London: In Paules churcheyearde, at the signe of the Swanne, by Ihon kynge, 1560.
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Bound in worn 19th c. calf, hinges tender. Cropped affecting title border, running headlines and sidenotes. Some early annotations. Small hole in title and second leaf, affecting a few words. Rare. Five copies in North America: Emory, Folger, Huntington, Harvard, Newberry. The first collected ed. Is equally rare.The collected works...
Leipzig: Valentin Schumann, 1518.
Price: $8,500.00
Bound in 20th c. wrappers. A very good copy, fore-edge of title with small chips, other leaves with a few short, clean tears to outer margins, no loss in any instance, a little (very) light spotting. Impression from bearer type in blank lower part of title. Rare.Luther’s pivotal appeal to...
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: 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], 1523.
Price: $4,800.00
A very nice copy in modern boards. With an attractive woodcut title border by Lucas or Hans Cranach.“But if they do not have self-control, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with desire.”-1 Corinthians 7:9 First edition of Luther’s important sermon on the problem of celibacy...
Wittenberg: [Melchior Lotter the younger], 1521.
Price: $5,600.00
A very good copy in modern boards and quarter vellum. A few light stains. Small tear repaired with no loss.“In December 1520 Jerome Emser renewed his attack on Luther with a lengthy treatise written against Luther’s famous address ‘To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation’(August 1520) entitled ‘Against the...
Wittenberg: Georg Rhau, 1530.
Price: $4,800.00
Modern half-vellum. With a beautiful title page border by Georg Lemberger (Luther TE 34). A crisp copy with just a little marginal soiling.“Luther’s commentary on Psalm 117, printed by George Rhau in October 1530, is a revision of an earlier version printed at the Coburg earlier in 1530. It is...
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.
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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.
Price: $8,500.00
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...
Venice: Appresso Gio. Battista Ciotti sanese, all'insegna dell'Aurora, 1601.
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A fine copy in contemporary parchment over boards, citron label tooled in gold on spine. Contents clean aside from 4 lvs. (G3-6) lightly browned and with early repair to short worm track, obscuring part of two-lines of text. Printer's device on title page. The second edition includes 14 new chapters...
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’...
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...
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Mexico: por Francisco de Rivera Calderon, 1713.
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Bound in contemporary limp vellum, lacking the ties. Marcas de fuego to edges. A clean, crisp copy with only occ. light blemishes. Text in Spanish and Nahuatl. Provenance: 18th-century signature on title-page of José Antonio del Moral y Castillo de Altra, professor of theology at the Royal Pontifical University of Mexico...
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.
Price: $18,000.00
Contemporary pale golden-yellow boards (lightly worn, lightly soiled), manuscript title on spine. An attractive, tall copy with minor faults. Finger-soiling to margins, occ. marginal foxing, a few trivial marginal blemishes, pale damp-stain to upper margin (far from the text) starting at pl. 25, more noticeable on the final few plates...
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 by William Rastell, 1529.
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Bound in 19th c. quarter calf. A fine copy with some light damp-staining, fore-margin of title frayed. H. Bradley Martin bookplate. This is the first book printed by More’s nephew William Rastell (1508–1565), the son of More’s sister Elizabeth (1482–1537) and the printer John Rastell (c. 1475-1537).First edition of Thomas...
