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[MASTER OF THE GENEVA BOCCACCIO.]
St Bartholomew in India, miniature cut from a copy of Vincent of Beauvais, Speculum historiale.
[France (Loire Valley, Nantes or Angers), fifteenth century (c. 1460s).]
An iconographically intriguing miniature by one of the greatest painters in the circle of Jean Fouquet, from a deluxe copy of Vincent of Beauvais’s Speculum historiale almost certainly commissioned by King René of Anjou.
£12500
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MATTHIEU, Pierre, et al.
Tablettes ou quatrains de la vie et de la mort. Par Pierre Matthieu, conseiller du roy.
Première [– troisième] partie … Rouen, Jacques Cailloué, 1628.
Very rare pocket-sized Rouen edition of verses on life and death by the poet and royal historiographer Pierre Matthieu (1563–1621), here printed with further poems by Guy du Faur de Pibrac, Antoine Favre and others. All early editions are extremely rare, many known in a single copy.
£3000
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MOUSSON, Pierre.
Tragoediae seu diversarum gentium et imperiorum magni principes. Dati in theatrum collegii regii Henrici magni ...
La Flèche, George Griveau, 1621.
First edition, provincially-printed, of four Neo-Latin tragedies by the French Jesuit professor and playwright Pierre Mousson (c. 1560–1637) inspired by four great figures from the classical world.
£725
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[NEO-LATIN.]
Four works of neo-Latin verse and drama.
Paris, the Estiennes and Simon de Colines, 1537–1543.
A nice sammelband of neo-Latin verse published in Paris by the Estiennes and Simon de Colines.
£1500
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[MINIMS.]
Rituale sacri ordinis minimorum Sancti Francisci de Paula. Hac novissima editione in quatuor partes distributum, et multis...
Paris, Sébastien Cramoisy, 1643.
An apparently unrecorded edition of a Ritual for members of the Order of Minims, illustrated with two portraits of the Order’s founder Francis of Paola (1416–1507), and handsomely bound with the Order’s motto (‘charitas’) lettered in gilt to the centrepieces.
£950
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[PSALMS.]
Psalterium Davidis carmine redditum per Eobanum Hessum. Annotationes Viti Theodori Noribergensis, quae vice commentarii...
Paris, [(colophon:) Guillaume Morel for] Jacques Dupuys ‘sub insigni Samaritanae’, [August] 1550.
Seemingly unrecorded issue of the Psalms of David in Latin as edited by the Lutheran theologian Eoban of Hesse (1488–1540) with commentary by Luther’s housemate, associate, and sometime secretary Veit Dietrich (1506–1549).
£1250
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REMOND, François.
Francisci Remondi Divionensis e Societate Iesu carmina et orationes. Secunda editio, carminibus, et orationibus...
La Flèche, Jacques Rezé, 1616.
Later enlarged edition (based on that printed at Milan in 1614) of the poems and speeches of the French Jesuit François Remond (1558–1631).
£450
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SALLUST.
C. Crispi Sallustii de conjuratione Catilinae historia. Eiusdem de bello Iugurthino ...
Paris, Robert Estienne, 1544.
Estienne’s edition of the works of Sallust, annotated by an early English reader.
£1500
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[SIBYLLINE ORACLES.]
Σιβυλλιακοι χρησμοι hoc est Sibyllina oracula ex vett. codd. aucta, renovate, et notis illustrate...
Paris, [Compagnie du grande navire,] 1607.
Second edition, handsomely printed in three sizes of the Grecs du roi, and illustrated with fine plates of the Sibyls by Mallery.
£1200
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SPON, Jacob.
Voyage d’Italie, de Dalmatie, de Grece, et du Levant, fait aux années 1675 et 1676 par Jacob Spon docteur medecin...
Lyons, Antoine Cellier, 1678.
Very rare first edition of ‘one of the most important accounts of travels in the Levant, and the first description of Athens which was systematic, detailed, and trustworthy’ (Blackmer).
£4750
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SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS, Caius.
[De XII Caesarum vitis. De Illustribus grammaticis. De Claris rhetoribus. Horatii vita. Plinii vita....
Paris, Typographia Regia, 1644.
An attractive, illustrated pocket Suetonius. Quoting the pioneering early eighteenth-century bookseller Guillaume de Bure, Cookman notes that this edition is ‘recherché a cause de la beauté de son impression’.
£350
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SULPITIUS VERULANUS, Joannes.
Quinta recognitio atque additio ad Grammaticen Sulpitianam cum textu Ascensiano in quo plurimis locis...
Paris, François Regnault, 9 April 1513.
An unrecorded edition of this compilation of grammatical tracts composed in the late fifteenth century by Giovanni Sulpizio da Veroli, this copy with Latin and English notes by an English schoolboy.
£7500
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TACITUS, Cornelius.
Les oeuvres … a sçavoir, les Annales et Histoires des choses advenues en l’Empire de Rome depuis le trespas...
Paris, Jean Houzé, 1599.
Rare anonymous French translation of the works of Tacitus, at the peak of French interest in his writings, in a contemporary gilt vellum binding.
£750
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DANETT, Thomas.
A Continuation of the Historie of France, from the Death of Charles the Eight where Comines endeth, till the Death...
London, Printed by Thomas East for Thomas Charde, 1600.
First edition, an original history composed in sequel to Danett’s translation of The Historie of Philip de Commines (1596), covering the history of France from 1498 to 1559.
£1800