Maggs Bros. Ltd.

BOOK OF HOURS

Use of Angers, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on… 1440.

FINELY ILLUMINATED IN BRUGES

£45,000

PISTOFILO (Bonaventura)

Oplomachia di Bonaventura Pistofilo. Siena: Hercole Gori, 1621, 1621.

DEDICATED TO KENELM DIGBY, WITH HIS PORTRAIT

£4,500

UBERTINUS (de Casali)

Arbor vitae crucifixae Jesu Christi. Venice, Andreas de… 1485.

THE TREE OF THE CRUCIFIED LIFE OF CHRIST

£7,500

MARANTA (Bartolomeo)

Lucullianarum quaestionum libri quinque, 1564.

£500

[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

AUSONIUS

Opera, 1575.

£1,500

ITALIAN ARTIST

Pentecost, an historiated initial on a vellum leaf…

£9,500

CIRCLE OF VENTURELLA DI PIETRO

St. John the Baptist, a large historiated initial… 1330.

UMBRIAN ILLUMINATION

£7,500

SOUTHERN FRENCH ARTIST

Two historiated initials depicting St Mark and Two…

TWO SUPERB LARGE INITIALS, ONE OF ST. MARK

£7,500

DUCALE

Frontispiece to a Ducale, issued by the Doge… 1530.

A VENETIAN COMMISSION, WITH PORTRAIT OF ST SEBASTIAN

£4,250

FRENCH ARTIST

The destruction of Job's household, a large initial… 1450.

EVOCATIVE FRENCH ILLUMINATION

£3,750

FRENCH ARTIST

St. Lawrence, an illuminated miniature on vellum from… 1425.

WITH GRIDIRON IN HAND

£4,750

FRENCH ARTIST

A funeral service, an Illuminated miniature on vellum… 1500.

£2,250

GAUTIER DE CHATILLON (Phillipe)

Alexandri Magni regis Macedonum vita.   Strasbourg: Reinhard Beck, 1513, 1513.

A FASCINATING SAMMELBAND, WITH THE RARE ALEXANDREIS

£11,000

BOAISTUAU (Pierre)

Histoires prodigieuses... extraictes de plusieurs fameux autheurs, Grecs… 1560.

MONSTERS AND PORTENTS, LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED FIRST EDITION

£10,000

ALTDORFER (Albrecht)

Alberti Durer Noriberg. German. Icones sacrae. In historiam… 1604.

ALTDORFER'S WOODCUTS DISGUISED AS DÜRER'S WORK

£10,000

FRENCH REVOLUTION

Calendrier Royal pour l'année mil sept cent quatre-vingt-dix, 1789.

PRINTED IN THE FIRST YEAR OF THE REVOLUTION

£2,500

DE LA VEGA (Garcilasso)

Principe de los Poetas Castellanos, 1622.

A RARE EDITION OF DE LA VEGA'S SECULAR POETRY

£4,500

[Anon]

Histoire de palmerin d'olive, fils du roy florendos… 1573.

CASTILIAN CHIVALRIC ROMANCE, CONSIGNED TO THE FLAMES IN DON QUIXOTE

£2,000

HOROZCO Y COVARRUBIAS (Juan)

Emblemas Morales. Segovia, Juan de la Cuesta, 1589.

THE FIRST EMBLEM BOOK PRINTED IN SPAIN

£7,500

GALLI DA BIBIENA (Ferdinando)

L'Architettura Civile, preparata su la geometria, e ridotta… 1711.

FIRST EDITION, OWNED BY FATHER-AND-SON PAINTERS

£4,000

RABELAIS (Francois)

Les Oeuvres de M. Francois Rabelais, Docteur in… 1588.

UNCOMMON EDITION IN CONTEMPORARY BINDING

£4,000

[FLORESTA (Pedro de la)]

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

RARE EDITION OF THIS CHIVALRIC ROMANCE

£1,250

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

ERASMUS (Desiderius).

Collectanea Adagiorum, 1515.

CONTEMPORARY JUVENILE NOTES & DRAWINGS

£11,000

CICERO (Marcus Tullius)

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

BEAUTIFULLY PRINTED BY JEAN LOYS

£2,000

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

BARON L'ESTAT

Lali et Sainval drame en trois actes en… 1784.

WRITTEN & PERFORMED FOR CATHERINE THE GREAT

£12,500

PLINIUS SECUNDUS

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

OWNED BY LUTHER'S TEACHER AND FUTURE FOE

£11,000

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

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

[BUREAU GENERAL DE BONFAISANCE]

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

PRECARIOUS EARLY WELFARE PROVISION IN REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE

£2,500

CATS (Jacob)

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

£850

AMBOISE (Adrian d')

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

FRENCH ROYAL DEVICES

£750

CAMERARIUS (Joachim)

Symbolorum et emblematum ex re herbaria desmumtorum centuria… 1654.

THE BOTANIST GEORGE BENTHAM'S COPY

£2,500

BOCCHI (Achille)

Symbolicarum quaestionum de universo genere quas serio ludebat… 1555.

FIRST EDITION OF BOCCHI'S EMBLEMS

£4,000

CORNELIUS NEPOS

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

EDITIO PRINCEPS - THE PEMBROKE COPY

£35,000