The Turner – Dunn – Martini copy

BENTIVOGLIO, Ercole (1507-1573).

Le Satire et altre Rime piacevole.

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.

The Buxheim Charterhouse copy

GEILER VON KAISERSBERG, Johann.

Die brösamlin. Compiled by Johann Pauli.

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).

An emblem book without emblems?

LA PERRIÈRE, Guillaume de (1499-1565?).

Les Considérations des quatre mondes, à savoir est: Divin, Angélique, Celeste, & Sensible.

Bonaparte’s favorite binder

MALFILÂTRE, Jacques Charles Louis (1733-1767).

Narcisse dans l'Isle de Venus, Poëme en IV Chants. [Part 2:] Barthélemy IMBERT (1747-1790). Le Jugement de Pâris, Poëme en IV Chants.

Sharpening young tongues

PROVERBS – NUCERIN [Jean GILLES de Noyers].

Proverbes commvns, et belles sentences pour familierement parler Latin & Francois a tous propos.

Cut and paste

ROMANTIC BOOK ILLUSTRATION – Baroness DARU.

Album of illustrations from printed books and periodicals.

Not the Imitation

THOMAS A KEMPIS.

Opuscules... Traduits du Latin d’Horstius par le R. P. Colomme.

Fat and wide(-margined)

THOMAS AQUINAS.

Super quarto libro sententiarum Petri Lombardi.

A model for painters

VAN DE VENNE, Adriaen, artist; CATS, Jacob (1577-1660).

Tooneel van de Mannelicke Achtbaerheyt, aen-gewesen in de Voor-sprake, teghen-sprake, ende uyt-sprake, gedaen over de weygheringhe van de Koninginne Vasthi.

Greatness on a small scale

WOEIRIOT, Pierre (1532-1596?), artist.

Pinax iconicus antiquorum ac variorum in sepulturis rituum ex Lilio Gregorio excerpta.