[N.P, N.D.]: ca. 1774.
Price: $12,500.00
Image size (from plate mark): 121.2 x 71.1 cm. This copy is in excellent condition with no staining or discoloration where the three sheets are joined.Piranesi’s map extends the area covered by the Nolli plan as far north as the Ponte Milvio. Piranesi has made the important innovation of identifying...
Venice: Lazzaro Soardi, 14 August, 1511.
Price: $12,000.00
Bound in contemporary calf over wooden boards with ornate, ruled and tooled in blind (leather worn and restored and rebacked, lacking clasps.) Contents overall very good. First few leaves dusty and with discreet repairs to leading margin, with some very slight loss to border, light damp-staining to lower margin of...
London: Impensis G. Bishop, 1601.
Price: $20,000.00
Bound in contemporary English calfskin, ruled in blind, rebacked and recornered in morocco. An excellent, crisp, bright copy with very minor faults: repaired clean tear with no loss, leaf P4. A few signatures with very light marginal dampstains. Occasional rust spots, marginal tears, or marginal natural paper flaws, no loss...
Lyon: Sumptibus Horatii Cardon, Ex typographeio Ioannis Iullieron, 1616.
Price: $16,000.00
Published one year after the first edition. This is a superb copy bound in strictly contemporary stiff vellum, gilt. The text is fresh and in excellent condition. The engraved title page, which shows Matteo Ricci and Blessed Francis Xavier in an architectural framework, flanking Ricci’s map of China, is clear...
Augsburg: Christoph. Mangius, 1615.
Price: $22,000.00
A fine copy bound in strictly contemporary limp vellum, soiled, lacking ties. The text is in truly excellent condition with a little fraying to the outer, blank margin of the engraved title, which shows Matteo Ricci and Blessed Francis Xavier in an architectural framework, flanking Ricci’s map of China. The...
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Rome: Marcello and Eucharius Silber, alias Franck, ca. 1509-, 1527.
Price: $26,000.00
SIX SEPARATE WORKS BOUND AS ONE. Bound in early 20th c. olive morocco (rubbed, spine lightly sunned). Very good copies internally with a few small marginal tears, light damp-staining to margins of several leaves, a little more extensive on the final three leaves but still very pale. Illustrated with 11...
Rome: Nella Stamperia di Gio. Battista de Caporali, per andare all'Orso, 1729.
Price: $3,800.00
Bound in later carta rustica. A fine, fresh copy on crisp paper. Very faint soiling to upper margin. A large historiated initial, decorative head- and tail-pieces. With the arms of Cardinal Polignac on the title page.A very rare account of the elaborate transformation of Piazza Navona to celebrate the birth...
Rome: Gregorio Roisecco mercante di libri in Piazza Navona nella stamperia Puccinelli, 1750.
Price: $6,500.00
I. [2], xvi, 654 pp. Collation: π2, a8, A-Z8, Aa-Ss8 (lacking Ss8 blank and with an added leaf *Ii after leaf Ii1. π1 is the engraved t.p.) With 19 folding plates, of which two are folding maps of (ancient and modern) Rome. 68 engravings in the text. Vol. II. [2]...
Rome:, A spese di Niccola Roisecco, 1765.
Price: $5,500.00
Bound in three uniform bindings of contemporary patterned paste-paper over cartoncino boards. wear to extremities and spines. Internally this is as close to an immaculate set as I have seen, with some deckled edges preserved. The text is bright and clean throughout. The folding engravings are crisp. The three volumes are...
Prague: Aegidius Sadeler, 1606.
Price: $25,000.00
A very fine, broad-margined copy with very rich and clear impressions of the plates. Occ. marginal soiling, a few pin-prick wormholes in the margins of a few leaves. Bound in contemporary morocco, richly tooled in gold. With an engraved allegorical title with the main title incised within a wolf's hide...
Rome: presso l’autore, 1819-, 1823.
Price: $45,000.00
A fine, complete set with all 101 engraved plates. Bound in contemporary three-quarter ivory vellum and marbled boards, decorative gold tooling along the edge of the vellum. Discreet repairs to the binding at head and foot of spine, slight damage to corners. Contents in very fine condition with broad margins...
London: printed for John Starkey, 1669.
Price: $4,850.00
Bound in contemporary polished calf, rebacked preserving original spine, corners bumped, light wear. Complete with the two engraved portraits of Charles Howard, First Earl of Carlisle (1628–1685) and Tzar Aleksey Mikhaylovich (1629-1676), just shaved at fore-edge. Title a little dusty, clean tear to margin of Z1 (not entering the text)...
Nürnberg: Georg Merckel, around, 1554.
