[DEVOTION.]

Cy commence une petite instruction et maniere...

[Paris, Guillaume Merlin, c. 1553.]

A gathering of very rare three devotional...

£7500

GAGUIN, Robert.

La mer des croniques et mirouer hystorial...

Paris, [Bernard Aubry for] Jacques Nyverd,...

Very rare Paris vernacular edition (first...

£8500

GAZA, Theodorus.

Grammatica introductiva; De mensibus; Apollonius...

[(Colophon:) Venice, Aldus Manutius, 25...

A beautiful example of early Greek printing,...

£45000

HERMES TRISMEGISTUS; Marsilio FICINO, translator.

Liber de potestate et sapientia Dei …

[(Colophon:) Venice, Damianus de Mediolano,...

An attractive Venetian edition of the first...

£7500

HERP, Hendrik.

Speculum aureum decem praeceptorum Dei.

[(Colophon:) Mainz, Peter Schoeffer, 10...

First edition of this collection of sermons...

£24000

HIERONYMUS de Villa Vitis.

Panis quotidianus de tempore [– de sanctis...

[(Colophon:) Hagenau, Heinrich Gran for...

First edition, bound and handsomely rubricated...

£5000

[INCUNABLE SAMMELBAND.]

Sammelband of ten works.

Rome, Stephan Plannck and Eucharius Silber,...

A sammelband of ten Roman incunables, nine...

£25000

JEROME, [Pseudo-]; [Thomas DORNIBERG, editor].

Aureola ex suavissimis salutiferisque floribus...

[Speyer, Printer of the ‘Gesta Christi’,...

Second edition of this set of monastic...

£5750

[JEROME, Saint.]

Obitus beati iheromini.

[Delft, Jacob Jacobszoon van der Meer,...

Rare incunable edition (first printed in...

£22500

LA VIGNE, André de.

Le vergier dhonneur nouvellement imprime...

[(Colophon:) Paris, Philippe le Noir],...

George Dunn’s copy of a rare early edition...

£9500

[LA VIGNE, André de, and Octavien de SAINT-GELAIS.]

Le vergier dhonneur nouvellement imprime...

[Paris, Pierre le Dru and Jean Petit, 1503.]

Extremely rare first edition of the Vergier...

£120000

[LANSPERGER, Johannes Justus;] Serafino ACETI DE’ PORTI, translator.

Pharetra divini amoris, tradotto in volgare...

Venice, Paolo Gherardo [(colophon:) Comin...

Third Italian edition, considerably enlarged,...

£1500

[LAURENTIUS, Frater; Jan van BREDERODE, translator.]

[Summe le roy of des conincs summe].

[(Colophon:) Haarlem, [Jacob Bellaert],...

Rare early edition in Dutch (first Delft...

£40000

PATRIZI, Francesco.

Egloga de Christi nativitate …

[Padua, Printer of Lucianus (H 10276),...

Extremely rare first edition of Patrizi’s...

£4500

PAULUS de Sancta Maria.

Scrutinium scripturarum.

[(Colophon:) Mainz, Peter Schoeffer, 7 January...

Fifth edition (first Strasbourg, not after...

£12500

PFEFFER DE WYDENBERG, Johannes.

[Directorium sacerdotale.]

[Basel, Johann Besicken, after 20 December...

First and only incunable edition, very...

£6500

BURTON, John.

Hophni et Phinees, sive impietas sacerdotum...

Oxford, ‘e theatro Sheldoniano, impensis...

First edition of a sermon on clerical impiety...

£350

BOUCHARLAT, Jean-Louis.

Élémens de mécanique ...

Paris, ‘chez Mme Ve Courcier’, 1815.

First edition of an introduction to mechanics,...

£450

BOCK, Jean-Nicolas-Étienne.

Recherches philosophiques sur l’origine...

‘À Londres. Se trouve à Paris, chez...

First edition of an interesting work on...

£500

BISSEL, Johannes.

Illustrium ab orbe condito ruinarum decades...

Würzburg, ‘typis viduae Walderi’, [1762].

Scarce later edition of the first part...

£450