CAPRIANO (Giovanni Pietro)
Della vera poetica libro uno. Al Conte Ulisse… 1555.
SOLE EDITION OF CAPRIANO'S LITERARY CRITICISM
£2,500
![A prophet pointing to his eyes, historiated initial 'D' on a leaf from an illuminated choirbook on vellum.
[Veneto, second quarter 15th century]](https://api.maggs.com/image/3e99f8b4-ae67-41de-8751-694049d31dc4/616x770.webp)
CORTESE (Cristoforo)
A prophet pointing to his eyes, historiated initial…
£5,000
ERASMUS (Desiderius).
Collectanea Adagiorum, 1515.
WITH CONTEMPORARY JUVENILE NOTES & DRAWINGS
£11,000
[FLORESTA (Pedro de la)]
La historia de los mui nobles, y valientes… 1700.
RARE EDITION OF THIS CHIVALRIC ROMANCE
£1,250
CICERO (Marcus Tullius)
M T Ciceronis Brutus, seu de claris Oratoribus,… 1546.
BEAUTIFULLY PRINTED BY JEAN LOYS
£2,000
ARGOTE DE MOLINA (Gonzalo)
Nobleza de Andaluzia, 1588.
ANDALUSIAN NOBILITY, EXTENSIVELY ILLUSTRATED
£2,500
ROSSI (Giovanni Giacomo de)
Insignium Romae templorum prospectus exteriores interioresque... in lucem… 1684.
£3,000
![Perspectiva pictorum et architectorum . . . pars prima. Rome: A. De Rossi, 1702. [Pars secunda]. Rome, G. G. Komarek, 1700.](https://api.maggs.com/image/974c0ed3-dd13-48ec-9dac-300edf2a23c9/616x770.webp)
POZZO (Andrea)
Perspectiva pictorum et architectorum . . . pars… 1700.
£3,000
GALLI DA BIBIENA (Ferdinando)
L'Architettura Civile, preparata su la geometria, e ridotta… 1711.
FIRST EDITION, OWNED BY FATHER-AND-SON PAINTERS
£4,000
RABELAIS (Francois)
Les Oeuvres de M. Francois Rabelais, Docteur in… 1588.
UNCOMMON EDITION IN CONTEMPORARY BINDING
£4,000
HOROZCO Y COVARRUBIAS (Juan)
Emblemas Morales. Segovia, Juan de la Cuesta, 1589.
THE FIRST EMBLEM BOOK PRINTED IN SPAIN
£7,500
[Anon]
Histoire de palmerin d'olive, fils du roy florendos… 1573.
CASTILIAN CHIVALRIC ROMANCE, CONSIGNED TO THE FLAMES IN DON QUIXOTE
£2,000
DE LA VEGA (Garcilasso)
Principe de los Poetas Castellanos, 1622.
A RARE EDITION OF DE LA VEGA'S SECULAR POETRY
£4,500
BOAISTUAU (Pierre)
Histoires prodigieuses... extraictes de plusieurs fameux autheurs, Grecs… 1560.
MONSTERS AND PORTENTS, LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED FIRST EDITION
£10,000
FRENCH REVOLUTION
Calendrier Royal pour l'année mil sept cent quatre-vingt-dix, 1789.
PRINTED IN THE FIRST YEAR OF THE REVOLUTION
£2,500
![Calendar, apparently from a Breviary of the Use of Cologne, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum.
[Germany (doubtless Cologne), 14th century]](https://api.maggs.com/image/0f9095d2-1996-4c2b-8833-d069b81001bc/616x770.webp)
[CALENDAR]
Calendar, apparently from a Breviary of the Use…
C14th MANUSCRIPT CALENDAR, IN USE A CENTURY LATER
£2,750
![Alberti Durer Noriberg. German. Icones sacrae. In historiam salutis humanae per redemptorem nostrum Iesum Christum Dei & Marium filium instauratae... nunc primum è tenebris in lucem editae...
[Hamburg, G.L. Frobenius], 1604](https://api.maggs.com/image/1be39e4e-bf72-409e-b817-94b24ad9538a/616x770.webp)
ALTDORFER (Albrecht)
Alberti Durer Noriberg. German. Icones sacrae. In historiam… 1604.
ALTDORFER'S WOODCUTS DISGUISED AS DÜRER'S WORK
£10,000
FRENCH ARTIST
A funeral service, an Illuminated miniature on vellum… 1430.
£2,750
FRENCH ARTIST
A funeral service, an Illuminated miniature on vellum… 1500.
£2,250
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
DUCALE
Frontispiece to a Ducale, issued by the Doge… 1530.
