Maggs Bros. Ltd.

AENEAS SYLVIUS PICCOLOMINI (later Pope Pius II)

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

HUMANIST LETTERS BY A FUTURE POPE

£10,000

ALLIX (Susan)

In Paradise. Images from near the Andaman Sea,… 2012.

SUSAN ALLIX EXPLORES THE PHYSICAL SURROUNDINGS OF AN IMAGINED PARADISE

£450

ALLIX (Susan)

The Golden Temple, 2001.

SIX INDIAN EPISODES FROM SUSAN ALLIX'S DIARY

£3,500

ALLIX (Susan)

Attitudes, 2024.

An artist's book by Susan Allix

£2,500

ALLIX (Susan) & LEON BATTISTA (Alberti)

On Painting. Translated from the original Italian, abridged… 1999.

ALBERTI'S MANUAL OF PAINTING, VIA SUSAN ALLIX

£4,500

ALLIX (Susan)

A Prospect of Gardens, 2015.

'THE GARDEN IS A CONSTANT PARTNER IN THE LANDSCAPE OF OUR LIVES'

£5,000

ALLIX (Susan)

Colours of Persia, 2007.

ONE OF SUSAN ALLIX'S FINEST BOOKS

£4,500

ALLIX (Susan)

Poems of Wyatt and Petrarch, Tudor poetry and… 1989.

PRINTED, ILLUSTRATED AND BOUND BY SUSAN ALLIX

£4,000

[Anon], LALAU (Maurice), CANAPE (George) [Binder] & CORRIEZ (George) [Binder]

Les Quinze Joyes de Mariage, 1928.

A STRIKING ART DECO BINDING

£2,000

ASCHAM (Roger)

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

BOUND IN RED MOROCCO FOR DE THOU

£7,500

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

Bacon (Francis), RILEY (Dominic) [Binder] & PENNELL (Betty)

Of Gardens, 1993.

DOMINIC RILEY BINDING INSPIRED BY GARDENS

£6,000

BROCKMAN (Stuart) [Binder], GROSS (Philip) & REDDICK (Peter)

Abstract Garden, 1996.

FINELY BOUND BY STUART BROCKMAN

£4,500

BRUGALLA (Emilio), JUVENAL & DE BECQUE (Maurice)

Satire Sur Les Femmes, 1923.

A FINE ART DECO BINDING BY THE CATALAN MASTER

£4,000

CHAUCER (Geoffrey), BURNE-JONES (Edward) & KELMSCOTT PRESS

The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, 1896.

'The finest book ever printed'

£95,000

CHELONIIDAE PRESS & BROCKMAN (James) [Binder]

Birds and Beasts of Shakespeare, 1990.

A MASTERFUL BINDING BY JAMES BROCKMAN

£12,000

CHINESE REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT.

Zongli fengan shilu. [A Record of the Prime… 1929.

£3,800

CRANACH PRESS & VERGILIUS MARO (Publius)

The Eclogues of Vergil. In the original Latin… 1927.

One of the greatest achievements of 20th century fine printing

£8,000

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

[DOWSON, Ernest, ed.]

Ben Jonson His Volpone: Or The Foxe, 1898.

ILLUSTRATED BY AUBREY BEARDSLEY

£2,800

DUCLOS (Charles Pinot)

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

£750

ERAGNY PRESS & VERHAEREN (Emile)

Les Petits Vieux, 1901.

PRESENTATION COPY TO THOMAS STURGE MOORE

£2,500

ERAGNY PRESS & BINYON (Laurence)

Dream-Come-True. Poems by Laurence Binyon, 1905.

A DREAM COME TRUE

£1,000

FARLEIGH (John) & WOMESLEY (Edward)

The Creative Craftsman, 1950.

A THOUGHTFUL AND UNUSUAL BINDING

£900

FLETCHER (William Younger)

English Bookbindings in the British Museum [with] Foreign… 1895.

£3,000

GRAHAME (Kenneth), SHEPHARD (Ernest) & CHANDLER (Margaret) [Binder]

The Wind in the Willows, 1931.

SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ARTIST, MAGNIFICENTLY BOUND BY MARGARET CHANDLER

£12,000

GREGYNOG PRESS, ROSSETTI (Christina) & FISHER (George) [Binder]

Poems, 1930.

ONE OF THE FINEST GEORGE FISHER BINDINGS

£12,000

GREGYNOG PRESS & MILLER PARKER (Agnes)

Wood Engravings From the Fables of Esope, with… 1996.

A SURVEY OF AGNES MILLER PARKER'S ENGRAVINGS

£1,500

GUIRAND DE SCÉVOLA (Lucien Victor) & DIDEROT (Denis)

Les Bijoux Indiscrets, 1928.

THE ARTIST'S COPY, WITH FOUR ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS

£2,500

GWASG GREGYNOG, DELRUE (Paul) [Binder] & WHITMAN (Walt)

Wrenching Times, 1991.

BOUND BY PAUL DELRUE WITH HIS SIGNATURE LACUNOSE TECHNIQUE

£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

KAWAKAMI (Sumio).

Jagatarabumi [Letters from Jakarta], 1941.

The half-Japanese diaspora in Jakarta

£5,000

KRULL (Germaine)

Études de Nu, 1930.

'Why make nudes? because it has always been beautiful and I liked it one summer morning'

£8,500

LALANDE (Joseph de) & BOCEL (Joëlle)

The Art of Papermaking, 1976.

£3,500

LONGUS

Les Amours pastorales de Daphnis et Chloé, escrites… 1779.

£750

LONGUS

Les Amours pastorales de Daphnis et de Chloé,… 1757.

PASTORAL ROMANCE WITH PARALLEL FRENCH TRANSLATIONS

£1,250

LOUŸS (Pierre), CRETTÉ (Georges) & VERTÈS (Marcel)

Les Aventures du Roi Pausole, 1930.

A STUNNING BINDING BY THE 'MASTER OF THE GOLD FILLET'

£12,000

LULL (Ramon)

Opera ea quae ad inventam ab ipso artem… 1598.

WITH 'REVOLUTIONARY' MOVING PARTS

£7,500

MANNEVILLETTE (after).

Instructions de Daprès sur la Navigation des Indes… 1819.

BOUND FOR LOUIS-PHILIPPE, THE LAST KING OF FRANCE.

£5,500

MATISSE (Henri) & MALLARMÉ (Stephane)

Poésies, 1932.

MATISSE'S FIRST LIVRE D'ARTISTE

£82,500

MATTHEWS (Bill, binder).

Industrial Research and Development in the United Kingdom.… 1946.

£675