Madrid: Se vende en la Farmacia Homeopática…. De la Señora Viuda del doctor Somolinos Real Academia Nacional de Medicina, 1887.

Price: $3,900.00

Bound in a contemporary wallet binding, modified to hold medicine. A rare, complete set comprising a Spanish homeopathy handbook for families together with homeopathic remedies prepared by the Solominos pharmacy of Madrid, the first homeopathic pharmacy in Spain.A fascinating witness to the diffusion and implementation of Hahnemann's theories. Inside the...

Venice: In aedibus Aldi et Andreae Asulani Soceri, April, 1524.

Price: $24,500.00

Two octavo volumes bound in 19th c. blue calf, gilt. With the Aldine anchor and dolphin device (A6) on the title page and the verso of the final leaf in each volume. Fine copies. A few marginal wormholes.This edition reprints Aldus’ letter to Girolamo Aleandro from the first Aldine edition.

Stuttgart: Hulsius, 1616.

Price: $20,000.00

A very rare festival book published by Esaias von Hulsen with etchings by Matthäus Merian the Elder to commemorate the baptism of Prince Friedrich (Dec. 1615-1682), son of Barbara Sophia of Brandenburg, Duchess of Württemberg (1584-1636) and Duke Johann Friedrich von Württemberg (1582-1628). A year later, similar celebrations were held...

Mainz: Johann Schöffer, 1524.

Price: $15,000.00

Bound in 20th c. green morocco with gilt turn-ins. A fine copy, a.e.g., with a fine woodcut title border, woodcut initials, and occ. contemporary annotations. The title border incorporates Schöffer's coat of arms (see Johnson no. 62 and Pflugk-Harttung no. 52).Ulrich von Hutten's famous work on the treatment of syphilis...

Strasbourg: Vuolphgangus Caephalaeus, 1534.

Price: $4,500.00

A nice copy with only the occasional minor stain or dust-soiling. Wide margins. Contemporary stiff vellum, a bit soiled, head and tail of spine nicely repaired.This volume is profusely illustrated with several hundred woodcut images, most of which are by Hans Weiditz. "The medallions of the emperors [and their families]...

Douai: Jean Bogard, 1586.

Price: $10,500.00

Bound in contemporary vellum, lightly soiled, re-cased but binding original. Title page dusty, a few blank corners a little frayed, occ. light soiling, corners slightly rounded. Clean tear (no loss) in blank margin of leaf G5. Woodcut Jesuit device on title. Woodcut floriated initials in the text.With the contemporary ex...

In Napoli: Nella Stamparia à Porta Reale per Costantino Vitale, 1599.

Price: $48,000.00

Bound in original limp vellum (minor defects to binding). The text is illustrated with 126 woodcuts of gems and minerals, plants, animals, and a folding, double-paged woodcut of Imperato’s private cabinet of curiosities. This is a fine, genuine copy. A handful of gatherings are foxed or lightly browned. A light...

Copenhagen: Joachim Schmetgen, 1696.

Price: $16,000.00

Bound in contemporary sprinkled calf, the spine tooled in blind, with light wear. The contents are in excellent condition with the faintest amount of staining. The plates are in fine condition.The Royal Danish Kunstkammer was founded by King Frederick III in 1650 and was continued by his son, Christian V....

Amsterdam: Jansson-Waesberg, 1678.

Price: $28,000.00

Bound in attractive 17th c. calfskin. A fine sammelband. The "Sphinx" exhibits the usual browning. The "Musaeum" is in very fine condition with just some closed tears (no loss whatsoever) to some of the folding plates, a small rust blemish on I1, small spot on H4, and light spotting to...

Padua: Apud Paulum Frambottum, 1634.

Price: $10,000.00

A fine copy in early 19th c. quarter calf and speckled boards, spine ruled in golf, with minor wear. The text is crisp, with only two small blemishes and a few very tiny (barely noticeable) pinprick wormholes. The impressions of the plates are rich and sharp. The engraving on leaf...

Strasbourg: [Bartholomaeus Kistler], after 31 Dec. 1499.

Price: $45,000.00

Further fifteenth-century editions were published in Latin, German, and Italian versions. This edition, printed by Kistler, is number 11 in Kurze’s census of editions in all languages (for the date, see the bib. notes at the end of this description). Illustrated with 46 woodcut illustrations in text, including large vignette...

London: Adam Islip, 1600.

Price: $20,000.00

This is a very fine copy in contemporary calfskin, ruled in gold, with decorative tools at the corners of the central compartment, and a fine arabesque at the center of the boards, gilt. Rebacked with original spine preserved, small defects. A very fine copy with minor smudges or inkspots (including...

Augsburg: Melchior Ramminger, 1523.

Price: $4,500.00

Modern boards. A fine copy with a beautiful four-part title page border, the lower register of which shows a stag hunt. There is also a small woodcut of the Virgin, balancing on the crescent moon, and holding the infant Christ.A sermon for Lichtmeß (Candlemas), the feast of the presentation of...