THEOPHRASTUS; CASAUBON, Isaac, editor.

Θεοφραστου ητικοι χαρακτηρες....

Lyon, ‘apud viduam Ant. de Harsy’...

Isaac Casaubon’s celebrated edition of...

£600

[MASSES FOR THE DEAD.]

Missae pro defunctis seu privatim, sive...

Paris, François Coustelier, (colophon:)...

A seemingly unrecorded Requiem Missal printed...

£950

GEORGES D’AMIENS.

Trina Pauli theologia positiva, moralis,...

Paris, ‘apud viduam et Dionysium Thierry’,...

First of an eventual three volumes of commentaries...

£1250

CAMDEN, William.

Britain, or a chorographicall Description...

London, Francis Kingston, Robert Young,...

Second edition in English (first 1610)...

£4500

SHAKESPEARE, William; Richard Grant WHITE, editor.

The Works of William Shakespeare. The Plays...

Boston, Little Brown & Company, 1893.

An attractive Boston-printed edition of...

£475

[PSALTER.] [BRUNO, Archbishop of Würzburg, editor.]

Psalterium.

[Würzburg, Georg Reyser, c. 1488–1489.]

First edition of the Psalter with the commentary...

£24000

[PSALTER.] Justinus DECADYUS, editor.

Ψαλτηριον.

Venice, Aldus Manutius, [not after 1 October...

The elegant first Aldine printing of the...

£45000

[PUBLICIUS, Jacobus.]

Ars memorativa.

[Cologne, Johann Guldenschaff, c. 1481.]

First illustrated edition, with moving...

£18000

[SERMONS.]

[Sermones sensati.]

[(Colophon:) Gouda, Gerard Leeu, 20 February...

First and only incunable edition of a rare...

£8500

[THOMAS à Kempis.]

Ioanni Gerson vulgare devota operetta della...

Florence, Antonio Miscomini, 22 July 1493.

Uncommon editions of two classic Latin...

£5750

THOMAS of Cantimpré.

Bonum universale de proprietatibus apum.

[Cologne, Johann Koelhoff, the Elder,...

Second edition of this manual of moral...

£6000

[RINUCCINI, Ottavio, librettist.]

[Drophead title: Maschere di bergiere].

[(Colophon:) Florence, Giorgio Marescotti,...

Extremely rare first edition of Rinuccini’s...

£8000

PIUS II, Pope (Enea Silvio PICCOLOMINI); Nicolaus DE WYLE, editor.

[Epistolae familiares; De duobus amantibus...

[Reutlingen, Michael Greyff, not after 1478.]

First combined edition of Pius II’s...

£12500

[JEROME, Saint.]

Obitus beati iheromini.

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

Rare incunable edition (first printed in...

£22500

[BEER.]

Jenaischer allgemeiner Bier-Comment nebst...

‘Eschwig, Otter & Kunitz, 183*.’

An apparently unrecorded humorous handbook...

£375

BELLARMINO, Roberto.

De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis liber unus....

Paris, Sébastien Cramoisy, 1658.

An uncut copy of Bellarmino’s bibliography...

£1250

CATHERINE of Siena.

Dialogo della serafica vergine, et sposa...

Venice, Giacomo Cornetti, 1589.

An uncommon edition of Saint Catherine...

£550

[CATHERINE the Great of Russia.] BETSKOY, [Ivan]; [Nicolas-Gabriel LE] CLERC, translator; [Denis DIDEROT, contributor].

Les plans et les statuts, des différents...

Amsterdam, Marc-Michel Rey, 1775.

First edition in French, translated from...

£4000

DENISSE, Nicolas.

Divinis humanisq[ue] dignu[m] conspectibus...

Rouen, Martin Morin, 15 February 1506 [1507].

Rare edition of the Speculum mortalium...

£1650

EUCLID; Jean MAGNIEN and Stephanus GRACILIS, editors.

Euclidis elementorum libri XV Graece et...

Paris, Guillaume Cavellat, 1557.

First edition of Euclid’s Elements...

£5500