PITOU, Louis-Ange.

L’Urne des Stuarts et des Bourbons, ou...

Paris, [Beraud for] L.A. Pitou, 31 August...

First and only surviving edition of this...

£650

[NUNS.]

[Incipit:] Illustrissimi Sigg. Sigg....

Florence, 20 March 1784.

Extremely rare broadside confirming the...

£450

[NOVARA.]

[Incipit:] Il vescovo di Novara...

[Novara], 10 May 1805.

An apparently unrecorded broadside from...

£175

[MILAN – DEATH DUTIES.]

[Incipit:] Ad un reale dispaccio...

Milan, Pirola brothers, [31 October 1787].

Scarce edict issued by Ferdinand Karl,...

£500

HOLBEIN, Hans; Wenceslaus HOLLAR, engraver; [Francis DOUCE, editor].

The Dance of Death, from the original Designs...

[McMillan] for J. Coxhead, 1816.

An attractive early nineteenth-century...

£375

[HÖSS,] Maria Crescentia, Saint.

‘Wahre Abbildung der From[m]en Schwester...

Jahr ihres Alters.’ Mindelheim, Lingauer,...

Extremely rare devotional engraving of...

£750

HEINSIUS, Daniel.

Poematum editio nova; accedunt praeter...

Leiden, [Isaac] Elzevir and Jean Maire, 1621.

First Elzevir edition of the poems of Daniel...

£800

GRÜNEISEN, [Karl].

Niclaus Manuel: Leben und Werke eines Malers...

Stuttgart & Tübingen, J.G. Cotta, 1837.

First and only edition of the first separate...

£120

[FRANKLAND, William.]

A large collection of manuscript correspondence...

[Manchester, Slaidburn, and Blackburn,...

An interesting archive relating to the...

£650

[DEATH CERTIFICATES.]

Certificates recording the deaths of three...

Rome, 1762–1819.

An interesting set of death certificates...

£750

COUPÉ, Jacques-Michel.

De la moralité des sépultures et de leur...

Paris, Calixte Vollant, an IX [1800–1801].

A scarce and most interesting pamphlet...

£475

[GIRALDI, Giovanni Battista.]

Giuditio sopra la tragedia di Canace et...

(Colophon:) Lucca, Vincenzo Busdraghi,...

First edition of this criticism, in the...

£650

DELL’UVA, Benedetto.

Le vergini prudenti.

Florence, Bartolomeo Sermartelli, 1582.

First editions of three religious poems...

£650

DESPAUTÈRE, Jean, and Gabriel DU PRÉAU.

Universa grammatica, cum doctissimis commentariis,...

Lyons, Pierre Rigaud, 1608.

A seemingly unrecorded issue of this comprehensive...

£400

STANCOVICH, Pietro.

Dello anfiteatro di Pola, dei gradi marmorei...

Venice, Giuseppe Picotti, 1822.

First edition, uncut in the original wrappers,...

£275

MARSILIUS of Inghen, GILES of Rome, and ALBERT of Saxony.

Marsilii de genera[tione et corruptione]....

[(Colophon:) Venice, [Boneto Locatello...

A trio of late thirteenth- and fourteenth-century...

£1500

NONIUS MARCELLUS.

De proprietate sermonum. Iam demum innumeris...

Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1565.

First critical edition of this grammar...

£450

[MARIAN DEVOTION.]

Embroidered silk panel depicting the Virgin...

[Netherlands, early eighteenth century?]

A delightful silk panel, embroidered over...

£600

PLINY the Younger.

Panegyricus Trajano Augusto dictus.

Paris, [Charles Crapelet for] Antoine-Augustin...

An attractive edition of Pliny’s only...

£275

SIMEONI, Gabriele.

Le III parti del campo de primi studii...

[(Colophon:) Venice, Comin da Trino], 1546.

First edition of this early work by Simeoni,...

£950