Price: $4,800.00
With a large woodcut on the title page showing death (as a skeleton). A clean copy, two tiny wormholes. Bound in modern boards. The woodcut shows the man lying in his bed, death (as a skeleton) and Virtue and Vice (personified as women) flanking his bed, beneath which can be...
Eilenburg: Nikolaus Widemar, 1524.
Price: $4,500.00
With a woodcut title page illustration of the shoemaker, the canon, and the canon's housekeeper. Bound in 20th c. brown morocco by Zaehnsdorf, gilt spine. Title a trifle dusty. Printed by Eilenburg's first printer, who apparently operated his shop for the Leipzig printer Wolfgang Stöckel. Provenance: Broxbourne Library with bookplate...
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Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 6 July, 1482.
Price: $38,000.00
Bound in fine 20th c. dark green crushed morocco with the gilt monogram and armorial device of the noted collector George Abrams. Leaf a2 is printed in red and black and has two very fine decorative initials on black ground. There is a full-page woodcut of an armillary sphere on...
Rome: Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, 1660.
Price: $18,000.00
With an engraved allegorical title with the main title incised within a wolf's hide hung on a monument; an engraved dedication to Matthaeus Wacker von Wackenfels (numbered'1'), with the text incised on a stone tablet between flanking obelisks and with two putti supporting the dedicatee's arms; and 49 full-paged engraved...
Venice: Cesare Arrivabene, 1517.
Price: $4,500.00
A very good copy bound in later vellum. First and final leaf lightly soiled. With a woodcut on the title page showing Savonarola writing in his cell, a woodcut of King David in prayer (in the text), and Arrivabene’s device on the final leaf.The Dominican preacher, reformer, and martyr, Girolamo...
Basel: Thomas Wolff, 1521.
Price: $5,500.00
Bound in modern quarter vellum and drab boards. With a large woodcut of the emperor by Urs Graf (ca. 1485-1528) on the title page and a large, dramatic, historiated initial. A very good, crisp copy with a little light marginal foxing and occ. minor marginal blemishes.The “Reformation of Emperor Sigismund”...
London: Printed [by Ruth Raworth and Thomas Walkley] for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his shop, at the signe of the Princes Armes in St Pauls Churchyard, 1646.
Price: $4,500.00
A very fine, crisp copy in contemporary blind-ruled calf with minor wear to the head of the spine and the very bottom of the hinge.The engraved frontispiece portrait (A1v) is signed: “W. Marshall fecit.” With separate title pages for “Poems &c.”, “Letters to Divers Eminent Personages” and “An Account of...
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Geneva: Henri Estienne, 1568.
Price: $8,500.00
FIRST ESTIENNE EDITION. Bound in contemporary English calfskin, ruled in blind and with a small arabesque at the center of each board and fleurs-de-lis at the angles of the central compartments. There is wear to the boards and minor restoration to the upper hinge, as well as a small leather...
London: Printed [by Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, 1596.
Price: $28,000.00
Bound in modern crushed red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. First title page, supplied from a smaller copy (in 1974), has near-contemporary verses on the verso. Some headlines are very slightly shaved. Woodcut headpiece and printer's device on first title-page (McKerrow 222), woodcut initial, woodcut and type-ornament headpieces, section-title...
London: printed by Thomas Creede for VVilliam Ponsonbie, 1595.
Price: $27,500.00
A wonderful copy bound in fine early 20th c. burgundy morocco by Riviere & Sons. Very nice internally, the last leaf carefully washed. With a woodcut printer’s device (McKerrow 299) and decorative border to the title page, and numerous head- and tailpieces throughout. A lovely copy of the first edition...
London: By Arn. Hatfield, for Bonham and Iohn Norton], 1598.
Price: $16,000.00
[Bound with, as issued:] The End of Nero and Beginning of Galba. Fower Bookes of The Histories of Cornelius Tacitus. The Life of Agricola. The second edition. London: [By Edm. Bollifant, for Bonham and Iohn Norton], 1598 Folio: 30 x 20.7 cm. [8], 271, [1] p. (1st 2 p. blank) Collation: [par.]⁴ A-Y⁶...
Rome: Zacharias Kallierges for Cornelio Benigno, 15 January, 1516.
Price: $14,000.00
"Edition rare et très recherchée" (Legrand). Variant with "enestin" spelled correctly on t.p. and the Latin privilege printed on the verso of the final leaf. A nice, tall, generally clean copy with good margins (t.p. and conjugate leaf lightly foxed and probably supplied in the 18th c., occ. light foxing...
Geneva: Excudebat Henricus Stephanus, 1588.
Price: $7,500.00
Bound in contemporary calf, rebacked. The boards are framed by a single gold fillet. Central, wreath-like cartouches, also gilt, are stamped at the centers of both boards. The text is in very good condition, with good margins. There is, however, a bit of worming affecting the text in the first...
