(24 cm), 88 pp., illustrations. 154 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. ¶ Penmarks, annotations in margins.

(24 cm), 108 (4) pp., colour frontispiece, illustrations. 186 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. ¶ Occasional, discreet penmark in margin.

(24 cm), 32 (2) pp., colour frontispiece. 85 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Except for item 22 (the Servetus Bible, Lyon 1542, from J.P.R. Lyell’s library), all the books were collected by Cecily Severne, a descendant of J.E. Severne, who in 1886 had consigned Wodhull’s library to Sotheby’s sale room. They “represent her pick of those Wodhull books which appeared on the market from 1924-1976” (Introduction). ¶ As new.

(24 cm), 52 pp., [2] leaves of colour plates, illustrations. 75 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. ¶ As new.

(27 cm), 44 pp., [4] leaves of colour plates. 64 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. ¶ As new.

(24 cm), 131 (1) pp., illustrations. 300 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. ¶ As new.

(24 cm), 84 pp., illustrations (some in colour). 155 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Advertisement loosely inserted, “A collection of Machiavelli: First and early editions”. ¶ As new.

(24 cm), 104 pp., illustrations. 174 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. ¶ As new.

(24 cm), 72 pp., [2] leaves of colour plates, illustrations. 113 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. ¶ Minor shelf wear.

(27 cm), 90 (2) pp., illustrations (some in colour). 81 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Includes (item 14) a group of three Fanfare bindings from the library of Michel d’Asquier (1598-1664) of Vienna, later subsumed in the Schönborn-Buchheim library (dispersed by Reiss & Auvermann, Auktion 50, Königstein, 14 April 1993, lots 248-250). The three volumes are described by Anthony Hobson, “Three Bindings à la fanfare and the origins of the fanfare style” in The Arcadian Library: Bindings and provenance, edited by Giles Mandelbrote and Willem de Bruijn (London & Oxford 2014), pp.177-190. ¶ As new.

(24 cm), 103 (1) pp., illustrations. 146 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. ¶ As new.

Two volumes (24 cm), 101 (3) pp.; 12 pp., illustrations. 141; 52 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. ¶ Minor shelf wear.

(24 cm), 60 pp., illustrations. 65 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(24 cm), 70 (2) pp., illustrations. 142 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. ¶ Minor shelf wear.

(24 cm), 108 pp., illustrations (some in colour). 100 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. ¶ Minor shelf wear.

(24 cm), 92 pp., illustrations. 156 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(24 cm), [180] pp., [8] leaves of colour plates, illustrations. 200 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. ¶ As new.

(17.5 × 23.5 cm), [68] pp., illustrations. 53 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. ¶ As new.

(24 cm), [148] pp., illustrations (some in colour). 160 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. ¶ As new.

(24 cm), [60] pp., illustrations (most in colour). 28 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. ¶ As new.

(24 cm), [104] pp., illustrations. 137 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - “The Library of W.G. Kerr, Part 1: Gastronomy” was issued as Quaritch List 2008/02. ¶ As new.

(21 cm), [116] pp., illustrations (some in colour). 80 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - “The present catalogue is a companion to our Catalogue 1345, Rights of War, Rights of Peace: the rise and fall of empires and republics, the origins of nations and peoples, 1500-1800, also compiled by Anthony Payne, which was issued in 2007” (postscript). ¶ As new.

(24 cm), [72] pp., illustrations (most in colour). 28 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. ¶ As new.

(30 cm), [36] pp., illustrations. 44 items; priced. Publisher’s printed yellow wrappers. - Includes (item 23, £30,000) Edmée Maus’s copy of the 1538 Lyon edition of Holbein’s Dance of Death series bound with the 1539 Lyon edition of Holbein’s Old Testament illustrations (ex-Christie’s, 24 November 1993, lot 46, £17,250; here £30,000).

(30 cm), [32] pp., illustrations. 40 items; priced. Publisher’s printed green wrappers. - Includes (item 7, £24,000) the 1607 Brussels edition of Don Quixote, from the collections of Arthur Charlett (1655-1722) and Jean-Félix Peeters-Fontainas (1891-1975), with their bookplates; and (item 15, £77,000) the partially uncut Mansfield-Ascherson copy of the 1488 Florence Homer.

(30 cm), [54] pp., illustrations. 46 items; priced. Publisher’s printed red wrappers. - Includes (item 4, £30,000) the first illustrated Bible published in Italy (Venice 1489) from Kloster Ettenheimmünster (ex-Bute sale, Christie’s, 15 March 1995, lot 254); and (item 28, £15,000) Mersenne’s Harmonicum instrumentorum (Paris 1636), a presentation copy from the author to Claude Hardy (translator of Zarlino; BnF Ms fr 1361), which preserves nine leaves in signatures R and V cancelled in other copies.

(30 cm), [48] pp., illustrations. 44 items; priced. Publisher’s printed blue wrappers. - Includes (item 22, £15,000) a manuscript “De viribus herbarum”, part 12th-century and part 15th-century (ex-Christie’s, 29 November 1995, lot 6).

