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Fortunius Licetus De Monstris. Ex recensione Gerardi Blasii, M. D. & P. P. Qui Monstra quaedam...

Fortunius Licetus De Monstris. Ex recensione Gerardi Blasii, M. D. & P. P. Qui Monstra quaedam nova & rariora ex recentiorum scriptis addidit. Editio Novissima. Iconibus illustrata.

Amsterdam: Sumptibus Andreae Frisii, 1665.

Price: $9,500.00

The book is introduced by a fantastic engraved title page populated by monsters. The text is illustrated with 73 half and quarter-page engravings of monsters –deformed humans and animals, as well as fantastic, monstrous hybrids of the both. This is the first edition to include Gerard Blasius’ "Appendix of new...

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Prognosticatio]. Hec practice narrat de presenti anno et sequentibus quamplurimis annis de novis...

[Prognosticatio]. Hec practice narrat de presenti anno et sequentibus quamplurimis annis de novis raris et inauditis rebus que futura sunt in hoc mundo

Strasbourg: [Bartholomaeus Kistler], after 31 Dec. 1499.

Price: $45,000.00

Further fifteenth-century editions were published in Latin, German, and Italian versions. This edition, printed by Kistler, is number 11 in Kurze’s census of editions in all languages (for the date, see the bib. notes at the end of this description). Illustrated with 46 woodcut illustrations in text, including large vignette...

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The Romane historie vvritten by T. Livius of Padua. Also, the Breviaries of L. Florus: with a...

The Romane historie vvritten by T. Livius of Padua. Also, the Breviaries of L. Florus: with a chronologie to the whole historie: and the Topographie of Rome in old time. Translated out of Latine into English, by Philemon Holland, Doctor in Physicke

London: Adam Islip, 1600.

Price: $20,000.00

This is a very fine copy in contemporary calfskin, ruled in gold, with decorative tools at the corners of the central compartment, and a fine arabesque at the center of the boards, gilt. Rebacked with original spine preserved, small defects. A very fine copy with minor smudges or inkspots (including...

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The Romane historie vvritten by T. Livius of Padua. Also, the Breviaries of L. Florus: with a...

The Romane historie vvritten by T. Livius of Padua. Also, the Breviaries of L. Florus: with a chronologie to the whole historie: and the Topographie of Rome in old time. Translated out of Latine into English, by Philemon Holland, Doctor in Physicke

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...

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A tracte containing the artes of curious paintinge caruinge & buildinge written first in Italian...

A tracte containing the artes of curious paintinge caruinge & buildinge written first in Italian by Io: Paul Lomatius painter of Milan and Englished by R.H student in physik

Oxford: by Ioseph Barnes for R[ichard] H[aydock], 1598.

Price: $25,000.00

Bound in contemporary English calfskin, boards gouged, extremities worn, defects to head and foot of spine. An unusually nice copy of a book almost always found in deplorable condition. The faults of this copy are largely cosmetic: light damp-staining to opening and final signatures, occ. small blemishes, a few lvs...

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Ten works by the artist and author Jan Luiken, six in first edition, illustrated with hundreds of...

Ten works by the artist and author Jan Luiken, six in first edition, illustrated with hundreds of etchings by the author and his son, Casper, and bound uniformly in contemporary blind-stamped ivory vellum.

Amsterdam: Pieter Arentsz. In de Beurs-Straat in de 3 Rapen., 1687: Various dates: 1687-, 1714.

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Bound uniformly in contemporary blind-stamped and ruled ivory vellum, titles neatly written on the spines. Each volume ruled in compartments, with floral tools at the corners and large, central arabesques on every board. All volumes are in excellent condition, with very minor blemishes or light toning in a few volumes...

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Adversus execrabilem Antichristi Bullam. Martin Luther

Adversus execrabilem Antichristi Bullam.

Wittenberg: [Melchior Lotter the younger], 1520.

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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...

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Ayn Sermon am tag unser Frawen Liechtmeß gethon zuo Witemberg durch Doctor Marthin Luther. Im...

Ayn Sermon am tag unser Frawen Liechtmeß gethon zuo Witemberg durch Doctor Marthin Luther. Im Jar MDXXIII.

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...

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Copia einer Missiue so D. M. Luther nach seynem abscheydt zu Wormbs tzurugk ann diej (sic!)...

Copia einer Missiue so D. M. Luther nach seynem abscheydt zu Wormbs tzurugk ann diej (sic!) churfürsten, Fürsten un(d) Stende des heyligen römischen reychs daselbest versamlet geschrieben hat.

Wittenberg: Johann Rhau-Grunenberg, 1521.

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A very fine, bright copy, bound in modern patterned wrappers. With one of Hans Cranach’s most famous title page borders, incorporating the printer’s initials, and populated by beasts, a drunkard, a fowler, and two printers at work at a printing press. "In its artistic form and its emblematic nature, this...

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Das Elltern die kinder zur Ehe nicht zwingen noch hyndern, Vnd die kinder on der elltern willen...

Das Elltern die kinder zur Ehe nicht zwingen noch hyndern, Vnd die kinder on der elltern willen sich nicht verloben sollen.

[Wittenberg]: [Cranach and Döring], 1524.

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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...

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Das Magnificat Vorteutscht und außgelegt durch D. Martinum Luther Aug. Vuittenberg. Martin Luther

Das Magnificat Vorteutscht und außgelegt durch D. Martinum Luther Aug. Vuittenberg.

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...

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De Captivitate Babylonica Ecclesiae, Praeludium Martini Lutheri. Martin Luther

De Captivitate Babylonica Ecclesiae, Praeludium Martini Lutheri.

Wittenberg: [Melchior Lotter the younger, October 6,], 1520.

