Madrid: Se vende en la Farmacia Homeopática…. De la Señora Viuda del doctor Somolinos Real Academia Nacional de Medicina, 1887.

Price: $3,900.00

Bound in a contemporary wallet binding, modified to hold medicine. A rare, complete set comprising a Spanish homeopathy handbook for families together with homeopathic remedies prepared by the Solominos pharmacy of Madrid, the first homeopathic pharmacy in Spain.A fascinating witness to the diffusion and implementation of Hahnemann's theories. Inside the...

[Augsburg: Günther Zainer,] c., 1477.

Price: $20,000.00

Bound in contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, the brass clasp with catch-plate preserved. An original title on label on upper board is preserved, with slight loss. The binding has been rebacked and has some other minor restorations; the lower boards is a bit wormed, the upper hinge is cracked...

Mainz: Johann Schöffer, 1524.

Price: $15,000.00

Bound in 20th c. green morocco with gilt turn-ins. A fine copy, a.e.g., with a fine woodcut title border, woodcut initials, and occ. contemporary annotations. The title border incorporates Schöffer's coat of arms (see Johnson no. 62 and Pflugk-Harttung no. 52).Ulrich von Hutten's famous work on the treatment of syphilis...

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: Vincenzo Mariotti, 1697.

Price: $3,500.00

Single sheet etching: 38 x 63 cm. First Issue. Signed in the lower margin “Vincentius Mariottus Romanus delin. et sculpsit Romae, Cum superiorum Facultate” and, in the image, along the base of the pedestal, “Andreas Puteus Soc. Iesu Pictor et Architectus inv. an. 1693” and higher up, “Io. Baps Gaullus...

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, re-backed and...

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...

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...