Augsburg: Silvan Otmar, 11 June, 1523.
Price: $125,000.00
A very early edition of Luther’s December Testament, appearing within six months of the first (Wittenberg, December 1522). With a large title woodcut by Hans Schäufelein, 25 large historiated woodcut initials (numerous repeats) with scenes of the Evangelists writing the Gospels, Paul writing the Epistles, and John writing the Book...
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...
[Nuremberg]: n.p., ca. 1560.
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Bound in modern paste-paper wrappers. Lightly browned, title slightly stained, a few marginal tears, some repaired, without loss of text. Large title page woodcut illustrating the text (see below.).The Bohemian Brethren are a pacifist sect, established in eastern Bohemia sometime in 1457 or 1458, that emerged from the Hussite movement...
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...
Oxford: printed by W[illiam]. Hall for R[ichard]. Davis, 1666.
Price: $7,400.00
A fine copy in contemporary blind-ruled calfskin, front joint strengthened. Contents crisp with the only faults being: edges of imprimatur leaf and head of t.p. lightly browned, tiny tear to leaf D4 affecting the catchword, N1 with small burn hole. The three folding plates are in excellent condition. Provenance: 18th...
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.
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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.
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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....
London: printed by S.R. for R. Clavel, at the Peacock at the west end of S. Pauls, 1678.
Price: $4,900.00
A good copy with mild soiling and occ. small stains, complete with the portrait by R. White and all five plates. Bound in contemporary paneled calf, rebacked, bound a bit tight, corners worn. Portrait leaf deftly re-margined (very slight loss to the lower corner of the plate), small rust hole...
Rome: Antonio Salamanca, 1554.
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Paper with watermark "hammer and anvil in the circle". A fine, broad-margined impression. PROVENANCE: Three early stamps on the verso, two of them from the Kupferstichkabinet Berlin (Lugt 1606), the second of which identifies the print as a duplicate (Lugt 2482). The third stamp (Lugt 1672) is that of the...
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...
[Florence:]: 1608.
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Stab-stitched in early wrappers. Preserved in a modern folding case. A fine, unsophisticated set. Upper wrapper with creasing and small tears. First leaves with light soiling (more heavily at lower, blank right corner) and light foxing to the margins; lighter soiling and occ. mild stains to margins of the other...
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...
Brescia: Boninus de Boninis, de Ragusia, 1485-, 1486.
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Bound in modern blind-ruled calf. A very fine, broad-margined copy on thick, bright paper with only a few instances of light foxing, a few lightly toned leaves, and a few very light spots. Occasional underscores and a couple of annotations in a contemporary hand. On the fourth leaf there is...
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.
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Bound in contemporary blind-tooled black morocco, probably Venetian, small repairs to the spine, endpapers dyed red, re-cased, possibly a remboîtage. 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...
[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...
Modena: per Bartolomeo Soliani, 1711.
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Bound in contemporary carta rustica (soiled, worn at extremities). A large, crisp, copy with minor blemishes (title lightly soiled and with small worm trace in blank upper margin, occ. light foxing to upper blank margin of a few leaves, final leaf verso with light stains.) The very large plate, composed...
