Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper

Antiquities.- Petitot (Ennemond Alexandre) Suite de Vases, ?first edition, engraved throughout with pictorial title, 2 dedications and 31 plates b...

Antiquities.- V[ogel] (J.P.N.M.) Collection des Pierres Antiques dont la Chasse des Ss.Trois Rois Mages est enrichie dans l'Eglise Metropolitaine ...

Bible, German. Biblia, Das ist Die ganze Heilige Schrift, 2 parts in 1, general title in red and black, engraved title to NT, double-page engraved...

Botany.- Palmstruch (J. W.) Svensk Botanik, vol.1-10 only (of 11), 720 hand-coloured engraved plates, some folding, occasional light offsetting, f...

Briseux (Charles-Etienne) Traité du Beau essentiel dans les Arts, appliqué particulierement à l'Architecture..., 2 vol., first edition, engraved t...

Chambers (Sir William) Dissertation sur le Jardinage de l'Orient, [with supplement] Discours servant d'explication, par Tan Chet-Qua de Quang-Cheo...

Gardens.- Grohmann (Johann Gottfried) Ideenmagazin für Liebhaber von Gärten, Englischen Anlagen und für Besitzer von Landgütern; Recueil d'Idées ...

Hamilton (Gavin) Schola Italica Picturae, engraved throughout, pictorial title and 39 plates after Correggio, Michelangelo, Titian etc., contempor...

La Fontaine (Jean de) Fables Choisies, Mises en Vers, 4 vol., half-titles, engraved frontispiece to vol.1, 275 engraved plates by Oudry after Aube...

Pufendorf (Samuel) Histoire du Regne de Charles Gustave Roy de Suede, 7 parts in 2 vol., first French edition, additional engraved title, portrait...

Saurin (Jacques) Discours Historiques, Critiques, Theologiques, et Moraux, sur les Evenemens les plus Memorables du Vieux et du Nouveau Testament,...

Sweden.- Thersner (Ulrick & Thora) Fordna och Närvarande Sverige; La Suede Ancienne et Moderne, 3 vol., text in Swedish and French, half-title, aq...

Wood (Robert) Les Ruines de Balbec autrement dite Heliopolis dans la Coelosyrie, first French edition, 46 engraved plates by Fourdrinier and Major...

War against the Turks.- Sixtus IV, Pope. Indulgence for promoting war against the Turks, single leaf, printed recto only, text in Latin, 21 lines,...

Psalter, Dutch.- Psalterium Duytsche Souter, collation: a-r8 Ƨ8 ɽ8 s-z8 A-J8, 278ff. (of 280, lacking J1 and final blank J8), 17 lines, Gothic typ...

Incunable Broadside.- Innocent VIII, Pope. Articuli abbreviati indulgentiarum Iubilaei et Cruciatae, 11 Dec. 1488 [German], 62 lines, Gothic type,...

Esoterica.- Guillermus Alvernus, Bishop of Paris. De fide et legibus, collation [a-o10], 139 ff. (of 140, lacking initial blank), 37-43 lines, Got...

Latin language.- Varro (Marcus Terentius) De Lingua Latina, edited by Pomponius Laetus & Franciscus Rolandellus, collation: a4 b-g8.6 h4, 50 ff., ...

Annotated.- Platina (Bartholomaeus Sacchi) Vitae Pontificum, double column, collation: [a10 b-r6 s8 t6 v8], 128 ff., 54-56 lines, Gothic type, ini...

Etterlin (Petermann) Kronica von der loblichen Eÿdtgnoschaft ir harkommen und sust seltzam strittenn und Geschichten, first edition, second issue,...

Breviary, Latin. Breviarium secundum usum et consuetudinem ecclesiae collegiate beatissimi Quintini Viromandensis, [12], lxxxviii, xx, viii, cxxxi...

Columbus (Christopher).- Psalterium, Hebraeum, Graecum, Arabicum, & Chaldaeum, cum tribus latinis interpretationibus & glossis, collation: A10 B-Z...

Froissart (Jean) Le premier [-second] volume de Froissart. Des croniques de france, dangleterre, descoce, despaigne, de bretaigne, de gascongne, d...

Bessarion (Johannes) In calumniatorem Platonis, 2 parts in 1, collation: a-p8 q4, aa8 b-f8 g6, Roman type, woodcut printer's device to titles and ...

Wine.- Ausonius (Decimus Magnus) [Opera], first and only Aldine edition, collation: A-N8 O4, italic type, woodcut printer's device to title and ve...

Chatsworth copy.- More (Sir Thomas, Saint) Epigrammata, first separate edition, collation: a-n4 o6 (a signed x, as in other copies consulted), tit...

Boccaccio (Giovanni) La Fiammetta del Boccaccio per messer Tizzone Gaetano di Pofi novamente revista, collation: A-N8 O4, italic type, initials su...

Erasmus (Desiderius) Adagiorum opus, collation: aa-dd6, ee8, a-z6, A-Z6, Aa-Zz6, Aaa-Kkk6, Lll8; [64], 962, [2] pp., woodcut printer's device to t...

δ Elimithar (Elluchasem) "Ibn Butlan". Tacuini sanitatis, first edition, collation: A-M⁶ N O⁴ P⁶, with final blank leaf P6, title printed in red a...

