Parma: Octavianus Saladius et Franciscus Ugoletus, 1510.

Price: $10,500.00

Bound in 19th c. ivory vellum, spine gold-tooled and with red Morocco label (small splits at head and tail of joints.) An excellent copy with wide margins. Outer margin of first few lvs. lightly soiled, the last few leaves with a light damp-stain in the outer margin, a few trivial...

Florence: Per haeredes Philippi Iuntae, 1526.

Price: $3,800.00

A tall, unsophisticated copy, in its original limp vellum binding (vellum stained, lacking ties, short split to upper hinge). The text is in very good condition with intermittent foxing, heavier in some gatherings.A compendium of ancient geographical texts, including descriptions of the known world by Pomponius Mela, Dionysius Periegetes, and...

Augsburg: Christoph. Mangius, 1615.

Price: $18,000.00

A fine copy bound in strictly contemporary limp vellum, soiled, lacking ties. The text is in truly excellent condition with a little fraying to the outer, blank margin of the engraved title, which shows Matteo Ricci and Blessed Francis Xavier in an architectural framework, flanking Ricci’s map of China. The...

Rome: Nella Stamperia di Gio. Battista de Caporali, per andare all'Orso, 1729.

Price: $3,800.00

Bound in later carta rustica. A fine, fresh copy on crisp paper. Very faint soiling to upper margin. A large historiated initial, decorative head- and tail-pieces. With the arms of Cardinal Polignac on the title page.A very rare account of the elaborate transformation of Piazza Navona to celebrate the birth...

Rome:, A spese di Niccola Roisecco, 1765.

Price: $5,500.00

Bound in three uniform bindings of contemporary patterned paste-paper over cartoncino boards. wear to extremities and spines. Internally this is as close to an immaculate set as I have seen, with some deckled edges preserved. The text is bright and clean throughout. The folding engravings are crisp.The three volumes are...

Rome: presso l’autore, 1819-, 1823.

Price: $45,000.00

A fine, complete set with all 101 engraved plates. Bound in 19th c. diced calf in two volumes (corners bumped, light wear to hinges and head and foot of spines). The boards are framed by multiple gold rules with additional blind-ruling and roll-tooling. Attractive floral roll-tooling to turn-ins. Spine with...

Nuremberg: Georg Merckel, 1553.

Price: $4,500.00

Bound in modern quarter vellum and paste paper over boards. With an unsigned title woodcut (by Georg Pencz?). A tall, broad-margined copy with a few deckled edges preserved. Small natural paper flaw on the final leaf. Bound with a second, anonymous poem, “Klaglied: Deren von Magdeburgk, zu Gott und allen...

Florence: [Gianstephano di Carlo da Pavia], 23 October, 1508.

Price: $9,500.00

Bound in 20th c. brown morocco. A fine copy. Savonarola’s name has been censored on the title. With a fine woodcut scene on the title page showing Savonarola conversing with the Abbess and sisters of the Monastero delle Murate. On the final leaf is a Crucifixion scene with the Virgin...

Basel: Thomas Wolff, 1521.

Price: $5,500.00

Bound in modern quarter vellum and drab boards. With a large woodcut of the emperor by Urs Graf (ca. 1485-1528) on the title page and a large, dramatic, historiated initial. A very good, crisp copy with a little light marginal foxing and occ. minor marginal blemishes.The “Reformation of Emperor Sigismund”...

London: John Day for Nicholas England, 25 Sept. 1560.

Price: $15,000.00

Bound in attractive contemporary calf, lacking clasps and catches, the boards ruled in gold, with a blind-stamped arabesque with flanking rosettes and the initials 'RL' within an single filet border, nicely rebacked, spine ruled in compartments, with green label, gilt, in the second compartment. Later endpapers and later end-bands (but...

Frankfurt: Peter Braubach, 1544.

Price: $7,500.00

Bound in contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards dated 1546. The boards are blind-ruled in compartments and elaborately tooled with decorative rolls (the Crucifixion, King David -dated 1543, John the Baptist, urns, interlocking sheaves of wheat, and small floral stamps (binding moderately soiled, lacking one clasp, small defects at extremities)...

Steinhilben: (near Reutlingen, Baden-Wurttemberg), 1572.

Price: $15,000.00

The French Wars of Religion produced one of the most brutal and excessive persecutions in history, including the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in Paris which began on August 24, 1572 and continued for three hellish days. Thousands of Protestant Huguenots were tortured, raped, and murdered on the streets of Paris...

London: By Arn. Hatfield, for Bonham and Iohn Norton], 1598.

Price: $16,000.00

[Bound with, as issued:]The End of Nero and Beginning of Galba. Fower Bookes of The Histories of Cornelius Tacitus. The Life of Agricola. The second edition.London: [By Edm. Bollifant, for Bonham and Iohn Norton], 1598Folio: 30 x 20.7 cm. [8], 271, [1] p. (1st 2 p. blank) Collation: [par.]⁴ A-Y⁶...