London: Adam Islip, 1600.

Price: $16,000.00

This is a fine copy in its original binding of contemporary mottled calf, age-worn, with skillful repairs to the hinges and extremities. The contents are in excellent condition with wide margins and only some light marginal damp-staining towards the end of the volume. A woodcut portrait of Queen Elizabeth is...

Wittenberg: Melchior Lotter, 1521.

Price: $5,600.00

Modern marbled boards, vellum spine and corners. A fine copy with contemporary marginalia in red and black. Provenance: Alain Moirandat, Switzerland.Luther wrote his “The Magnificat Translated into German and Explained” in two parts, the first composed before his appearance at the Diet of Worms and the second part while he...

Basel: Adam Petri, 1519.

Price: $3,800.00

Modern marbled wrappers. Lightly damp-stainned, a few sidenotes shaved. With an ornamental woodcut title border.A German translation, attributed to Spalatin, of an early Latin work by Luther on confession. In 1518 Spalatin had requested that Luther write a short instruction on how to confess. Luther sent him a Latin version of...

Frankfurt: Cyriacus Jacob, 1543.

Price: $8,500.00

Bound in 20th c. quarter vellum and speckled paper boards. Light toning, small stain on title, ink stain on leaf E4, tiniest worm-trail in gutter of a few quires, a small wrinkle in the blank iiner margin to the later gatherings. With a woodcut title border of two pilasters of...

Rome: Valerio and Luigi Dorico, 1544.

Price: $15,000.00

This is an exceptionally large copy, with none of the usual trimming to the oversized woodcuts that illustrate the volume. It is one of the two largest copies that I have handled. Bound in contemporary limp vellum, laced through with the original rawhide sewing supports intact. The binding is entirely...

London: Printed by I.B. for Nicholas Vavasour, and are to be sold at his Shop in the Inner Temple, neere the Church, 1633.

Price: $225,000.00

Bound in modern full dark brown morocco circa 1984, in a custom box. A fine copy, lightly washed, unpressed, the paper preserving its rattle. All edges gilt. Provenance: Ximenes (sold 1993), with receipt and scan of a note from Steve Weissman regarding the sale."Although written about 1589 and entered in...

London: printed by E[dward]. G[riffin]. for Iohn Waterson, and are to be sold at his shop, at the signe of the Crowne, in S. Pauls Church-yard, 1639.

Price: $11,000.00

The Hoe copy. Contents fine with a few light stains. With a printer's ornament on title, woodcut headpieces and decorative initials in the text. Bound in 19th-century green morocco, gilt arms of noted Shakespeare collector Frederick Perkins (1780-1860) on boards, gilt-lettered on spine, all edges gilt. Bookplates of Robert Hoe...

London: printed by W.D. for Michael Johnson, Bookseller in Lichfield: And are to be Sold by R. Clavel, and S. Smith; at the Peacock and Feathers in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1687, 1690.

Price: $5,800.00

Fine copies. Bound in contemporary English speckled calf, paneled in blind, edges speckled red, red morocco title labels on each spine, some gatherings at end of vol. 2 partially unopened, (a few leaves with margins dust-soiled, a few water stains). Errata and ad leaf bound in the middle of the...

Tübingen, Ulrich Morhart the Elder, June, 1523.

Price: $7,600.00

Three works bound in contemporary alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards, ruled and stamped in blind, both clasps intact, with light stains and smudges. The text is in excellent, crisp condition, the last three leaves with a slim worm trail affecting a couple of words on each leaf. Contemporary manuscript index...

Amsterdam: Jacob de Meurs, 1680.

Price: $16,000.00

Bound in seventeenth-century calf. Illustrated with an added engraved title page, 1 engraved folding map, 25 double-paged engraved views, and 71 text engravings. The main title is printed in red and black with an engraved vignette. The second part of the work is introduced by a divisional title page: "Ambassade...

NAPLES: IGNAZIO RUSSO, 1753.

Price: $1,500.00

Bound in contemporary vellum over boards. Foxing. Complete with the 15 engraved plates.Little is known of the author other than that he wrote another book on navigation in 1750. This work on the sector was translated into Spanish in 1758.By the time this book was published, the design of the...

Venice: Lucio Spineda, 1628.

Price: $12,000.00

Contemporary limp vellum in fine condition (paste-down torn). The text is in excellent condition with a few instances of light toning (in gatherings O, S, and X), and a small worm-track in the margin of the first few lvs. The text is illustrated with woodcut diagrams. An extremely rare book...

Venice: Appresso gli Heredi di Marchio Sessa, 1578.

Price: $5,500.00

A fair, complete copy in 17th c. vellum (vellum lightly soiled, lower cover stained, small defect to spine). The contents are in overall good condition, with light to moderate soiling and exhibiting the wear common to these utilitarian publications. There are careful restorations to the outer margin of the title...