Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper

Lactantius (Lucius Coelius Firmianus) Opera, edited by Johannes Andreas de Buxis, Bishop of Aleria, collation: a-f8 g6 h-k8 l6 m-o8 p14 q r8 s6 t4...

Attic orators.- Oratores Graeci. Orationes infrascriptorum rhetorum, vol.2 only (of 3), collation: aaa-iii8 kkk10, title with woodcut printer's de...

Sophocles. Commentarii in septem tragedias, edited by Janus Lascaris, collation: α6, β8, Γ8, δ-ο8, π4, ρ-ω8, Α-Β8, Greek and Roman type, title in ...

Bible, Greek & Latin.- Novum testamentum omne, edited by Desiderius Erasmus, collation: Aa-Kk6 a-z A-Z6 &8 : aA bB8, parallel Greek and Latin text...

Sophocles. Tragoediae septem. Cum interpretationibus vetustis [graece], collation: *4 a-z8 &10, a1 printed in red and black, woodcut head-pieces a...

Bible, Greek.- He Kaine Diatheke [graece], collation: [a]2 b-z A-K8 L4 M N8 O4 P8 Q6 R-X8 Y4 Z AA BB8 CC6 DD8 EE2 FF GG8 HH10 II8 KK10, title with...

Bible, Hebrew.- Quinque libri legis, bound as 5 vol. (order of parts varies from collation given by Adams), collation: a-r8 s10 t-z, aa-kk8 ll4 mm...

Conrad Peutinger's copy.- Bible, Greek.- Tes Kaines Diathekes Apanta [graece], Novum Testamentum, 2 parts in 1, first Estienne edition, first issu...

Bible, Greek.- Tes Kaines Diathekes Apanta [graece], Novum Testamentum, 2 parts in 1, first edition, second issue (with November in colophon), col...

Michael Wodhull's copy.- Bible, Greek.- Tes Kaines Diathekes Apanta. Novum Testamentum, 2 parts in 1, collation: a-z, A-K; aa-zz8, titles Greek an...

Bible, Greek & Latin.- Apanta ta tês kainês diatêkês. Novum Jesu Christi Testamentum, 2 vol., collation: a-z aa-zz aaa-mmm8 : A-Z AA-QQ8 : AA-HH8 ...

Bible Greek & Latin.- Apanta ta tês kainês diatêkês. Novum Jesu Christi Testamentum, vol.1 only (of 2), collation: a-z aa-zz aaa-mmm8, triple colu...

Bible, Syriac.- Kethabha dh-Ewangeliyon Kaddisha... Liber sacrosancti evangelii de Jesu Christo domino & deo nostro [and Pauli Epistolae XIIII., &...

Lord Grenville's copy.- Catullus, Tibullus & Propertius. Catullus Tibullus Propertius, edited by Victor Giselinus, collation: A-L8, title with woo...

Thucydides. De Bello Peloponesiaco libri VIII., translated by Laurentius Valla, collation: ¶6 ¶¶4 a-z aa-zz aaa-nnn6, parallel Latin and Greek tex...

Bible, Hebrew.- Esrim Ve'arbah, [edited by Mordecai ben Josef Judah Wahl of Frankfurt am Main], 3 parts in 1, double column, title and openings of...

Boccaccio (Giovanni) Genealogiae Deorum, with additions by Dominicus Silvester and Raphael Zovenzonius, first edition, collation: [1-1210 1312 14-...

Fürstenberg copy.- Economics.- Platea (Franciscus de) Opus restitutionum, usurarum, excommunicationum, collation: [a] b8 a b10 c d8 e10 f12 g-n10 ...

NO RESERVE Orosius (Paulus) Historiae adversos paganos, edited by Aeneas Vulpes and Laurentius Brixiensis, collation: a-i K l m8 n10, 104 ff. (of ...

Lincolnshire Abbot's Sermons.- Gilbertus de Hoilandia. Sermones super Cantica canticorum, collation: a10 b-k A-H8 I6 K8, the first and last ff. bl...

Piccolomini (Aeneas Sylvius), Pope Pius II. Epistolae familiares. De Duobus amantibus Euryalo et Lucretia. Descriptio urbis Viennensis, edited by ...

Logic.- Tartaret (Pierre) Expositio magistri Petri Tartereti in summulas Petri Hyspani summa accuratione atque lucubratione penitus innouata atque...

Pontanus (Johannes Jovianus) Opera, collation: a-ff8 gg10, Italic and some Roman type, woodcut printer's device to title and verso of final f., in...

Erasmus (Desiderius) Veterum maxime insignium Paroemiarum. i. adagioru[m] collectanea rursus recognita atque aucta, fourth edition, woodcut device...

Aristotle & Domestic economy.- Lefèvre d'Étaples (Jacques) In Politica Aristotelis introductio [and] Xenophon. Economicus, collation: a b8, Roma...

[Mülich (Johann Adolph)], "Joannes Adelphus". Margarita Facetiarum. Alfonsi Aragonum Regis Vafredicta Proverbia Sigismundi & Friderici tertii Ro[m...

Dante Alighieri. [Divina Commedia] Dante col sito, et forma dell'Inferno tratta dalla istessa descrittione del poeta, collation: [*]2 a-z, A-H8, w...

Luther (Martin).- Eck (Johannes) & Andreas Karlstadt. Disputatio excellentium. D. doctoru[m] Johannis Eccij & Andre[a]e Carolostadij q[uæ] cepta e...

Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus) [Pharsalia], collation: a-r8 s4, text in Latin, italic type, woodcut printer's device to verso of colophon f. at end, fai...

