[TARONI, Giovanni Battista, pseud.] ‘Giovanna Statira BOTTINI’.

Cento nodi da sciogliersi proposti al genio...

Bologna, Gaspare de’ Franceschi, 1765.

Extremely rare edition of one hundred widely...

£450

SCHOPPER, Hartmann, translator.

Speculum vitae aulicae. De admirabili fallacia...

Frankfurt, [(colophon:) Nikolaus Basse], 1595.

Fifth and final edition of the first Latin...

£850

‘ABRAHAM a Sancta Clara’ [pseud. Johann Ulrich MEGERLE].

Coraggio e viltà, l’uno nella virtù,...

Trento, Giovanni Parone, 1717.

Scarce first and only Italian edition of...

£1850

SAAVEDRA FAJARDO, Diego de.

Idea de un Principe politico christiano,...

Valencia, heirs of Crisóstomo Garriz,...

Fourth Valencian edition of ‘the most...

£750

RICCI, Vincenzo.

Geroglifici morali … Opera nuova, hora...

Naples, Giovanni Domenico Roncagliolo, 1626.

Uncommon first edition of this work intended...

£2000

CARO Y CEJUDO, Gerónimo Martín.

Refranes y modos de hablar, castellanos...

Madrid, Julián Izquierdo, 1675.

First edition, the Heber–Chorley–Stirling Maxwell–de Guinzbourg...

£1750

[CHILDREN’S TALES.]

Novellette e racconti ai miei giovani bambini.

[(Colophon:) Rambervillers, Mejeat for]...

A pair of uncommon moral tales for children,...

£350

[COTIN, Charles, Abbé.]

‘Enigmes du temps.’

[France, c. 1750.]

A manuscript compendium of 237 French enigmas,...

£1250

[GIRALDI, Giovanni Battista.]

Giuditio sopra la tragedia di Canace et...

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

First edition of this criticism, in the...

£650

COUPÉ DE SAINT-DONAT, Alexandre; Jean de LA FONTAINE; Camillo UGONI, translator.

Favole di A.L.M. Coupé ed alcune di La...

Brescia, Nicolò Bettoni, 1808.

First edition of Coupé’s fables, rare,...

£400

[RARITIES AND PROVERBS.]

Lyste van Rariteiten, die verkocht zullen...

‘Gedrukt in Arabien, midden op de Zand-Zee,...

A bizarre series of fictitious auction...

£5500

JEVONS, William Stanley.

‘Preliminary account of certain logical...

London, Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer;...

First edition of the account of Professor...

£350

QUARLES, Francis.

Emblemes [– Hieroglyphikes of the Life...

London, for William Freeman, [1709].

Quarles’ Emblemes, ‘the work...

£375

[PROVERBS.]

Proverbs English, French, Dutch, Italian,...

London, Simon Miller, 1659.

First and only edition of a scarce collection...

£1200

PIETRASANTA, Silvestro.

De symbolis heroicis libri IX …

Antwerp, Balthasar Moretus ‘ex officina...

First edition of this Jesuit collection...

£850

PHAEDRUS; David van HOOGSTRATEN, editor.

Fabularum Aesopiarum libri V … in usum...

Amsterdam, François Halma, 1701.

A richly illustrated and handsomely printed...

£450

PÉREZ DE HERRERA, Cristóbal.

Proverbios morales, y consejos christianos...

Adornadas con trece emblemas … Madrid,...

Second edition, the Stirling Maxwell copy,...

£1450

DAVID, Jan.

Paradisus sponsi et sponsae, in quo messis...

Antwerp, Balthasar and Jan Moretus ‘ex...

Second edition (first 1607) of an early...

£850

[DU ROSIER, Simon.]

Antithesis Christi et Antichristi, videlicet...

[Geneva], Eustache Vignon, 1578.

First expanded edition of this satirical...

£2500

[ENIGMAS.]

‘Recueils d’Enigmes’.

[France, mid-eighteenth century.]

Four manuscript volumes collecting over...

£750