Basel: Adam Petri, 1519.
Price: $3,800.00
Modern marbled wrappers. Lightly damp-stained, a few side-notes 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 an der Oder: Friedrich Hartmann, 1597.
Price: $8,500.00
Bound in matching 17th c. stiff vellum, ruled in blind (covers slightly bowed, vellum lightly soiled, small split at head of rear hinge of Vol. I, 1 end-band loose). The contents are in overall excellent condition, with minor blemishes (Vol I: leaf D2 with small natural paper flaw affecting a....
Basel: Adam Petri, 1521.
Price: $8,500.00
Bound in modern blind-ruled vellum. A good if worn copy, contents soiled, especially the opening leaves; small tape repair to blank verso of title, one blank corner with small chip (not affecting the text), gatherings guarded in the gutter.One of Luther’s three landmark works of 1520, here in the original...
[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...
Basel: Henricus Petrus, 1557.
Price: $18,000.00
Bound in 17th c. English calf, rebacked in the 20th c. (wear to extremities, corners bumped, some light wear to boards. A very good copy with blemishes as follows: Light marginal staining to the lower corner and occasionally to the outer margin of the opening gatherings, scattered light foxing or...
Cologne: Opera et impensa Ioannis Soteris [Johann Soter], August, 1527.
Price: $5,500.00
Bound in attractive contemporary blind-stamped calfskin over thin wooden boards, with floral tools and rolls of urns. Text possibly re-cased. Somewhat later end-papers. Internally fine. Title page a little dusty, light marginal damp-stain in gathering t, small tear in inner margin of final leaf.The text is printed in italic, with...
Florence: Giunta, 1515.
Price: $6,500.00
A very nice copy in 18th c. vellum with a single blind-ruled fillet and a citron morocco label, gilt; edges of text-block stained red. The text is in very good condition with scattered light foxing, heavier to a few leaves. A few minor stains, wax seal remnant on final leaf...
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...
Rome: Valerio and Luigi Dorico, 1544.
Price: $18,000.00
Complete with the folding engraved map of Rome by Palatino (Frutaz 12). The often-lacking colophon leaf with the full-paged Pegasus printer’s device (Ascarelli fig. 24) is also present. This copy has features that will be of interest to the bibliographer. It has all of the points of the first issue...
![Item #4172 The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew [Ievv] of Malta. Christopher Marlowe](https://liberantiquus.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4172.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1621719250)
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: St. James's Palace, 7th June, 1556.
Price: $50,000.00
Blind-stamped paper seal and address panel on verso "To our right trustie wellbeloved Counsillor Lord Paget de Beaudesert...", docketed on verso: "for thabsentes... Quene marie to my Lorde for process xvi"A remarkable letter, signed by Mary Tudor as Queen, instructing Lord Paget as Keeper of the Privy Seal to send...
Berlin: Bey Ambros. Haude und Johann Carl Spener, 1755.
Price: $4,900.00
With 3 folding plates engraved by Nikolaus Friedrich Sauerbrey of the Prussian Academy of Sciences: Plate 1 illustrates the veins on the right side of the face, head, and neck, accompanied by over 310 annotations (inscribed: '[...] sculp. Mem: de l'Acad Tom vii'); Plates 2 and 3 show both sides...
London: Printed by Richard Badger, for Philemon Stephens and Christopher Meredith, 1630.
Price: $6,800.00
Bound in -rather worn- contemporary calf, rebacked and re-cornered, the corners rounded. Text in good condition, with variable browning and a little chipping to the edges of the title and final leaf; small paper flaw at corner of leaf M3, affecting a catchword. Provenance: 18th-century bookplate of George Edwards (1694-1773)...
Wittenberg: Josef Klug, 1539.
Price: $5,500.00
Bound in modern boards, overlaid with a printed leaf. A very good copy with deckled edges in gatherings A, B, and E. Elaborate woodcut initials, attractive architectural title page border, early minor annotations, very light occ. browning to edges, D3 with a clean tear, minor damp to margins of final...
