Maggs Bros. Ltd.

DE LA VEGA (Garcilasso)

Principe de los Poetas Castellanos, 1622.

A RARE EDITION OF DE LA VEGA'S SECULAR POETRY

£4,500

DELAUNE (Etienne)

Suite of six allegorical prints. France, c. 1560-1570, 1570.

MANNERIST ALLEGORY

£1,500

DESNOUES (Guillaume)

Lettres de G. Desnoues, Professeur d'Anatomie & de… 1706.

ON EMBALMING PRACTICES, BY AN EARLY ANATOMICAL WAX MODELLER

£2,500

DIPLOMA

Paduan doctoral degree diploma, illuminated manuscript on vellum, 1641.

A SCOTTISH SCHOLAR IN ITALY, WITH THE ILLUMINATOR'S STRIKING ADVERTISEMENT

£10,000

[DIPLOMA]

Venetian doctoral diploma, illuminated manuscript on vellum, 1644.

DEGREE DIPLOMA FROM A PAPER UNIVERSITY

£8,000

DUCALE

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

A VENETIAN COMMISSION, WITH PORTRAIT OF ST SEBASTIAN

£4,250

DUCLOS (Charles Pinot)

Les confessions du comte de ***… huitième edition,… 1776.

£750

[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

ERASMUS (Desiderius).

Collectanea Adagiorum, 1515.

WITH CONTEMPORARY JUVENILE NOTES & DRAWINGS

£11,000

ERASMUS (Desiderius).

Apophthegmatum opus cum primus frugiferum, vigilanter ab ipso…

SAMMELBAND OF THREE IMPORTANT EDITIONS

£9,500

ERASTUS (Thomas).

De occultis pharmacorum potestibus. Basle, Pietro Perna, 1574, 1574.

ON PHARMACOLOGY & THE OCCULT, ANNOTATED BY AN EARLY PHYSICIAN

£4,500

FELIBIEN (André)

Description sommaire du Chasteau de Versailles.  Paris, 1674, 1674.

EARLIEST GUIDE BOOK TO PALACE OF VERSAILLES & PARK

£2,500

[FLORESTA (Pedro de la)]

La historia de los mui nobles, y valientes… 1700.

RARE EDITION OF THIS CHIVALRIC ROMANCE

£1,250

FRENCH ARTIST

The destruction of Job's household, a large initial… 1450.

EVOCATIVE FRENCH ILLUMINATION

£3,750

FRENCH ARTIST

St. Lawrence, an illuminated miniature on vellum from… 1425.

WITH GRIDIRON IN HAND

£4,750

FRENCH ARTIST

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

£2,250

FRENCH ARTIST

A funeral service, an Illuminated miniature on vellum… 1430.

£2,750

FRENCH ARTIST

The Transfiguration, an illuminated cutting from a Book… 1470.

FROM THE RENOWNED BURCKHARDT-WILDT ALBUM

£6,000

FRENCH ARTIST

Christ Among the Doctors, an illuminated cutting from a…

FROM THE RENOWNED BURCKHARDT-WILDT ALBUM

£6,500

FRENCH ARTIST

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

£3,000

[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

FRENCH REVOLUTION

Calendrier Royal pour l'année mil sept cent quatre-vingt-dix, 1789.

PRINTED IN THE FIRST YEAR OF THE REVOLUTION

£2,500

[FRENCH REVOLUTION].

Discours du roi, prononcé le 5 mai 1789, jour où sa Majesté a fait l’ouverture des Etats-Généraux.   [Paris]: de l’imprimerie de Didot l’Aîné, [1789], 1789.

PRINTED ON SILK BY DIDOT

£9,500

[GALIANI (Ferdinando).]

Dialogues sur le commerce des bleds, 1770.

£2,500

GALLI DA BIBIENA (Ferdinando)

L'Architettura Civile, preparata su la geometria, e ridotta… 1711.

FIRST EDITION, OWNED BY FATHER-AND-SON PAINTERS

£4,000

GARNIER (Pierre)

The Battle of Ibera at which the Romans… 1480.

FROM A LAVISH MANUSCRIPT HISTORY OF ROME

£15,000

GAUTIER DE CHATILLON (Philippe)

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

A FASCINATING SAMMELBAND, WITH THE RARE ALEXANDREIS

£11,000

GELLI (Giambattista)

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

£1,250

GHEYN (Jacques de)

Maniement d'armes d'arquebuses, mousquets, & picques Selon l'ordre… 1619.

EXTREMELY RARE - WITH ENGLISH TEXT

£12,500

GIANNOTTI (Donato)

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

£680

GROPPER

Canones concilii provincialis Coloniensis... celebrati anno 1536. Quibus… 1538.

FROM THE LIBRARY OF JEAN BOYER, ARCHDEACON OF CONQUES (1508-41).

£4,800

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

[HERBERT (Claude Jacques).]

Essai sur la police générale des grains, sur… 1755.

£450

HORATIUS FLACCUS (Quintus)

[WORKS] Sus obras con la declaracion magistral en… 1599.

INSCRIBED BY THE RECTOR OF SEVILLE'S ENGLISH SEMINARY

£2,750

HOROZCO Y COVARRUBIAS (Juan)

Emblemas Morales. Segovia, Juan de la Cuesta, 1589.

THE FIRST EMBLEM BOOK PRINTED IN SPAIN

£7,500

HUTTICH (Johannes)

Imperatorum Romanorum Libellus, 1526.

MEDALLION PORTRAITS OF THE EMPERORS

£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

ISACCHI (Giovanni Battista)

Inventioni nelle quali si manifestano varij secreti, & vtili… 1579.

INVENTIONS AND SECRETS

£8,500

ITALIAN ARTIST

Pentecost, an historiated initial on a vellum leaf…

£9,500

ITALIAN ILLUMINATOR

Leaf from a finely illuminated manuscript Missal -… 1290.

UNRECORDED LEAF FROM AN OPULENTLY DECORATED MISSAL

£5,750