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Item #2474 Vrbis Romae topographia B. Marliani ad Franciscvm Regem Gallorvm eivsdem vrbis...

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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Item #2714 Vrbis Romae topographia B. Marliani ad Franciscvm Regem Gallorvm eivsdem vrbis...

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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Item #4172 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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Item #4630 Miscellaneous poems By Andrew Marvell, Esq; late Member of the Honourable House of...

Miscellaneous poems By Andrew Marvell, Esq; late Member of the Honourable House of Commons

London: Printed [by Simon Miller?] for Robert Boulter, at the Turks-Head in Cornhill, 1681.

Price: $32,000.00

An untrimmed copy, bound in later marbled wrappers. The leaves are crisp, broad-margined, and have deckled edges throughout. Minor marginal tears and scattered minor stains, largely confined to the outer edge of the closing leaves. Final leaf with small losses in the blank margin. Ink stain in the blank margin...

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Item #4544 Letter on vellum signed "Marye the Quene" to Lord Paget, signed at head, titled at...

Letter on vellum signed "Marye the Quene" to Lord Paget, signed at head, titled at head "By the King and Quene".

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...

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Item #4677 The Unnaturall combat. A tragedie. The Scaene Marsellis. Written by Philip Massinger....

The Unnaturall combat. A tragedie. The Scaene Marsellis. Written by Philip Massinger. As it was presented by the Kings Majesties Servants at the Globe

London: printed by E[dward]. G[riffin]. for Iohn Waterson, and are to be sold at his shop, at the signe of the Crowne, in S. Pauls Church-yard, 1639.

Price: $11,000.00

The Hoe copy. Contents fine with a few light stains. With a printer's ornament on title, woodcut headpieces and decorative initials in the text. Bound in 19th-century green morocco, gilt arms of noted Shakespeare collector Frederick Perkins (1780-1860) on boards, gilt-lettered on spine, all edges gilt. Bookplates of Robert Hoe...

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Item #4643 Memorie di Matilda la Gran Contessa propugnacolo della Chiesa con le particolari...

Memorie di Matilda la Gran Contessa propugnacolo della Chiesa con le particolari notitie della sua vita e con l’antica serie degli Antenati, da Francesco Maria Fiorentini restituita all’origine della patria Lucchese.

Lucca: Appresso Pellegrino Bidelli, 1642.

Price: $3,500.00

A large, crisp copy with deckled edges throughout, bound in near-contemporary stiff parchment over boards. Edges of text-block sprinkled. With and etched title page of the countess (accompanied by her army) and her ally Pope Gregory VII.First edition of this life of the medieval Italian noblewoman Matilda di Canossa, “la...

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Item #4513 Physiologische und anatomische Abhandlungen von einer ungewohnlichen Erweiterung des...

Physiologische und anatomische Abhandlungen von einer ungewohnlichen Erweiterung des Herzens und denen Spannadern des Angesichts aus den Nachrichten der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin.

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...

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Item #4416 De ecclesiae autorita/tate (sic!) & de veterum scriptis libellus. Philip Melanchthon

De ecclesiae autorita/tate (sic!) & de veterum scriptis libellus

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...

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Item #4202 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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Item #3146 Ursache Warumb die gemainde und Kirchen Christi ungegrünten Concilien nit sollen...

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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Item #4022 Ambassades Mémorables de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales des Provinces Unies, vers...

Ambassades Mémorables de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales des Provinces Unies, vers les Empereurs du Japon. Contenant plusieurs choses remarquables arrivées pendant le voyage des Ambassadeurs; et deplus, la Description des Villes, Bourgs, Chateaux, Forteresses, Temples & autres batimens: Des animaux, des Plantes, Montagnes, Riviéres, Fonteines; Des moeurs, coutumes, Religions & habillemens des Japonois: Comme aussi leurs exploits de guerre, & les révolutions tant anciennes que modernes que ces Peuplles ont essuyées. Le toot Enrichi de Figures dessinées sur les lieux, & tiré des Mémoires des Ambassadeurs de la Compagnie.

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...

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Item #4556 Musaeum Franc. CalceolarI iun. Veronensis a Benedicto Ceruto medico incaeptum: et ab...

Musaeum Franc. CalceolarI iun. Veronensis a Benedicto Ceruto medico incaeptum: et ab Andrea Chiocco med. physico excellentiss. collegii luculenter descriptum, & perfectum, in quo multa ad naturalem, moralemq[ue] philosophia[m] spectantia, non pauca ad rem medicam pertinentia erudité proponuntur, & explicantur; non sine magna rerum exoticarum supellectile, quæ artifici plane manu in æs incisæ, studiosis exhibentur.

Verona: Apud Angelum Tamum, 1622.

Price: $40,000.00

With a printed half-title: “Musaeum Calceolarianum Veronense”, a fine, historiated, engraved title page, and a folding engraving showing the interior of Calzolari’s museum. The text is illustrated with 43 engravings of animals, plants, minerals, and ethnographic objects. There is also a profusion of woodcut initials throughout the text. The plates...

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Item #4561 Instruccion de Musica sobre La Guitarra Española, y metodo de sus primeros...

Instruccion de Musica sobre La Guitarra Española, y metodo de sus primeros rudimentos, hasta tañerla con destreza. Con dos Laberintos Ingeniosos, variedad de Sones, y Danças de Rasgueado, y Punteado, al estilo Español, Italiano, Francès, y Inglès. Con un breve Tratado para acompañar con perfection, sobre la parte muy essencial para la Guittara, Arpa, y Organo, resumido en doze reglas, y exemplis los mas principals con Contrapunto, y Composicion. [With] Libro Segundo, de Cifras sobre la Guitarra Española, con arte nuevo para aprender a tañerla sin Maestro, etc. [and] Libro Tercero de Musica. De Cifras sobre la Guitarra Española, que contiene las diferancias mas primorasas de Passacalles, etc.

