Ulm: Johann Zainer, 29 January, 1480.
Price: $95,000.00
An excellent copy, with noble provenance, of this magnificent Bible. A very large, impressive copy, with broad margins, preserving numerous deckled edges. The quires are numbered in a contemporary hand, in red ink, at the foot of leaves. The stub for the canceled blank leaf ll3 (the conjugate of leaf...
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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...
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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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: $4,900.00
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...
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...
Basel: Johann Bergmann de Olpe, 1 March, 1498.
Price: $60,000.00
Illustrated with the original woodcuts of the first German edition (1494), of which the majority (73) are often attributed to Albrecht Dürer. Bound in 18th c. blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, soiled, clasps intact, edges minor repairs. A nice, unpressed copy with a small defect to the title woodcut, only...
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...
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....
Antwerp: S. Cocus, 1541.
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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...
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...
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...
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: L. Lucius, 1554.
Price: $7,500.00
Bound in early 19th c. mottled calf, rubbed and worn at extremities, expertly re-backed by Byzantium. 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...
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...
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...
[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...
London: John Kyngston for John Wight, 1561.
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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...
London: Printed for G. Kearsley, at Johnson’s Head, No. 46, Fleet-Street, 1788.
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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....
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: $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...
Paris: [Jean Le Blanc] Pour Jaques Kerver à la Licorne, rue S. Jaques, 1561.
Price: $45,000.00
Bound in 16th c. French calfskin, rebacked, discreet repairs to corners, some minor scuffs and scrapes. The boards are ruled in blind, with small floral tools, gilt, at the angles, and a central cartouche, gilt, at the center of the boards. Additional blind-tooling was added at the time of rebacking...
