Maggs Bros. Ltd.

OVIDIUS NASO

[Opera] Metamorphoseon libri XV, 1547.

RARE POCKET EDITION OF OVID

£2,500

PLUTARCHUS

[Works, Greek & Latin] Τα σωζομενα συγγραμματα... Quae… 1572.

FINELY BOUND & RARELY FOUND COMPLETE

£15,000

ALLIX (Susan)

A Prospect of Gardens, 2015.

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

£5,000

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

Abstract Garden, 1996.

FINELY BOUND BY STUART BROCKMAN

£4,500

PÉCHEUR (Jane), ANOUILH (Jean) & ANTHOINE-LEGRAIN (J.)

Antigone, 1945.

A STUNNING TYPOGRAPHIC BINDING

£12,000

ALLIX (Susan)

Attitudes, 2024.

An artist's book by Susan Allix

£2,500

[DOWSON, Ernest, ed.]

Ben Jonson His Volpone: Or The Foxe, 1898.

ILLUSTRATED BY AUBREY BEARDSLEY

£2,800

CHELONIIDAE PRESS & BROCKMAN (James) [Binder]

Birds and Beasts of Shakespeare, 1990.

A MASTERFUL BINDING BY JAMES BROCKMAN

£12,000

NATALIBUS (Petrus de)

Catalogus sanctorum & gestorum eorum ex diversis voluminibus… 1516.

ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF SAINTS, WITH MANUSCRIPT PILATE LETTER

£3,500

ALLIX (Susan)

Colours of Persia, 2007.

ONE OF SUSAN ALLIX'S FINEST BOOKS

£4,500

[SERVIDIO (Guido)]

Constitutiones Synodales, et decreta, condita a Reverendiss. D.… 1590.

RULES FOR THE CLERGY OF VOLTERRA, IN WASTE VELLUM BINDING

£2,000

ERAGNY PRESS & BINYON (Laurence)

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

A DREAM COME TRUE

£1,000

FLETCHER (William Younger)

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

£3,000

PLOUGH PRESS & WAKEMAN (Geoffrey)

English Marbled Papers, A Documentary History, 1985.

THE SPECIAL EDITION WITH 7 ADDITIONAL SAMPLES

£800

AENEAS SYLVIUS PICCOLOMINI (later Pope Pius II)

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

HUMANIST LETTERS BY A FUTURE POPE

£10,000

KRULL (Germaine)

Études de Nu, 1930.

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

£8,500

ASCHAM (Roger)

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

BOUND IN RED MOROCCO FOR DE THOU

£7,500

MITCHELL (Margaret) & DELRUE (Paul) [Binder]

Gone with the Wind, 1936.

FIRST EDITION, BOUND BY PAUL DELRUE

£7,000

VALE PRESS ., RICKETTS (Charles) & MARLOWE (Christopher)

Hero and Leander, 1894.

A FINE COPY OF RICKETTS' FINE BOOK

£3,000

ALLIX (Susan)

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

SUSAN ALLIX EXPLORES THE PHYSICAL SURROUNDINGS OF AN IMAGINED PARADISE

£450

MATTHEWS (Bill, binder).

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

£675

MELANCHTHON (Philip)

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

EDUCATIONAL SAMMELBAND IN HANDSOME CONTEMPORARY BINDING

£5,750

JUSTINIAN & [HALOANDER (Gregorius)]

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

HANDSOME BINDING, UNRESTORED, FROM THE LIBRARY OF JEAN BALLESDENS

£2,500

MANNEVILLETTE (after).

Instructions de Daprès sur la Navigation des Indes… 1819.

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

£5,500

KAWAKAMI (Sumio).

Jagatarabumi [Letters from Jakarta], 1941.

£5,000

WAKAYAMA (Yasoji). & NAITO (Masakatsu), binder.

Kappa aijo-ki [Kappa love story], 1948.

Wakayama's first self-published book, one of 10 special copies

£2,600

TASSO (Torquato)

La Gerusalemme liberata. Paris, appresso A. Delalain, P.… 1771.

"RELIURE DE PRESENT" DESIGNED BY GRAVELOT FOR THIS EDITION

£5,750

WILLIAMS (Eric) [Editor], PALMER (Garrick) [Illustrator], OLD STILE PRESS & BROCKMAN (Stuart) [Binder]

Land, 1996.

FINELY BOUND BY STUART BROCKMAN

£5,000

MIRÓ (Joan) & LÉVIS MANO (Guy)

Le Dedans & Le Dehors, 1966.

ORIGINAL SIGNED ETCHING BY MIRÓ

£5,000

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

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

Les Bijoux Indiscrets, 1928.

THE ARTIST'S COPY, WITH FOUR ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS

£2,500

DUCLOS (Charles Pinot)

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

£750

SAUVAGE (Slyvain) & DE LACLOS (Choderlos)

Les Liaisons Dangereuses, 1930.

EIGHT ORIGINAL WORKS AND FOUR COPPER PLATES BY SAUVAGE

£6,000

RABELAIS (Francois)

Les Oeuvres de M. Francois Rabelais, Docteur in… 1588.

UNCOMMON EDITION IN CONTEMPORARY BINDING

£4,000

ERAGNY PRESS & VERHAEREN (Emile)

Les Petits Vieux, 1901.

PRESENTATION COPY TO THOMAS STURGE MOORE

£2,500

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

Les Quinze Joyes de Mariage, 1928.

A STRIKING ART DECO BINDING

£2,000

VARIOUS & BONAPARTE (Napoleon)

Letters of Love, Napoleon and Others, 1911.

FINELY BOUND LOVE LETTERS

£600

PLINIUS SECUNDUS

Naturae Historiarum libri XXXVII. E castigationibus Hermolai Barbari… 1518.

OWNED BY LUTHER'S TEACHER AND FUTURE FOE

£11,000

MOLIERE (Jean Baptiste Poquelin)

Oeuvres. Nouvelle édition. Paris, [Pierre Prault], 1734, 1734.

A MASTERPIECE OF 18TH CENTURY FRENCH ILLUSTRATION

£5,000

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

Of Gardens, 1993.

DOMINIC RILEY BINDING INSPIRED BY GARDENS

£6,000