Maggs Bros. Ltd.

PARADIN (Claude)

Devises heroiques. Lyon, Jean de Tournes and Guillaume Gazeau, 1557.

INFLUENTIAL EMBLEMS, OWNED BY A POLISH EMIGRÉ ARISTOCRAT

£5,500

AMBOISE (Adrian d')

Devises royales. Paris, Rolet Boutonne, 1621, 1621.

FRENCH ROYAL DEVICES

£750

[GALIANI (Ferdinando).]

Dialogues sur le commerce des bleds, 1770.

£2,500

MERIAN (Matthäus sr.).

Diepe. [&] St. Malo, 1650.

£150

MACHIAVELLI (Niccolo).

Discorsi... sopra la prima da di Tito Livio, 1540.

WITH THE ORIGINAL 'TESTINA' PORTRAIT OF MACHIAVELLI

£3,500

[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

ROUSSEAU (Jean-Jacques)

Du contrat social, ou principes du droit politique, 1772.

UNCOMMON COUNTERFEIT EDITION OF ROUSSEAU'S MOST FAMOUS WORK

£750

[MAHIEU M. de]

Echantillon de l'Oeconomie raffinée [N.p., 3 May, 1697], 1697.

ADMINISTRATING NEW TERRITORIES UNDER THE SUN KING - ONLY ONE COPY KNOWN

£4,000

[CONDORCET (Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de).] & [BAUDEAU (Abbe Nicolas).]

Éclaircissements demandés à M. N**[ecker], sur ses principes… 1775.

£2,500

HOROZCO Y COVARRUBIAS (Juan)

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

THE FIRST EMBLEM BOOK PRINTED IN SPAIN

£7,500

BOISSARD (Jean Jacques)

Emblematum liber. Ipsa Emblemata ab auctore delineata: a… 1593.

A COMPLEX EMBLEM BOOK

£4,000

AENEAS SYLVIUS PICCOLOMINI (later Pope Pius II)

Epistolae familiares. De Duobus amantibus Euryalo et Lucretia.… 1496.

HUMANIST LETTERS BY A FUTURE POPE

£10,000

BRUNI ARETINO (Leonardo)

Epistolarum Familiarium Libri VIII. (Ed. Antonius Moretus and… 1495.

ONE OF ONLY TWO FIFTEENTH-CENTURY EDITIONS

£6,500

[SPIRITUAL EXERCISES]

Esercizio sopra la passione di Gesû Cristo.   [Italy, seventeenth… 1700.

£1,250

[HERBERT (Claude Jacques).]

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

£450

[BUREAU GENERAL DE BONFAISANCE]

État général des répartitions de numéraire, farines ordinaries,… 1798.

PRECARIOUS EARLY WELFARE PROVISION IN REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE

£2,500

AESOP

Fabellas una cum argumentis novis.   Brescia, heirs of Ludovico… 1563.

A RARE IMPRINT, PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED - ONLY ONE OTHER COPY KNOWN

£6,000

AESOP

Fabulas de la vida del sabio y clarísimo… 1818.

SPANISH AESOP, FROM THE LIBRARY OF A 'FORGOTTEN HISPANIST'

£750

ASCHAM (Roger)

Familiarum Epistolarum Libri tres, magna orationis elegantia conscripti,… 1602.

BOUND IN RED MOROCCO FOR DE THOU

£7,500

ITALIAN THEATRE

FIRENZUOLA (Agnolo). I lucidi. Florence, 1552. [Bound with]:DOLCE (Lodovico).… 1581.

SOURCE FOR SHAKESPEARE'S TWELFTH NIGHT

£1,750

MERIAN (Matthäus sr.).

Forte de Fuentes, 1650.

£200

DUCALE

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

A VENETIAN COMMISSION, WITH PORTRAIT OF ST SEBASTIAN

£4,250

MERIAN (Matthäus sr.).

Gallipoli, 1650.

£150

[Anon]

Histoire de palmerin d'olive, fils du roy florendos… 1573.

CASTILIAN CHIVALRIC ROMANCE, CONSIGNED TO THE FLAMES IN DON QUIXOTE

£2,000

BOAISTUAU (Pierre)

Histoires prodigieuses... extraictes de plusieurs fameux autheurs, Grecs… 1560.

MONSTERS AND PORTENTS, LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED FIRST EDITION

£10,000

STONING OF ST. STEPHEN

Historiated initial "S" with small miniature of the… 1280.

£1,800

BOUTERWEK (Friedrich).

Idee einer Apodiktik. Ein Beytrag zur menschlichen Selbstverständigung… 1799.

£1,250

LA VARENNE (François Pierre de).

Il Cuoco Francese Ove e' Insegnata. La maniera… 1693.

£2,500

HUTTICH (Johannes)

Imperatorum Romanorum Libellus, 1526.

MEDALLION PORTRAITS OF THE EMPERORS

£2,250

[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

MELANCHTHON (Philip)

Initia doctrinae physicae, dicta in academia Vvitebergensi. Wittenberg: J.… 1549.

EDUCATIONAL SAMMELBAND IN HANDSOME CONTEMPORARY BINDING

£5,750

SFONDRATI (Celestinus)

Innocentia vindicata, in qua gravissimis argumentis ex S.… 1695.

BENEDICTINE EMBLEMS PRINTED AT ST. GALL

£3,500

ROSSI (Giovanni Giacomo de)

Insignium Romae templorum prospectus exteriores interioresque... in lucem… 1684.

£3,000

JUSTINIAN & [HALOANDER (Gregorius)]

Institutionum D. Iustiniani sacratissimi principis libri IIII (bound… 1551.

HANDSOME BINDING, UNRESTORED, FROM THE LIBRARY OF JEAN BALLESDENS

£2,500

ISACCHI (Giovanni Battista)

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

INVENTIONS AND SECRETS

£8,500

BORDONE (Benedetto).

Isolario di ... Nel qual si ragiona ditutte… 1534.

THE FIRST PRINTED MAP OF CONTINENTAL NORTH AMERICA

£25,000

REMIET (Perrin)

King Robert II of France accepts the surrender… 1410.

A SUPERB MINIATURE FROM THE GRANDES CHRONIQUES DE FRANCE

£17,500

LA POPELLINIERE (Lancelot-Voisin, Seigneur de).

L'Amiral de France, et par occasion, de celuy… 1584.

PROMOTING THE FRENCH COLONIZATION OF THE NEW WORLD

£19,500

GALLI DA BIBIENA (Ferdinando)

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

FIRST EDITION, OWNED BY FATHER-AND-SON PAINTERS

£4,000

ALBERTI (Leon Battista)

L'architettura... tradotta in lingua Fiorentina da C. Bartoli... Venice,… 1565.

FROM THE PINELLI LIBRARY

£4,500

THUCYDIDES

L'histoire... de la guerre qui fut entre les… 1555.

TRANSLATED BY LOUIS XII'S ADVISOR

£850

SEMAINE SAINTE

L'office de la Semaine Sainte a l'usage de… 1743.

£1,500