Zaragoza: Por los Herederos de Diego Dormer, 1697.

Price: $16,000.00

Extremely rare. I have located 2 copies in North American libraries: Oberlin (defective), University of South Dakota and two copies of the 1674-1675 first edition: Newberry (incomplete) and Yale. The copy listed in the University of Florida catalogue is in fact held in the Biblioteca Nacional de Cuba José Martí.A....

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Item #4587 The Natural History of Oxford-shire, Being an Essay toward the Natural History of...

The Natural History of Oxford-shire, Being an Essay toward the Natural History of England. By Robert Plot, LL.D.

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...

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Item #3742 COSTRUZIONE ED USO DEL COMPASSO DI PROPORZIONE. Giovanni NAVIGATION. Pagnini

COSTRUZIONE ED USO DEL COMPASSO DI PROPORZIONE.

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...

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Item #4600 Libro primo de la conquista del Peru & provincia del Cuzco de le Indie Occidentali....

Libro primo de la conquista del Peru & provincia del Cuzco de le Indie Occidentali.

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...

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Item #4005 Occhio errante dalla ragione emendato. Prospettiva. Ferdinando di OPTICS. PERSPECTIVE....

Occhio errante dalla ragione emendato. Prospettiva.

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...

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Item #4603 Metamorphoses. [With the commentary of Raphael Regius]. Publius Ovidius Naso, 43...

Metamorphoses. [With the commentary of Raphael Regius]

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...

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Item #4665 Preclarum opus de novo impressum, & a mendis castigatum, in quo continentur hii libri...

Preclarum opus de novo impressum, & a mendis castigatum, in quo continentur hii libri partiales, uidelicet liber heroidum epistolarum liber Sapphus libellus in ibin. Cum expositione familiari Antonii Volsci, Vbertini Clerici Cresentinatis, Domitii Calderini, & Iodoci Badii, singularium interpretum.

Milan: Per Ioānem Angelum Scinzenzeler ad impensas Ioānis Iacobi & fratrūde Lignano, Opus de novo impressum & a mendis castigatum, 14 December, 1517.

Price: $7,800.00

Bound in 19th c. stiff parchment, lightly soiled. A nice copy of a very rare illustrated Ovid. Bound in 19th c. stiff parchment (lightly soiled), citron label on spine, gilt. Internally fresh with minor stains and faults as follows: lower blank portion of title unobtrusively restored, light browning or light...

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Item #4098 A Christian directorie guiding men to their saluation. Deuided into three bookes. The...

A Christian directorie guiding men to their saluation. Deuided into three bookes. The first vvherof apperteining to resolution, is only conteined in this volume, deuided into tvvo partes, and set forth novv againe vvith many corrections, and additions by th’authour him self, vvith reprofe of the corrupt and falsified edition of the same booke lately published by M. Edm. Buny. Ther is added also a methode for the vse of al; with two tables, and a preface to the reader, which is necessarie to be reade

[Rouen: Printed at Fr. Parsons’s press], 1585.

Price: $7,400.00

Bound early in 18th c. speckled calf, paneled in blind, spine repaired, corners worn. Text a bit grubby, numerous light stains, margins trimmed close affecting some headlines and some side-notes. Ink smudge on leaf V1, small hole in lvs. H1 and Kk2, lvs. Ddd1 and 5 with marginal tears, no...

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Item #4555 Segunda Predicacion de la Decima Quinta Concession de Vrbano Octavo. Bulla de la Santa...

Segunda Predicacion de la Decima Quinta Concession de Vrbano Octavo. Bulla de la Santa Cruzada, concedida por la Santidad de Vrbano VIII. de felice recordacion, para todos los Fieles Christianos, vezinos, estantes, y habitantes en las Provincias del Peru, Tierra-firme, y sus Partidos, sujetas al Rey nuestro señor Don Fernando Sexto, con grandes indulgencies para socorro de la guerra contra Infieles…

?Madrid: n.p., 1750.

Price: $5,800.00

A very rare and attractive broadside papal bull. A fine, crisp copy, untrimmed, with horizontal fold and a few light creases. With blank (“unaccomplished”) spaces where the name of the purchaser and the date are to be written. With five woodcuts: Saints Paul and Francis, the arms of the reigning...

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Item #4489 Ὀλυμπία. Πύθια. Νεμέα. Ἴσθμια. Olympia. Pythia. Nemea....

Ὀλυμπία. Πύθια. Νεμέα. Ἴσθμια. Olympia. Pythia. Nemea. Isthmia.

Frankfurt: Peter Braubach, 1542.

Price: $7,500.00

Contemporary blindstamped pigskin, two clasps. The binding is by Paul Thiele, active in Wittenberg from 1555 to 1575; see the image with his initials P and T left and right of David’s head on the King David roll used on this binding. Printing in red and black on three divisional...

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Item #4113 [Title in Greek and Latin:] Pindar: Olympia. Pythia. Nemea. Isthmia. Callimachus:...

[Title in Greek and Latin:] Pindar: Olympia. Pythia. Nemea. Isthmia. Callimachus: Hymni; Dionysius Periegetes: De Situ Orbis. Lycophron: Alexandra

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...

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Item #4608 Campvs Martivs Antiqvae Vrbis Romae MDCCLXII. Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Campvs Martivs Antiqvae Vrbis Romae MDCCLXII

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...

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