Eusebius Pamphili, of Caesarea. Evangelicae praparationis lib. XV. [&] Evangelicae demonstrationis lib. X., 2 parts in 1, collation: a-z6, aa-ss6,...

Moschopoulos (Manuel) De ratione examinandae orationis libellus, collation: a-z4, A-I4K6; 216, [52] pp., first edition, title with printer's woodc...

Copernicus.- Scultetus (Alexander) Chronographia sive Annales omnium fere regum, principum, & potentatuum, ab orbe condito, usque ad hunc annum Do...

Book censorship.- Rabelais.- Dupuyherbault (Gabriel) Theotimus sive de tollendis et expungendis malis libris, first edition, presentation copy fro...

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

Frankfurt Book Fair.- Estienne (Henri) Francofordiense emporium, sive Francofordienses nundinae, first and only edition, collation: *4 a-i8 k4, wo...

Early Songbook.- [Petri (Theodoricus)] [Piae Cantiones Ecclesiasticae et Scolasticae Veterum Episcoporum...], first edition, collation: A-M⁸ N⁴, l...

Chess.- López de Segura (Ruy) Il giuoco de gli scacchi, translated from the Spanish by Giovanni Domenico Tarsia, first edition in Italian, collati...

Christian cabalistic literature.- Pistorius (Johannes) Artis Cabalisticae: Hoc Est, Recondite Theologiae Et Philosophiae, Scriptorum, Vol.1 only [...

Emblemata.- Landwehr copy.- Epiphanius (Saint) Tou agiou patrow hmon Epifaniou...Ad physiologum...Eiusdem in die festo Palmarum Sermo...[graece], ...

Vatican library.- Pansa (Mutius) Della libraria Vaticana ragionamenti, first edition, collation: *4 A-Z Aa-Yy4, woodcut printer's device to title ...

Chambers (David) De Scotorum Fortitudine, Doctrina & Pietate, first edition, second issue, engraved printer's device to title, woodcut initials an...

Emblemata.- Bourgogne (Antoine de) Mundi Lapis Lydius sive Vanitas per Veritate falsi accusata & convicta, first edition, engraved title by Theodo...

Binding.- Montereul (Bernardin de) L'Histoire de l'Eglise Naissante: comprise dans l'Explication des Actes des Apostres, engraved title vignette, ...

Bible, Greek.- He Kaine Diatheke [New Testament], 'Mazarin edition', half-title, fine engraved title by Claude Mellan depicting an angel inscribin...

Russian Orthodox Church.- Кириллова Поучителныя Слова [Kirillova kniga], first edition, printed in cyrillic lettering, in red and black, woodcut i...

Bosse (Abraham) Traicté des Manieres de Graver en Taille Douce Sur l'Airin, first edition, 21 full-page engraved plates on 14 ff. including 2 addi...

Silver binding.- Arndt (Johann) Paradiess Gärtlein, 2 parts in 1, title to part 1 printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece and 5 plates, ti...

Erotica.- [Argens (Jean Baptiste Boyer, Marquis d'), attibuted to] Therese. Philosophe ou Mémoires Pour servir à l'Histoire de D. Dirrag & de Made...

*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed ***Erotica.- Cleland (John) Nouvelle traduction de Woman of Pleasur, ou Fille de Joie...C...

Erotica.- [Chorier (Nicolas)] Le Meursius François, ou Entretiens galans d'Aloysia, 2 parts in 1, half-title to each part, engraved frontispiece a...

Hasidism.- Yoseph (Ya'akov, of Polonne) Toledot Ya'akov Yoseph, first edition, text in Hebrew, 2 ink stamps to title, title leaf extensively repai...

Bible, Russian. Evangelie Iisusa Khrista, 510ff., 4 engraved plates (one at start of each Gospel), text in Church Slavonic, printed in red and bla...

Pelée de Varennes (Marie-Joseph-Hippolyte) Les Loisirs des bords du Loing, ou Recueil de pièces fugitives, first edition, printed on pink paper, h...

Bound in the arms of the dedicatee.- Villette (Charles Louis de) Oeuvres, printed on 'Papier de Guimauve' [marshmallow], 20 samples of various kin...

Bodoni (Giambattista) Manuale Tipografico, 2 vol., vol.1 [14], lxxii, [2] pp., 265ff. printed on recto only, one leaf printed both sides (numbered...

Italian poets.- Bottura (A., editor) Biblioteca Poetica Italiana, 30 vol., half-titles, some vol. with engraved frontispieces, scattered light fox...

Iceland.- Hoppe (P.F., editor) Register yfir Íslands Stiftisbókasafn; Catalog over Islands Stiftsbibliothek, first edition, preliminaries in Icela...

Napoleon.- [Sergüzest hülâsa tercümesi: Afrika Cezayirinden Santa Elene nam cezireden vasil olup ol tarafda cezire bend olan Bonaparta'nin sergüze...

Peçevi (Ibrahim) Tarih-i Peçevî [Pechevi's History], 2 vol., first edition, vol. 1 printed on yellow paper and with previous owner's manuscript no...

Colette (Sidonie-Gabrielle) Sept dialogues de Bêtes, one of 25 copies on verge d'arches, illustrations by Jacques Nam, original wrappers bound in,...