Maggs Bros. Ltd.

[ACCOUNT BOOK]

Weiteren Register auf das 1663, 1663.

BOUND IN MANUSCRIPT WASTE

£1,250

CASTELLESI (Adriano)

De sermone Latino, et modis Latine loquendi. Eiusdem… 1524.

LAVISHLY GILT AND GAUFFERED

£2,250

[CATHOLIC CHURCH]

Missale Romanum, 1660.

'ALMOST HEDONISTIC': UNRECORDED ROMAN MISSAL, SUMPTUOUSLY BOUND IN RECYCLED SILK

£6,500

BOOK OF HOURS (French & Latin)

Heures en Francoys & Latin a l'usaige de… 1549.

A MANNERIST BOOK OF HOURS

£9,500

BOOK OF HOURS

Book of Hours, Use of Sarum, in Latin… 1440.

'TROWT FEND ME': THE FITZ-RALPH HOURS, ILLUMINATED BY THE TALBOT MASTER

£75,000

BOOK OF HOURS

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

FINELY ILLUMINATED IN BRUGES

£45,000

THUCYDIDES

Thucidide historico greco delle guerre fatte fra i… 1564.

HANDSOMELY BOUND THUCYDIDES

£1,250

[CIRCLE OF BENEDETTO BORDONE]

Processional leaf with historiated initial C containing skull… 1520.

FROM THE OFFICE OF THE DEAD

£5,500

[GOLTZIUS (Hendrick) [Circle of]] & [CALDARA (Polidoro), called Da Caravaggio]

[Original pen and ink drawings] Four Olympian Gods… 1600.

INK SKETCHES AFTER GOLTZIUS, AFTER POLIDORO DA CARAVAGGIO

£2,000

DANTE

[Opere]. La Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri con… 1757.

SPECTACULARLY ILLUSTRATED, ROCOCO DANTE

£10,000

PARADIN (Claude)

Devises heroiques. Lyon, Jean de Tournes and Guillaume Gazeau, 1557.

INFLUENTIAL EMBLEMS, OWNED BY A POLISH EMIGRÉ ARISTOCRAT

£5,500

ERASTUS (Thomas).

De occultis pharmacorum potestibus. Basle, Pietro Perna, 1574, 1574.

ON PHARMACOLOGY & THE OCCULT, ANNOTATED BY AN EARLY PHYSICIAN

£4,500

[DIPLOMA]

Venetian doctoral diploma, illuminated manuscript on vellum, 1644.

DEGREE DIPLOMA FROM A PAPER UNIVERSITY

£8,000

PLUTARCHUS

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

FINELY BOUND & RARELY FOUND COMPLETE

£12,500

CHYTRAEUS (David)

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

PLAYFUL & MISCHIEVOUS DEATH

£10,000

ROLEWINCK (Werner)

De regimine rusticorum, 1481.

MORAL ADVICE FOR FARMERS

£15,000

HYGINUS (Gaius Julius)

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

THE FIRST DEPICTIONS OF THE CONSTELLATIONS IN A PRINTED BOOK

£25,000

ALTDORFER (Albrecht)

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

ALTDORFER'S WOODCUTS DISGUISED AS DÜRER'S WORK

£9,000

PISTOFILO (Bonaventura)

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

DEDICATED TO KENELM DIGBY, WITH HIS PORTRAIT

£3,500

ASCHAM (Roger)

Familiarum Epistolarum Libri tres, magna orationis elegantia conscripti,… 1602.

A DE THOU BINDING, WITH HIS WIFE'S ARMS

£7,500

MARIETTE (Pierre-Jean)

Traité des pierres gravées par P.J. Mariette. Recueil… 1750.

SUMPTUOUSLY ILLUSTRATED, FROM A CONNOISSEUR'S LIBRARY

£8,500

[PSALTER]

Psalterium Davidis carmine redditum per Eobanum Hessum. Cui… 1591.

BOUND IN THE STYLE OF CASPAR MEUSER

£3,500

ISSELBURG (Peter)

Künstliche Waffenhandlung der Musqueten und Piquen oder Langen… 1620.

RARE EDITION, WITH FINE ENGRAVINGS

£5,500

ISACCHI (Giovanni Battista)

Inventioni nelle quali si manifestano varij secreti, & vtili… 1579.

INVENTIONS AND SECRETS

£7,500

GHEYN (Jacques de)

Maniement d'armes d'arquebuses, mousquets, & picques Selon l'ordre… 1619.

POLYGLOT EDITION WITH ENGLISH TEXT

£12,000

HENISCH Georg

Commentarius in sphaeram procli diadochi. Augustae Vindelicorum [Augsburg], David… 1609.

PRESENTATION COPY TO CONRAD PIUS PEUTINGER

£3,500

APOLLINAIRE (Guillaume).

Alcools - Poèmes - (1898-1913).  Paris [Tours, E. Arrault… 1913.

NUMBERED FIRST EDITION OF AN 'ASTONISHING' WORK OF FRENCH POETRY

£5,000

ERASMUS (Desiderius).

Apophthegmatum opus cum primus frugiferum, vigilanter ab ipso…

SAMMELBAND OF THREE IMPORTANT EDITIONS

£9,500

ENGELS (Friedrich).

Die lage der Arbeitenden Klasse in England. Nach… 1845.

ENGELS'S FIRST BOOK

£37,500

MARX (Karl). & ENGELS (Friedrich).

The Manifesto of the Communists, 1886.

First British edition in book form of the Communist Manifesto

£12,500

[BANK OF ENGLAND]. & [GODFREY (William).]

A Short Account of the Bank of England, 1695.

A DEFENCE OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND BY ITS FIRST DEPUTY GOVERNOR

£5,500

MARX (Karl).

Kapital. Kritika politicheskoi ekonomii, 1872.

THE FIRST TRANSLATION OF DAS KAPITAL INTO ANY LANGUAGE, BOUND WITH THE SCARCE ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPPERS

£17,500

SCHOPENHAUER (Arthur).

Ueber die vierfache Wurzel des Satzes vom zureichenden… 1813.

SCHOPENHAUER'S FIRST BOOK: ON THE FOURFOLD ROOT OF THE PRINCIPLE OF SUFFICIENT REASON

£17,500

KEYNES (John Maynard).

Essays in Biography, 1933.

"Economics is a very dangerous science."

£4,250

BAGEHOT (Walter).

Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market, 1873.

"AN UNDYING CLASSIC" (J.M. KEYNES).

£4,500

KANT (Immanuel).

Critik der reinen Vernunft, 1781.

A VERY FINE COPY OF KANT'S CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON

£47,500

LE CARRE (John).

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, 1974.

INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, AND HIS FATHER

£3,750

ORWELL (George).

Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1949.

One of the greatest works of British dystopian literature and a terrifying critique of totalitarianism.

£8,500

DICKENS (Charles).

The Christmas Books: A Christmas Carol, The Chimes,… 1844.

Dickens' Christmas books, lavishly bound by Ramage

£12,500

KIPLING (Rudyard).

The Jungle Book. [with:] The Second Jungle Book, 1894.

First editions of these great classics of English children's fiction.

£4,500

KIPLING (Rudyard & Alice).

Echoes. By Two Writers, 1884.

An outstanding rarity: the author's second book.

£8,250

KIPLING (Rudyard).

Captains Courageous, 1897.

Kipling's morality tale set aboard a New England fishing boat.

£1,000