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ARRIANUS Flavius

De expeditione sive rebus gestis Alexandri Macedonum Regis… 1539.

£750

ARTEMIDORUS (Daldianus)

De somniorum interpretatione.  Basel, Johann Froben, September, 1539.… 1539.

EARLY DREAM INTERPRETATION, KNOWN BY FREUD

£2,750

GROPPER

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

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

£4,800

PTOLEMY (Claudius). & FRIES (Laurent).

[Untitled Map of Persia], 1535.

£600

BORDONE (Benedetto).

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

THE FIRST PRINTED MAP OF CONTINENTAL NORTH AMERICA

£25,000

ERASMUS (Desiderius).

Liber cum primis pius, de praeparatione ad mortem, 1534.

FIRST EDITION - WITH MORE'S EPITAPH

£7,500

FRANCK (Sebastian)

Von dem greüwelichen laster der trunckenheit so in… 1533.

WOODCUT OF FEASTING & DRUNKENNESS BY HANS WEIDITZ

£3,500

[MEDICI]

Letter addressed to Raffaele de' Medici and signed… 1531.

£300

PEUTINGER (Conrad)

De mirandis Germaniae antiquitatibus, sermones convivales. Strassburg, apud… 1530.

AUGSBURG MERCHANTS' PARTICIPATION IN PORTUGUESE EXPLORATION

£2,800

[ST JEROME]

Transito Vita Miracoli & morte del glorioso Sancto… 1528.

DEVOTIONAL LIFE OF ST. JEROME, ORIGINALLY IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM

£1,500

CORTES (Hernando) & & MARTYR (Peter).

Praeclara Ferdinadi Cortesii de nova Maris Oceani Hyspania… 1524.

CORTES' SECOND LETTER: JOHN MURRAY'S COPY WITH HIS BOOKPLATE, PRESENTED TO HIM BY MARTIUS

£30,000

BOCCACCIO (Giovanni).

Ameto over comedia delle nimphe fiorentine, 1524.

LOVE TRANSFORMS A BRUTE INTO A MAN

£600

ERASMUS (Desiderius).

De immensa dei misericordia, Des. Erasmi Roterodami Concio.… 1524.

£3,000

CASTELLESI (Adriano)

De sermone Latino, et modis Latine loquendi. Eiusdem… 1524.

LAVISHLY GILT AND GAUFFERED

£2,250

REGINO (Abbot of Prüm)

Annales, non tam de Augustorum vitis, quam aliorum… 1521.

WITH A POSTHUMOUS PORTRAIT OF THE EDITOR

£2,500

[CIRCLE OF BENEDETTO BORDONE]

Processional leaf with historiated initial C containing skull… 1520.

FROM THE OFFICE OF THE DEAD

£5,500

[ANON.].

Das ist ein anschlag eins zugs wider die… 1518.

Rare ‘Turkish Fear’ Pamphlet

£3,800

Laberinto d'amore. Florence, 1516.

BOCCACCIO'S MYSTERIOUS LABYRINTHINE WORK

£1,250

(BERNO , Abbot of Reichenau & & ADILBERTUS, of Augsburg)

Gloriosorum christi confessorum Uldarici et Symperti: necnon beatissimae… 1516.

FIRST EDITION OF THIS BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED WORK

£4,000

[MARTYROLOGY]

Martyrilogium viola sanctorum, 1516.

£1,200

NATALIBUS (Petrus de)

Catalogus sanctorum & gestorum eorum ex diversis voluminibus… 1516.

ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF SAINTS, WITH MANUSCRIPT PILATE LETTER

£3,500

ROTA (Giovanni).

Das Leben Unnd Gewonheyt, und Gestalt des Sophi… 1515.

A VERY EARLY REPORT ON TRAVELS IN PERSIA

£19,500

ERASMUS (Desiderius).

Collectanea Adagiorum, 1515.

WITH CONTEMPORARY SCHOOLBOY DOODLES AND DRAWINGS

£11,000

[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

GAUTIER DE CHATILLON (Philippe)

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

'A MOST WITTY STORY': A HANDSOME SAMMELBAND, WITH THE RARE ALEXANDREIS

£10,000

ARRIANUS Flavius

Praefatio in libris rerum gestarum Alexandri regis [translated… 1508.

FINE SONCINO IMPRINT

£2,750

PTOLEMY (Claudius). & BUCKINCK (Arnold).

Quinta Asiae Tabula, 1507.

Earliest Available Printed Map of Persia

£4,500

OVIDIUS NASO

Epistole Heroides Ovidii diligenti castigatone exculte aptissimis figuris… 1505.

EXTREMELY RARE EDITION OF THE HEROIDES, WITH EXCEPTIONAL WOODCUTS

£15,000

NEPOS Cornelius

Cornelius Nepos. De vita Catonis. senioris [.] Sextus.… 1504.

MANUAL FOR A MAN OF ACTION

£2,500

FRENCH ARTIST

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

£2,250

FRENCH ARTIST

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

FRANCIS OF ASSISSI RECEIVES THE STIGMATA

£3,000

BRUNI ARETINO (Leonardo)

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

ONE OF ONLY TWO FIFTEENTH-CENTURY EDITIONS

£6,500

UBERTINUS (de Casali)

Arbor vitae crucifixae Jesu Christi. Venice, Andreas de… 1485.

THE TREE OF THE CRUCIFIED LIFE OF CHRIST

£7,500

PTOLEMY (Claudius). & BERLINGHIERI (Francesco di Niccolo).

Tabula Quarta de Asia, 1482.

THE THIRD ENGRAVED MAP OF MESOPOTAMIA AND THE HOLY LAND

£4,500

PTOLEMY (Claudius). & BERLINGHIERI (Francesco di Niccolo).

Tabula Quinta de Asia, 1482.

THE THIRD ENGRAVED MAP OF IRAN

£6,500

HYGINUS (Gaius Julius)

Poetica astronomica. (Edited by Jacobus Sentinus and Johannes… 1482.

THE FIRST DEPICTIONS OF THE CONSTELLATIONS IN A PRINTED BOOK

£25,000

ROLEWINCK (Werner)

De regimine rusticorum, 1481.

MORAL ADVICE FOR FARMERS

£15,000

MASTERS OF THE SUFFRAGES

The Adoration of the Three Magi, a large… 1480.

ADORATION OF THE MAGI

£4,500

GARNIER (Pierre)

The Battle of Ibera at which the Romans… 1480.

FROM A LAVISH MANUSCRIPT HISTORY OF ROME

£13,500

VENETIAN ILLUMINATOR

Historiated initial "O" and ornamental corner-border, executed in… 1470.

£700

FRENCH ARTIST

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

FROM THE RENOWNED BURCKHARDT-WILDT ALBUM

£6,000

FRENCH ARTIST

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

EVOCATIVE FRENCH ILLUMINATION

£3,750