Bologna: Lelio dalla Volpe, 1754.
Price: $8,500.00
Bound in 19th c. half vellum and blue paper over boards (lightly stained.) A clean copy with wide margins printed on fine paper. Splits along the fold discreetly mended on three plates with slight discoloration and a few tiny defects. Engraved vignette on title, half-page engraving with the arms of...
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...
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...
London: Rafe Newberie and Henrie Denham, 1584.
Price: $18,000.00
Bound in contemporary English calf with central blind-stamped lozenge flanked by the initials “W.B.”, rebacked retaining original spine, deftly re-sewn at the time of rebacking by the British Museum, later endpapers. An excellent copy with occasional marginal staining; first few leaves with small, discreet marginal repairs to first and final...
Basel: L. Lucius, 1554.
Price: $7,500.00
Bound in early 19th c. mottled calf, rubbed and worn at extremities, expertly re-backed by Sean Richards. Gold-tooled border to boards, spine gilt and with labels. Internally a very fine copy with a little bit of foxing to scattered leaves. Title a little dusty. Large woodcut portrait of the author...
Basel: [Johann Amerbach, after 24 September], 1485.
Price: $28,000.00
Bound in contemporary Buxheim blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards [Schwenke-Sammlung Schrift 264]. Metal clasps, manuscript title on spine and along lower edges. Opening initials supplied in red and blue, rubricated, woodcut of the Conversion of St. Paul on b5. An excellent copy with a few stains, and some small wormholes...
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...
[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...
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...
Venice: Appresso Il [Giovanni Battista] Ciotti, 1621.
Price: $14,000.00
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...
London: printed by W[illiam]. B[owyer]. for Bernard Lintott at the Middle Temple Gate in Fleetstreet, 1703.
Price: $15,000.00
Bound in contemporary sprinkled calf, blind-ruled in panels, with floral ornaments on the boards and a gilt label on the spine. Discreet repairs to spine. A fine copy with very light soiling to the title and a few small ink spots.Mary Chudleigh was a friend of Elizabeth Thomas and an...
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....
Amsterdam: Gyles Thorp, 1610.
Price: $10,000.00
Bound in 17th c. stiff vellum, somewhat soiled. A nice copy of this very rare Continental Puritan imprint. With skillful, discreet paper repairs to outer blank margins of some leaves, no loss to text, some other marks and minor marginal soiling, very small worm trail in blank lower margin of some...
[Strasbourg]: Johann Grüninger, 23. February, 1523.
Price: $4,500.00
Bound in 20th c. three-quarter vellum and marbled boards. A very good, wide-margined copy with minor blemishes as follows: Title lightly soiled, gathering S damp-stained, a few gatherings lightly foxed, light dampstain to lower blank corner of final two gatherings. Blank verso of final leaf soiled. With woodcut historiated initials...
Nuremberg: Johannes Petreius, 1543.
Price: $2,500,000.00
Bound in attractive, contemporary Parisian calf with some discreet repairs. The boards are blind-ruled and adorned with gold-tooled ornaments. This is one of very few to have appeared on the market in a contemporary binding. The text is in excellent condition, with just minor blemishes (small early erasure of an...
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...
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...
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...
Lisbon: Na Officin. de Pedro Ferreira, Impressor da Augustissima Rainha N.S., 1733.
Price: $4,900.00
With a woodcut illustration of conjoined twins on the title. A fine copy bound in modern wrappers.An account of conjoined twins, joined at the pelvis (ischiopagus), The twins were born on 1 October 1732; their mother was a slave named Anna. The illustration on the title page shows the twins...
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 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: $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...
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...
[Florence: No place no printer], 1569.
Price: $18,000.00
A rare, complete suite of Dosio’s important views of Roman monuments. A very good set, bound in modern blind-ruled calf, with minor blemishes: Two plates (27 and 34) slightly shaved at fore-margin, four plates (38-41) with light damp-stain just entering the printed area, some other plates with staining in the...
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...
