[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

EPIPHANIUS, Pseudo-; Gonzalo PONCE DE LEÓN, editor and translator.

Εις τον φυσιολογον. Του...

Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1588.

Second edition, with finely engraved illustrations...

£675

FAERNO, Gabriele.

Fabulae centum ex antiquis auctoribus delectae,...

Padua, Giuseppe Comino, [(colophon:) 27 October]...

A collection of popular verse fables by...

£300

GERMBERG, Hermann.

Proverbiorum centuriae XIV. quibus adjecta...

Basel, Sebastian Henricpetri, [(colophon:)...

First edition of this compendium of proverbs,...

£850

HAEFTEN, Benedictus van.

Regia via crucis.

Antwerp, Balthasar Moretus, ex Officina...

First edition of a significant Counter-Reformation...

£950

LA RUE, Charles de.

Carminum libri quatuor …

Paris, Simon Benard, 1680.

First collected edition of the works of...

£2500

MARMONTEL, Jean-François.

Contes moraux …

Paris, J. Merlin, 1765.

Expanded edition, with a new suite of illustrations...

£1650

WEBER, Johann Adam.

Discursus curiosi et fructuosi [ad praecipuas...

[Salzburg, Johann Baptist Mayr, 1690.]

Third Salzburg edition of Weber’s wide-ranging...

£4750

[SPINELLI.]

Illuminated arms of the Spinelli family...

Italy (Florence), c. 1460s.

Florentine border decoration of very high...

£2750