(24 cm), 40 pp., illustrations. 52 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Includes numerous books purchased at a sale of the residue of the stock of J. Irving Davis (1889-1967), conducted by Sotheby’s, London, 2-3 April 1985. Item 1 is the Pembroke copy of the c. 1471 Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni (Davis sale, lot 36, £6500; here £12,000; returned to the market, Swann Galleries, 1 May 2014, lot 58, $55,000). Catalogue noticed in The Book Collector, volume 35 (1986), p.97.

(24 cm), 62 pp., illustrations. 171 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Includes a copy of the 1469 Jenson Pliny (item1, “sold”); books on “Hunting, shooting and equitation” (items 95-171).

(24 cm), 59 (3) pp., illustrations (1 in colour). 151 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Includes (item 1, £14,000) an illuminated copy of the fourth edition of Augustine’s De civitate dei (Johannes and Vindelinus de Spira, 1470); and (item 23, £1450) a Roman binding for “L.T.” (on the 1523 Aldine edition of Silius Italicus, De bello punico; cf. The Book Collector, volume 47, 1998, p.509 no. 7).

(24 cm), 46 pp., illustrations. 100 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(24 cm), 50 pp., illustrations. 106 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(24 cm), 57 (1) pp., illustrations. 143 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(24 cm), 58 pp., illustrations. 123 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(24 cm), 54 pp., illustrations. 94 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(24 cm), 62 pp., illustrations. 136 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(24 cm), 52 (2) pp., illustrations. 101 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(24 cm), 54 pp., illustrations. 104 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Includes two 16th century Venetian bindings, one with title lettered on upper cover (on Bembo, De Virgilii culice et Terentii fabulis liber, 1530), the other with its covers lettered (within oval panels) SDI / ONIR (on Cavalca, Trattato detto specchio di croce, 1562).

(24 cm), 41 (1) pp., illustrations. 98 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Includes an illuminated manuscript encomium for Cardinal Marino Caracciolo (1469-1538), written c. 1535 (ex-Wilfred Blunt collection, exhibited In Praise of Italic: catalogue of an exhibition arranged for the National Book League, London 1954, p.18).

(24 cm), 50 pp., illustrations. 103 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. ¶ Annotation “11/93” in ink on title-page; annotation in margin (p.14).

(24 cm), 56 (2) pp., illustrations. 117 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(24 cm), 50 pp., illustrations. 145 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Includes (item 34) the 1534 Aldine Homer, in two volumes, with two illuminated borders attributed to Benedetto Bordon, incorporating a heraldic escutcheon and initials MM (interpreted as Mario Maffei, 1463-1537); Judaica (items 73-145).

(24 cm), 42 pp., illustrations. 96 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(24 cm), 56 (2) pp., illustrations. 101 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(24 cm), 46 pp., illustrations. 126 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Judaica (items 98-126).

(24 cm), 45 (1) pp., illustrations. 101 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(24 cm), 46 pp., illustrations. 93 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - “In memory of Robert Fermor-Hesketh (1951-1997)”.

(24 cm), 46 pp., illustrations. 133 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - “Remarkable and out of the way Italian books… mostly from the library of Cardinal Ludovico de Torres, Archbishop of Monreale in Sicily and architect of the alliance that brought about Lepanto” (from a notice in The Book Collector, Spring 1998, p.98).

(24 cm), 53 (1) pp., illustrations. 111 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Includes (item 65, £1000) the Lyon counterfeit of the 1502 Aldine Lucan (Balthazar da Gabiano, c. 1502-1503), a presentation copy from Teodoro Trivulzio (1458-1532) to Bassiano da Ponte (Pontano) of Lodi; and (item 82) a heavily annotated copy of Alessandro Trajano Petronio, De aqua Tiberina (Rome 1552), described as the author’s own copy, corrected “for a second edition which never appeared”.

(24 cm), 49 (1) pp., illustrations. 105 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(24 cm), 50 pp., illustrations. 101 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Includes (item 73, £1500) Renouard’s copy of a Lyon edition of Philostratus, De vita Apollonii Tyanei, c. 1504-1505 (now recognized as a copy by Guillaume Huyon of one of Beroaldo’s editions, Bologna 1501 or 1505, and not an Aldine counterfeit).

(24 cm), 46 pp., illustrations. 87 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Includes books from the ‎Fürstlich Fürstenbergische Hofbibliothek at Donaueschingen, among them the 1533 Aldine Castiglione, Il libro del Cortegiano, in an Italian binding decorated with gilt cornerpieces and a lozenge containing an eagle.

(24 cm), 44 (2) pp., illustrations. 103 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - About half of the Aldines (items 1-53) were formerly in the Landau library.

(24 cm), 44 (2) pp., illustrations (including 2 in colour). 96 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Includes a copy of Annibale Caro, Apologia de gli Academici di Banchi di Roma (Parma: Seth Viotto, 1557), printed on blue paper, with a presentation inscription by the author to Marc’ Antonio Piccolomini (item 22, £10,000; re-offered in Catalogue 35, item 24, £8000; returned to the market, Christie’s, London, 11 July 2002, lot 67).

(24 cm), 50 pp., illustrations. 96 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(24 cm), 44 (2) pp., illustrations. 90 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(24 cm), 54 pp., illustrations. 92 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(24 cm), 42 pp., illustrations. 87 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(24 cm), 49 (1) pp., illustrations. 95 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(24 cm), 54 pp., illustrations. 117 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(24 cm), 50 pp., illustrations. 87 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Includes (item 8, £2500) a book from the library of Sir Thomas Hoby (Orlando furioso, Venice 1554), possibly acquired during his tour of Italy in 1553-1555.

(24 cm), 66 pp., illustrations. 128 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Includes a presentation copy on blue paper of Apologia degli academici di Banchi di Roma contra M. Lodovico Castelvetro da Modena (Parma 1558) to Marc’ Antonio Piccolomini (1504-1579).

(24 cm), 54 pp., illustrations. 96 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(24 cm), 51 (3) pp., illustrations. 108 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(24 cm), 41 (1) pp., illustrations. 72 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Includes (item 49, £1500) a book printed on blue paper (Bonifacio Papafava’s Parole, Venice: Nicolò Moretti, [1596]).

(24 cm), 46 pp., illustrations. 79 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(24 cm), 46 pp., illustrations. 98 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(24 cm), [44] pp., illustrations. 73 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Includes (item 65, £28,000) the three-volume 1577-1578 Opera omnia of Augustinus Steucus, bound for Gian Federico Maduzzo, from the Landau library (subsequently offered in Quartich catalogue 1357, 2007, item 91, £30,000; returned to market in Reiss & Sohn, Königstein, 10 May 2011, lot 142; with Studio Bibliografico di Paolo Rambaldi in 2015).

(24 cm), 44 pp., illustrations. 74 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(24 cm), 42 pp., illustrations. 134 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(24 cm), 49 (1) pp., illustrations (including one printed in 2 colours). 93 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(24 cm), (4) 42 (2) pp. 113 items; priced. Self-wrappers.

(24 cm), (4) 19 (5) pp., illustrations. 54 items; priced. Self-wrappers.