(30 cm), [60] pp., illustrations. 41 items; priced. Publisher’s printed orange wrappers.

(30 cm), [68] pp., illustrations. 61 items; priced. Publisher’s printed green wrappers. - Includes (item 8, £6000) a copy of the Syriac version of the Psalms (Paris: Antoine Vitré, 1625), bound for presentation to the dedicatee, Dominique de Vic, latterly in the libraries of René Choppin and Jean Fürstenberg (ex-Christie’s, 26 June 1996, lot 44, £2990).

(30 cm), [80] pp., illustrations. 58 items; priced. Publisher’s printed orange wrappers. - Includes (item 6, £60,000) four works of Bartolus de Saxoferrato published at Venice 1480-1485 bound uniformly in “interim” vellum wrappers (ex-Sotheby’s, 1 July 1994, lot 44). Loosely inserted is “Spring Bulletin: Addenda” (5 stapled leaves, continuing item numeration: 59-60).

(30 cm), [68] pp., illustrations. 50 items; priced. Publisher’s printed yellow wrappers. - The copy (item 20, £9000) of “The Little Flowers of St. Francis” (Florence: Bartolommeo di Libri, 26 May 1489) was perhaps bound at Monte Senario, the “Cradle” of the Servite Order. ¶ Ink annotation on cover and another opposite item 23.

(30 cm), [68] pp., illustrations. 52 items; priced. Publisher’s printed yellow wrappers. - Includes a Sammelband (item 36, no price given) containing the first complete edition of La Celestina (Saragossa: Jorge Coci, 1507), bound in Spanish calf with added insignia of the Lyonnese bibliophile Benoît Le Court. The volume, sold to La Biblioteca del Cigarral del Carmen de Toledo, subsequently received much attention; see Julián Martin Abad, “Otro volumen facticio de raros impresos españoles del siglo XVI (con La Celestina de 1507)” in Pliegos de Bibliofilia, volume 4 (1998), pp.5-19; Patrizia Botta & Víctor Infantes, “Nuevas bibliográficas de la Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea (Zaragoza, Jorge Coci, 1507)” in Revista de Literatura Medieval, volume 11 (1999), pp.179-208; and facsimile edition, Un volumen facticio de raros post-incunables españoles, edited by Julián Martín Abad (Toledo: Antonio Pareja, 1999).

(30 cm), [72] pp., illustrations. 59 items; priced. Publisher’s printed yellow wrappers. - Includes (item 7, £34,000) the cartulary of the Braybroke family of Northamptonshire, from the Phillipps and A.L. Shane collections (acquired by Quaritch in the latter’s sale, Christie’s East, 24 June 1998, lot 404).

(30 cm), [72] pp., illustrations. 60 + 1 items; priced. Publisher’s printed yellow wrappers. - The copy (item 23b, £46,000) of Johannes Grammaticus, Comprehensorium (Valencia: [Lambert Palmart], 1475) was returned to the market, at Christie’s, 29 November 1999, lot 153 (realised £46,000 inclusive). Also offered is the apparently unique copy of Pedro de Soto, Summa de doctrina Christiana (Antwerp: Juan Steelsio, 1554), in a vellum binding with the emblematic supralibros (Inconcussa manet) of María Manrique de Lara y Mendoza (1538-1608), whose Spanish books are mostly preserved in Roudnice Lobkowicz Library, Nelahozeves Castle, Czech Republic.

(30 cm), [84] pp., illustrations. 69 items; priced. Publisher’s printed yellow wrappers. - Includes (item 4, £4000) Bessarion’s Orationes de gravissimis periculis (Rome 1543) in a black morocco binding attributed to the Pflug and Ebeleben shop in Bologna (ex-René Choppin, G.J. Arvantidis, Librairie George Heilbrun); and (item 53, £14,000) the 1516 Aldine Metamorphoses in a Venetian filigree binding (ex-Corfield collection, sold Sotheby’s 10-11 June 1904, lot 466).

(30 cm), [84] pp., illustrations. 69 items; priced. Publisher’s printed yellow wrappers. - The “unrecorded Aesop” (item 4, price on application) is a fragment (82 leaves) of an unsigned edition in folio format, here assigned by Martin Davies to Lyons: Printer of “L’Abusé en Court”, c. 1482-1484.

(30 cm), [80] pp., illustrations. 70 items; priced. Publisher’s printed yellow wrappers.

(30 cm), [64] pp., illustrations. 45 items; priced. Publisher’s printed yellow wrappers. - The “unrecorded medieval text” is “De amore dei”, found in a 14th-century Italian vellum manuscript, with treatises on the Seven deadly sins and Four Cardinal virtues, which was formerly in the libraries of the Rt. Hon. John Burns and William Foyle (latter’s sale, Christie’s, 11 July 2000, lot 25).

(30 cm), [96] pp., illustrations. 79 items; priced. Publisher’s printed yellow wrappers.

