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...
Rome: Antonio Lafreri, 1547.
Price: $5,600.00
Signed at the lower right with the names of the engraver, “NB. LOTARINGVS F”, and the publisher, "ANT. LAFRERI/SEQVANVS EXCVD. ROMAE/1547”. At the foot of the image, the source is identified as Michelangelo’s fresco in the Sistine Chapel, “HIEREMIAS/MICH. ANG. PINXIT IN VATICANO”.A fine impression, rich in tone, with mild...
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...
Naples: per maestro Ioanne Sulsbach [Giovanni Sultzbach] Alemano, 1532.
Price: $7,500.00
Bound in contemporary vellum (a bit wrinkled, small defects to spine) with a contemporary Sicilian gift inscription occupying the full length of the lower cover: “Al mio padre Gia[como] Batt[ist]a Serabone [?] della Compagnia del Giesu. Messina.” Inscription on title (scored through) “Collegii Messiniensis Soc. Jesu.”; 16th or 17th c....
Florence: nella nuova Stamperia all'Insegna della Stella, 1661.
Price: $22,500.00
Bound in contemporary vellum, lightly soiled, corners bumped, with “Ercole in Tebe” in manuscript on the spine. Very fine internally and complete with all of the plates. There is a tear on the blank flyleaf and a small natural paper flaw on the last leaf affecting two words. Title with...
Paris: M. Lambert for Briasson, 1767.
Price: $9,500.00
Bound in near-contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt with green and red morocco labels. Bindings with light wear, small imperfections at a few corners. Internally, all three volumes are in excellent condition with just the occasional spot. All 30 plates are crisp and in fine impressions; a few of the larger...
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...
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...
Venice: Lucio Spineda, 1628.
Price: $12,000.00
Contemporary limp vellum in fine condition (paste-down torn). The text is in excellent condition with a few instances of light toning (in gatherings O, S, and X), and a small worm-track in the margin of the first few lvs. The text is illustrated with woodcut diagrams. An extremely rare book...
London: Printed by J[ohn] L[egat] for Andrew Hebb, and are to be sold at the signe of the Bell in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1640.
Price: $9,500.00
Bound in 18th c. speckled calf, worn at the corners and extremities, re-backed. In addition to the engraved title, there is a full-paged engraving (with a medallion portrait) of Ovid, and fifteen full-page engravings by Salomon Savery (1594-1665) after drawings by Francis Clein (1582-1658). This copy is EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with the...
![Item #4603 Metamorphoses. [With the commentary of Raphael Regius]. Publius Ovidius Naso, 43...](https://liberantiquus.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4603.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1667515831)
Parma: Expensis & labore Francisci Mazalis, 1505.
Price: $28,000.00
Bound in twentieth-century stiff vellum. A broad-margined copy, some leaves gently washed, contemporary annotations to some leaves, occ. use of light colored wash to the woodcuts, insignificant mild soiling. Illustrated with 59 woodcuts. This is the only book known under Mazali's imprint at Parma (he was established at Reggio Emilia...
Venice: Apresso Bartolomeo Carampello, 1581.
Price: $18,000.00
An attractive, unsophisticated copy, bound in contemporary vellum (re-used from an identified Hebrew manuscript, the text of which is on the inward facing side of the manuscript leaf and can be vaguely discerned.) Aside from discreet repairs to the vellum, a copy with no interventions, the condition very appealing. Binding...
N.pl. n.pr. 1701.
Price: $11,500.00
Bound in contemporary blind-ruled ivory vellum, re-cased, with blind-stamped floral ornaments at the corners and arabesque at center. The text and etchings are in very fine condition. Minor stain to inner margin of final leaf, tear in blank inner margin of title page,, small nick in outer margin of page...
![Item #4113 [Title in Greek and Latin:] Pindar: Olympia. Pythia. Nemea. Isthmia. Callimachus:...](https://liberantiquus.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4113.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1611008770)
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...
Rome: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1762.
Price: $84,000.00
An extremely fine copy of the first edition, bound in a fabulous contemporary Baroque binding by an unidentified Roman binder. Binding and contents in excellent condition. Binding with light wear at the hinges, contents extremely fresh with dark, rich impressions of the plates. There is a little damp-staining to the...
[N.P, N.D.]: ca. 1774.
Price: $8,500.00
Image size (from plate mark): 121.2 x 71.1 cm. A fine impression, tiny area of blank left margin neatly repaired, some marginal finger-soiling. With no staining or discoloration where the three sheets are joined. Paper with watermark of a fleur-de-lis within a double circle.Piranesi’s map extends the area covered by...
