Modena: Dionysius Bertochus, 15 May, 1500.

Price: $28,000.00

Bound in 16th c. limp vellum. Fine, broad-margined copies on thick paper with just some occasional light soiling and a few instances of foxing in the Hyginus and a dampstain to the upper, inner corner of opening leaves.Bound with:Hyginus, C. Julius (1st century A.D.); Aratus, of Soli. (c. 315-c. 245...

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: $11,000.00

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...

London: Printed for M.D. and are to be sold by Nathaniel Webb, at the Royal Oak, in St. Pauls Church-yard, neer the little north-door of St. Pauls Church, 1664.

Price: $3,800.00

Bound in modern quarter calf and marbled boards. A crisp copy (a few sall rust marks, final leaf dusty, verso of last text leaf lightly foxed.) The first leaf is a full-page woodcut of the royal arms. The final leaf (bound at the beginning in this copy) bears the woodcut...

Antwerp: [Printed by Henry Loë and sold] at London by me Gerard Dewes, dwelling in Pawles Churchyarde at the Signe of the Swanne, 1578.

Price: $25,000.00

A fine copy in eighteenth-century calf, very nicely re-backed; boards ruled in gold, minor wear to extremities, corners lightly bumped. Illustrated with more than 850 quarter-paged woodcuts of plants in the text. The title is framed by an elaborate woodcut border by Arnold Nicolai after Pierre van der Borcht, depicting...

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: $15,000.00

With the fine engraved portrait of Donne by Pieter Lombart bound opposite the title page. This copy is bound in contemporary tanned sheep, rebacked and recornered, with gold ruling to the boards and spine. The text is on wonderfully fresh condition. The leaves are clean and bright with broad margins...

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: $18,500.00

A very desirable copy, bound in its original binding of polished calf, ruled in blind, with only minor wear and abrasions. The text is in very fine condition and is complete with the portrait of Donne –now rarely encountered- by William Marshall, apparently after a lost miniature by Hillyard, showing...

[Augsburg: Sigmund Grimm and Marx Wirsung], 1522.

Price: $4,500.00

A very good copy in modern paste-paper wrappers. Small adhesion scar to blank portion of title, far from text.An early edition of Eberlin’s “In praise of parish priests Concerning the useless sums paid out by the common, unsuspecting people for mass readings, funerals, internments, sevenths and thirtieths, etc. And in...

Venice: [Per Comin da Trino di Monferrato], 1574.

Price: $15,000.00

Bound in near-contemporary limp vellum, remains of ties, paper label chipped. Contents fine. Light soiling to title, short worm-trail in the inner margin of gatherings F and G, small portion of blank corner of leaf F6 snipped away. Five parts in one volume; Four divisional title pages dated 1573. All...