RUCELLAI, Giovanni.

Rosmunda. Tragedia … nuovamente ristampata.

Florence, Filippo Giunta, 1593.

Uncommon first edition of Donzellini’s...

£650

SOPHOCLES. 

Tragoediae Sophoclis quotquot extant carmine...

Antwerp, Jean Bellère, 1584.

An early seventeenth-century sammelband...

£950

COSTER, François. 

Piarum et Christ. institutionum libri...

Douai, Jean Bogard, 1582. 

Very rare Douai edition of this devotional...

£675

ROCCA, Bernardino.

De’ discorsi di guerra … libri Quattro,...

Venice, Damiano Zenaro, 1582.

First edition of Rocca’s military treatise,...

£450

DELL’UVA, Benedetto.

Le vergini prudenti.

Florence, Bartolomeo Sermartelli, 1582.

First editions of three religious poems...

£650

RICHARDUS ANGLICUS.

Correctorium alchymiae ... Das is reformierte...

Strasbourg, Bernard Jobin, 1581.

First edition of ‘a very rare collection’...

£4500

CHALMERS, David.

Histoire abbregee de tous les roys de France,...

Paris, Jean Fevrier, 1579.

First edition of Chalmer’s historical...

£950

PASSI, Carlo.

La selva di varia istoria … la quale...

Venice, Altobello Salicato, 1572.

An unsophisticated copy of Passi and Ruscelli’s...

£500

[SEVILLE.]

Mercantile contract between Sebastián...

Seville, 25 July 1576.

A commercial document from the heyday of...

£1200

DIOGENES LAERTIUS; Henri ESTIENNE, editor.

Περι βιων, δογματων και...

[Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1570.

First Estienne edition of The Lives...

£850

THEODORET.

Διαλογοι τρεις κατα τινων...

Leipzig, [(colophon:) Ernst Vögelin], 1568.

First edition of Strigel’s Latin translation...

£1350

DONI, Anton Francesco.

Mondi celesti, terrestri, et infernali,...

Venice, Domenico Farri, 1567.

A handsome copy of the second edition of...

£850

ARISTIDES, Aelius.

Orationum tomi tres, nunc primum latine...

Basel, Peter Perna and Heinrich Petrus, 1566.

First edition in Latin, a remarkable copy...

£2750

[ANTHOLOGIA GRAECA PLANUDEA.]

Ανθολογια διαφορων επιγραμματων...

[Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1566.

First Estienne edition of the Planudean...

£5000

DOLCE, Lodovico.

Somma della filosofia d’Aristotele, e...

Venice, Giovanni Battista, & Marchio Sessa,...

First edition of this exposition of Aristotle’s...

£2500

NONIUS MARCELLUS.

De proprietate sermonum. Iam demum innumeris...

Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1565.

First critical edition of this grammar...

£450

TYRE, William, Archbishop of, and Giuseppe OROLOGGI (translator).

Historia della guerra sacra di Gierusalemme,...

Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1562.

First Italian edition of William of Tyre’s...

£2800

DIODORUS Siculus.

Bibliothecae historicae libri XV. Hoc est,...

Basel, Heinrich Petri, August 1559.

Important edition, the first to be overseen...

£2500

[PSALMS.]

Psalmi Davidis regis et vatis inclyti,...

Antwerp, [(colophon:) Jan Verwithagen...

A collection of verse paraphrases of the...

£975

[CHAMPIER, Symphorien.]

La vie & les gestes du preux chevalier...

Lyons, Olivier Arnoullet, [(colophon:)...

A rare edition of Champier’s account...

£9500