The First Illustrated Edition of Fulvio's Architectural Guide to Rome
with Important Additions by Girolamo Ferrucci

Fulvio, Andrea (ca. 1470-1543); Ferrucci, Girolamo (fl. 1588)
L' Antichità di Roma di Andrea Fulvio antiquiario romano, di nuouo con ogni diligenza corretta & ampliata, con gli adornamenti di disegni de gli edificij antichi & moderni; con le aggiuntioni & annotationi di Girolamo Ferrucci Romano

Octavo: FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. With 93 woodcut illustrations of the architecture... >FULL DESCRIPTION<

An Ephemeris for 17th Century England:

Gadbury, John (1627-1704)
Ephemerides of the celestial motions and aspects, eclipses of the luminaries &c. for XX years: beginning anno 1682 and ending an. 1701… Accomodated to the meridian of the honourable city of London.

Quarto: FIRST EDITION. An excellent copy of the sole edition of John Gadbury's ephemerides for 1682 to 1701, a follow-up to his ephemerides for the years 1672 to 1680. Calculated by John Merrifield. 20th c. calf. >FULL DESCRIPTION<

Galileo's "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems"
& "Mathematical Discourses & demonstrations Concerning Two New Sciences"

Galilei, Galileo (1564-1642)
Systema cosmicum: in quo dialogis IV. de duobus maximis mundi systematibus. Ptolemaico & Copernicano
[Bound with:]
Discursus et demonstrationes mathematicæ.
Leiden: Haaring and Severinus, 1699 $12,000

Quarto: With an engraved title page showing Aristotle, Copernicus and Ptolemy discussing... >FULL DESCRIPTION<

Including Galileo's "Starry Messenger" and Kepler's "Dioptrice"

Octavo: FIRST EDITION OF THIS COLLECTION. Second edition of Gassendi's "Institutio Astronomica" (first ed. Paris, 1647). The present edition is important for the inclusion of two seminal works of telescopic... >FULL DESCRIPTION<

A Beautiful, Rubricated Copy in a Contemporary Binding with a Large Initial Painted in Gold and Colors

Gratianus, Johannes (fl. 1150)
Decretales.

Folio: A magnificent copy of the foundation of canon law, printed by Gruninger. Goff G-380; BMC I, 106; Hain 7907; GW 11373; Pellechet 5326 >FULL DESCRIPTION<

A Landmark in Botany With Illustrations of Plants Observed Through the Miscroscope

Grew, Nehemiah (1641-1712)
The Anatomy of Plants. With an Idea of a Philosophical History of Plants. And several other Lectures, Read before the Royal Society.

Folio: FIRST EDITION of Grew's magnum opus. Illustrated with eighty-three engraved plates, five of which are double-paged. Contemporary calf. >FULL DESCRIPTION<

The Museum of the Royal Society

Grew, Nehemiah (1641-1712)
Musaeum Regalis Societatis or a Catalogue & Description Of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and preserved at Gresham Colledge. Made By Nehemiah Grew M. D. Fellow of the Royal Society, and of the Colledge of Physitians. Whereunto is Subjoyned the Comparative Anatomy of Stomachs and Guts. By the same Author.

Folio: FIRST EDITION. Including thirty-one full-paged engraved plates (one folding) of the... >FULL DESCRIPTION<

A History of the Jesuits by an ex-Jesuit With a Portrait of Loyola

Hasenmüller, Elias (fl. 1590)
Historia iesuitici ordinis, Das ist gründtliche und außführliche Beschreibung deß jesuitischen Ordens, unnd ihrer Societet...Jetzt aber...auß dem Latein ins Teutsche gebracht durch M.Leporinum.

Quarto: FIRST GERMAN EDITION (1st Latin: 1593), with a preface by Polykarp Leyser (1552-1610), of Elias Hasenmüller's history...>FULL DESCRIPTION<

The Metaphysical Poet

Herbert, George (1593-1633)
The Temple- Sacred Poems And Private Ejaculations. By Mr. George Herbert, late Oratour of the Universitie of Cambridge. The Sixth edition
[Cambridge:] Printed by Roger Daniel, 1641.
[Bound with:]
Herbert, George (1593-1633)
The Synagogue, or, the Shadow of the Temple. Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations, in imitation of Mr. George Herbert.
London, Printed by J.L. for Philemon Stephens, 1647 $6,800

The Zanetti Hesiod: A Perfect Copy in Contemporary Pigskin

Hesiod (fl. CA. 700 B.C.)
ΗΣΙΟΔΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΑΣΚΡΑΙΟΥ ΕΡΓΑ ΚΑΙ ΗΜΕΡΑΙ. ΘΕΟΓΟΝΙΑ. ΑΣΠΙΣ ΗΡΑΚΛΕΟΥΣ. Απαντα δε μετα πολλων και καλιστων εξηγησεων. Hesiodi Ascraei Opera et Dies. Theogonia. Scutum Herculis. Omnia cu[m] multis optimisque expositionibus.

Quarto: FIRST ZANETTI EDITION. A PERFECT COPY. Bound in a beautiful contemporary binding of alum-tawed pigskin over beveled wooden boards, attributed to Konrad Küne of Stuttgart. The binding is...>FULL DESCRIPTION<