A VENETIAN COMMISSION, WITH PORTRAIT OF ST SEBASTIAN
£4,250
CIRCLE OF VENTURELLA DI PIETRO
St. John the Baptist, a large historiated initial… 1330.
UMBRIAN ILLUMINATION
£7,500
![Two historiated initials depicting St Mark and Two Men on a leaf from the Mailhac-Faber Bible, illuminated manuscript in Latin on vellum. [Southern France, late 13th or early 14th century]](https://api.maggs.com/image/d4923212-a6aa-416c-ba31-7916749d1a60/616x770.webp)
SOUTHERN FRENCH ARTIST
Two historiated initials depicting St Mark and Two…
TWO SUPERB LARGE INITIALS, ONE OF ST. MARK
£7,500
GAUTIER DE CHATILLON (Philippe)
Alexandri Magni regis Macedonum vita. Strasbourg: Reinhard Beck, 1513, 1513.
A FASCINATING SAMMELBAND, WITH THE RARE ALEXANDREIS
£11,000
UBERTINUS (de Casali)
Arbor vitae crucifixae Jesu Christi. Venice, Andreas de… 1485.
THE TREE OF THE CRUCIFIED LIFE OF CHRIST
£7,500
![Pentecost, an historiated initial on a vellum leaf from an Antiphonal, in Latin.
[Italy (Emilia-Romagna, perhaps Bologna), c. 1260-70]](https://api.maggs.com/image/f8e06b91-7478-4ef7-ab73-930c589cc220/616x770.webp)
ITALIAN ARTIST
Pentecost, an historiated initial on a vellum leaf…
£9,500
MARANTA (Bartolomeo)
Lucullianarum quaestionum libri quinque, 1564.
£500
AUSONIUS
Opera, 1575.
£1,500
PISTOFILO (Bonaventura)
Oplomachia di Bonaventura Pistofilo. Siena: Hercole Gori, 1621, 1621.
DEDICATED TO KENELM DIGBY, WITH HIS PORTRAIT
£4,000
BOOK OF HOURS
Use of Angers, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on… 1440.
FINELY ILLUMINATED IN BRUGES
£45,000
RUSCELLI (Girolamo)
Le impresi illustri . . . aggiuntovi nuovamte.… 1584.
THE MOST COMPLETE EDITION
£2,750
[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
![Echantillon de l'Oeconomie raffinée
[N.p., 3 May, 1697].](https://api.maggs.com/image/0e8dcfcb-ef37-4d11-a094-b4001138af66/616x770.webp)
[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
[ST. FARRE]
Traite d'Anatomie tome premier osteologie. A LHermitage, 1777, 1777.
FIBRE THEORY FROM AN ANATOMICAL CONNOISSEUR
£2,250
ASCHAM (Roger)
Familiarum Epistolarum Libri tres, magna orationis elegantia conscripti,… 1602.
BOUND IN RED MOROCCO FOR DE THOU
£7,500
![King Robert II of France accepts the surrender of Melun, an illuminated miniature on vellum from the Grandes Chroniques de France.
[Paris, c.1400-1410]](https://api.maggs.com/image/482fa0ed-6604-46e3-aae8-c01f5cbd7341/616x770.webp)
REMIET (Perrin)
King Robert II of France accepts the surrender… 1410.
A SUPERB MINIATURE FROM THE GRANDES CHRONIQUES DE FRANCE
£17,500
BRUNI ARETINO (Leonardo)
Epistolarum Familiarium Libri VIII. (Ed. Antonius Moretus and… 1495.
ONE OF ONLY TWO FIFTEENTH-CENTURY EDITIONS
£6,500
![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].](https://api.maggs.com/image/e7bb9291-9f08-48d0-a5f4-06f1fd900a71/616x770.webp)
[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
ISACCHI (Giovanni Battista)
Inventioni nelle quali si manifestano varij secreti, & vtili… 1579.
INVENTIONS AND SECRETS
£8,500
GHEYN (Jacques de)
Maniement d'armes d'arquebuses, mousquets, & picques Selon l'ordre… 1619.
EXTREMELY RARE - WITH ENGLISH TEXT
£12,500
![The Martyrdom of St. Catherine, in an initial on a choirbook leaf [Southern Netherlands (perhaps Delft), dated 1541 (more probably 1544)].](https://api.maggs.com/image/9c984ec8-e9dd-459f-8a94-d997de27ff52/616x770.webp)
SOUTHERN NETHERLANDS ARTIST
The Martyrdom of St. Catherine, in an initial… 1541.
A VIBRANT MINIATURE
£6,500
