Venice: Appresso i Gioliti, 1586.

Price: $8,500.00

Bound in an attractive, modern cardboard binding and slipcase by Eva Szily. Contents lightly washed, t.p. discreetly mended in gutter, collector’s stamp on title, gathering I lightly toned. With an intricate woodcut compartment and Jesuit emblem on the title page. A number of other attractive headpieces and large woodcut initials...

Amsterdam: Apud Jacobum a Meurs, in fossa vulgo de Keyfersgracht, 1667.

Price: $16,000.00

Complete with the engraved title page, a full-paged portrait of Kircher, 2 large folding engraved maps of China, 59 text engravings, and 23 full-paged engravings (one of which is a large folding reproduction of the "Nestorian Stele"), including some executed by the artist Willem van der Laegh. A nice copy...

London: Printed by Augustine Mathewes, for Francis Grove, 1633.

Price: $45,000.00

Bound in modern paneled calf with blind-tooled ornaments. Upper and outer margins of title page cut a bit close, without affecting the text. Title soiled and lightly spotted, first gathering soiled and lightly stained, but the majority of the text rather clean, with just some light spots in gatherings G....

Venice: Lorenzo Basilio, 1728.

Price: $3,900.00

Bound in contemporary carta rustica. Untrimmed, with deckled edges preserved throughout. Fine condition with just a few leaves spotted. Extremely rare. OCLC and KVK locate 4 copies outside of Italy, only 1 of which is in North America (Harvard Law Library).The work has been attributed to Bartolommeo Mlechiori, who also...

Amsterdam: Sumptibus Andreae Frisii, 1665.

Price: $9,500.00

The book is introduced by a fantastic engraved title page populated by monsters. The text is illustrated with 73 half and quarter-page engravings of monsters –deformed humans and animals, as well as fantastic, monstrous hybrids of the both. This is the first edition to include Gerard Blasius’ "Appendix of new...

Cologne: Peter Quentell, January, 1528.

Price: $5,900.00

Bound in 17th-century calf with a nicely executed modern quarter-calf re-back. The text is in very good condition, with a 16th c. inscription (scored through) and initials on the title page. Fore-edge cut very close but never affecting the text or woodcuts. Illustrated with a fine historiated woodcut border (composed...

London: Adam Islip, 1600.

Price: $16,000.00

This is a fine copy in its original binding of contemporary mottled calf, age-worn, with skillful repairs to the hinges and extremities. The contents are in excellent condition with wide margins and only some light marginal damp-staining towards the end of the volume. A woodcut portrait of Queen Elizabeth is...

[Breslau]: [Adam Dion], 1521.

Price: $4,900.00

Modern marbled boards. Lightly soiled and spotted, inky fingers (possibly those of a careless pressman) have left minor smears in the blank margins.One of fourteen printings recorded in the Benzing of this German-language edition. VD16 attributes the printing to Adam Dion of Silesia in Breslau while Benzing lists Hieronymus Höltzel...

Frankfurt an der Oder: Friedrich Hartmann, 1597.

Price: $8,500.00

Bound in matching 17th c. stiff vellum, ruled in blind (covers slightly bowed, vellum lightly soiled, small split at head of rear hinge of Vol. I, 1 end-band loose). The contents are in overall excellent condition, with minor blemishes (Vol I: leaf D2 with small natural paper flaw affecting a....

[Bamberg: Georg Erlinger], 1523.

Price: $4,500.00

An excellent, clean copy with broad margins. Bound in modern speckled boards. With a fine woodcut title page border.As with many aspects of Church ritual and practice, Luther perceived the liturgy to have been corrupted and in need of serious reform. “Three great and serious misuses have entered into divine...

Cologne: Opera et impensa Ioannis Soteris [Johann Soter], August, 1527.

Price: $5,500.00

Bound in attractive contemporary blind-stamped calfskin over thin wooden boards, with floral tools and rolls of urns. Text possibly re-cased. Somewhat later end-papers. Internally fine. Title page a little dusty, light marginal damp-stain in gathering t, small tear in inner margin of final leaf.The text is printed in italic, with...

Rome: Valerio and Luigi Dorico, 1544.

Price: $15,000.00

This is an exceptionally large copy, with none of the usual trimming to the oversized woodcuts that illustrate the volume. It is one of the two largest copies that I have handled. Bound in contemporary limp vellum, laced through with the original rawhide sewing supports intact. The binding is entirely...

London: Printed by I.B. for Nicholas Vavasour, and are to be sold at his Shop in the Inner Temple, neere the Church, 1633.

Price: $225,000.00

Bound in modern full dark brown morocco circa 1984, in a custom box. A fine copy, lightly washed, unpressed, the paper preserving its rattle. All edges gilt. Provenance: Ximenes (sold 1993), with receipt and scan of a note from Steve Weissman regarding the sale."Although written about 1589 and entered in...