The Hague: Adrian Vlacq, 1659.
Price: $125,000.00
[Bound with:] De circuli magnitudine inventa. Accedunt eiusdem problematum quorundam illustrium constructiones. Leiden: Elzevir, 1654 Quarto: II. (8), 71, (1) p. Collation: *4, A-I4 FIRST EDITION of Huygens' landmark work on Saturn bound with the FIRST EDITION of Huygens’ work on the quadrature of the...
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Strasbourg: Johann Knobloch, 1516.
Price: $10,500.00
[Bound with]: Erasmus, Desiderius (1466?-1536) De duplici copia, verborum ac rerum commentarij duo. Ab authore ipso diligentissime recogniti & emaculati, atque in plerisque locis aucti. ... ; Item Epistola Erasmi Roterodami ad Iacobum Vuimphelingium Selestatinum. Strasbourg: Mathias Schürer, October 1516 [And]: Hutten, Ulrich von...
Rome: Collegio Societatis Jesu, 1596.
Price: $16,000.00
Jesuit emblem on title-page, wood-cut initials throughout. A very good copy of this rare edition. Small area of corrosion at head of the title page, not affecting text, as the result of an early ink inscription. Contents with scattered foxing and occasional light damp-stains and a few ink spots. Bound...
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...
N.p., [Rome]: n.p. [Johann Beplin], n.d., 1512.
Price: $16,000.00
Place, printer, and proposed date from Adams and CNCE. The author’s letter to the reader is dated 31 August, 1512 (“Pridie kal. Septembris M.D.XII.”). Modern limp vellum. A fresh copy with good margins and just a little light staining, the large 4-part woodcut title page border untrimmed. The white-on-black title...
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: 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: 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...
Mainz: Johann Schöffer, 2 April (“Uff Mitfasten”), 1508.
Price: $26,000.00
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...
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...
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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...
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...
Augsburg: Melchior Ramminger, 1523.
Price: $5,500.00
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...
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...
Wittenberg: [Georg Rhau], 1540.
Price: $26,000.00
[Bound with]: Luther, Martin (1483-1546); Spangenberg, Johann (1484-1550) Der Gros Catechismus und Kinder Lere. Fur die jungen Christen, jnn Fragestücke verfasset, Durch Iohan. Spangenberg. [edited by Johann Spangenberg] Wittenberg, G. Rhau, 1541 Octavo: I. Octavo: [8], CLXXXVIII lvs. Collation: A-Z8, a-b4; II. [12], 259, [1] lvs. Final leaf blank. Collation: A8, *4, B-Z8; a-k8...
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Augsburg: Silvan Otmar, 1519.
Price: $4,500.00
Bound in modern patterned paper over thin boards. V. light soiling, lower margin cut a bit close. Attractive woodcut border on title.An important, early work by Luther, written at a crucial moment in his confrontation with the Rome, that showcases his evolving ideas on such diverse matters as indulgences and...
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...
Wittenberg: Hans Lufft, 1531.
Price: $3,800.00
Bound in modern paste-paper stiff wrappers. With a fine historiated woodcut border (Luther, TE 34). Lower edge cut irregularly. Finger-soiling to lower margin of t.p. Last leaf with traces of folds and wax seal remnant. With a contemporary gift inscription by an unknown person to the humanist, poet and pedagogue...
Wittenberg: Cranach and Döring, 1524.
Price: $5,500.00
Bound in marbled boards. With an excellent woodcut title page by Lucas Cranach (Luther 43c), cut from a single block, with putti, cornucopiae, architectural motifs and stags. A good copy, light soiling, a few stains.First edition of Luther’s response to the growing danger posed by the radical preacher Thomas Münzer...
[Erfurt: Stürmer], 1523.
Price: $4,500.00
Modern boards with a stamped Luther rose. With a narrow woodcut title border. A very fresh, clean copy, with an intricate title page border. All printings are rare.Luther wrote this letter in August 1522 to Hans von Rechenberg, a strong supporter of the Reformation and a man who distinguished himself...
[Bamberg: Georg Erlinger], 1523.
Price: $4,500.00
An excellent, clean copy with broad margins. Bound in modern speckled boards. With a fine woodcut title page border.As with many aspects of Church ritual and practice, Luther perceived the liturgy to have been corrupted and in need of serious reform. “Three great and serious misuses have entered into divine...
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:]: [Antonio Salamanca?], ca. 1540.
Price: $2,800.00
Monogram “SR” engraved at foot of plate, beneath the inscription. Possibly printed by Antonio Salamanca, who reprinted many works by Dente, who perished in the Sack of Rome in 1527. The composition reproduces a bas relief sculpture and thus, the upper part of the composition is curved, Trimmed within the...
