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DIPLOMA

Paduan doctoral degree diploma, illuminated manuscript on vellum, 1641.

A SCOTTISH SCHOLAR IN ITALY, WITH THE ILLUMINATOR'S STRIKING ADVERTISEMENT

£10,000

REGINO (Abbot of Prüm)

Annales, non tam de Augustorum vitis, quam aliorum… 1521.

WITH A POSTHUMOUS PORTRAIT OF THE EDITOR

£2,500

BORROW (George)

Embéo e Majaró Lucas.[...] El evangelio segun S.… 1837.

THE FIRST BOOK PRINTED IN THE ROMANY LANGUAGE

£4,500

PRUDENTIUS

Poemata omnia: quorum Catalogum proxima à Praefatione pagina… 1562.

RARE PRINTED DONATION EX-LIBRIS

£2,500

[MEDICAL MANUSCRIPT]

Medical, veterinary and agricultural manuscript containing various conditions… 1800.

MEDICAL & VETERINARY MANUSCRIPT, WITH CONVENIENT, HAND-STITCHED POCKET

£1,750

[DIPLOMA]

Venetian doctoral diploma, illuminated manuscript on vellum, 1644.

DEGREE DIPLOMA FROM A PAPER UNIVERSITY

£8,000

ROUSSEAU (Jean-Jacques)

Du contrat social, ou principes du droit politique, 1772.

UNCOMMON COUNTERFEIT EDITION OF ROUSSEAU'S MOST FAMOUS WORK

£750

POLYDORE VERGIL

De rerum inventoribus libri octo. Basle, Johann Bebel, 1532, 1532.

WITH HOLBEIN'S DANCE OF DEATH ALPHABET

£1,500

PLUTARCHUS

[Works, Greek & Latin] Τα σωζομενα συγγραμματα... Quae… 1572.

FINELY BOUND & RARELY FOUND COMPLETE

£15,000

HORATIUS FLACCUS (Quintus)

[WORKS] Sus obras con la declaracion magistral en… 1599.

INSCRIBED BY THE RECTOR OF SEVILLE'S ENGLISH SEMINARY

£2,750

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

ARRIANUS Flavius

Praefatio in libris rerum gestarum Alexandri regis [translated… 1508.

FINE SONCINO IMPRINT

£2,750

SANCHEZ DE AREVALO (Rodrigo)

Speculum omnium statuum totius orbis terrarum, 1613.

FROM THE LIBRARY OF A BOHEMIAN REBEL AND HIS WIFE

£2,250

LONICER (Johannes)

Ständ und Orden Der H. Römischen Catholischen Kirchen, 1585.

GERMAN EDITION OF THIS INDEX OF RELIGIOUS FIGURES, ILLUSTRATED BY JOST AMMAN

£2,500

FRENCH ARTIST

Christ Among the Doctors, an illuminated cutting from a…

FROM THE RENOWNED BURCKHARDT-WILDT ALBUM

£6,500

FRENCH ARTIST

The Transfiguration, an illuminated cutting from a Book… 1470.

FROM THE RENOWNED BURCKHARDT-WILDT ALBUM

£6,000

CORNELIUS NEPOS

Vitae imperatorum, sive De vita illustrium virorum. Venice, Nicolaus… 1471.

EDITIO PRINCEPS - THE PEMBROKE COPY

£35,000

[CATHOLIC CHURCH]

Catechismus Romanus, ex decreto Concilij Tridentini, 1567.

WITH ELABORATE OWNERS' ARMS PAINTED ON VELLUM

£1,500

BOCCHI (Achille)

Symbolicarum quaestionum de universo genere quas serio ludebat… 1555.

FIRST EDITION OF BOCCHI'S EMBLEMS

£4,000

CAMERARIUS (Joachim)

Symbolorum et emblematum ex re herbaria desmumtorum centuria… 1654.

