Education & Learning

These books about books, the remains of vast libraries past, contain bibliographies and catalogues of collections compiled by bibliophiles, historians, doctors, courtiers, soldiers, and even snuff merchants.

Also find here an array of poems and orations, sermons, textbooks, emblem books, dictionaries and grammars, epitomes, and letters. Teachings cover themes from morality to courtly interactions, the alphabet, and the law.

Our large number of commentaries scrutinise the writings of figures such as Homer, Aristotle, Euclid, Pythagoras, Justinian, Sallust, Cato, and Petrarch.

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CLEMENT IX. Decretum Sacrae Congregationis…ad Indicem Librorum.
Rome, Ex Typographia Reverendae Camerae Apostolicae, 1669 £2,650.00 More Details
[‘Book of secrets’].
[‘Book of secrets’].
Manuscript on paper, France, last quarter of the 17th century. £3,250.00 More Details
[ASKEW, Anthony]
[ASKEW, Anthony] Bibliotheca Askeviana
London, n.p., [1775] £2,250.00 More Details
[BOLONGARO-CREVENNA, Pierre-Antoine.]
[BOLONGARO-CREVENNA, Pierre-Antoine.] Catalogue des livres de la bibliothèque de M. Pierre-Antoine Bolongaro-Crevenna
Amsterdam, J. Changuion & P. den Hengst, 1789 £1,750.00 More Details
[CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY.]
[CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY.] Coded text and verse by Cambridge students.
Manuscript on paper, [England, c.1526-35]. £4,950.00 More Details
[DE BOZE, Claude Gros.] (with) MEERMAN, Gerardus
[DE BOZE, Claude Gros.] (with) MEERMAN, Gerardus Catalogue des livres du cabinet de M. Boze. (with) Plan du traité des origines typographiques.
Paris, 1753-1762 £2,250.00 More Details
[DE TUGNY, Crozat.] (with) [ANONYMOUS]
[DE TUGNY, Crozat.] (with) [ANONYMOUS] Catalogue des livres de Monsieur le President Crozat de Tugny. (with) Catalogue des livres.
Paris, Claude-Charles Thiboust, 1751 £1,950.00 More Details
[ELCI, Angiolo Maria, Conte d’.]
[ELCI, Angiolo Maria, Conte d’.] Catalogo dei libri dal conte Angiolo Maria d’Elci
Florence, All’insegna di Dante, 1826 £3,950.00 More Details
[HERTEL, Jacob]
[HERTEL, Jacob] Ta ek ton palaion kai panton sophon komikon… Vetustissimorum sapientissimorum comicorum quinquaginta.
Basel, [Johann Oporinus], [1560] £7,500.00 More Details
[HOHENDORF, Georg Wilhelm, Freiherr von.]
[HOHENDORF, Georg Wilhelm, Freiherr von.] Bibliotheca Hohendorfiana
The Hague, Abraham de Hondt, 1720 £1,750.00 More Details
[KLOSS, Georg, Dr.]
[KLOSS, Georg, Dr.] Catalogue of the Library of Dr. Kloss.
London, S. Sotheby & Son, 1835 £1,500.00 More Details
[LA VALLIÈRE, Louis César de la Baume Le Blanc, duc de.]
[LA VALLIÈRE, Louis César de la Baume Le Blanc, duc de.] Catalogue des livres de feu M. le duc de la Vallière.
Paris, Guillaume de Bure fils aîné, 1783 £5,000.00 More Details
[Silves de la Selva – Gohory, Jacques].
[Silves de la Selva - Gohory, Jacques] Le treziesme livre d᾽Amadis de Gaule
Montluel, Barthélemy Prost, 1576. £3,250.00 More Details
[SMITH, Joseph (Consul).]
[SMITH, Joseph (Consul).] Bibliotheca Smithiana
[London], n.p., [1773] £7,500.00 More Details
[SMITH, Joseph (Consul).]
[SMITH, Joseph (Consul).] Bibliotheca Smithiana
Venice, Joannes Baptista Paschalius, 1755 £8,750.00 More Details
[SMITH, Joseph (Consul).]
[SMITH, Joseph (Consul).] Bibliotheca Smithiana
Venice, Joannes Baptista Paschalius, 1755 £9,500.00 More Details
AGRIPPA, Henrich Cornilius
AGRIPPA, Henrich Cornilius Militiae Equitis Aurati...[I]n Artem Brevem Raymundi Lullii, Commentaria
Solingen, Joannes Soter, 1538 £4,250.00 More Details
ANDRÉ, Valère
ANDRÉ, Valère Bibliotheca Belgica
Louvain, Jacob Zegers, 1643 £1,950.00 More Details