Saint Bernardine of Siena, (1380-1444; canonized 1450; feast day May 20), Franciscan theologian and preacher of great eloquence who, with Saints J...

The most extensively illustrated book of the fifteenth century. A magnificent copy in contemporary hand-colour of the first illustrated encyclopaed...

The first Greek book printed in Rome. First separate edition, first edition with the scholia, and the first Greek book printed in Rome.The editio p...

This excellent copy is the year 1845 of the best known dutch almanach, published since 1595 until today. It is one of the eldest almanach to be st...

This lovely small binding narrates the life of Marie-Antoinette, Archduchess of Austria and Queen of France. Her husband, King Louis XVI of France...

Heraldry of the Veneto.. Vincenzo Coronelli depicts in this small volumes 78 arms of the cities of the Veneto region, (drawn by the cosmographer P....

The most important historian of late antiquity. One of the earliest printed editions of Eusebius of Caesarea's Historia ecclesiastica, translated f...

With an extra suite of plates & original watercolours. One of 50 copies with an extra suite of plates and a copper plate. This copy also includ...

Fine hand-coloured copy of this fully engraved work, printed on papier verge de Hollande extra-fort - one of these 'rarissimes exemplaires dont le...

'editio optima' (Dibdin). A finely bound example of the eleven extant comedies of the ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes (446-386 BCE), together...

Influential classical geography. Second separate edition of Dionysius' didactic compendium of geographical descriptions of the known world, transla...

Extra-illustrated copy with fine provenance. This beautiful set has been bound by the art deco binder Henri Noulhac (1866-1931). Noulhac set up his...

Fine, fresh example, attractively bound, of the most elaborate history of world religion published up to that time, profusely illustrated with mor...

A unique copy with original watercolours. A unique example extra-illustrated by Charles Huard with two copper plates and numerous original drawings...

Limited edition - one of 100 copies. A finely bound example with intricate onlay designs inspired by the story.Limited edition, one of 100 copies o...

A handsomely bound example of Brunelleschi's illustrated edition of three works by the French dramatist, poet & novelist Alfred de Musset, kno...

This is the second edition of an important French Restoration polemic. Duplanyl was a master of mosaic/onlay binding.Second edition, 3 vols, tall ...

First dated edition & earliest procurable edition of Erasmus' In Praise of Folly. The scarce first dated edition of Erasmus' Moriae Encomium, a...

Second edition of this scarce work on the prophet Muhammed by Henri de Boulainvilliers. This book is a thorough history of Muslim and Islamic cult...

First edition of this intriguing work by Vico that chronicles the deeds of one of the most famous Neapolitan men of arms of the seventeenth centur...