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Item #4432 Gemmarum et Lapidum Historia. Quam olim edidit Anselmus Boetius de Boot, Brugensis,...

Gemmarum et Lapidum Historia. Quam olim edidit Anselmus Boetius de Boot, Brugensis, Rudolphi II. imperatoris Medicus. Postea Adrianus Tollius, Lugd.-Bat., M. D., recensuit; figuris melioribus, & commentariis pluribus illustravit, & indice auxit multo locupletiore. Tertia editio longe purgatissima. Cui accedunt Ioannis De Laet, Antvverpiani, De Gemmis & Lapidibus libri II. Et Theophrasti liber De Lapidibus, Gr. & Lat. cum brevibus notis.

Leiden: Joannes Maire, 1647.

Price: $4,900.00

Bound in contemporary Dutch vellum (lightly soiled, lower “yapped” edge a bit warped). Complete with both folding tables. Illustrated with eighty-seven (87) woodcuts of gems and minerals, including geodes, hematite, crystals, corral, and fossils.A very good copy, with scattered mild soiling and light foxing, very lightly stained at upper margin;...

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Item #4096 Philobiblon Richardi Dunelmensis sive De amore librorum, et institutione bibliothecæ,...

Philobiblon Richardi Dunelmensis sive De amore librorum, et institutione bibliothecæ, tractatus pulcherrimus. Ex collatione cum varijs manuscriptis editio jam secunda; cui accessit appendix de manuscriptis Oxoniensibus. Omnia hæc, opera & studio T.I. Novi Coll. in alma Academia Oxoniensi socij. B.P.N

Oxford: Joseph Barnes, 1599.

Price: $40,000.00

Bound in 20th c. calf, gilt, by Pratt. With a typographic ornament on the title, woodcut initials, head-and tail-pieces. An unusually nice copy of this scarce book, title very lightly soiled, headlines on 2 leaves and side-note on C4 just shaved. With more than 50 early text corrections (largely making...

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Item #3597 Opus Martiani. Capellae de Nuptiis Philologiae & Mercurii libri duo. De Grammatica....

Opus Martiani. Capellae de Nuptiis Philologiae & Mercurii libri duo. De Grammatica. Liber. Tertius. De Dialectica. Liber. Quartus. De Rhetorica. Liber. Quintus. De Geometria. Liber. Sextus. De Arithmetica. Liber. Septimus. De Astronomia. Liber. Octavus. De Musica. Liber. Nonus.

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...

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Item #3565 C. Valerii Catulli...Liber I. Alb. Tibulli Equitis Romani libri IIII. Sex Aurelii...

C. Valerii Catulli...Liber I. Alb. Tibulli Equitis Romani libri IIII. Sex Aurelii Propertii umbri libri IIII. C N. Cornelii Galli fragmenta. Basel: Henricus Petri, 1530 b/w Martialis, Marcus Valerius (40- ca. 100) Epigrammaton Libri XIIII Basel: Henricus Petri, 1530

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...

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Item #3862 Antiquarum statuarum urbis Romae primus et secundus liber. Ludouico Madrucio S.R.E....

Antiquarum statuarum urbis Romae primus et secundus liber. Ludouico Madrucio S.R.E. Card amplissimo dic. Baptista de Caualleriis authore

[Rome:]: no printer, no date, ca. 1574-, 1584.

Price: $16,000.00

Bound in 18th c. stiff parchment, title label with gilt lettering. A fine, wide-margined copy with beautiful, rich impressions of the plates. Title lightly soiled and with upper blank margin restored (not affecting the plate.) A few spots in the blank, inner margin of the first plate, far from the...

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Item #3577 Descritione della pompa funerale fatta nelle essequie del Ser.mo Sig. Cosimo de’...

Descritione della pompa funerale fatta nelle essequie del Ser.mo Sig. Cosimo de’ Medici Gran Duca di Toscana nell’Alma Città di Firenze il giorno XVIJ di Maggio dell’Anno MDLXXIIII.

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...

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Item #4523 Esequie fatte in Venetia dalla natione fiorentina al Ser. D. Cosimo II, quarto Gran...

Esequie fatte in Venetia dalla natione fiorentina al Ser. D. Cosimo II, quarto Gran Duca di Toscana il di 25 di Maggio 1621. Orazione di Giulio Strozzi recitata da lui in Venetia nell'esequie del Serenissimo D. Cosimo II…

Venice: Appresso Il [Giovanni Battista] Ciotti, 1621.

Price: $16,000.00

Bound in 20th c. boards covered with a liturgical manuscript leaf. A fine, crisp copy with a little light marginal soiling; verso of final leaf also lightly soiled. Illustrated with 2 engraved title pages, a full-page portrait of Cosimo II, and 15 full-paged engraved plates. One of the engravings is...

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Item #4731 Le Solennità lugubri e liete in nome della Fedelissima Sicilia nella felice e primaia...

