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Vedute d'architettura antica in prospettiva di Domenico Bianconi alla Reale Academia di Francia...

Vedute d'architettura antica in prospettiva di Domenico Bianconi alla Reale Academia di Francia in Roma.

Rome: the author, ca. 1760.

Price: $45,000.00

Bound in contemporary stiff parchment over boards, with patterned paste-paper for the pastedowns. The binding and contents are beautifully preserved and very fresh. Provenance: From the private collection of Thomas Vroom (bookplate), deaccessioned 2019.A remarkable, unpublished manuscript treatise by Domenico Bianconi, an architect and scenographer who worked in the style...

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Tes Kaines Diathekes hapanta. [Novum Testamentum ex bibliotheca regia]. Robert BIBLE. Estienne

Tes Kaines Diathekes hapanta. [Novum Testamentum ex bibliotheca regia].

Paris: Robert Estienne, 1549.

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18th c. red morocco, spine and boards ruled in gold, inner boards also red morocco (reliure double) tooled in gold, title in Greek tooled on gold on the spines, paste-paper endpapers. Text ruled in red. Fine copies, minor wear to bindings. Provenance: Malezieu -possibly the Greek scholar Nicolas de Malezieu...

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C. Crispi Sallustii De L. Sergii Catilinæ coniuratione, ac Bello Iugurthino historiæ. Eiusdem...

C. Crispi Sallustii De L. Sergii Catilinæ coniuratione, ac Bello Iugurthino historiæ. Eiusdem in M.T. Ciceronem invectiva, M.T. Cic. in C. Crispum Sallustium recriminatio, Porcii Latronis declamatio contra L. Catilinam, fragmenta quædam ex libris historiarum C. Crispi Sallustii.

Lyon: Sébastien Gryphe, 1551.

Price: $8,000.00

Bound in a beautiful near-contemporary strapwork binding with a few tiny defects. The text is in very good condition with light soiling and light occasional stains. Gauphered edges, gilt. Text ruled in red, Gryphius’ device on the title.The extant works of Sallust, the "Bellum Iugurthinum", "Bellum Catilinarium" (and associated texts)...

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Boetius de Consolationae [sic] Philosophiæ. The boke of Boecius, called the comforte of...

Boetius de Consolationae [sic] Philosophiæ. The boke of Boecius, called the comforte of philosophye, or wysedome, moche necessary for all men to read and know, wherein suche as be in aduersitie, shall fynde muche consolation and comforte, and suche as be in great worldly prosperitie may knowe the vanitie and frailtie therof, and consequently fynde eternall felycytie. And this boke is in maner of a dialoge or communication betwene two persones, the one is Boecius, and the other is Philosophy, whose disputations and argumentes do playnly declare the diuersitie of th lyfe actiue, that consisteth in worldly, temporall, and transitory thynges, ... Translated out of Latin into the Englyshe toungue by George Coluile, alias Coldewel, to thintent that such as be ignoraunt in the Latin tongue, and can rede Englyshe, maye vnderstande the same. And to the mergentes is added the Latin, accordynge to the boke of the translatour, whiche was a very olde prynte

London: In Paules churche yarde at the sygne of the holy Ghost, by Ihon Cawoode, prynter to the Kynge and Quenes Maiesties, 1556.

Price: $30,000.00

Bound in contemporary English calfskin, rebacked in the 19th c., a few patches to the leather of the boards. Text in very good condition with occasional browning, darker in signatures I and K. Light dampstain to signatures T, Z, Bb, and Ff. Text in Latin and English in two columns...

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Gemmarum et Lapidum Historia. Quam olim edidit Anselmus Boetius de Boot, Brugensis, Rudolphi II....

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. Contents in excellent condition (light stain in outer margin of two leaves), complete with both folding tables (both with small tears without loss.) Illustrated with eighty-seven (87) woodcuts of gems and minerals, including geodes, hematite, crystals, corral, and fossils.Third and best edition (1st 1609, 2nd...

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The Breviarie of Health wherin doth Folow, Remedies, for all Maner of Sicknesses & Diseases, the...

The Breviarie of Health wherin doth Folow, Remedies, for all Maner of Sicknesses & Diseases, the which May Be in Man or Woman. Expressing the obscure termes of Greeke, Araby, Latin, Barbary, and English, concerning phisick and chirurgerie. Compiled by Andrew Boord, Doctor of phisicke: an English-man. Now newly corrected and amended, with some approued medicines that neuer were in print before this impression, & are aptly placed in their proper chapters, by men skilfulll [sic] in phisicke and chirurgerie.

