Early printed books

Early English and Continental books, prints, and manuscripts, from the fifteenth century to the end of the seventeenth.

71 items
  • [SCOTT, Thomas, attributed .] Robert Earle of Essex his ghost, sent from Elizian: to the nobility, gentry, and communaltie of England.
    £2,250.00
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  • WOTTON, Henry. The state of Christendom: or, A most exact and curious discovery of many secret passages, and hidden mysteries of the times. Written by the renowned Sr Henry Wotton, kt. Ambassadour in Ordinary to the most serene republique of Venice, and…
    £1,250.00
    £1,250.00
  • WOTTON, Henry. Reliquiae Wottonianae. Or, A collection of lives, letters, poems; with characters of sundry personages: and other incomparable pieces of language and art. By the curious Pensil of the Ever Memorable Sr Henry Wotton Kt, Late, Provost of Eto…
    £1,500.00
    £1,500.00
  • CHARLES I [John GAUDEN]. Εἰκὼν Βασιλικὴ [Eikon Basilike]. The pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his solitudes and sufferings.
    £1,500.00
    £1,500.00
  • DESHOULIÈRES, Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde. Poësies.
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  • GALARDI, Ferdinand de. La tyrannie heureuse ou Cromwel politique.Aves ses artifices & intrigues dans rout le cours de sa conduite.
    £500.00
    £500.00
  • LIVY, Titus; Philemon HOLLAND ( translator ). The Romane Historie … Also, the Breviaries of L. Florus: with a Chronologie to the whole Historie: and the Topographie of Rome in old time. Translated out of Latine into English, by Philemon Holland, Doctor i…
    £11,000.00
    £11,000.00
  • LACTANTIUS [Opera.] Divinarum institutionum libri VII. De ira Dei, liber I. De opificio Dei, liber I. Epitome in libros suos liber acephalos. Phoenix. Carmen de dominica resurrectione. Carmen de passione Domini.
    £2,500.00
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  • DU BARTAS, Guillaume de Salluste, Seigneur . Bartas his deuine weekes & workes translated: & dedicated to the Kings most excellent Maiestie by Iosuah Syluester
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  • BACON, Francis The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall
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  • RAVENSCROFT, Edward The English Lawyer, a comedy
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  • RUGGLE, George Ignoramus, comoedia coram regia maiestate Jacobi regis anliae etc.
    £1,250.00
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  • [PSEUDO-AUGUSTINUS.] Sermones Sancti Augustini ad heremitas.
    £3,850.00
    £3,850.00
  • PICQUET, Gilles Jaques. Ecole Chrestienne, où le Miroir de la jeunesse, auquel elle trouvera, comme elle doit honnestement converser, aller, venir, parler; & plusieurs autres vertueuses instructions tres-utiles; & necessaires à la jeunesse: poëtiquement…
    £850.00
    £850.00
  • CARDANO, Girolamo. De subtilitate libri XXI. Nunc demum recogniti atq[ue] perfecti.
    £8,000.00
    £8,000.00
  • [PRAYERBOOK.] Illuminated manuscript prayerbook in Latin and Italian. [Nineteenth-century manuscript title to flyleaf:] ‘Missa Beatae Virg. & aliae Orationes’.
    £20,000.00
    £20,000.00
  • MILTON, John. Pro populo anglicano defensio contra Claudii Anonymi, aliàs Salmasii, Defensionem regiam.
    £750.00
    £750.00
  • NICOLAS, Augustin. Si la torture est un moyen seur a verifier les crimes secrets; dissertation morale et juridique, par laquelle il est amplement traité des abus qui se commettent par tout en l'instruction des procés criminels, ... ouvrage necessaire à t…
    £2,500.00
    £2,500.00
  • LIPSIUS, Justus. De cruce libri tres ad sacram profanamque historiam utiles: unà cum notis.
    £1,850.00
    £1,850.00
  • [DRELINCOURT, Laurent.] Sonnets chretiens. Sur divers sujets. Divisez en quatre livres.
    £1,500.00
    £1,500.00
  • EUSEBIUS CAESARIENSIS; RUFINUS AQUILEIENSIS ( translator ). Historia ecclesiastica.
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    £8,000.00
  • [FUGGER, Wolfgang.] [Ein nutzlich und wolgegrundt Formular manncherley schöner Schriefften. Als teutscher, lateinischer, griechischer, unnd hebraÿscher Buchstaben …]
    £5,000.00
    £5,000.00
  • [UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA.] Privilegia Domini Bernardini Maggii Luganensis [Diploma in Arts and Medicine Issued to Bernardino Maggi of Lugano, 9 February 1607].
    £7,500.00
    £7,500.00
  • BRUNO of Cologne, Saint ; [Zaccaria FERRERI]. Opera & Vita post indicem serie literaria indicanda.
    £1,850.00
    £1,850.00
  • DANTE Alighieri; [Pietro BEMBO ( editor )]. Le terze rime. [ Title verso :] Lo’nferno e’l Purgatorio e’l Paradiso di Dante Alaghieri [ sic ].
    £11,000.00
    £11,000.00
  • GILBERT, William. De magnete, magneticisque corporibus, et de magno magnete tellure; Physiologia noua, plurimis & argumentis, & experimentis demonstrata.
    £35,000.00
    £35,000.00
  • BERTIUS, Petrus (1565-1629). Livoniae Descrip (Map of Estonia & Latvia).
    £70.00
    £70.00
  • MERCATOR, G. / HONDIUS, J. Slavonia, Croatia Bosnia, Dalmat.
    £50.00
    £50.00
  • MANWOOD, John. A treatise of the lavves of the forest: vvherein is declared not onely those lawes, as they are now in force, but also the originall and beginning of forests: and what a forest is in his owne proper nature, and wherein the same doth differ…
    £850.00
    £850.00
  • RAUWOLF, Leonhard. Aigentliche beschreibung der Raiß so er vor diser zeit gegen Auffgang inn die Morgenlaender fürnemlich Syriam, Iudaeam, Arabiam, Mesopotamiam, Babyloniam, Assyriam, Armeniam &c. nicht ohne geringe mühe und grosse gefahr selbs volbracht…
    £7,500.00
    £7,500.00
  • Le Premier livre des Narrations Fabuleuses, avec les discours et la …
    £12,000.00
    £12,000.00
  • Conciones de festis Domini. Nunc primùm in lucem editae, & duplici indice …
    £8,000.00
    £8,000.00