Le Solennità lugubri e liete in nome della Fedelissima Sicilia nella felice e primaia città di Palermo...per la morte di Filippo Quarto il Grande e le festose acclamationi della Maestà di Carlo Sercondo, figlio, & herede... (Bound with:) Lubrani, Giacomo. L'Anfiteatro della Costanza vittoriosa. Oratione funerale...per le solenni essequie...

Palermo: Andrea Colicchi, 1666.

Price: $20,000.00

Extremely rare (1 copy in North America, at NYPL). "The book celebrates one of the most memorable funeral ceremonies of the seventeenth century.”(M. C. Ruggieri Tricoli, "Funeral Teatro") Bound in contemporary vellum (slight soiling, little chips to vellum at head and foot of spine.), title on spine. An extremely fine...

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Item #4585 The Royall Game of Chesse-Play. Sometimes The Recreation of the late King, with many...

The Royall Game of Chesse-Play. Sometimes The Recreation of the late King, with many of the Nobility. Illustrated with almost an hundred Gambetts. Being The study of Biochimo the famous Italian.

London: Printed for Henry Herringman, and are to be sold at his shop at the sign of the Anchor, in the lower walk of the New Exchange, 1656.

Price: $15,000.00

A very good, crisp, complete copy of this rare book, bound in contemporary English sheepskin, ruled in blind, rebacked, boards heavily worn. Metal-cut t.p. rule shaved on two sides, portrait leaf with small repair to lower left corner, just entering the blank corner of the plate mark (no loss to...

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Item #3763 M.T. Ciceronis Opera. Ex Petri Victorii codicibus maxima ex parte descripta, viri...

M.T. Ciceronis Opera. Ex Petri Victorii codicibus maxima ex parte descripta, viri docti et in recensendis authoris huius scriptis cauti & per diligentis: quem industria, quanta potuimus, co[n]sequuti, quasdam orationes redintegratas, tres libros De legibus multo quàm antea meliores, & reliquias de commentariis qui De republica inscripti erant, magno labore collectas vndique, descriptásque libris, vobis exhibemus. Eiusdem Victorii explicationes suarum in Ciceronem castigationum. Index rerum et verborum.

Paris: Ex Officina Roberti Stephani, 1538-, 1539.

Price: $10,500.00

Bound in matching 18th c. speckled calfskin bindings, rebacked, the gilding to the spine largely preserved, minor wear, corners bumped. The text is clean and broad-margined, with just the occasional minor dampstain to the upper edge of the upper blank margin. A few 18th c. annotations and underscores. 17th(?) c....

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Item #4657 Tutte le Rime della illustriss. et eccellentiss. Signora Vittoria Colonna, Marchesana...

Tutte le Rime della illustriss. et eccellentiss. Signora Vittoria Colonna, Marchesana di Pescara. Con l'espositione del Signor Rinaldo Corso nuouamente mandate in luce da Girolamo Ruscelli. Alla illustriss. et eccellentiss. Signora Donna Issabella Gonzaga, Marchesana di Pescara.

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...

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Item #4558 Commentariorum de bello aphrodisiensi libri quinque. Orazio CORSAIRS. OTTOMAN EMPIRE....

Commentariorum de bello aphrodisiensi libri quinque.

Rome: apud Valerium et Ludovicum fratres Brixienses, 1552.

Price: $4,800.00

Bound in a contemporary vellum binding using a re-purposed manuscript leaf). Printed in an elegant cursive by the Brescian brothers Valerio e Luigi Dorico, fine engravers and printers active in Rome from 1538 to 1559. A very good copy bound in 18th c. vellum, red morocco label, gilt. Title page...

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Item #4400 Coryats crudities; hastily gobled vp in five moneths trauells in France, Sauoy, Italy,...

Coryats crudities; hastily gobled vp in five moneths trauells in France, Sauoy, Italy, Rhetia co[m]monly called the Grisons country, Heluetia aliàs Switzerland, some parts of high Germany, and the Netherlands; newly digested in the hungry aire of Odcombe in the county of Somerset, & now dispersed to the nourishment of the trauelling members of this kingdome.

London: printed by William Stansby for the author, 1611.

Price: $25,000.00

Bound in 19th c. straight-grain green morocco, gilt (light wear to hinges, and extremities, joints strengthened). A very good, complete copy, a.e.g., with minor faults: plate of the Venetian courtesan facing p.261 re-margined and with small, clean tear, lower edge of leaf e5 restored with loss to a few words...

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Item #4772 La chitarra della Signora Margherita Costa Romana canzoniere amoroso dedicata al...

La chitarra della Signora Margherita Costa Romana canzoniere amoroso dedicata al Sereniss. Ferdinando II. Gran Duca di Toscana.

Frankfurt: Per Daniel Wastch, 1638.