London: by Thomas Este, 1598.

Price: $12,500.00

An unusually fine, unsophisticated copy, with broad margins and the occasional deckled edge, stab-stitched and bound in a contemporary stiff vellum wrapper (small section of upper cover gnawed. By happy accident, the vellum wrapper has come loose, allowing unimpeded inspection of the sewing structure. Very light marginal foxing to fore-edge...

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Ar’t asleepe husband? A boulster lecture; stored with all variety of witty jeasts, merry...

Ar’t asleepe husband? A boulster lecture; stored with all variety of witty jeasts, merry tales, and other pleasant passages; extracted, from the choicest flowers of philosophy, poesy, antient and moderne history. Illustrated with examples of incomparable constancy, in the excellent history of Philocles and Doriclea. By Philogenes Panedonius

London: Printed by R. Bishop, for R[ichard]. B[est]. or his assignes, 1640.

Price: $9,500.00

With the engraved frontispiece by William Marshall with the variant text: “London. Printed for R. Best and are to bee sould at his shop neare Graies Inn gatte in Houlbourne.” An unusually tall copy of Brathwaite’s famous satire on the perils of marriage, nagging wives, and the limitless lust of...

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Katecismo Indico da lingua Kariris, acrescentado de varias praticas doutrinaes, & moraes,...

Katecismo Indico da lingua Kariris, acrescentado de varias praticas doutrinaes, & moraes, adaptadas ao genio, & capacidade dos Indios do Brasil. pelo padre Fr. Bernardo de Nantes, capuchinho, prêgador, & missionario apostolico; offerecido ao muy alto, e muy poderoso rey de Portugal Dom Joaõ V.S.N. que Deos guarde.

Lisbon: V. da Costa, 1709.

Price: $16,500.00

A very fine copy in contemporary limp vellum. Binding and contents in excellent condition with just a mild stain to two lvs. of the epistle. Provenance: 19th c. Library stamp of Dom Pedro de Sousa Holstein, Duque de Palmela (1781-1850), the first Prime Minister of Portugal, ownership inscription of C....

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Libellus de utilitate et harmonia artium, tum futuro iurisconsulto, tum liberalium disciplinarum...

Libellus de utilitate et harmonia artium, tum futuro iurisconsulto, tum liberalium disciplinarum politiorisue literaturæ studiosis utilissimus[Bound with:] Libellus compendiariam tum uirtutis adipiscendae tum literarum parandarum rationem perdoce[n]s, bene beateque uiuere cupienti, a primis utilis

Antwerp: S. Cocus, 1541.

Price: $6,800.00

Bound in 18th c. mottled calf, wear to extremities, lower joint starting. Fine copies. v. light soiling to first t.p. and final leaf of second work, a few light stains in the second work, else very clean. Both works illustrated with emblematic and allegorical woodcuts, most created specifically for these...

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Descrizion delle feste fatte in Firenze per la canonizzazione di S.to Andrea Corsini. Benedetto...

Descrizion delle feste fatte in Firenze per la canonizzazione di S.to Andrea Corsini.

Florence: nella Stamperia di Zanobi Pignoni, 1632.

Price: $14,000.00

The imprimatur is dated 1629 but the printing was delayed due to an outbreak of the plague. With an etched title page and 20 etched half-page illustrations by Stefano della Bella. Decorative initials and headpieces in the text. A nice copy in contemporary vellum. Broad-margined. Light foxing and minor cosmetic...

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Philobiblon Richardi Dunelmensis sive De amore librorum, et institutione bibliothecæ, tractatus...

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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C. Iulii Caesaris Rerum ab se gestarum commentarii. De bello Gallico libri VIII. De bello civili...

C. Iulii Caesaris Rerum ab se gestarum commentarii. De bello Gallico libri VIII. De bello civili Pompeiano libri III. De bello Alexandrino liber I. De bello Africo liber I. De bello Hispaniensi liber I. Ex vetustiss. scriptis codicibus emendatiores. [Bound with:] Eutropius: Epitome belli Gallici ex Suetonii Tranqulli monumentis.

Paris: ex officina Rob. Stephani, 1544.

Price: $4,500.00

Bound in 16th c. paneled calfskin with gilt fleurs-de-lis. Some wear to the spine and extremities. Rear upper joint starting. The text is in excellent condition throughout. With 2 different versions of Robert Estienne’s woodcut device on the title-pages. The Caesar is illustrated with 2 double-paged woodcut maps (of France...

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Opus Martiani. Capellae de Nuptiis Philologiae & Mercurii libri duo. De Grammatica. Liber....

