BARTHOLOMAEUS ANGLICUS
De proprietatibus rerum. Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 30 May 1483, 1483.
THE GREATEST MEDIEVAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA
£17,500
ERASMUS (Desiderius).
Apophthegmatum opus cum primus frugiferum, vigilanter ab ipso…
SAMMELBAND OF THREE IMPORTANT EDITIONS
£9,500
![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
![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
![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
AENEAS SYLVIUS PICCOLOMINI (later Pope Pius II)
Epistolae familiares. De Duobus amantibus Euryalo et Lucretia.… 1496.
HUMANIST LETTERS BY A FUTURE POPE
£10,000
ALBERTI (Leon Battista)
L'architettura... tradotta in lingua Fiorentina da C. Bartoli... Venice,… 1565.
FROM THE PINELLI LIBRARY
£4,500
KANT (Immanuel).
Anthropologie in pragmatischer Hinsicht abgefasst, 1798.
£650
[OLDFIELD (T.H.B.)].
An Entire and Complete History, Political and Personal,… 1794.
£125
[MONTERCHI (Giuseppe)]
Scelta de medaglioni piu rari nella Bibliotheca dell'… 1679.
BOUND FOR BIBLIOPHILE AND ART COLLECTOR PAULO VAN UCHELEN
£1,500
MARTIAL
Martialis cum duobus commentariis. Venice: Bartholomaeus de Zanis,… 1503.
A BEAUTIFULLY PRESERVED SCHOOL BOOK
£15,000
![De consolatione philosophica. [Pseudo-Boethius:] De disciplina scholarium.](https://api.maggs.com/image/ee90affa-f114-45f2-84ca-7d9c130c0395/616x770.webp)
BOETHIUS
De consolatione philosophica. [Pseudo-Boethius:] De disciplina scholarium, 1489.
WITH THE IMPRESSION OF AN EARLY READER'S SPECTACLES
£25,000
FRENCH ARTIST
Illuminated calendar leaf on vellum for March/April from… 1490.
SAGITTARIUS & TAURUS
£4,500
HESS (Ernst Ferdinand)
Speculum Judaeorum, Das ist, Juden Spiegel... Cologne, Willhelm Lützenkirchen,… 1602.
A CONVERT'S ATTEMPT TO PERSUADE OTHERS AWAY FROM JUDAISM
£1,400
![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
![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
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
![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
![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
PARADIN (Claude)
Devises heroiques. Lyon, Jean de Tournes and Guillaume Gazeau, 1557.
INFLUENTIAL EMBLEMS, OWNED BY A POLISH EMIGRÉ ARISTOCRAT
£5,500
FELIBIEN (André)
Description sommaire du Chasteau de Versailles. Paris, 1674, 1674.
EARLIEST GUIDE BOOK TO PALACE OF VERSAILLE & PARK
£2,500
FABRICIO (Principio)
Delle allusioni, imprese, et emblemi sopra la vita,… 1588.
THE BUONCOMPAGNI DRAGON
£12,000
COUSTEAU (Pierre)
Le Pegme... mis en Francoys par Lanteaume de… 1560.
EARLY FRENCH EMBLEMS, IN ELABORATE BORDERS
£3,000
ERASTUS (Thomas).
De occultis pharmacorum potestibus. Basle, Pietro Perna, 1574, 1574.
ON PHARMACOLOGY & THE OCCULT, ANNOTATED BY AN EARLY PHYSICIAN
£4,500
TASSO (Torquato)
La Gerusalemme liberata. Paris, appresso A. Delalain, P.… 1771.
"RELIURE DE PRESENT" DESIGNED BY GRAVELOT FOR THIS EDITION
£5,750
[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
![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
![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
DUCLOS (Charles Pinot)
Les confessions du comte de ***… huitième edition,… 1776.
£750
![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
[PSEUDO-AUGUSTINUS]
Sermoni ali eremiti del divo Aurelio Augustino Ipponense, 1515.
SERMONS FOR HERMITS, OWNED BY HERMITS
£2,250
HUTTICH (Johannes)
Imperatorum Romanorum Libellus, 1526.
MEDALLION PORTRAITS OF THE EMPERORS
£2,250
![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
![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
SEMAINE SAINTE
L'office de la Semaine Sainte a l'usage de… 1743.
£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
![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
CALVIN (Jean)
Institutio Christianae religionis. Geneva, Jean le Preux, 1592.
CALVIN'S LANDMARK WORK - FINELY BOUND
£2,750
MACHIAVELLI (Niccolò) & [DIECI DI BALÌA]
Manuscript document appointing Bernardino da Bartoli captain of… 1508.
DOCUMENT BEARING MACHIAVELLI'S NAME
£10,000
TRIGAULT (Nicolas).
De Christianis apvd Japonios trivmphis sive de gravissima… 1623.
FIRST ILLUSTRATED ACCOUNT OF JESUIT MARTYRDOMS IN JAPAN
£16,000
NATALIBUS (Petrus de)
Catalogus sanctorum & gestorum eorum ex diversis voluminibus… 1516.
ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF SAINTS, WITH MANUSCRIPT PILATE LETTER
£3,500