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...
Mexico: por Francisco de Rivera Calderon, 1723.
Price: $12,500.00
Bound in contemporary vellum, repaired along the upper hinge, binding lightly soiled and stained, end-papers renewed. Internally an overall fine, fresh copy with bright leaves and only minor faults: edges of first and final four leaves slightly ragged, the slightest of worming in the blank gutter of various gatherings, very...
London: Printed by S. Simmons next door to the Golden Lion in Aldersgate-street, 1678.
Price: $6,800.00
With the added engraved portrait of Milton by Dolle after Faithorne. Bound in contemporary paneled calf with ornaments in blind (discreet restoration to head and tail of spine and front hinge). The text is in fine condition, with just a few small blemishes and a few minor marginal dampstains; last...
Florence: Per Gaetano Cambiagi, 1792.
Price: $5,500.00
Bound with: Massi, Pasquale, da Cesena Indicazione Antiquaria del Pontificio Museo Pio-Clementino in Vaticano, stesa da Pasquale Mass Cesenate Custode del Museo Stesso/ Catalogue Indicatif des Antiquitès Composant Le Musèe Pie-Clèmentin au Vatican par Paschal Massi de Cesèns Garde du dit Musèe. Roma: Presso Lazzarini, 1792...
London: Printed by R[ichard]. H[odgkinson]. for Laurence Blaikelocke, 1640.
Price: $9,500.00
Bound in 19th c. half morocco and marbled boards (rubbed, minor defects at head of spine and corners, boards a bit soiled. A very good copy, the lower margin cut short, affecting some catchwords but never the text, title a little dusty, a few light spots. Provenance: Hove Public Library...
London: Printed by Richard Oulton for Charles Greene, 1637.
Price: $9,600.00
Bound in 19th c. calf, with the gilt arms of Frederick Perkins on the boards, edges of boards gilt (binding rebacked preserving spine with some chipping, discoloration at the board edges.) The text is in fine condition, with just a mended tear to leaf H3 without loss and another small...
![Item #4832 Oo Meyo Achimoowin St. Mark. [The Gospel According to St. Mark]; Translated into the...](https://liberantiquus.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4832.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1693233908)
London: The British and Foreign Bible Society, 1876.
Price: $2,200.00
A fine copy, bound in original pebbled green cloth over thin boards (with minor edge-wear, light staining), ruled in blind and with "St Mark" tooled in blind at foot of upper board. Contents extremely fine. Small tear to blank front endpaper.“The Cree are the most populous and widely distributed Indigenous...
Oxford: And are to be had there: And in London at Mr. S. Millers, at the Star near the West-end of St. Pauls Church-yard. 1677.
Price: $8,500.00
An excellent, very tall copy on heavy paper. Bound in contemporary English paneled calf, (nicely rebacked and with repairs to the corners, some mild surface wear. The boards are framed by a double gilt rule, the central compartment with a roll-tooled border and ornate floral tools at the corners, gilt.The...
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: Stephano da Sabbio, March, 1535.
Price: $30,000.00
Bound in fine 20th-century dark green long grained morocco, boards framed by an ornamental roll, gilt. Gilt spine and turn-ins. A very good copy, edges sprinkled blue. Small, discreet repair to blank upper margin of t.p. and lower blank corner of 2nd leaf; small stain at upper corner of 4th...
Manuscript on paper. France: 17th c. N.p. n.d., after 2 October, 1662.
Price: $18,000.00
Bound in early- to mid-18th c. sprinkled vellum over thin boards, ties present (two defective), small defect to upper corner of upper board, light wear, slightly bowed. Contents in fine condition. Provenance: 1. Contemporary inscription on the front free endpaper “Aux Ursulines de Quebec”. 2. Two small, 19th c.(?) stamps...
