[Strasbourg: Johann Schott], 1521.
Price: $6,500.00
Modern boards. With a small title woodcut of Hutten in armor by Hans Baldung Grien. Fine copy, light dampstain to upper inner corner of a few lvs., small tear to one corner, far from text.Sole edition of these new satiric dialogues. In the “Bull or Bull Killer”, Hutten satirizes Leo...
Mainz: Johann Schöffer, 1520.
Price: $5,900.00
Modern marbled boards, light wear. With a title page allegorical woodcut of Fortuna (Fairfax Murray 215). A nice copy, broad-margined (with a few deckled edge) and printed on heavy paper, title a little dusty, small burn hole toward the gutter to four lvs. slightly affecting text (one or two letters)...
Strasbourg: Vuolphgangus Caephalaeus, 1534.
Price: $6,500.00
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] are 268 in number, commencing with Julius Caesar and ending with Frederick III, Maximilian I and his son Philip the Fair, Charles V and Ferdinand...
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]...
Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 14 October, 1482.
Price: $35,000.00
Illustrated with 47 half-page woodcuts of the constellations and the planets personified. The text of Hyginus was first published in an unillustrated edition in Ferrara in 1475. A very good copy in 18th c. stiff vellum. The initial blank is soiled and stained. Light stains to top of second leaf...
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...
Venice: Presso Combi, & La Noù. 1672.
Price: $18,000.00
The text is illustrated with 127 woodcuts of gems and minerals, plants, animals, and a folding, double-paged scene of the museum’s interior. Mortimer (Harvard Italian 240) notes that Manzi (Stigliola, p. xiv) suggests Mario Cartaro as the artist of these blocks. This copy is bound in contemporary calf, rebacked. This...
Venice: Presso Combi, & La Noù. 1672.
Price: $20,000.00
The text is illustrated with 127 woodcuts of gems and minerals, plants, animals, and a folding, double-paged scene of the museum’s interior. Mortimer (Harvard Italian 240) notes that Manzi (Stigliola, p. xiv) suggests Mario Cartaro as the artist of these blocks. This copy is bound in contemporary calf, rebacked. This...
Rome: Angelo Bernabo del Verme, 1661.
Price: $2,500.00
Bound in 19th c. quarter vellum and marbled boards, repairs to spine. A very good copy, sigs. R-S and V-X browned. Early inscription on title. Marbled edges.Giacinto de Magistris, an Italian Jesuit, worked in India for twenty years before returning to Rome in 1660. From 1644 to 1659 he acted...
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....
Venice: Appreso I Gioliti, 1585.
Price: $8,500.00
Bound in modern cartoncino. A very good copy with some minor repairs, lightly washed. With a fine woodcut headpiece and Jesuit emblem on the title page and numerous decorative head- and tailpieces and initials, including one of a dragon, throughout.This collection contains the following letters from the Jesuit missions in...
[Basel:]: [Andreas Cratander], 1521.
Price: $6,500.00
A fine, fresh copy with broad margins, in modern marbled wrappers. Title-page with the woodcut “Indian border”, dated 1519.Karlstadt’s controversial critique of monasticism and his condemnation of clerical celibacy. In many instances and on many important matters, Karlstadt’s work and actions anticipate those of Luther (although the political and theological...
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...
Amsterdam: apud Joannem Janssonium à Waesberge & Elizeum Weyerstraet, 1667.
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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. This is an...
Kempten: Per Rudolphum Dreherr, 1673.
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A fine copy in near-contemporary stiff vellum (small defects to spine.) Internally, this copy is in fine condition with only minor cosmetic blemishes (occasional spots or marginal foxing. Half-title lightly soiled). Overall crisp and bright.The “Phonurgia” is illustrated with an added engraved allegorical title by G. And. Wolfgang after Felix...
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...
Graz: Typis Haeredum Widmanstadii, 1740.
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Bound in contemporary calf, minor wear and small loss to leather at foot of spine. The text is in fine condition with occasional faint spotting.Originally published in 1658, 7 years before Hooke's "Micrographia" appeared in print, Kircher's work on the plague and its causes was a landmark work on the...
Amsterdam: Jansson-Waesberg, 1676.
Price: $22,000.00
Complete with all of the plates including the portrait of Kircher and the iconic view of his museum. A fine sammelband. Bound in attractive 17th c. calfskin. The "Sphinx" exhibits the usual browning. The "Musaeum" is in very fine condition with just some closed tears (no loss whatsoever) to some...
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...
Bologna: Per Giacomo Monti, 1677.
Price: $20,000.00
A very clean copy on heavy paper, bound in contemporary speckled calfskin over boards, the spine richly tooled in gold (light wear, corners bumped, small tear to the leather at the head of the spine.) This copy is printed on heavy, bright paper. There are a few small wormtrails, one...
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...
Amsterdam: Sumptibus Andreae Frisii, 1665.
Price: $9,500.00
The book is introduced by a fantastic engraved title page populated by monsters. The text is illustrated with 73 half and quarter-page engravings of monsters –deformed humans and animals, as well as fantastic, monstrous hybrids of the both. This is the first edition to include Gerard Blasius’ "Appendix of new...
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...
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...
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...