Price: $50,000.00

Bound in modern blind-stamped calfskin by Sean Richards. 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 church...

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Eyn Brieff an die Fürsten zu Sachsen von dem auffrurischen Geyst. Wittenberg. Martin Luther

Eyn Brieff an die Fürsten zu Sachsen von dem auffrurischen Geyst. Wittenberg

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...

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Eyn Sendbriff uber die Frage. Ob auch yemant on glauben verstorben selig werden muge. An Er...

Eyn Sendbriff uber die Frage. Ob auch yemant on glauben verstorben selig werden muge. An Er Hanssen von Rechenberg zur Freystadt.

[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...

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Von de[m] Ban[n] ein fast nutzlich predig. Martin Luther

Von de[m] Ban[n] ein fast nutzlich predig

Basel: Adam Petri, 1520.

Price: $2,800.00

Modern patterned boards. Light dampstaining, some small spots, small ink blot on 2 lvs., a few side notes shaved. One of numerous editions of this treatise on the Church's abuse of the ban (excommunication) published in the year of the first issue (1520). Bound in modern half morocco and marbled...

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Prodigiorvm ac ostentorvm chronicon: quae praeter naturae ordinem, motum, et operationem, et in...

Prodigiorvm ac ostentorvm chronicon: quae praeter naturae ordinem, motum, et operationem, et in superioribus & his inferioribus mundi regionibus, ab exordio mundi usque ad haec nostra tempora, acciderunt. partim ex probatis fidesque dignis authoribus Grecis atque Latinis, partim etiam ex multorum annorum propria observatione ... conscriptum per Conradvm Lycosthenem Rvbeaqvensem

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...

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Manuscript letter to Eustachio Manfredi. Giacomo Filippo Maraldi

Manuscript letter to Eustachio Manfredi

Paris: 2 October, 1726.

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Manuscript on paper, in brown ink, very light age browning, small scattered ink smudges and very slight soiling along faint folds to second (blank) verso, ff. [2] (bifolium), 2 pages of text, 19 lines per page, cursive hand, in Italian, (19.3 x 13.5 cm), inscriptions in a different contemporary hand...

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Vrbis Romae topographia B. Marliani ad Franciscvm Regem Gallorvm eivsdem vrbis liberatorem...

Vrbis Romae topographia B. Marliani ad Franciscvm Regem Gallorvm eivsdem vrbis liberatorem invictvm. Adiecta priori eiusdem auctoris topographiae editioni in hoc opere sunt. Vrbis, atque insignium in ea aedificiorum descriptiones, compluràque alia memoratu digna. Errores nonnulli sublati. Tituli, inscriptionèsque non aliter, quàm ipsis inerant marmoribus, emendatissime expressi, qui ab aliis hactenus neglecto ordine, & perperam in lucem editi inveniuntur. Cum Priuilegio Pauli . III . Pont. Max. cuius exemplum in fine libri impressum est

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...

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Vrbis Romae topographia B. Marliani ad Franciscvm Regem Gallorvm eivsdem vrbis liberatorem...

Vrbis Romae topographia B. Marliani ad Franciscvm Regem Gallorvm eivsdem vrbis liberatorem invictvm. Adiecta priori eiusdem auctoris topographiae editioni in hoc opere sunt. Vrbis, atque insignium in ea aedificiorum descriptiones, compluràque alia memoratu digna. Errores nonnulli sublati. Tituli, inscriptionèsque non aliter, quàm ipsis inerant marmoribus, emendatissime expressi, qui ab aliis hactenus neglecto ordine, & perperam in lucem editi inveniuntur. Cum Priuilegio Pauli . III . Pont. Max. cuius exemplum in fine libri impressum est.

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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The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew [Ievv] of Malta. Christopher Marlowe

The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew [Ievv] of Malta.

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...

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De Maria Scotorum Regina, totaque eius contra Regem coniuratione, foedo cum Bothuelio adulterio,...

De Maria Scotorum Regina, totaque eius contra Regem coniuratione, foedo cum Bothuelio adulterio, nefaria in maritum crudelitate & rabie, horrendo insuper & deterrimo eiusdem parricidio: plena, & tragica planè historia.

N.p. but London: John Day, no date but, 1571.

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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’...

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Annotationes Phi. Melanchthonis, omnium eruditiss. In euangelium Matthaei pro communi...

Annotationes Phi. Melanchthonis, omnium eruditiss. In euangelium Matthaei pro communi christianismi commodo.

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...

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Ursache Warumb die gemainde und Kirchen Christi ungegrünten Concilien nit sollen stadt geben,...

Ursache Warumb die gemainde und Kirchen Christi ungegrünten Concilien nit sollen stadt geben, sonder bey der Bibel, das ist bey dem rainen Wort Gottes, festhalten und bleyben, auss Latein Ph. Mel. verdeutschet durch Justum Jonam Doct.

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...

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Cathecismo Romano, traducido en Castellano, y Mexicano por el P.F. Manuel Perez. Manuel MEXICO....

Cathecismo Romano, traducido en Castellano, y Mexicano por el P.F. Manuel Perez.

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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Some Account of Mines, and the advantages of them to this kingdom. With an appendix relating to...

Some Account of Mines, and the advantages of them to this kingdom. With an appendix relating to the mine-adventure in Wales.

London: Printed by W. B. for John Wyat, 1707.

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Title printed within double-ruled border. Contemporary paneled calf (joints cracking, foot of spine worn), raised bands on spine, green morocco label. A nice copy with just a short (2 cm.) worm-track to last 5 leaves touching one letter. Rare. 5 copies recorded in North America: Folger, Harvard, Huntington, Illinois, Minnesota...

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