CHAUCER (Geoffrey), BURNE-JONES (Edward) & KELMSCOTT PRESS
The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, 1896.
'The finest book ever printed'
£95,000
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FLETCHER (William Younger)
English Bookbindings in the British Museum [with] Foreign… 1895.
£3,000
VALE PRESS ., RICKETTS (Charles) & MARLOWE (Christopher)
Hero and Leander, 1894.
A FINE COPY OF RICKETTS' FINE BOOK
£3,000
MANNEVILLETTE (after).
Instructions de Daprès sur la Navigation des Indes… 1819.
BOUND FOR LOUIS-PHILIPPE, THE LAST KING OF FRANCE.
£5,500
![Les Amours pastorales de Daphnis et Chloé, escrites en grec par Longus, & translatées en françois par Jacques Amyot.
Londres [Paris], 1779](https://api.maggs.com/image/90a0c73f-6119-463c-81ed-e43f352b813d/616x770.webp)
LONGUS
Les Amours pastorales de Daphnis et Chloé, escrites… 1779.
£750
DUCLOS (Charles Pinot)
Les confessions du comte de ***… huitième edition,… 1776.
£750
TASSO (Torquato)
La Gerusalemme liberata. Paris, appresso A. Delalain, P.… 1771.
"RELIURE DE PRESENT" DESIGNED BY GRAVELOT FOR THIS EDITION
£5,750
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LONGUS
Les Amours pastorales de Daphnis et de Chloé,… 1757.
PASTORAL ROMANCE WITH PARALLEL FRENCH TRANSLATIONS
£1,250
![Oeuvres. Nouvelle édition.
Paris, [Pierre Prault], 1734](https://api.maggs.com/image/4c8c5764-2f10-4637-870c-77185659fe72/616x770.webp)
MOLIERE (Jean Baptiste Poquelin)
Oeuvres. Nouvelle édition. Paris, [Pierre Prault], 1734, 1734.
A MASTERPIECE OF 18TH CENTURY FRENCH ILLUSTRATION
£5,000
[MONTERCHI (Giuseppe)]
Scelta de medaglioni piu rari nella Bibliotheca dell'… 1679.
BOUND FOR BIBLIOPHILE AND ART COLLECTOR PAULO VAN UCHELEN
£1,500
[DIPLOMA]
Venetian doctoral diploma, illuminated manuscript on vellum, 1644.
DEGREE DIPLOMA FROM A PAPER UNIVERSITY
£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
SANCHEZ DE AREVALO (Rodrigo)
Speculum omnium statuum totius orbis terrarum, 1613.
FROM THE LIBRARY OF A BOHEMIAN REBEL AND HIS WIFE
£2,250
ASCHAM (Roger)
Familiarum Epistolarum Libri tres, magna orationis elegantia conscripti,… 1602.
BOUND IN RED MOROCCO FOR DE THOU
£7,500
![Δειπνοσοφιστων βιβλια πεντεκαιδεκα. Deipnosophistarum libri XV (edited by Isaac Casaubon; tr. J. Dalechamps).
[Geneva, Henri and Paul Estienne, for] Jérôme Commelin, 1598](https://api.maggs.com/image/c6685656-5521-4bb2-874d-726c8c884727/616x770.webp)
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
![Opera ea quae ad inventam ab ipso artem universalem... pertinent. Ut et in eandem quorundam interpretum scripti commentarij [by Giordano Bruno, H. Cornelius Agrippa ]... Accessit index, etc.
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LULL (Ramon)
Opera ea quae ad inventam ab ipso artem… 1598.
WITH 'REVOLUTIONARY' MOVING PARTS
£7,500
[SERVIDIO (Guido)]
Constitutiones Synodales, et decreta, condita a Reverendiss. D.… 1590.
RULES FOR THE CLERGY OF VOLTERRA, IN WASTE VELLUM BINDING
£2,000
RABELAIS (Francois)
Les Oeuvres de M. Francois Rabelais, Docteur in… 1588.
UNCOMMON EDITION IN CONTEMPORARY BINDING
£4,000
![[Works, Greek & Latin] Τα σωζομενα συγγραμματα... Quae extant opera, cum Latina intepretatione.
[Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1572](https://api.maggs.com/image/69cf4d82-8791-4851-ba64-62c557264d66/616x770.webp)
PLUTARCHUS
[Works, Greek & Latin] Τα σωζομενα συγγραμματα... Quae… 1572.
FINELY BOUND & RARELY FOUND COMPLETE
£15,000
PRUDENTIUS
Poemata omnia: quorum Catalogum proxima à Praefatione pagina… 1562.
RARE PRINTED DONATION EX-LIBRIS
£2,500
JUSTINIAN & [HALOANDER (Gregorius)]
Institutionum D. Iustiniani sacratissimi principis libri IIII (bound… 1551.
HANDSOME BINDING, UNRESTORED, FROM THE LIBRARY OF JEAN BALLESDENS
£2,500
MELANCHTHON (Philip)
Initia doctrinae physicae, dicta in academia Vvitebergensi. Wittenberg: J.… 1549.
EDUCATIONAL SAMMELBAND IN HANDSOME CONTEMPORARY BINDING
£5,750
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OVIDIUS NASO
[Opera] Metamorphoseon libri XV, 1547.
RARE POCKET EDITION OF OVID
£2,500
PLINIUS SECUNDUS
Naturae Historiarum libri XXXVII. E castigationibus Hermolai Barbari… 1518.
OWNED BY LUTHER'S TEACHER AND FUTURE FOE
£11,000
NATALIBUS (Petrus de)
Catalogus sanctorum & gestorum eorum ex diversis voluminibus… 1516.
ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF SAINTS, WITH MANUSCRIPT PILATE LETTER
£3,500
AENEAS SYLVIUS PICCOLOMINI (later Pope Pius II)
Epistolae familiares. De Duobus amantibus Euryalo et Lucretia.… 1496.
HUMANIST LETTERS BY A FUTURE POPE
£10,000
