[WEDDING POETRY.]

Applausi alli felicissimi sponsali dell’illustrissimo...

Siena, Stamperia del Pubblico, 1699.

Seemingly unrecorded collection of sonnets...

£350

BELLARMINE, Robert.

De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis liber unus....

Rome, Bartolomeo Zannetti, 1613.

First edition of a remarkable biobibliography...

£350

[BOLOGNA.] 

Delle oggetti di belle arti nel famoso...

Bologna, ‘nella stamperia di San Tommaso...

First edition of this detailed description...

£275

ACQUAVIVA, Claudio.

Meditationes in Psalmum XLIV, & CXVIII.

Rome, Bartolomeo Zanetti, 1616.

First edition of these Jesuit meditations...

£1550

BALBUS, Johannes.

Catholicon.

[Strasbourg, The R-Printer (Adolf Rusch),...

Third edition of the earliest printed lexicon,...

£65000

[BUTRIO, Antonius de, attributed; HUGH of Saint-Cher; Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo; DENIS the Carthusian.]

[Speculum de confessione; Ars moriendi;...

[(Colophon:) Louvain, Johannes de Westfalia,]...

Rare third(?) edition, printed in Louvain,...

£5750

[CATECHISM.]

Fundamentum eterne felicitatis omnibus...

[(Colophon:) Cologne, [Retro minores (Martin...

Very rare first edition of this small-format...

£5000

[CHAMPIER, Symphorien.]

La vie & les gestes du preux chevalier...

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

A rare edition of Champier’s account...

£9500

[DEVOTION.]

Cy commence une petite instruction et maniere...

[Paris, Guillaume Merlin, c. 1553.]

A gathering of very rare three devotional...

£7500

GAGUIN, Robert.

La mer des croniques et mirouer hystorial...

Paris, [Bernard Aubry for] Jacques Nyverd,...

Very rare Paris vernacular edition (first...

£8500

GAZA, Theodorus.

Grammatica introductiva; De mensibus; Apollonius...

[(Colophon:) Venice, Aldus Manutius, 25...

A beautiful example of early Greek printing,...

£45000

HERMES TRISMEGISTUS; Marsilio FICINO, translator.

Liber de potestate et sapientia Dei …

[(Colophon:) Venice, Damianus de Mediolano,...

An attractive Venetian edition of the first...

£7500

HERP, Hendrik.

Speculum aureum decem praeceptorum Dei.

[(Colophon:) Mainz, Peter Schoeffer, 10...

First edition of this collection of sermons...

£24000

HIERONYMUS de Villa Vitis.

Panis quotidianus de tempore [– de sanctis...

[(Colophon:) Hagenau, Heinrich Gran for...

First edition, bound and handsomely rubricated...

£5000

[INCUNABLE SAMMELBAND.]

Sammelband of ten works.

Rome, Stephan Plannck and Eucharius Silber,...

A sammelband of ten Roman incunables, nine...

£25000

JEROME, [Pseudo-]; [Thomas DORNIBERG, editor].

Aureola ex suavissimis salutiferisque floribus...

[Speyer, Printer of the ‘Gesta Christi’,...

Second edition of this set of monastic...

£5750

LA VIGNE, André de.

Le vergier dhonneur nouvellement imprime...

[(Colophon:) Paris, Philippe le Noir],...

George Dunn’s copy of a rare early edition...

£9500

[LA VIGNE, André de, and Octavien de SAINT-GELAIS.]

Le vergier dhonneur nouvellement imprime...

[Paris, Pierre le Dru and Jean Petit, 1503.]

Extremely rare first edition of the Vergier...

£120000

[LANSPERGER, Johannes Justus;] Serafino ACETI DE’ PORTI, translator.

Pharetra divini amoris, tradotto in volgare...

Venice, Paolo Gherardo [(colophon:) Comin...

Third Italian edition, considerably enlarged,...

£1500

[LAURENTIUS, Frater; Jan van BREDERODE, translator.]

[Summe le roy of des conincs summe].

[(Colophon:) Haarlem, [Jacob Bellaert],...

Rare early edition in Dutch (first Delft...

£40000