MERIAN (Matthäus sr.). Civitatis Avignon omniumq[ue]. viarum et aedificiorum eius perfecta… 1650. £250
[DIPLOMA] Venetian doctoral diploma, illuminated manuscript on vellum, 1644. DEGREE DIPLOMA FROM A PAPER UNIVERSITY £8,000
DIPLOMA Paduan doctoral degree diploma, illuminated manuscript on vellum, 1641. A SCOTTISH SCHOLAR IN ITALY, WITH THE ILLUMINATOR'S STRIKING ADVERTISEMENT £10,000
TRIGAULT (Nicolas). De Christianis apvd Japonios trivmphis sive de gravissima… 1623. FIRST ILLUSTRATED ACCOUNT OF JESUIT MARTYRDOMS IN JAPAN £16,000
DE LA VEGA (Garcilasso) Principe de los Poetas Castellanos, 1622. A RARE EDITION OF DE LA VEGA'S SECULAR POETRY £4,500
PISTOFILO (Bonaventura) Oplomachia di Bonaventura Pistofilo. Siena: Hercole Gori, 1621, 1621. DEDICATED TO KENELM DIGBY, WITH HIS PORTRAIT £4,000
GHEYN (Jacques de) Maniement d'armes d'arquebuses, mousquets, & picques Selon l'ordre… 1619. EXTREMELY RARE - WITH ENGLISH TEXT £12,500
SANCHEZ DE AREVALO (Rodrigo) Speculum omnium statuum totius orbis terrarum, 1613. FROM THE LIBRARY OF A BOHEMIAN REBEL AND HIS WIFE £2,250
ALTDORFER (Albrecht) Alberti Durer Noriberg. German. Icones sacrae. In historiam… 1604. ALTDORFER'S WOODCUTS DISGUISED AS DÜRER'S WORK £10,000
ASCHAM (Roger) Familiarum Epistolarum Libri tres, magna orationis elegantia conscripti,… 1602. BOUND IN RED MOROCCO FOR DE THOU £7,500
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
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
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
BOISSARD (Jean Jacques) Emblematum liber. Ipsa Emblemata ab auctore delineata: a… 1593. A COMPLEX EMBLEM BOOK £4,000
CALVIN (Jean) Institutio Christianae religionis. Geneva, Jean le Preux, 1592. CALVIN'S LANDMARK WORK - FINELY BOUND £2,750
CHYTRAEUS (David) Libellus de morte et vita aeterna, editio postrema.… 1590. PLAYFUL & MISCHIEVOUS DEATH £12,500
HOROZCO Y COVARRUBIAS (Juan) Emblemas Morales. Segovia, Juan de la Cuesta, 1589. THE FIRST EMBLEM BOOK PRINTED IN SPAIN £7,500
FABRICIO (Principio) Delle allusioni, imprese, et emblemi sopra la vita,… 1588. THE BUONCOMPAGNI DRAGON £12,000
RABELAIS (Francois) Les Oeuvres de M. Francois Rabelais, Docteur in… 1588. UNCOMMON EDITION IN CONTEMPORARY BINDING £4,000
ARGOTE DE MOLINA (Gonzalo) Nobleza de Andaluzia, 1588. ANDALUSIAN NOBILITY, EXTENSIVELY ILLUSTRATED £2,500
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
RUSCELLI (Girolamo) Le impresi illustri . . . aggiuntovi nuovamte.… 1584. THE MOST COMPLETE EDITION £2,750
LA POPELLINIERE (Lancelot-Voisin, Seigneur de). L'Amiral de France, et par occasion, de celuy… 1584. PROMOTING THE FRENCH COLONIZATION OF THE NEW WORLD £19,500
TERENTIUS AFER Publius Comoediae sex ... Terentij vita ex Aelio Donato.… 1584. A POCKET EDITION OF TERENCE'S POPULAR PLAYS £450
[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
ITALIAN THEATRE FIRENZUOLA (Agnolo). I lucidi. Florence, 1552. [Bound with]:DOLCE (Lodovico).… 1581. SOURCE FOR SHAKESPEARE'S TWELFTH NIGHT £1,750
ISACCHI (Giovanni Battista) Inventioni nelle quali si manifestano varij secreti, & vtili… 1579. INVENTIONS AND SECRETS £8,500
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
DE GUEVARA (Antonio) Libro di Marco Aurelio con l'horologio de' prencipi, 1575. MARCUS AURELIUS AS A MODEL OF PRINCELY BEHAVIOUR £800
ERASTUS (Thomas). De occultis pharmacorum potestibus. Basle, Pietro Perna, 1574, 1574. ON PHARMACOLOGY & THE OCCULT, ANNOTATED BY AN EARLY PHYSICIAN £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
PLUTARCHUS [Works, Greek & Latin] Τα σωζομενα συγγραμματα... Quae… 1572. FINELY BOUND & RARELY FOUND COMPLETE £15,000
[CATHOLIC CHURCH] Catechismus Romanus, ex decreto Concilij Tridentini, 1567. WITH ELABORATE OWNERS' ARMS PAINTED ON VELLUM £1,500
ALBERTI (Leon Battista) L'architettura... tradotta in lingua Fiorentina da C. Bartoli... Venice,… 1565. FROM THE PINELLI LIBRARY £4,500