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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De subtilitate libri XXI. nunc demum recogniti atque perfecti. Girolamo Cardano

De subtilitate libri XXI. nunc demum recogniti atque perfecti.

Basel: L. Lucius, 1554.

Price: $7,500.00

Bound in early 19th c. mottled calf, rubbed and worn at extremities, front joint cracked. 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 on verso...

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De institutis coenobiorum – Collationes patrum XXIV. Johannes Cassianus, c

De institutis coenobiorum – Collationes patrum XXIV.

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...

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C. Valerii Catulli...Liber I. Alb. Tibulli Equitis Romani libri IIII. Sex Aurelii Propertii umbri...

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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Catullus. Tibullus. Propertius. Gaius Valerius Catullus, Tibullus, Sextus Propertius, Ca....

Catullus. Tibullus. Propertius.

Venice: In aedibvs Aldi, et Andreæ soceri, 1515.

Price: $10,500.00

Bound in contemporary blind-tooled black morocco, probably Venetian, small repairs to the spine, endpapers dyed red. A fine, crisp copy with some light damp-staining to the lower margin of some signatures.The important second Aldine edition of the poems of Catullus, Tibullus and Propertius, co-edited by Girolamo Avanzi (fl. 1500.) and...

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Antiquarum statuarum urbis Romae primus et secundus liber. Ludouico Madrucio S.R.E. Card...

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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Descritione della pompa funerale fatta nelle essequie del Ser.mo Sig. Cosimo de’ Medici Gran...

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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The Workes of Geffrey Chaucer, newlie printed, with divers addicions, whiche were never in print...

The Workes of Geffrey Chaucer, newlie printed, with divers addicions, whiche were never in print before: With the siege and destruccion of the worthy Citee of Thebes, compiled by Jhon Lidgate, Monke of Berie. As in the table more plainly doeth appere.

London: John Kyngston for John Wight, 1561.

Price: $68,000.00

This is the first of three variants, illustrated with 3 woodcut title borders, woodcut initials and ornaments, and 22 woodcut illustrations that do not appear in the other variants. A fine copy bound in later calf incorporating the original blind-tooled English calfskin boards. Title laid down and slightly frayed at edges...

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An Authentic Detail of Particulars relative to the Late Duchess of Kingston. Elizabeth Chudleigh, c

An Authentic Detail of Particulars relative to the Late Duchess of Kingston.

London: Printed for G. Kearsley, at Johnson’s Head, No. 46, Fleet-Street, 1788.

Price: $3,800.00

Bound in contemporary polished blonde calf with a gilded spine. A fine copy, the binding a little rubbed and with the faintest cracking to the leather of the upper hinge. The contents are in nearly pristine condition with broad margins. The engraved frontispiece memorializes the Duchess’ scandalous appearance at a....

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Poems on several occasions. Together with The song of the three children paraphras’d. By the...

Poems on several occasions. Together with The song of the three children paraphras’d. By the Lady Chudleigh

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...

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Ordo Officii Divini Recitandi juxta Ritum Breviarii Romani pro Anno Bissextili M.DC.LXXXIV. Cum...

Ordo Officii Divini Recitandi juxta Ritum Breviarii Romani pro Anno Bissextili M.DC.LXXXIV. Cum annotatione colorum, quibus Eminentiss. et Reverendiss. Domini Cardinales Romae degentes in vestibus, et Cappis Pontificalibus utuntur; Ac etiam Cappellarum, quae infra annum celebrantur.

Rome: ex Typographia Rever. Cam. Apost. 1684.

Price: $3,500.00

Extremely rare. OCLC, KVK, and VD17 locate 2 copies worldwide: Biblioteca Vallicelliana (Rome) and Museum Plantin Moretus (Antwerp). All editions of the Ordo for Rome are extremely rare.This is an extremely rare Vatican “Directorium”, the yearly calendar of the Church of Rome, published for the leap year 1684, during the...

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M.T. Ciceronis Opera. Ex Petri Victorii codicibus maxima ex parte descripta, viri docti et in...

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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The Plea for Infants and Elder People, concerning their Baptisme. Or a processe of the passages...

The Plea for Infants and Elder People, concerning their Baptisme. Or a processe of the passages between M. John Smyth and Richard Clyfton: wherein, first is proved, that the baptising of Infants of beleevers, is an ordinance of God. Secondly, that the rebaptising of such, as have been formerly baptised in the Apostate Churches of Christians, is utterly unlawful

Amsterdam: Gyles Thorp, 1610.

Price: $9,800.00

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...

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