean)
Institutio Christianae religionis. Geneva, Jean le Preux, 1592.
CALVIN'S LANDMARK WORK - FINELY BOUND
£2,750
![[WORKS] Sus obras con la declaracion magistral en lengua Castellana, por el Doctor [Juan] Villen de Biedma.](https://api.maggs.com/image/a67653b2-85d1-4a07-977b-e6a6e6b1ba7b/616x770.webp)
HORATIUS FLACCUS (Quintus)
[WORKS] Sus obras con la declaracion magistral en… 1599.
INSCRIBED BY THE RECTOR OF SEVILLE'S ENGLISH SEMINARY
£2,750
RUSCELLI (Girolamo)
Le impresi illustri . . . aggiuntovi nuovamte.… 1584.
THE MOST COMPLETE EDITION
£2,750
![Praefatio in libris rerum gestarum Alexandri regis [translated by Bartolomeo Facio].
Pesaro: Girolamo Soncino, 9 June 1508](https://api.maggs.com/image/e29594cb-f63d-4d76-a229-b49644387d12/616x770.webp)
ARRIANUS Flavius
Praefatio in libris rerum gestarum Alexandri regis [translated… 1508.
FINE SONCINO IMPRINT
£2,750
