Basel: and Strasbourg: and Paris: Io. Froben, and Excusum per Renatu[m] Beck in aedibus zum Thiergarten, and Jean Petit, In vico Sancti Iacobi, 1515 and 1515 and, 1513.

Price: $20,500.00

Bound in contemporary, quarter alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards with working clasps and catches. The pigskin is tooled in blind with repeating vines and floral rolls. The text and binding are beautifully preserved. The contents are fresh and bright, with wide margins and a number of deckled edges. Excellent. The...

Frankfurt: Johann David Zunner, 1684.

Price: $6,800.00

Complete with the engraved title page, which has been folded at the bottom to avoid trimming by the binder. Bound in 18th c. quarter vellum and marbled boards with some minor wear. The contents are in very fine condition. Small adhesion scar to title. Illustrated with 41 large woodcuts."Ercker's treatise...

Cambridge: Ex officinâ Johan. Hayes, celeberrimæ Academiæ typographi. Impensis Richardi Green bibliopolæ Cantab. 1694.

Price: $2,500.00

Bound in contemporary English calf, rebacked preserving the original spine. The boards are blind-ruled in compartments; there is an attractive red morocco lettering piece, gilt, on the spine. Aside from light wear and bumping to the corners, the binding is very well preserved. Internally, this copy is in excellent condition...

Florence: nella Stamperia di S.A.R. Per li Tartini, e Franchi, 1725.

Price: $3,200.00

Bound in contemporary stiff vellum, edges of text-block sprinkled red. A very fine copy, printed on thick paper. The large, folding plate of the catafalque (51 x 35 cm.) is also in fine condition.An account of the funeral ceremonies for Cosimo III de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 30...

Paris: Impensis Gerardi Morrhij & Ioannis Petri, 1532.

Price: $35,000.00

Bound in near-contemporary vellum, worn at corners, damage to upper, rear corner, rebacked at an early date. Overall a fine, broad-margined copy with minor cosmetic faults as follows: Title slightly shaved at head; conjugates D1/8, E1/8, and Cc1/6 browned; Damp-stain in margin of sigs R-T, and gutter of sig. N;...

Boston: Printed by [Gamaliel] Rogers and [Daniel] Fowle, for N[athanael]. Procter at the Bible and Dove in Ann-Street, 1744.

Price: $6,800.00

Bound in contemporary American calf, ruled in blind, over thin wooden boards (scuffed and with wear to extremities). Very good internally with a few minor stains, a couple of marginal tears and a longer tear entering the text on leaf F5 (no loss.) Provenance: with the contemporary ownership inscription, “Joseph...

London: A. Islip, Joice Norton, and R. Whitaker, 1633.

Price: $10,500.00

With an engraved title by John Payne and over 2,000 woodcuts of plants throughout the text. This is a fine copy, very clean, with the engraved title page in very good condition (only a little marginal soiling.) Bound in 17th c. English mottled calfskin with discreet repairs. With the original...

London: printed for Dan. Brown at the Black Swan without Temple-Bar; Tho. Bennet at the Half-Moon, D. Midwinter and Tho. Leigh at the Rose and Crown, and R. Wilkin at the King’s-Head in St. Paul’s Church-yard, 1699.

Price: $6,850.00

Bound in contemporary English paneled calf, rebacked. Very fine condition. Two plates lightly browned, marginal foxing to a few leaves. Illustrated with 9 engraved plates of glass-making furnaces, tools, crucibles, and other apparatus.The core of Blancourt's text is Christopher Merret's annotated Latin edition (1668) of Antonio Neri's "L'Arte Vetraria"(1612). Merret...

London: printed by W. Rawlins, for the Author, 1682.

Price: $15,000.00

A VERY FINE, LARGE PAPER COPY. Illustrated with eighty-three engraved plates, five of which are double-paged. This copy is bound in contemporary, mottled calf (some abrasions to boards, joints rubbed, small losses at head and foot of spine), spine ornately tooled in gold. Internally, this copy is in fine condition...

London: Printed by William Iones, for Iames Bowler, and are to be sold at the Marigold in Pauls Church-yard, 1636.

Price: $9,500.00

Bound in contemporary blind-ruled calf, nicely rebacked and re-sewn. Light wear to edges. A clean copy, complete with the inserted slips. Small, light ink spot on engraved title. One leaf dusty. Numerous woodcut diagrams and instruments in the text. The engraved instrument bound after the engraved title has the advertisement...

London: in Flete Streete By Thomas Povvell, 1556.

Price: $52,000.00

Bound in fine in 19th-century red morocco tooled in a cottage style, richly gilt, with red silk doublures. This is a fine, clean, and complete copy of a book rarely encountered in such condition. A small section of the upper part of the title page has been restored in pen...

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.

[Ulm: Conrad Dinckmut,] c., 1488.

Price: $19,000.00

A large copy bound in contemporary Augsburg blindstamped calf over wooden boards [Kyriss 81, EBDB w002144], title tooled on upper board, author’s name inscribed on fore-edge, label on upper board. The binding is a little worn, with a few wormholes, some leather missing from spine, lacking clasps. An early printed...