Chatsworth copy.- Aristophanes. Comoediae novem cum commentariis antiquis & valde utilibus ad ea quae prius excusa fuerant additis indiceque copio...

Erasmus (Desiderius).- Hieronymus (Saint) Opus epistolarum, edited by Desiderius Erasmus, 3 vol. in 1, collation: Aa-Bb8 AA8 BB6 Cc6 a-r8 s10 t-x8...

Britain.- Giovio (Paolo) and George Lily. Descriptio Britanniae, Scotiae, Hyberniae, et Orchadum, collation: a4 a-z aa-gg4 hh8, woodcut printer's ...

Binding.- Bible, Greek.- Tes Kaines Diathekes Apanta; Nouum IESV Christi D.N. Testamentum. Ex Bibliotheca Regia, 2 parts in 1, collation: *8 **8 a...

Music.- Annotated.- [Lefèvre d'Étaples (Jacques)] Musica libris quatuor demonstrata, collation: A-L4, 2 woodcut diagrams in text, tables, woodcu...

Emblemata.- Yates-Thompson copy.- Coustau (Pierre) Pegma, cum narrationibus philosophicis, first edition, collation: α8 A-X8 a4, title and woodcut...

Franco (Pierre) Petit traité, contenant une des parties principales de chirurgie, laquelle les chirurgiens hernieres exercent, ainsi quil montre e...

Lady Jane Grey.- [Rosso (Giulio Raviglio)] Historia delle Cose Occorse nel Regno d'Inghliterra in Materia del Duca di Notomberlan dopo la Morte di...

Regiomontanus (Johannes Müller) De triangulis planis et sphaericis libri quinque..., second edition, collation: *4 a-o6 p8 : *6 A4 B-Z6 AA6 BB4 CC...

Pole (Reginald, Cardinal, Archbishop of Canterbury) De Concilio Liber, collation: A-S4, title and final verso with woodcut printer's device, Rome,...

Lucretius Carus (Titus) De rerum natura libri sex, edited by Denys Lambin, collation: a, e, i, A-Z, Aa-Zz, AAa-ZZz, AAA4, title within large woodc...

Scepticism.- Sextus Empiricus. Adversus mathematicos..., 2 parts in 1, collation: á, a-z, A-Z, aa-zz, AA-HH4, large woodcut printer's device on ti...

Plutarch. Quae extant opera, 7 vol., Greek portion only (i.e. without the Latin translation), vol.7 with Appendix but not 'Index rerum et verborum...

Pantaleon (Heinrich) Militaris Ordinis Iohannitarum, Rhodiorum, aut Melitensium Equitum, first edition, collation: ):(6 a-z A-I6K8, woodcut printe...

Jesuits.- Constituciones y reglas comunes a todas las congregaciones de la virgen de nuestra señora, fundadas con autoridad apostolica, en los col...

Astrology.- Manilius (Marcus) Astronomicon, edited by Joseph Scaliger, 2 parts in 1, collation: α-δ4 A-R4 * **4 ⁂2 a-z Aa-Zz Aaa-Sss4, Latin and G...

Bolla (Bartolomaeo) Thesaurus proverbiorum italico-bergamasco-urum rarissimorum... nunquam antes stampatorum... italicae linguae amantium ad aperi...

Curabelle (Jacques) Examen des oeuvres de Sr. Desargues, first edition, 2 parts in 1 including the rare supplement, engraved title and illustratio...

*** Please note, the description for this lot has changed ***Kircher (Athanasius) Ars magna lucis et umbrae, 2 parts in 1, first edition, addition...

Missale romanum..., title in red and black with engraved vignette, 10 full-page engraved illustrations, printed in red & black throughout in doubl...

Playing cards.- Della Bella (Stefano) Jeux Historiques des Rois de France, Reines renommees, Geographie et Metamorphose, complete series of 4 sets...

Coaching.- [Aubert de la Chesnaye des Bois (François Alexandre)] Le Parfait Cocher, ou l'Art d'entretenir, & de conduire un Equipage à Paris & en ...

Longus. Les Amours Pastorales de Daphnis et Chloé, additional engraved title and 29 engraved plates after Philippe d'Orléans by Audran, with the s...

French Novels.- [Bastide (Jean-François de)] L'Être Pensant, 2 parts, first edition, Amsterdam et se trouve a Paris, Hochereau, 1755 bound with [L...

French Novels.- Riccoboni (Marie Jeanne) Les Vrais Caracteres du Sentiment, ou Histoire d'Ernestine, first edition, Liege, D. de Boubers, 1765 bou...

Novels.- [Woodfin (Mrs A.)] Histoire de Madame Dubois, half-title, light foxing, Amsterdam et se trouve a Paris, Merigot jeune, 1769 bound with Fe...

French Novels.- [Saint-Lambert (Jean-François de)] Les Deux Amis, Conte Iroquois, first edition, title with engraved vignette, woodcut head- & tai...

Hebraica.- Braudes (Reuben Asher) Zwei Psychologische Skizzen [Hebrew], title in Hebrew and German, browned, later library cloth-backed marbled bo...

Arabic manuscript.- Qu'ran Scroll, purported to have once been displayed above Shah Jahan's Peacock Throne in the Diwan-i-Khas in the Red Fort of ...

Turkish and Arabic manuscript.- Ashab-i Badr [a Treatise on the Companions of the Prophet Muhammad in the Battle of Badr], Ottoman Turkish and Ara...

Persian manuscript.- Maktabi (Shirazi) Layla va Majnun, [the romance of Layla and Majnun, epic poem written in A.H. 895 / A.D. 1489 - 90 by Maktab...