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
VERGILIUS MARO (Publius) P. Virgilius Maro, et in eum commentationes, &… 1575. VIRGIL - EXTRA ILLUSTRATED £4,000
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
DELAUNE (Etienne) Suite of six allegorical prints. France, c. 1560-1570, 1570. MANNERIST ALLEGORY £1,500
VERDIZOTTI (Giovanni) Cento favole morali de i piu illustri antichi… 1570. DESIGNS DRAWN ON THE BLOCKS BY VERDIZOTTI HIMSELF £6,500
OVIDIUS NASO Metamorphoseon libri XV. In singulas quasque fabulas argumeta.… 1567. WOODCUTS OF VIRGIL SOLIS £4,500
[CATHOLIC CHURCH] Catechismus Romanus, ex decreto Concilij Tridentini, 1567. WITH ELABORATE OWNERS' ARMS PAINTED ON VELLUM £1,500
AESOP Fabellas una cum argumentis novis. Brescia, heirs of Ludovico… 1563. A RARE IMPRINT, PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED - ONLY ONE OTHER COPY KNOWN £6,000
PRUDENTIUS Poemata omnia: quorum Catalogum proxima à Praefatione pagina… 1562. RARE PRINTED DONATION EX-LIBRIS £2,500
BOAISTUAU (Pierre) Histoires prodigieuses... extraictes de plusieurs fameux autheurs, Grecs… 1560. MONSTERS AND PORTENTS, LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED FIRST EDITION £10,000
COUSTEAU (Pierre) Le Pegme... mis en Francoys par Lanteaume de… 1560. EARLY FRENCH EMBLEMS, IN ELABORATE BORDERS £3,000
PARADIN (Claude) Devises heroiques. Lyon, Jean de Tournes and Guillaume Gazeau, 1557. INFLUENTIAL EMBLEMS, OWNED BY A POLISH EMIGRÉ ARISTOCRAT £5,500
THUCYDIDES L'histoire... de la guerre qui fut entre les… 1555. TRANSLATED BY LOUIS XII'S ADVISOR £850
CAPRIANO (Giovanni Pietro) Della vera poetica libro uno. Al Conte Ulisse… 1555. SOLE EDITION OF CAPRIANO'S LITERARY CRITICISM £2,500
BOCCHI (Achille) Symbolicarum quaestionum de universo genere quas serio ludebat… 1555. FIRST EDITION OF BOCCHI'S EMBLEMS £4,000
JUSTINIAN & [HALOANDER (Gregorius)] Institutionum D. Iustiniani sacratissimi principis libri IIII (bound… 1551. HANDSOME BINDING, UNRESTORED, FROM THE LIBRARY OF JEAN BALLESDENS £2,500
CICERO (Marcus Tullius) M T Ciceronis Brutus, seu de claris Oratoribus,… 1546. BEAUTIFULLY PRINTED BY JEAN LOYS £2,000
SOUTHERN NETHERLANDS ARTIST The Martyrdom of St. Catherine, in an initial… 1541. A VIBRANT MINIATURE £6,500
MACHIAVELLI (Niccolo). Discorsi... sopra la prima da di Tito Livio, 1540. WITH THE ORIGINAL 'TESTINA' PORTRAIT OF MACHIAVELLI £3,500
BEBENBURG (Lupold von) Veterum Germaniae principum. Paris, Jean Foucher, 1540, 1540. ONE OF THE EARLIEST FRENCH EX-LIBRIS STAMPS RECORDED £1,800
GROPPER Canones concilii provincialis Coloniensis... celebrati anno 1536. Quibus… 1538. FROM THE LIBRARY OF JEAN BOYER, ARCHDEACON OF CONQUES (1508-41). £4,800
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
REGINO (Abbot of Prüm) Annales, non tam de Augustorum vitis, quam aliorum… 1521. WITH A POSTHUMOUS PORTRAIT OF THE EDITOR £2,500
NATALIBUS (Petrus de) Catalogus sanctorum & gestorum eorum ex diversis voluminibus… 1516. ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF SAINTS, WITH MANUSCRIPT PILATE LETTER £3,500
[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