THOMAS of Cantimpré.

Bonum universale de proprietatibus apum.

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

Second edition of this manual of moral...

£6000

ALCIONIO, Pietro.

Petri Alcyonii Medices legatus de exsilio.

[Venice, in the house of Aldus Manutius...

First edition of Alcionio’s dialogue...

£5750

MALTHUS, Thomas Robert.

An Essay on the Principle of Population;...

London, Johnson, 1803.

Second edition, first published 1798. Called...

£5750

[THOMAS à Kempis.]

Ioanni Gerson vulgare devota operetta della...

Florence, Antonio Miscomini, 22 July 1493.

Uncommon editions of two classic Latin...

£5750

GALLICO, Paul.

An archive of thirty-four scrapbooks compiled...

1928–1972.

A lovingly and meticulously compiled archive...

£5500

GELLIUS, Aulus. 

Noctium Atticarum commentaria per Bonfinem...

Venice, Giovanni Tacuino, 1517. 

Second edition of Gellius’s opus with...

£5500

MARLIANI, Bartolomeo.

Urbis Romae topographia.

Rome, Valerio & Luigi Dorico, September 1544.

First illustrated edition (third overall),...

£5500

FISHER, Irving.

Mathematical Investigations in the Theory...

New Haven, by the Academy, 1892.

First appearance of Fisher’s ‘startlingly...

£5500

PAGNINI, Giovanni Francesco; Francesco BALDUCCI PEGOLOTTI; Giovanni da UZZANO.

Della decima e di varie altre gravezze...

Lisbon and Lucca, (vols. 3–4: ‘e...

First edition, scarce on the market, of...

£5500

BUDÉ, Guillaume.

G. Budaei … Epistolarum latinarum lib....

[Paris,] Jodocus Badius, February 1531.

The first Badius combined edition of the...

£5500

EUCLID; Jean MAGNIEN and Stephanus GRACILIS, editors.

Euclidis elementorum libri XV Graece et...

Paris, Guillaume Cavellat, 1557.

First edition of Euclid’s Elements...

£5500

EUSTRATIUS of Nicaea, et al.; ARISTOTLE.

Ευστρατιου και αλλων...

[(Colophon:) Venice, heirs of Aldus Manutius...

Editio princeps of the Greek commentaries...

£5500

[VOGEL, Johann Christoph.]

Démophon.

[France (probably Paris), c. 1787.]

A contemporary scribal manuscript of Johann...

£5250

[BIBLE.]

The Holy Bible, containing the Old and...

Oxford, T. Wright and W. Gill, 1769.

First quarto edition of the Oxford ‘standard’...

£5250

FULBECKE, William.

An Historicall Collection of the continuall...

London, Printed for William Ponsonby. 1601.

First edition of Fulbecke’s Historicall...

£5250

ANTIPHONAL,

with neumes, containing antiphons, responses...

Germany, 1st half of 12th century. 

Two bifolia from a notably early antiphonal. 

£5000

HALLAM, Arthur Henry. 

Remains, in Verse and Prose … 

[London,] Printed by W. Nicol, 1834.

First edition, a presentation copy from...

£5000

NIEUHOF, Jan, and Georg HORN (translator). 

Legatio Batavica ad magnum Tartariae chamum...

Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs, 1668. 

First edition in Latin, beautifully illustrated,...

£5000

NABBES, Thomas.

Microcosmus. A Morall Maske, presented...

London, Printed by Richard Oulton for...

First edition of an allegorical morality...

£5000

PLATO; [Marsilio FICINO].

Platonis opera.

[(Colophon:) Venice, Filippo Pinzi, 22...

Third edition of Marsilio Ficino’s important...

£5000