From one pretender to another

BARROIS, Joseph (ca. 1785-1855).

Dactylologie et langage primitif restitués d’après les monuments.

First edition of the quattrocento preacher’s sermon on his ideal woman, from the first press of Cologne

BERNARDINUS SENENSIS (1380-1444).

Sermo de gloriosa virgine Maria.

[DUVERGIER DE HAURANNE, Jean, abbé de Saint-Cyran (1581-1643)].

Question royalle et sa décision.

The Roxburghe copy of “one of the great books of European literature, a garden containing the flowers and weeds of fifteen hundred years of Greek poetry” (OCD)

GREEK ANTHOLOGY.

Anthologia Graeca Planudea, in Greek. Recension by Maximus Planudes (ca. 1299), edited by Janus Lascaris (1445-1535).

Rare type specimen by a little-known master typefounder

LEGER, L.

Spécimen des divers caractères, vignettes et fleurons des Fonderie et Stéréotypie de L. Leger graveur, neveu et successeur de P. F. Didot.

The Romana, owned by French humanists

PINDAR.

[Odes]. Olympia, Nemea, Pythia, Isthmia, in Greek.

"The dogmatic Bible of Catholicism": the Asbach - Munich - Firmin-Didot - Dunn - Doheny copy.

THOMAS AQUINAS.

Summa theologiae: Secunda secundae.