MACHIAVELLI (Niccolo). Discorsi... sopra la prima da di Tito Livio, 1540. WITH THE ORIGINAL 'TESTINA' PORTRAIT OF MACHIAVELLI £3,500
[Clairville (Joseph Philippe de)] Plantes et arbustes d'agrément, gravés et enluminés d'après… 1791. VIVIDLY ILLUSTRATED BOTANY FOR WOMEN £4,500
[SERVIDIO (Guido)] Constitutiones Synodales, et decreta, condita a Reverendiss. D.… 1590. RULES FOR THE CLERGY OF VOLTERRA, IN WASTE VELLUM BINDING £2,000
VERGILIUS MARO (Publius) P. Virgilius Maro, et in eum commentationes, &… 1575. VIRGIL - EXTRA ILLUSTRATED £4,000
BOUTERWEK (Friedrich). Idee einer Apodiktik. Ein Beytrag zur menschlichen Selbstverständigung… 1799. £1,250
GROSSE (Henning) Magica de spectris et apparitionibus spiritum de vaticiniis,… 1632. TALES OF DEMONIC PHENOMENA AND THEOLOGIANS ON TRIAL: A CURIOUS CONTRAST OF WORKS BOUND TOGETHER IN THE 17TH CENTURY £1,250
AESOP Fabulas de la vida del sabio y clarísimo… 1818. SPANISH AESOP, FROM THE LIBRARY OF A 'FORGOTTEN HISPANIST' £750
MARCELLUS (Christophorus) Sacrarum cerimoniarum Romanae Ecclesiae libri tres non ante… UNAUTHORISED WORK REVEALING THE SACRED CEREMONIES OF THE PAPAL CHAPEL £3,000
GROPPER Canones concilii provincialis Coloniensis... celebrati anno 1536. Quibus… 1538. FROM THE LIBRARY OF JEAN BOYER, ARCHDEACON OF CONQUES (1508-41). £4,800
BOCCACCIO Le Decameron. Contes de Bocace, traduction nouvelle; augmentée… 1801. PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED BOCCACCIO, IN CONTEMPORARY BINDING £1,500
SCHOPENHAUER (Arthur). Ueber den Willen in der Natur. Eine Erörterung… 1836. Presentation copy of Schopenhauer's On the Will in Nature £15,000
[DUPONT DE NEMOURS (Pierre Samuel).] De l'origine et des progrès d'une science nouvelle, 1768. A lovely copy of this important exposition of physiocrat doctrine £6,500
LEONARD OF CHIOS (Archbishop of Mytilene) [Historia Captae a Turca Constantinopolis] [Italy?, third quarter of… 1450. THE "MOST AUTHORITATIVE" EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF THE FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE £47,500
AESOP Vitta Esopi. Venice, Manfredus de Bonellis, de Monteferrato, 27… 1492. WITH MAGNIFICENT EARLY WOODCUTS £12,500
AESOP Fabellas una cum argumentis novis. Brescia, heirs of Ludovico… 1563. A RARE IMPRINT, PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED - ONLY ONE OTHER COPY KNOWN £6,000
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
DESNOUES (Guillaume) Lettres de G. Desnoues, Professeur d'Anatomie & de… 1706. ON EMBALMING PRACTICES, BY AN EARLY ANATOMICAL WAX MODELLER £2,500
ERASMUS (Desiderius). Apophthegmatum opus cum primus frugiferum, vigilanter ab ipso… SAMMELBAND OF THREE IMPORTANT EDITIONS £9,500
AENEAS SYLVIUS PICCOLOMINI (later Pope Pius II) Epistolae familiares. De Duobus amantibus Euryalo et Lucretia.… 1496. HUMANIST LETTERS BY A FUTURE POPE £10,000
[MONTERCHI (Giuseppe)] Scelta de medaglioni piu rari nella Bibliotheca dell'… 1679. BOUND FOR BIBLIOPHILE AND ART COLLECTOR PAULO VAN UCHELEN £1,500
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
GARNIER (Pierre) The Battle of Ibera at which the Romans… 1480. FROM A LAVISH MANUSCRIPT HISTORY OF ROME £15,000
[CONDORCET (Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de).] & [BAUDEAU (Abbe Nicolas).] Éclaircissements demandés à M. N**[ecker], sur ses principes… 1775. £2,500
PARADIN (Claude) Devises heroiques. Lyon, Jean de Tournes and Guillaume Gazeau, 1557. INFLUENTIAL EMBLEMS, OWNED BY A POLISH EMIGRÉ ARISTOCRAT £5,500
FELIBIEN (André) Description sommaire du Chasteau de Versailles. Paris, 1674, 1674. EARLIEST GUIDE BOOK TO PALACE OF VERSAILLES & PARK £2,500
COUSTEAU (Pierre) Le Pegme... mis en Francoys par Lanteaume de… 1560. EARLY FRENCH EMBLEMS, IN ELABORATE BORDERS £3,000