LONGUS Les Amours pastorales de Daphnis et de Chloé,… 1757. PASTORAL ROMANCE WITH PARALLEL FRENCH TRANSLATIONS £1,250
MOLIERE (Jean Baptiste Poquelin) Oeuvres. Nouvelle édition. Paris, [Pierre Prault], 1734, 1734. A MASTERPIECE OF 18TH CENTURY FRENCH ILLUSTRATION £5,000
CALVIN (Jean) Institutio Christianae religionis. Geneva, Jean le Preux, 1592. CALVIN'S LANDMARK WORK - FINELY BOUND £2,750
MACHIAVELLI (Niccolò) & [DIECI DI BALÌA] Manuscript document appointing Bernardino da Bartoli captain of… 1508. DOCUMENT BEARING MACHIAVELLI'S NAME £10,000
TRIGAULT (Nicolas). De Christianis apvd Japonios trivmphis sive de gravissima… 1623. FIRST ILLUSTRATED ACCOUNT OF JESUIT MARTYRDOMS IN JAPAN £16,000
NATALIBUS (Petrus de) Catalogus sanctorum & gestorum eorum ex diversis voluminibus… 1516. ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF SAINTS, WITH MANUSCRIPT PILATE LETTER £3,500
DIPLOMA Paduan doctoral degree diploma, illuminated manuscript on vellum, 1641. A SCOTTISH SCHOLAR IN ITALY, WITH THE ILLUMINATOR'S STRIKING ADVERTISEMENT £10,000
REGINO (Abbot of Prüm) Annales, non tam de Augustorum vitis, quam aliorum… 1521. WITH A POSTHUMOUS PORTRAIT OF THE EDITOR £2,500
PRUDENTIUS Poemata omnia: quorum Catalogum proxima à Praefatione pagina… 1562. RARE PRINTED DONATION EX-LIBRIS £2,500
[MEDICAL MANUSCRIPT] Medical, veterinary and agricultural manuscript containing various conditions… 1800. MEDICAL & VETERINARY MANUSCRIPT, WITH CONVENIENT, HAND-STITCHED POCKET £1,750
[DIPLOMA] Venetian doctoral diploma, illuminated manuscript on vellum, 1644. DEGREE DIPLOMA FROM A PAPER UNIVERSITY £8,000
ROUSSEAU (Jean-Jacques) Du contrat social, ou principes du droit politique, 1772. UNCOMMON COUNTERFEIT EDITION OF ROUSSEAU'S MOST FAMOUS WORK £750
POLYDORE VERGIL De rerum inventoribus libri octo. Basle, Johann Bebel, 1532, 1532. WITH HOLBEIN'S DANCE OF DEATH ALPHABET £1,500
PLUTARCHUS [Works, Greek & Latin] Τα σωζομενα συγγραμματα... Quae… 1572. FINELY BOUND & RARELY FOUND COMPLETE £15,000
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
ARRIANUS Flavius Praefatio in libris rerum gestarum Alexandri regis [translated… 1508. FINE SONCINO IMPRINT £2,750
SANCHEZ DE AREVALO (Rodrigo) Speculum omnium statuum totius orbis terrarum, 1613. FROM THE LIBRARY OF A BOHEMIAN REBEL AND HIS WIFE £2,250
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
FRENCH ARTIST Christ Among the Doctors, an illuminated cutting from a… FROM THE RENOWNED BURCKHARDT-WILDT ALBUM £6,500
FRENCH ARTIST The Transfiguration, an illuminated cutting from a Book… 1470. FROM THE RENOWNED BURCKHARDT-WILDT ALBUM £6,000
CORNELIUS NEPOS Vitae imperatorum, sive De vita illustrium virorum. Venice, Nicolaus… 1471. EDITIO PRINCEPS - THE PEMBROKE COPY £35,000
[CATHOLIC CHURCH] Catechismus Romanus, ex decreto Concilij Tridentini, 1567. WITH ELABORATE OWNERS' ARMS PAINTED ON VELLUM £1,500
BOCCHI (Achille) Symbolicarum quaestionum de universo genere quas serio ludebat… 1555. FIRST EDITION OF BOCCHI'S EMBLEMS £4,000
CAMERARIUS (Joachim) Symbolorum et emblematum ex re herbaria desmumtorum centuria… 1654. THE BOTANIST GEORGE BENTHAM'S COPY £2,500
[BUREAU GENERAL DE BONFAISANCE] État général des répartitions de numéraire, farines ordinaries,… 1798. PRECARIOUS EARLY WELFARE PROVISION IN REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE £2,500
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
SFONDRATI (Celestinus) Innocentia vindicata, in qua gravissimis argumentis ex S.… 1695. BENEDICTINE EMBLEMS PRINTED AT ST. GALL £3,500
BOISSARD (Jean Jacques) Emblematum liber. Ipsa Emblemata ab auctore delineata: a… 1593. A COMPLEX EMBLEM BOOK £4,000
CHYTRAEUS (David) Libellus de morte et vita aeterna, editio postrema.… 1590. PLAYFUL & MISCHIEVOUS DEATH £12,500
PLINIUS SECUNDUS Naturae Historiarum libri XXXVII. E castigationibus Hermolai Barbari… 1518. OWNED BY LUTHER'S TEACHER AND FUTURE FOE £11,000
BARON L'ESTAT Lali et Sainval drame en trois actes en… 1784. WRITTEN & PERFORMED FOR CATHERINE THE GREAT £12,500
JUSTINIAN & [HALOANDER (Gregorius)] Institutionum D. Iustiniani sacratissimi principis libri IIII (bound… 1551. HANDSOME BINDING, UNRESTORED, FROM THE LIBRARY OF JEAN BALLESDENS £2,500
TUBERINUS (Johannes) Carmen ad gravem: sanctumque senatum Lipsensem: de orgijs… 1512. HEAVILY ANNOTATED £2,250
HYGINUS (Gaius Julius) Poetica astronomica. (Edited by Jacobus Sentinus and Johannes… 1482. THE FIRST DEPICTIONS OF THE CONSTELLATIONS IN A PRINTED BOOK £25,000
DE GUEVARA (Antonio) Libro di Marco Aurelio con l'horologio de' prencipi, 1575. MARCUS AURELIUS AS A MODEL OF PRINCELY BEHAVIOUR £800