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
ROLEWINCK (Werner)
De regimine rusticorum, 1481.
MORAL ADVICE FOR FARMERS
£15,000
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
[MIRABEAU (Victor Riquetti, Marquis de).]
Lettres sur le commerce des grains, 1768.
£1,200
AESOP
Fabulas de la vida del sabio y clarísimo… 1818.
SPANISH AESOP, FROM THE LIBRARY OF A 'FORGOTTEN HISPANIST'
£750
KANT (Immanuel).
Prolegomena zu einer jeden künftigen Metaphysik, 1783.
£1,750
[FRENCH ILLUMINATOR]
Single leaf on vellum from Book of Hours, 1500.
£1,500
[FRENCH ILLUMINATOR]
Single leaf on vellum from Book of Hours, 1500.
£1,500
[FRENCH ILLUMINATOR]
Single leaf on vellum from Book of Hours, 1500.
£1,500
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
[HERBERT (Claude Jacques).]
Essai sur la police générale des grains, sur… 1755.
£450
[GALIANI (Ferdinando).]
Dialogues sur le commerce des bleds, 1770.
£2,500
KANT (Immanuel).
Critik der reinen Vernunft, 1781.
CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON
£28,000
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
![[Historia Captae a Turca Constantinopolis]
[Italy?, third quarter of 15th century]](https://api.maggs.com/image/f64d82f8-8b29-431e-969a-222ec9044315/616x770.webp)
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
![A leaf from Aurora in the first redaction by Aegidius of Paris, in Latin, manuscript on vellum.
[England, second half or late 14th century].](https://api.maggs.com/image/9fc7da30-de50-483e-8edb-85597f32f15b/616x770.webp)
PETRUS RIGA
A leaf from Aurora in the first redaction by Aegidius…
£2,250
![Paschal Vigil for SS. Rufina e Seconda in Trastevere. Fragment of a leaf of the Paschal Vigil from a Liturgical book in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum.
[Italy, probably Rome, 12th century].](https://api.maggs.com/image/e32b6153-da0d-4b44-925c-7d079767f237/616x770.webp)
ROMAN SCRIBE
Paschal Vigil for SS. Rufina e Seconda in…
£2,500
![Pseudo-Chrysostom Fragment from Opus imperfectum in Matthaeum in Latin, manuscript on vellum.
[Italy, 12th century].](https://api.maggs.com/image/0da19e88-bedd-44f8-9c26-f88dedfaa2a2/616x770.webp)
PSEUDO-CHRYSOSTOM
Pseudo-Chrysostom Fragment from Opus imperfectum in Matthaeum in…
£1,800
AENEAS SYLVIUS PICCOLOMINI (later Pope Pius II)
Epistolae familiares. De Duobus amantibus Euryalo et Lucretia.… 1496.
HUMANIST LETTERS BY A FUTURE POPE
£10,000
KANT (Immanuel).
Anthropologie in pragmatischer Hinsicht abgefasst, 1798.
£650
[OLDFIELD (T.H.B.)].
An Entire and Complete History, Political and Personal,… 1794.
£125
[MONTERCHI (Giuseppe)]
Scelta de medaglioni piu rari nella Bibliotheca dell'… 1679.
BOUND FOR BIBLIOPHILE AND ART COLLECTOR PAULO VAN UCHELEN
£1,500
![Le premier (-vingt uniesme et dernier) livre d'Amadis de Gaule [translated by Nicolas d'Herbelay des Essars, G. Chappuys, and others.]](https://api.maggs.com/image/dead8cfc-a258-4af2-beab-3ccda0120d36/616x770.webp)
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
![The Nativity, historiated initials on a leaf from an early Book of Hours, in Latin and French, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Northern France (Picardy, Noyon?), 14th century (c. 1370s)]](https://api.maggs.com/image/2e7e05df-aba2-4903-984f-beb453c886f9/616x770.webp)
NORTHERN FRENCH ARTIST
The Nativity, historiated initials on a leaf from… 1370.
£5,500
![The Battle of Ibera at which the Romans defeated Hasdrubal, a miniature from the Romuléon, illuminated manuscript on vellum.
[Eastern France, c. 1480]](https://api.maggs.com/image/676af0d0-13fd-4484-b244-6728661efdd5/616x770.webp)
GARNIER (Pierre)
The Battle of Ibera at which the Romans… 1480.
FROM A LAVISH MANUSCRIPT HISTORY OF ROME
£15,000
![Éclaircissements demandés à M. N**[ecker], sur ses principes économiques, & sur ses projets de législation; au nom des propriétaires fonciers & des cultivateurs françois. [bound with:] Lettres sur le commerce des grains.](https://api.maggs.com/image/9bf41627-84ae-4874-a429-98f88a68c999/616x770.webp)
[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
