ITALY – PIEVE DI SAN MINIATO DI RUBBIANA.

Petition to Pope Clement VII, in Latin,...

The petition explains that the parish of...

£250

BUDÉ, Guillaume.

G. Budaei … Epistolarum latinarum lib....

[Paris,] Jodocus Badius, February 1531.

The first Badius combined edition of the...

£5500

CLEMENT VII.

Tröstliche vermanung Bapst Clements des...

[Augsburg, Alexander Weissenhorn,] 1532.

First and only edition of this German translation...

£1500

ALAMANNI, Luigi.

Opere toscane.

[(Colophon:) Florence, [Bernardo Giunta],...

First Florentine edition of this collection...

£650

QUINTILIAN, Marcus Fabius.

Institutiones oratoriae, ac Declamationes,...

[Paris,] Badius Ascensius for Ascensius...

Rare reprint of Badius’s successful 1528...

£1250

EUCLID.

Στοιχειων βιβλ. ιε εκ...

Basel, Johannes Herwagen, September 1533.

Editio princeps of Euclid, the ‘oldest...

£18000

DIO CASSIUS; Niccolò LEONICENO, translator.

Dione historico delle guerre et fatti de...

Venice, Niccolò Zoppino, March 1533.

First edition of Dio Cassius’s Roman...

£2500

BOLZANIO, Urbano or URBANUS BELLUNENSIS.

Institutionum in linguam Graecam grammaticarum,...

Basel, Johann Walder, September 1535.

Basel edition of this popular grammar commissioned...

£2000

GIACOMO da Milano.

Stimulus divini amoris Sancti Bonaventurae.

Venice, Stefano Nicolini da Sabbio, April 1535.

Rare edition of the Stimulus divini...

£550

PHILOPONUS, Joannes.

Υπομνημα εις τα περι ψυχης...

[(Colophon:) Venice, Bartolomeo Zanetti...

Editio princeps of the ancient commentator...

£4000

EUSTRATIUS of Nicaea, et al.; ARISTOTLE.

Ευστρατιου και αλλων...

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

Editio princeps of the Greek commentaries...

£5500

LORICH, Gerhard.

Institutio catholica fidei orthodoxae et...

[Frankfurt am Main], [(colophon:) Christian...

First editions of a pair of Reformation-era...

£1450

[BIBLE, New Testament.]

Pauli Apostoli epistolae … Epistolae...

Brescia, Damiano and Giacomo Filippo Turlino,...

Scarce Brescia edition of the Epistles...

£2500

[NEO-LATIN.]

Four works of neo-Latin verse and drama.

Paris, the Estiennes and Simon de Colines,...

A nice sammelband of neo-Latin verse published...

£1500

ORIBASIUS. 

Commentaria in Aphorismos Hippocratis …...

Paris, Simon de Colines, 1533. 

First edition of this commentary on Hippocrates,...

£1750

APPIAN of Alexandria.

Civili. Appiano Alessandrino delle guerre...

Venice, [Pietro Nicolini da Sabbio for...

A much-annotated copy of these late Aldine...

£3000

[BOUCHET, Jean.]

Les triu[m]phes de la noble et amoureuse...

Paris, Estienne Caveiller for Pierre Sergent,...

Unrecorded issue of Jean Bouchet’s contemplative...

£4500

SUETONIUS Tranquillus, Gaius, and HERODIAN OF ANTIOCH.

Vita di duodeci imperatori… nuovamente...

Venice, Venturino di Rossinelli [for Curzio...

Annotated copy of a scarce edition of this...

£1250

TERTULLIAN.

Opera … per Beatum Rhenanum Seletstadiensem...

Basel, [(colophon:) Hieronymus] Froben...

Third Froben edition of Tertullian’s...

£1750

XENOPHON; [Philipp MELANCHTHON, editor].

Ξενοφωντος απαντα. Xenophontis...

Schwäbisch Hall, [Peter Braubach], 1540.

The first complete edition of Xenophon’s...

£4000