Antiquarian European Material from Leo Cadogan Rare Books
- by Michael Stillman
All we know of Maria Garnier was that she wrote well.
One more Decret de la Convention Nationale… This is dated June 9, 1793. It orders that bank notes bearing the image of King Louis XVI be exchanged for those bearing the name of the Republic and emblems of Liberty and Equality. Louis was one of those who would rather have been publicly humiliated. Instead, his head was lopped off by the guillotine earlier that year. Now all remnants of his visage were to be removed. Item 23. £80 (US $128).
Item 31 is entitled Disputatio medica de odontalgia… by Balthasar Kisselbach, dated 1660. This is Mr. Kisselbach's dissertation, and the subject was undoubtedly as unpleasant then as it is now - toothache. He discusses its cause and cure, which in those days wouldn't have been much other than pulling the thing out. £260 (US $416).
Item 9 consists of some calligraphic writing samples by one Maria Garnier from 1758-59. There are prayers written in Dutch, German and French. We know nothing of Miss Garnier other than she displayed notable skills with the pen. £280 (US $448).
Leo Cadogan Rare Books may be reached at +44 (0) 20 7607 3190 or leo@leocadogan.com. The website is found at www.leocadogan.com.
Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 28th May 2026
Forum, May 28: Book of Hours.- Heures de nostre dame a l'usaige de Romme, Paris, Antoine Chappiel pour Germain Hardouin, [1504]. £6,000-8,000
Forum, May 28: Colonna (Francesco). La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo, second edition, Venice, Sons of Aldus Manutius, 1545. £15,000-20,000
Forum, May 28:The Christ Child holding a crystal orb and surrounded by banderoles with devotional exhortations, on a leaf most probably from a Book of Hours, [Southern Netherlands, last decades of the fifteenth century]. £2,000-3,000
Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 28th May 2026
Forum, May 28: Jackson (Shirley). The Haunting of Hill House, first English edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Claude Fredericks, 1960. £2,000-3,000
Forum, May 28: Lennon (John). In His Own Write, first edition, first impression, signed by the author, 1964. £3,000-4,000
Forum, May 28: Doves Press.- Keats (John). [Poems], one of 200 copies on paper, Doves Press, 1914. £5,000-7,000
Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 28th May 2026
Forum, May 28: Rodrigues (João Barbosa). Sertum Palmarum Brasiliensium, 2 vol., first and only edition, Brussels, 1903. £8,000-12,000
Forum, May 28: Newton (Sir Isaac). Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica…editio ultima, auctior et emendatior, Amsterdam, Sumptibus Societatis, 1714. £8,000-12,000
Forum, May 28: Kepler (Johannes). Ad Vitellionem paralipomena, wuibus astronomiae pars optica traditur, first edition, Frankfurt am Main, 1604. £5,000-7,000
Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 28th May 2026
Forum, May 28: Tagliacozzi (Gaspare). De Curtorum Chirurgia per insitionem, libri duo, first edition, Venice, Gasparo Bindoni, 1597. £7,000-10,000
Forum, May 28: Lootsman (Jacobsz). The Lightning Colomne, or Sea-Mirrour, containing the Sea-Coasts of the Northern, Eastern and Western Navigation..., 1670. £8,000-12,000
Forum, May 28: Ribelles y Helip (José), Attributed to. An album comprising 33 finely executed watercolours of Spanish costume, bull-fighting scenes, and other genre subjects, [circa 1830]. £10,000-15,000
