![Item #4529 [The Decameron.] The Modell of Wit, Mirth, Eloquence, and Conversation. Giovanni...](/pictures/medium/4529.jpg?v=1674696015)
London: Printed by Isaac Jaggard, for Mathew Lownes, 1625 and, 1620.
Price: $22,500.00
Bound in contemporary English calf ruled in blind, neatly rebacked retaining the original spine, corners mended, later end-leaves. A crisp copy with minor scattered stains and clean tears (no loss). Light ink stain to first title, light dampstain to lower blank margin of first two gatherings, slight chipping to lower...
![Item #3241 Boetius de Consolationae [sic] Philosophiæ. The boke of Boecius, called the comforte...](/pictures/medium/3241.jpg?v=1614007264)
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...
Leiden: Joannes Maire, 1647.
Price: $4,500.00
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;...
London: John Haviland, 1638.
Price: $15,000.00
A COMPLETE COPY with the often-missing engraved frontispiece by William Marshall. Bound in late 19th c. tan morocco, gilt edges and turn-ins. A very good copy, washed and pressed, contents lightly toned, engraved t.p. soiled and with slightly ragged fore-edge, discreet restoration to printed t.p. Leaves X7-8 trimmed close at...
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...
Basel: Per Nicolaum Bryling, 1561.
Price: $5,500.00
Bound in a signed and dated (L.SZ. 1563) contemporary panel-stamped tanned sheepskin, lacking ties, ruled in compartments and richly tooled with decorative rolls with vines and two panel stamps. The binding has suffered some surface abrasions and moderate wear; the corners are bumped.Panel-stamped tanned sheepskin bindings are very rare. Such...
London: Willyam Seres, 1565.
Price: $25,000.00
A copy with numerous points of interest, bound in contemporary English calf (worn, rebacked preserving most of the original spine, wear with loss to the leather at three corners), the boards ruled in blind and with large central blind-stamped lozenge with vegetal motifs. The text, resewn at the time of...
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: [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...
[Lima: no printer, no date], 1757.
Price: $10,500.00
Bound in contemporary limp vellum, lightly soiled, lacking ties. Blurred stamp to free endpaper, private library bookplate on pastedown. A very fine copy on bright paper with just a few trivial blemishes. The folding plate is in fine condition, with a few creases and a closed tear, the printing 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...
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...
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...
Venice: a Philippo Pincio Mantuano Impressae, 27 September, 1510.
Price: $7,400.00
A fine copy bound in contemporary wooden boards (corners chipped) with later blind-ruled half-calf calf, with leather straps, catch-plates, and clasps preserved (one clasp defective). A broad-margined, bright copy with minor blemishes: title page lightly stained, light marginal dampstain to outer margin of opening and final gathering, a few pin-prick...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