THE BOTANIST GEORGE BENTHAM'S COPY

£2,500

AMBOISE (Adrian d')

Devises royales. Paris, Rolet Boutonne, 1621, 1621.

FRENCH ROYAL DEVICES

£750

CATS (Jacob)

Spiegel vanden Ouden ende Nieuwen Tiijdt. Dordrecht, Hendrick van… 1633.

£850

[BUREAU GENERAL DE BONFAISANCE]

État général des répartitions de numéraire, farines ordinaries,… 1798.

PRECARIOUS EARLY WELFARE PROVISION IN REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE

£2,500

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

[SPIRITUAL EXERCISES]

Esercizio sopra la passione di Gesû Cristo.   [Italy, seventeenth… 1700.

£1,250

SFONDRATI (Celestinus)

Innocentia vindicata, in qua gravissimis argumentis ex S.… 1695.

BENEDICTINE EMBLEMS PRINTED AT ST. GALL

£3,500

BOISSARD (Jean Jacques)

Emblematum liber. Ipsa Emblemata ab auctore delineata: a… 1593.

A COMPLEX EMBLEM BOOK

£4,000

CHYTRAEUS (David)

Libellus de morte et vita aeterna, editio postrema.… 1590.

PLAYFUL & MISCHIEVOUS DEATH

£12,500

PLINIUS SECUNDUS

Naturae Historiarum libri XXXVII. E castigationibus Hermolai Barbari… 1518.

OWNED BY LUTHER'S TEACHER AND FUTURE FOE

£11,000

BARON L'ESTAT

Lali et Sainval drame en trois actes en… 1784.

WRITTEN & PERFORMED FOR CATHERINE THE GREAT

£12,500

JUSTINIAN & [HALOANDER (Gregorius)]

Institutionum D. Iustiniani sacratissimi principis libri IIII (bound… 1551.

HANDSOME BINDING, UNRESTORED, FROM THE LIBRARY OF JEAN BALLESDENS

£2,500

OVIDIUS NASO

[Opera] Metamorphoseon libri XV, 1547.

RARE POCKET EDITION OF OVID

£2,500

TUBERINUS (Johannes)

Carmen ad gravem: sanctumque senatum Lipsensem: de orgijs… 1512.

HEAVILY ANNOTATED

£2,250

HYGINUS (Gaius Julius)

Poetica astronomica. (Edited by Jacobus Sentinus and Johannes… 1482.

THE FIRST DEPICTIONS OF THE CONSTELLATIONS IN A PRINTED BOOK

£25,000

DE GUEVARA (Antonio)

Libro di Marco Aurelio con l'horologio de' prencipi, 1575.

MARCUS AURELIUS AS A MODEL OF PRINCELY BEHAVIOUR

£800

CAPRIANO (Giovanni Pietro)

Della vera poetica libro uno. Al Conte Ulisse… 1555.

SOLE EDITION OF CAPRIANO'S LITERARY CRITICISM

£2,500

CORTESE (Cristoforo)

A prophet pointing to his eyes, historiated initial…

£5,000

ERASMUS (Desiderius).

Collectanea Adagiorum, 1515.

WITH CONTEMPORARY JUVENILE NOTES & DRAWINGS

£11,000

[FLORESTA (Pedro de la)]

La historia de los mui nobles, y valientes… 1700.

RARE EDITION OF THIS CHIVALRIC ROMANCE

£1,250

CICERO (Marcus Tullius)

M T Ciceronis Brutus, seu de claris Oratoribus,… 1546.

BEAUTIFULLY PRINTED BY JEAN LOYS

£2,000

ARGOTE DE MOLINA (Gonzalo)

Nobleza de Andaluzia, 1588.

ANDALUSIAN NOBILITY, EXTENSIVELY ILLUSTRATED

£2,500

ROSSI (Giovanni Giacomo de)

Insignium Romae templorum prospectus exteriores interioresque... in lucem… 1684.

£3,000