Medieval Illuminated Manuscript - painted on parchment - 1460
Old & Rare Books Auction (Antiquarian Books Collection)
In this dedicated auction, we showcase a collection of remarkable books predating the year 1700. Ranging in genres from agriculture to alchemy, medicine, war history and beyond – this showcase focuses on illustrated editions in particular. All books in this auction are offered by Luxury Books, a highly appreciated Italian seller whose fascinating offering will intrigue even the most avid collectors.
In this dedicated auction, we showcase a collection of remarkable books predating the year 1700. Ranging in genres from agriculture to alchemy, medicine, war history and beyond – this showcase focuses on illustrated editions in particular. All books in this auction are offered by Luxury Books, a highly appreciated Italian seller whose fascinating offering will intrigue even the most avid collectors.
Antonio Cornazzano - De Re Militari - 1526
Copernico / Sculteto - Chronographia - 1546
Alberti - Della Architettura della Pittura e della Statua - 1782
Chaucer - Caunterburie Tales / Romaunt of the Rose - 1550
Gessner / Topsell - The Historie of Serpents - 1608
Arnobio - Disputationum Adversus Gentes - 1542
Cicerone - Epistolae [Incunabulum] - 1494
Tasso - La Gerusalemme Conquistata - 1628
Cesare - Commentarii - 1517
Senault - des Passions - 1642
Viscardo - Precetti Morali e Civili - 1597
Valerio Massimo / Plutarco - Exempla Quattuor - 1526
Virgilio - Opera - 1754
Macrobio - In Somnium Scipionis - 1565
Argoli - Ptolemaeus Parvus [Tolomeo] - 1680
Sigonio - De Antiquo Iure Civium Romanorum - 1563
Pietro Gerardo - Vita et Gesti d'Ezzelino Terzo - 1544
Polidoro - De Rerum Inventotibus - 1544
Medici - Ordine de Cavalieri di S.to Stefano - 1746
Cristoforo Porzio - Primo, Secundo et Tertio [Post-incunabulum] - 1522
Jean Mercier - Linguae Chaldaeae, quae & Syriaca dicitur - 1560
Francesco Patrizi - De Institutione Reipublicae - 1534
Petrarca - Il Petrarca - 1586
Niccolò Zeno - Origine de' Barbari - 1557
Beda il Venerabile - Commentarii - 1543
Ovidio - Metamorfosi - 1607
Various Authors - Codice Feudale - 1780
Post Incunable - Priscianus - Opere Prisciani - 1519
Various Authors - Missale Romanum - 1598
Barelete - Sermones Quadragesimales [bound with] de Sanctis [Post-incunabulum] - 1507
Roisecco - Roma Antica e Moderna - 1750
Erasmus - Adagiorum Omnium - 1583
Scapula - Lexicon Graecolatinum - 1594
Scevolini - Astrologia - 1565
Calmet - Dictionarium Historicum - 1757
Various Authors - Legum, ac Iurium Venetorum - 1597
Marquard Freher - Germanicarum Rerum Scriptores - 1600
Gregorio Magno - Moralia [Post-incunabulum] - 1518
Raimondi - Delle Caccie... Il Quinto Libro Della Villa - 1626
Various Authors - Pontificale - 1542
Wrighte - Grotesque Architecture, or, Rural Amusement - 1767
Pollio - De Architectura - 1649
Leontius Mechanicus - Astronomica - 1589
Hyginus - Fabularum Liber - 1552
Marc de Vulson, Sieur de La Colombière - Les Hommes Illustres et Grands Capitaines François - 1690
Tito Livio / Sigonio - Historiarum ab Urbe Condita - 1572
René des Cartes - Dissertatio de Methodo / Principia Philophiae - 1656
Fregoso - Dictis Factisque Memorabilibus [Post-incunabulum] - 1509
Vignola - Regola delli cinque Ordini d'Architettura - 1773
Petrarca - Il Canzoniere / Trionfi - 1558
Erasmus / Brandt - Historie der Reformatie - 1674
Lostelneau - Mareschal de Bataille - 1647
Incunable - Petrarca - Triumphorum [Trionfi] - 1478
Rufo - Rebus Gestis Alexandri [Incunabulum] - 1481
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