COUSTEAU (Pierre)
Le Pegme... mis en Francoys par Lanteaume de… 1560.
EARLY FRENCH EMBLEMS, IN ELABORATE BORDERS
£3,000
FABRICIO (Principio)
Delle allusioni, imprese, et emblemi sopra la vita,… 1588.
THE BUONCOMPAGNI DRAGON
£12,000
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
![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
![Éclaircissements demandés à M. N**[ecker], sur ses principes économiques, & sur ses projets de législation; au nom des propriétaires fonciers & des cultivateurs françois. [bound with:] Lettres sur le commerce des grains.](https://api.maggs.com/image/9bf41627-84ae-4874-a429-98f88a68c999/616x770.webp)
[CONDORCET (Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de).] & [BAUDEAU (Abbe Nicolas).]
Éclaircissements demandés à M. N**[ecker], sur ses principes… 1775.
£2,500
![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
FRENCH ARTIST
Illuminated calendar leaf on vellum for May/June from… 1490.
GEMINI & CANCER
£4,500
FRENCH ARTIST
Illuminated calendar leaf on vellum for November/December from… 1490.
£4,500
![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
![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
FRENCH ARTIST
Illuminated calendar leaf on vellum for March/April from… 1490.
SAGITTARIUS & TAURUS
£4,500
[MONTERCHI (Giuseppe)]
Scelta de medaglioni piu rari nella Bibliotheca dell'… 1679.
BOUND FOR BIBLIOPHILE AND ART COLLECTOR PAULO VAN UCHELEN
£1,500
[OLDFIELD (T.H.B.)].
An Entire and Complete History, Political and Personal,… 1794.
£125
KANT (Immanuel).
Anthropologie in pragmatischer Hinsicht abgefasst, 1798.
£650
ALBERTI (Leon Battista)
L'architettura... tradotta in lingua Fiorentina da C. Bartoli... Venice,… 1565.
FROM THE PINELLI LIBRARY
£4,500
AENEAS SYLVIUS PICCOLOMINI (later Pope Pius II)
Epistolae familiares. De Duobus amantibus Euryalo et Lucretia.… 1496.
HUMANIST LETTERS BY A FUTURE POPE
£10,000
![Pseudo-Chrysostom Fragment from Opus imperfectum in Matthaeum in Latin, manuscript on vellum.
[Italy, 12th century].](https://api.maggs.com/image/0da19e88-bedd-44f8-9c26-f88dedfaa2a2/616x770.webp)
PSEUDO-CHRYSOSTOM
Pseudo-Chrysostom Fragment from Opus imperfectum in Matthaeum in…
£1,800
![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
![A leaf from Aurora in the first redaction by Aegidius of Paris, in Latin, manuscript on vellum.
[England, second half or late 14th century].](https://api.maggs.com/image/9fc7da30-de50-483e-8edb-85597f32f15b/616x770.webp)
PETRUS RIGA
A leaf from Aurora in the first redaction by Aegidius…
£2,250
ERASMUS (Desiderius).
Apophthegmatum opus cum primus frugiferum, vigilanter ab ipso…
SAMMELBAND OF THREE IMPORTANT EDITIONS
£9,500
DESNOUES (Guillaume)
Lettres de G. Desnoues, Professeur d'Anatomie & de… 1706.
ON EMBALMING PRACTICES, BY AN EARLY ANATOMICAL WAX MODELLER
£2,500
OVIDIUS NASO
Metamorphoseon libri XV. In singulas quasque fabulas argumeta.… 1567.
WOODCUTS OF VIRGIL SOLIS
£4,500
VERDIZOTTI (Giovanni)
Cento favole morali de i piu illustri antichi… 1570.
DESIGNS DRAWN ON THE BLOCKS BY VERDIZOTTI HIMSELF
£6,500
![[Historia Captae a Turca Constantinopolis]
[Italy?, third quarter of 15th century]](https://api.maggs.com/image/f64d82f8-8b29-431e-969a-222ec9044315/616x770.webp)
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
BARTHOLOMAEUS ANGLICUS
De proprietatibus rerum. Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 30 May 1483, 1483.
THE GREATEST MEDIEVAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA
£17,500
[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
SCHOPENHAUER (Arthur).
Ueber den Willen in der Natur. Eine Erörterung… 1836.
Presentation copy of Schopenhauer's On the Will in Nature
£15,000
KANT (Immanuel).
Critik der reinen Vernunft, 1781.
CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON
£28,000
[GALIANI (Ferdinando).]
Dialogues sur le commerce des bleds, 1770.
£2,500
[HERBERT (Claude Jacques).]
Essai sur la police générale des grains, sur… 1755.
£450
BOCCACCIO
Le Decameron. Contes de Bocace, traduction nouvelle; augmentée… 1801.
PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED BOCCACCIO, IN CONTEMPORARY BINDING
£1,500
GROPPER
Canones concilii provincialis Coloniensis... celebrati anno 1536. Quibus… 1538.
FROM THE LIBRARY OF JEAN BOYER, ARCHDEACON OF CONQUES (1508-41).
£4,800
MARCELLUS (Christophorus)
Sacrarum cerimoniarum Romanae Ecclesiae libri tres non ante…
UNAUTHORISED WORK REVEALING THE SACRED CEREMONIES OF THE PAPAL CHAPEL
£3,000
[FRENCH ILLUMINATOR]
Single leaf on vellum from Book of Hours, 1500.
£1,500
[FRENCH ILLUMINATOR]
Single leaf on vellum from Book of Hours, 1500.
£1,500
[FRENCH ILLUMINATOR]
Single leaf on vellum from Book of Hours, 1500.
£1,500
KANT (Immanuel).
Prolegomena zu einer jeden künftigen Metaphysik, 1783.
£1,750
AESOP
Fabulas de la vida del sabio y clarísimo… 1818.
SPANISH AESOP, FROM THE LIBRARY OF A 'FORGOTTEN HISPANIST'
£750
