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Lot 1

Perottus (Nicolaus) Cornucopiae linguae Latinae, Venice, Baptista de Tortis, 19 October, 1490.

Estimate: £6,000 - 8,000

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Lot 2

Lucianus Samosatensis. Dialogoi, editio princeps, second issue, Florence, Laurentius Francisci de Alopa, 1496.

Hammer Price: £11,000

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Petrarca (Francesco) Le Cose Volgari, first edition, first issue, [Venice], [Aldus Manutius], [July 1501].

Hammer Price: £5,000

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4 Seneca (Lucius Annaeus) Tragoediae Senecae cum duobus commentariis: uidelicet Bernardini Marmitae & Danielis Galetani poe. cla, Venice, no printer, 1505.&n

Lot 4

Seneca (Lucius Annaeus) Tragoediae Senecae cum duobus commentariis: uidelicet Bernardini Marmitae & Danielis Galetani poe. cla, Venice, no printer, 1505.

Hammer Price: £600

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Albertini (Francesco) Opusculum de mirabilibus nouae & ueteris vrbis Romae, first edition, Rome, Giacomo Mazzocchi, 1510.

Hammer Price: £2,400

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Cyprian (Saint, Bishop of Carthage) Opera, Paris, Berthold Rembolt, 1512.

Hammer Price: £1,600

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Lot 7

Dionysius Areopagita. Theologia vivificans … coelestis hierarchia. Ecclestiastica hierarchia, Paris, Henri Estienne and Wolfgang Hopyl, 1515.

Hammer Price: £700

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Lot 8

Boccaccio (Giovanni) Il Decamerone, Florence, Philippo di Giunta, 1516.

Estimate: £10,000 - 15,000

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9 Against the misuse of excommunication.- Wurm (Matthias) Balaams eselin von dem bann das er umb geldtschuld und andre geringe sachen nit mag Christlich gefelt w

Lot 9

Against the misuse of excommunication.- Wurm (Matthias) Balaams eselin von dem bann das er umb geldtschuld und andre geringe sachen nit mag Christlich gefelt werden, [Augsburg], [Heinrich von Augsburg Steiner], 1523.

Hammer Price: £600

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Lot 10

Military.- Vegetius Renatus (Flavius) De re militari libri quatuor, Paris, Christian Wechel, 1532.

Hammer Price: £3,500

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