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...

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...

Basel: Henricus Petrus, 1557.

Price: $38,000.00

An exceptional copy, bound in contemporary alum-tawed pigskin (some scuffs and light soiling), elaborately tooled in blind, with stamps of the evangelists, medallion portraits of the reformers, and various floral motifs. With its original paper label, faded, affixed to the upper board. The text is in unusually fine condition for...

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...

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...

Basel: Adam Petri, 1521.

Price: $5,800.00

A fine, wide-margined copy with contemporary annotations scattered throughout. Two pinprick wormholes in blank margin, gutter strengthened at leaf G4, title a little dusty and with old shelf number in blank margin. Imprint from STC German.Annotated throughout by a contemporary reader, who has made 38 marginal remarks on 28 pages.Melanchthon’s...

Regenspurg: Hans Khol, 1553.

Price: $3,500.00

Modern paste-paper boards. A very nice copy with just a few instances of light soiling.The German-language edition, translated by Justus Jonas the Elder, of Melanchthon’s “Causae quare et amplexae sint, et retinendam ducant doctrinam, quam profitentur, ecclesiae, quae Confessionem Augustae exhibitam imperatori sequuntur & quare iniquis iudicibus, collectis in synodo...

London: Imprinted by Felix Kyngston, 1610.

Price: $25,000.00

A fine copy, bound in 17th c. calf, rebacked, with only minor cosmetic blemishes.This edition collects all three earlier parts of “Mirrour for Magistrates” and adds “A Winter Nights Vision” and “Englands Eliza,” written by Richard Niccols. “Shakespeare was familiar with it and used the story of Queen Cordelia for...

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...

N.p. [Madrid], 1750.

Price: $2,900.00

A very rare and attractive broadside papal bull, embellished with four woodcuts: Saints Paul and Francis, the arms of the reigning pope (Pope Benedict XIV), the arms and xylographic signature of Francisco Pérez de Prado y Cuesta (1678-1755), Commissar General of the Holy Crusade and Grand Inquisitor; and the cross...

[Rouen: Printed at Fr. Parsons’s press], 1585.

Price: $7,400.00

Bound early in 18th c. speckled calf, paneled in blind, spine repaired, corners worn. Text a bit grubby, numerous light stains, margins trimmed close affecting some headlines and some side-notes. Ink smudge on leaf V1, small hole in lvs. H1 and Kk2, lvs. Ddd1 and 5 with marginal tears, no...

Venice: Aldus Manutius and Andrea Torresani, January, 1513.

Price: $16,000.00

Bound in 18th c. stiff vellum, possibly a deftly executed early 19th c. remboîtage. Attractive spine labels, gilt. Aldine device on title. A very fine copy, the text crisp and bright, with two bifolia uncut, and a few minor faults: title and second leaf lightly soiled and with small repairs...