Wittenberg: [Melchior Lotter the younger], 1520.
Price: $8,500.00
A crisp copy in 19th c. colored wrappers. Title a trifle soiled, small dampstain to corner, ink stain on leaf B4. Provenance: Bookplate of the German physician, philologist, and Freemason George Kloss (1787-1854)."This is the first of four answers by Luther to the bull 'Exsurge Domine' issued by Pope Leo...
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]: [Cranach and Döring], 1524.
Price: $5,200.00
Bound in modern wrappers. With a title border by Lucas Cranach the Elder showing Luther’s monogram and the Luther rose (Luther, Titeleinfassungen, Plate 42). A nice copy with insignificant faults (small loss of paper to blank corner of title, not affecting the woodcut, small stain in blank gutter of two...
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: [Melchior Lotter the younger, October 6,], 1520.
Price: $50,000.00
Bound in modern boards. In a folding solander box. A truly excellent copy with crisp, clean leaves. With a fine woodcut title border by Lukas Cranach.This is the first edition of Luther’s “Prelude on The Babylonian Captivity of the Church”, the Reformer’s radical critique of the sacramental system of the...
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...
Basel: Henricus Petrus, 1557.
Price: $38,000.00
Bound in 18th c. mottled calf, spine richly gilt, (upper board stained, discreet repairs to corners, also to head and foot of spine and label.) Blank upper margin of title trimmed off and repaired, not affecting text. Variable spotting as often, heavier to some signatures, but a very good copy...
Venice: [Andrea Muschio for Battista Mammello.], 1567.
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Bound in 17th c. Italian vellum. Contents with variable light browning, darker in signatures f-k. A few stains, early ownership inscription (“questo libro e di andrea della porta”) on verso of final leaf scored through with slight loss to a few words on the recto. Blue edges.A rare Italian edition...
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...
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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...
N.p. but London: John Day, no date but, 1571.
Price: $7,500.00
Bound in near-contemporary English or possibly Scottish sheep, covers bordered with a single gilt and double blind rule, gilt thistle ornament on the boards, spine double gilt ruled in compartments. Title with small typographical ornament, woodcut initials, authors name mss. in contemporary hand on title, price ‘4s’ above, ‘Dupplin Castle’...
Mexico: José Bernardo Hogal, 1746.
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Bound in contemporary stiff vellum with minor wear and soiling, and small, very minor imperfections on the rear board. The stiffness of the binding has caused the text block to loosen. The text is in very fine condition with some very light damp-staining and a closed tear to the second...
Venice: Impressum a Joan. Anto. de Sabbio & fratribus, 1528.
Price: $12,000.00
Bound in modern quarter calf and paste-paper covered boards. A fine, broad-margined copy with a few minor marginal stains, and some early annotations. The full-page instrument is intact with 3 volvelles. Illustrated with a fine woodcut title page border, astrological diagrams, and a two-page ephemeris of stars of the first...
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...
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...
Mexico: por Francisco de Rivera Calderon, 1723.
Price: $10,600.00
Bound in original limp vellum, re-cased, endpapers renewed. A nice copy with light scattered stains. Provenance: small collector’s stamp “G” on title. Rare. 7 copies in the U.S. (Penn, William & Mary, A&M, SUNY Albany, Hopkins, Princeton, BYU).Sole edition of this important translation of the Catholic catechism into Nahuatl, which...
Rome: Francesco Cavalli, 1635.
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A fine copy in later ivory parchment (binding lightly soiled, short tear to title page -not affecting the text and without loss.) Woodcut initials and head-pieces in the text. Extremely rare. No copies located in North America and only a handful of copies located outside of Italy.Attack by the Italian...
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...
Bologna: [n.p.], 1678.
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Contemporary pale golden-yellow boards (lightly worn, lightly soiled), manuscript title on spine. A fine, tall copy with marginal finger-soiling, a few instances of light marginal foxing once or twice entering the plate, a few trivial marginal blemishes, small, pale stain to plate 3, light dampstain to upper margin of closing...
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...
London: printed for Richard Chiswell, and to be sold by George Powell over against Lincolns-Inn-Gate in Chancery-Lane, 1685.
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Bound in 18th c. calf, minor wear, discreetly rebacked, boards with a single gold rule, refurbished. A crisp copy, occ. light marginal foxing, bottom margin a bit short. A very good copy. Provenance: Thomas and Isabella Hervey of Bury St Edmunds owned an unusual library. Their memorial in Ickworth church...
London: Printed for Richard Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1684.
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Bound in contemporary sheepskin, ruled in blind, with very slight wear, corners bumped, and a small defect to head-cap. An extremely fine, fresh copy.The "Utopia" was first published in Latin at Louvain in 1516, overseen by More’s friend, Pieter Gillies, its dedicatee, in whose garden More conceived of the work...
Florence: Nella stamperia Imperiale, 1759.
Price: $6,500.00
A crisp, bright copy in original three-quarter calf and speckled paper over boards, spine with floral ornaments (light wear). The text is adorned with attractive woodcut initials and headpieces.First edition of the first guide to one of the world’s most important museums. This guide to the Medici collections of the...