(30 cm), [84] pp., illustrations. 78 items; priced. Publisher’s printed yellow wrappers.

(30 cm), [80] pp., illustrations. 70 items; priced. Publisher’s printed yellow wrappers.

(30 cm), [92] pp., illustrations. 84 items; priced. Publisher’s printed yellow wrappers.

(30 cm), [80] pp., illustrations. 62 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Includes (item 6, £27,500) St Augustine’s commentary on the Psalms (Basel 1489) with bookplate of Hilprand Brandenburg and his presentation inscription to Carthusian monastery at Buxheim (ex-Sotheby’s, 24 May 2001, lot 71). ¶ Short tear in wrapper.

(30 cm), [88] pp., illustrations. 67 items; priced. Publisher’s printed yellow wrappers. ¶ Ink annotation on cover; otherwise unmarked.

(30 cm), [84] pp., illustrations. 69 items; priced. Publisher’s printed yellow wrappers. ¶ As new.

(30 cm), [92] pp., illustrations. 63 items; priced. Publisher’s printed yellow wrappers. ¶ As new.

(30 cm), [100] pp., illustrations. 74 items; priced. Publisher’s printed yellow wrappers. - Includes (item 26) an unsigned octavo edition of Coniuratio malignorum spirituum from the De Marinis collection (his sale by Hoepli, 1925, lot 53), here assigned by Martin Davies to the Roman press of Antonio Blado, and dated c. 1517 (detailed description and census of known copies). ¶ As new.

(30 cm), [80] pp., illustrations. 54 items; priced. Publisher’s printed yellow wrappers. - The manuscripts of Aristotle and Saint Augustine are respectively the Drury–Phillipps–Abbey–Tenschert–Ritman Nicomachean Ethics in the translation of Leonardo Bruni, written by Silvestro Balsamo in 1456 (ex-Sotheby’s, 19 June 2001, lot 19); and a miscellany of texts (including Augustine’s Confessions) written c. 1460 by Cornelius Clinghe of Middelburg, probably for the Canons Regular at Elseghem (ex-Van Stockum, 14 June 2000, lot 1176). The copy of Erasmus’s Adagia (Paris 1500), “apparently the last copy remaining in private hands”, is the Giuseppe Storck-William Stirling Maxwell copy (ex-Stirling Maxwell sale, Christie’s, 20-23 May 1958, lot 804, to Quaritch, £1550; reappeared in Sotheby’s, New York, 3 June 1997, lot 101, $120,000); no price is stated (at the 2007 New York book fair, Quaritch asked £200,000). Catalogue noticed in The Book Collector, Summer 2007, p.255. ¶ Faint stain in lower margin of 2 leaves.

(30 cm), [88] pp., illustrations. 690 items; priced. Publisher’s printed yellow wrappers. - Contains (appendix for item 57) Martin Davies, “The first French translation of Plato’s Phaedo: dedication manuscript”, in which Davies speculates that the manuscript “was made for presentation to Charles de Valois between 1541 and 1545” but probably not delivered, since it does not bear his heraldic insignia. The manuscript had been in Christie’s sale, London, 28 June 1972, lot 30, and more recently with Martayan Lan, New York (Catalogue 36, 2005, item 223). Quaritch re-offered it in Catalogue 1378: Incunables & manuscripts (2009); by June 2010, the Ms had passed into the stock of Les Enluminures, Paris & Chicago (Catalogue 15: France 1500: the Pictorial Arts at the Dawn of the Renaissance, item 21, USD$120,000).

(30 cm), [80] pp., illustrations. 58 items; priced. Publisher’s printed yellow wrappers. - The Roman binding ornamented with the insignia of Pope Pius V is on a copy of Martin de Azpilcueta, Tractatus de reditibus beneficiorum ecclesiastocorum, published by Giulio Accolti, 1568 (ex-Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 16 August 2007, lot 37, £550; here £3000). ¶ Faint stain on 3 leaves.

(30 cm), [80] pp., illustrations. 60 items; priced. Publisher’s printed yellow wrappers. - Includes the “unique” Adolphe Audenet-Morgand-André Simon copy of Cato’s Distichs, rendered in French verses by Pierre Grosnet, and published at Troyes by Jean Lecocq, c. 1531 (now Newberry Library, PA6273.F7 G8 1531).

(30 cm), [84] pp., illustrations. 56 items; priced. Publisher’s printed yellow wrappers.

(30 cm), [84] pp., illustrations. 62 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers.

(30 cm), [84] pp., illustrations. 63 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Includes (item 38, £82,500) a manuscript copy of the “Summa de legibus Normanniae”, written c. 1300 and in use in England at an early date (now Harvard Law School Library, MS 220). The illustrated edition of Don Quixote is the one published at Brussels in 1662 with sixteen plates by Bouttats (ex-Peeters-Fontainas collection, his sale by Sotheby’s, 18 May 1978, lot 116, £400; here £30,000). ¶ Ink annotation on p.[28].