Oxford: Joseph Barnes, 1599.

Price: $25,000.00

Bound in modern calf, gilt. With a typographic ornament on the title, woodcut initials, head-and tail-pieces. A tall copy with good margins, title lightly soiled and with small restoration in the blank gutter, last leaf also lightly soiled and with a similar repair to the blank corner. Some early annotations...

Venice: (Pietro Nicolini da Sabbio for) Federico Torresano, 1548.

Price: $6,800.00

Bound in 17th c. parchment (some soiling, corners bumped.) Woodcut title page border. Full-page woodcut of Saint Catherine on leaf 8 verso. Printer’s device on recto of final leaf. The text is in very good condition with instances of light damp-staining, scattered mild foxing. And occasional soiling A few marginal...

Basel: Henricus Petri, 1530.

Price: $2,800.00

Bound in contemporary alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards, lacking clasps but with the brass catches, with acorn tools and rolls of 3 of the Muses: Terpsichore, Euterpe (signed N.C.), and Calliope (signed M.A.). First title dusty, damp-stain in the first part of the Martial. Intermittent annotations in the margins of...

Florence: Giunti, 1574.

Price: $2,500.00

Title page within an architectural woodcut border containing the Medici coat-of-arms and a small view of Florence. Printer’s device at the colophon. Woodcut portrait of Cosimo de’ Medici on the verso of the title-page. Foxed. Bound in attractive 18th-century colored paper over thin boards. Extremely rare. No copies in North...

London: Printed by Thomas Harper, and are to be sold by Godfrey Emondson, and Thomas Alchorne, 1631.

Price: $11,500.00

Bound in 19th c. quarter morocco and marbled papers over boards (rubbing to joints and extremities), spine tooled in gold. Contents in good condition, cut close with shaving to a number of headlines and some signature marks but not affecting the text itself. Faint dampstain to t.p. and second leaf...

Naples: Giovanni Domenico Montanaro, 1634.

Price: $9,000.00

Bound in contemporary limp vellum, moderately soiled. Internally very good copies: I. (‘Il Puttino’): Free end-paper a little ragged, upper blank margin of first few leaves slightly nibbled, mild foxing, gatherings G-I lightly browned, occasional small stains. II. (‘Inventione’): Small dark stain in upper blank margin throughout, not affecting the...

Venice: Per Giovan Battista et Melchior Sessa fratelli, 1558.

Price: $8,500.00

A nice, unsophisticated copy in contemporary limp vellum. Title dusty, a few light marginal stains, marginal paper flaw (not affecting text) to leaf *4, short worm-trail in lower margin of five gatherings (Q-S, V-X), touching a single letter in the bottom line of text on some lvs., damp-stain to 4...

London: By Iohn Day, dwelling ouer Aldersgate, beneath Saint Martines, 1564.

Price: $18,000.00

A very fine copy, clean throughout, bound in early 20th c. brown morocco, gilt. Printed in Black Letter, With a fine, historiated, woodcut title page border populated by swans, youths playing instruments, griffins, and masks. A large woodcut illustration, taken from Foxe’s “Martyrs”, shows six reformers being burned at the...

Basel: Gebrüden von Mechel, 1796, i.e., 1842.

Price: $3,900.00

A rare edition, and a very fine copy, of the “Basel” Dance of Death. Despite the date of 1796 indicated on the title, this edition was printed in 1842. The new date appears at the end of the new publisher’s introduction. Bound in 19th c. boards patterned with gold stars...

Venice: Vincenzo Fiorina, 1616.

Price: $4,800.00

A French translation appeared in 1611. A fine copy in contemporary red morocco, boards ruled in gold, spine ruled in compartments, also in gold, with the author and title tooled in the topmost compartment (spine lightly sunned, corners bumped, minor edge wear, small abrasions, one thread of the upper end-band...

Imprinted at N. [i.e. Antwerp]: [By Arnout Coninx] with licence, 1594.

Price: $11,600.00

Bound in 18th c. English sprinkled calf (minor wear, corners bumped, upper joint starting and with abrasion to head of spine) the boards paneled in blind with decorative floral tools at the corners; spine ruled in blind, with red morocco label, gilt. Contents in very good condition though with the...

London: Printed by J. Flesher, for Richard Marriot, and are to be sold at his shop in St Dunstans Church-yard under the Dyall. 1651.

Price: $12,000.00

With the fine engraved portrait of Donne by Pieter Lombart bound opposite the title page. This copy is bound in contemporary English calf, rebacked so discreetly that it is impossible to see where the leather has been joined. The original gilded red morocco spine label is preserved and a double...

London: Printed by M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, and are to be sold at his shop in St Dunstans Church-yard in Fleet-street, 1639.

Price: $16,500.00

A very desirable copy, bound in its original binding of sprinkled calf, ruled in blind, with a discreet repair to the front joint and foot of the spine. The text is in fine condition and is complete with the portrait of Donne –now rarely encountered- by William Marshall, apparently after...