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PRUDENTIUS

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

RARE PRINTED DONATION EX-LIBRIS

£2,500

COUSTEAU (Pierre)

Le Pegme... mis en Francoys par Lanteaume de… 1560.

EARLY FRENCH EMBLEMS, IN ELABORATE BORDERS

£3,000

BOAISTUAU (Pierre)

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

MONSTERS AND PORTENTS, LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED FIRST EDITION

£10,000

PARADIN (Claude)

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

INFLUENTIAL EMBLEMS, OWNED BY A POLISH EMIGRÉ ARISTOCRAT

£5,500

LEO (Johannes).

Description de l'Afrique, 1556.

£25,000

THUCYDIDES

L'histoire... de la guerre qui fut entre les… 1555.

TRANSLATED BY LOUIS XII'S ADVISOR

£850

BOCCHI (Achille)

Symbolicarum quaestionum de universo genere quas serio ludebat… 1555.

FIRST EDITION OF BOCCHI'S EMBLEMS

£4,000

CAPRIANO (Giovanni Pietro)

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

SOLE EDITION OF CAPRIANO'S LITERARY CRITICISM

£2,500

JUSTINIAN & [HALOANDER (Gregorius)]

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

HANDSOME BINDING, UNRESTORED, FROM THE LIBRARY OF JEAN BALLESDENS

£2,500

GELLI (Giambattista)

La Circe. Florence, (appresso Lorenzo Torrentino, 1 April), 1549.

£1,250

OVIDIUS NASO

[Opera] Metamorphoseon libri XV, 1547.

RARE POCKET EDITION OF OVID

£2,500

CICERO (Marcus Tullius)

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

BEAUTIFULLY PRINTED BY JEAN LOYS

£2,000

AELIANUS

Αιλιανου ποικιλης ιστοριας. βιβλια ιδ. Εκ την Ηρακλειδου… 1545.

EDITIO PRINCEPS

£5,000

PHILANDRIER (Guillaume)

In decem libros M. Vitruvii Pollionis de architectura… 1544.

EARLY CRITICAL RECEPTION OF VITRUVIUS

£4,500

GIANNOTTI (Donato)

Libro de la republica de Vinitiani. (Rome, Antonio… 1542.

£680

SOUTHERN NETHERLANDS ARTIST

The Martyrdom of St. Catherine, in an initial… 1541.

A VIBRANT MINIATURE

£6,500

BEBENBURG (Lupold von)

Veterum Germaniae principum.  Paris, Jean Foucher, 1540, 1540.

ONE OF THE EARLIEST FRENCH EX-LIBRIS STAMPS RECORDED

£1,800

BORDONE (Benedetto).

Isolario di ... Nel qual si ragiona ditutte… 1534.

THE FIRST PRINTED MAP OF CONTINENTAL NORTH AMERICA

£25,000

POLYDORE VERGIL

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

WITH HOLBEIN'S DANCE OF DEATH ALPHABET

£1,500

PEUTINGER (Conrad)

De mirandis Germaniae antiquitatibus, sermones convivales. Strassburg, apud… 1530.

AUGSBURG MERCHANTS' PARTICIPATION IN PORTUGUESE EXPLORATION

£2,800

DUCALE

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

A VENETIAN COMMISSION, WITH PORTRAIT OF ST SEBASTIAN

£4,250

HUTTICH (Johannes)

Imperatorum Romanorum Libellus, 1526.

MEDALLION PORTRAITS OF THE EMPERORS

£2,250

REGINO (Abbot of Prüm)

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

WITH A POSTHUMOUS PORTRAIT OF THE EDITOR

£2,500

PLINIUS SECUNDUS

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

OWNED BY LUTHER'S TEACHER AND FUTURE FOE

£11,000

NATALIBUS (Petrus de)

Catalogus sanctorum & gestorum eorum ex diversis voluminibus… 1516.

ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF SAINTS, WITH MANUSCRIPT PILATE LETTER

£3,500

[PSEUDO-AUGUSTINUS]

Sermoni ali eremiti del divo Aurelio Augustino Ipponense, 1515.

SERMONS FOR HERMITS, OWNED BY HERMITS

£2,250

ERASMUS (Desiderius).

Collectanea Adagiorum, 1515.

WITH CONTEMPORARY JUVENILE NOTES & DRAWINGS

£11,000

[POPE GREGORY I]

Incomincia il prologo del vulgarizatore del dyalogo di… 1515.

RARE EDITION OF THE DIALOGI, FROM THE LIBRARY OF CHARLES FAIRFAX MURRAY

£1,750

GAUTIER DE CHATILLON (Philippe)

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

A FASCINATING SAMMELBAND, WITH THE RARE ALEXANDREIS

£11,000

TUBERINUS (Johannes)

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

HEAVILY ANNOTATED

£2,250

MACHIAVELLI (Niccolò) & [DIECI DI BALÌA]

Manuscript document appointing Bernardino da Bartoli captain of… 1508.

DOCUMENT BEARING MACHIAVELLI'S NAME

£10,000

ARRIANUS Flavius

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

FINE SONCINO IMPRINT

£2,750

MARTIAL

Martialis cum duobus commentariis. Venice: Bartholomaeus de Zanis,… 1503.

A BEAUTIFULLY PRESERVED SCHOOL BOOK

£15,000

FRENCH ARTIST

The Stigmatization of St Francis, miniature on a… 1500.

£3,000

FRENCH ARTIST

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

£2,250

AENEAS SYLVIUS PICCOLOMINI (later Pope Pius II)

Epistolae familiares. De Duobus amantibus Euryalo et Lucretia.… 1496.

HUMANIST LETTERS BY A FUTURE POPE

£10,000

BRUNI ARETINO (Leonardo)

Epistolarum Familiarium Libri VIII. (Ed. Antonius Moretus and… 1495.

ONE OF ONLY TWO FIFTEENTH-CENTURY EDITIONS

£6,500

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

FRENCH ARTIST

Illuminated calendar leaf on vellum for March/April from… 1490.

SAGITTARIUS & TAURUS

£4,500

BOETHIUS

De consolatione philosophica. [Pseudo-Boethius:] De disciplina scholarium, 1489.

WITH THE IMPRESSION OF AN EARLY READER'S SPECTACLES

£25,000

UBERTINUS (de Casali)

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

THE TREE OF THE CRUCIFIED LIFE OF CHRIST

£7,500