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]...

Rome: Apud F. Zannettum, 1585.

Price: $5,500.00

Bound in contemporary vellum. A fine, fresh copy with small, discreet repairs to the inner margin of the first leaf and the outer blank margin of another. Light toning to a couple of signatures otherwise bright and crisp.Maffei, author of the influential history of the Jesuit missions in Asia, wrote...

Providence: Printed and sold, wholesale and retail, by John Carter, at the Post-Office, at Shakespeare’s Head, near the State-House, (1786), 1786.

Price: $600.00

Stitched. Soiled and stained.Erroneously attributed by Evans to Benjamin West. The actual calculator appears to be Nathan Daboll. The eclipse predictions are nearly identical with those in The New England almanack and gentlemen and ladies diary for 1787 (New London), calculated by Daboll under the pseudonym of Edmund Freebetter. The astronomical and horological notes...

Zaragoza: En Caragoça por Angelo Tauano, 1599.

Price: $6,900.00

Contemporary vellum, lightly worn. Text very good w. occ. light toning, sig. c lightly browned, small hole in leaf K11, worming in gutter of 4 lvs., not affecting text, occ. mild stains. Type-ruled throughout. Woodcut of the Virgin Mary on lvs. B9 and C9, Jesuit emblem on leaf C 10...

Ingolstadt, David Sartorius, 1592.

Price: $11,500.00

Woodcut device of the Society of Jesus on the titlepage and a typographical ornament at the end. Contemporary limp vellum binding made of a vellum leaf from a printed missal (small tear to spine, vellum curled and lightly soiled.) A nice copy with a little light foxing, mild wear to...

Amsterdam: Apud Jacobum a Meurs, in fossa vulgo de Keyfersgracht, 1667.

Price: $16,000.00

Complete with the engraved title page, a full-paged portrait of Kircher, 2 large folding engraved maps of China, 59 text engravings, and 23 full-paged engravings (one of which is a large folding reproduction of the "Nestorian Stele"), including some executed by the artist Willem van der Laegh. A nice copy...

Kempten: Per Rudolphum Dreherr, 1673.

Price: $18,000.00

Bound in contemporary pigskin over wooden boards, with intact clasps. An extremely fine copy, bright and crisp throughout with the most minor of faults: engraved t.p. very slightly shaved at outer edge, occ. very light marginal dampstains, a few marginal spots on leaf C4. Truly excellent.The “Phonurgia” is illustrated with...

Mainz: Johann Schöffer, 2 April (“Uff Mitfasten”), 1508.

Price: $37,500.00

Bound in fine blue morocco by the Belgian binder Charles De Samblanx (1855-1943), boards richly tooled in gold, framed by three fillets and stippling. With a large central ornament and further ornaments at the corners. Fine red morocco doublures, also richly tooled in gold. Spine ruled and tooled in gold...

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...

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...

Oxford: by Ioseph Barnes for R[ichard] H[aydock], 1598.

Price: $25,000.00

Bound in contemporary English calfskin, boards gouged, extremities worn, defects to head and foot of spine. An unusually nice copy of a book almost always found in deplorable condition. The faults of this copy are largely cosmetic: light damp-staining to opening and final signatures, occ. small blemishes, a few lvs...