Price: $16,500.00

Bound in 19th-century polished calf, panels with blind- and gilt-stamped border and fillets, richly gilt spine with lettering piece, very nicely re-backed. Small tear to leaf E4 with no loss, a bit of soiling to leaf S1, small repaired hole in the center of ll. Zz3-4, with a few words...

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Item #3243 Certain most godly, fruitful, and comfortable letters of such true saintes and holy...

Certain most godly, fruitful, and comfortable letters of such true saintes and holy martyrs of God, as in the late bloodye persecution here within this realme, gaue their lyues for the defence of Christes holy gospel: written in the tyme of theyr affliction and cruell imprysonment.

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

Price: $24,000.00

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...

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Item #3826 Steps to the Temple, The Delights of the Muses and Carmen Deo Nostro. By Ric. Crashaw,...

Steps to the Temple, The Delights of the Muses and Carmen Deo Nostro. By Ric. Crashaw, sometimes Fellow of Pembroke Hall, and late fellow of St Peters Colledge in Cambridge. The 2nd Edition.

London: In the Savoy, Printed by T.N. for Henry Herringman at the Blew Anchor in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange. 1670.

Price: $8,500.00

Contemporary English calf, upper joint cracked. Complete with the engraved frontispiece. Provenance: Richard Heber, his sale 1834, to Britwell Court; Richard Jennings.This collection of Crashaw’s poetry comprises the third edition (not the second, as the title states) of his “Steps to the Temple” (first 1646), the third edition of “The...

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Item #2596 Letters to Severall Persons of Honour: Written by John Donne, Sometime Deane of St...

Letters to Severall Persons of Honour: Written by John Donne, Sometime Deane of St Pauls London. Published by John Donne Dr. of the Civill Law.

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...

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Item #3105 Letters to Severall Persons of Honour: Written by John Donne, Sometime Deane of St...

Letters to Severall Persons of Honour: Written by John Donne, Sometime Deane of St Pauls London. Published by John Donne Dr. of the Civill Law.

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...

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Item #3012 Poems, by J.D. VVith elegies on the authors death. John Donne

Poems, by J.D. VVith elegies on the authors death

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...

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Item #3101 Poems, by J.D. VVith elegies on the authors death. John Donne

Poems, by J.D. VVith elegies on the authors death

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...

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Item #4191 Die Mißgeburt eines Schweins. Albrecht Dürer

Die Mißgeburt eines Schweins.

Germany: ca. 1496.

Price: $12,000.00

A fine impression, with good clarity and strong contrasts. Slight breakdown in the delicate cuts. Trimmed within the platemark, inconspicuous paper repair to edge. Provenance: From the renowned collection of Richard Holtkott (1890-1950) (Lugt 4265). Bartsch 95, High Crown watermark (Meder 20).“The pig represented here refers to 'The Monstrous Pig...

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Item #4440 Das Lob der Pfarrer von dem unnutzen Kosten der gelegt wirt von dem gemainen...

Das Lob der Pfarrer von dem unnutzen Kosten der gelegt wirt von dem gemainen unverstendigen Volck auff Meß lesen, Volgungen, Begrebnus, sybent, dreysigst, Jartag etc. Und vo(m) Lob der Pfarrer unnd jrer nötigen Caplan.

[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...

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Item #4539 Der ander bundtsgnosz. Vom fasten der xl. tag vor Osteren vnd andern, wie do so...

Der ander bundtsgnosz. Vom fasten der xl. tag vor Osteren vnd andern, wie do so jämmerlich wirt beschwärt das christenlich volck.

[Basel: Pamphilus Gengenbach], 1521.

Price: $5,500.00

This work is the second of Eberlin’s “Fünfzehn Bundsgenossen” (“The Fifteen Confederates”). Bound in quarter vellum and modern patterned boards. A nice copy, title a little dusty and with small marginal stain, with a title woodcut of Jesus disputing with the Devil set within an ornamental historiated border.Eberlin von Günzburg...

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Item #4559 Libro mercantile, ordinato col suo giornale & alfabeto, per tener conti doppi al modo...

Libro mercantile, ordinato col suo giornale & alfabeto, per tener conti doppi al modo di Venetia… Con alcune sorti di lettere cancelleresche, mercantesche, & bastarde, et due alfabeti di miniature bellissimi.

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...

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Item #4328 The boke named the Gouernour deuised by sir Thomas Elyot knyght. Thomas Elyot, Sir,...

The boke named the Gouernour deuised by sir Thomas Elyot knyght

London: [Printed by Thomas Marsh], 1557.

Price: $18,000.00

A fine, tall, and interesting copy, bound in contemporary English sheep, with patches of wear, and skilful repairs to spine and corners. The contents are crisp and bright, with a slight worm-trail in the lower margin of the opening leaves. The flyleaves are from William Lily’s grammar, “An introduction of...

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