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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 #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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Item #4663 Comoediae viginti nuper emendatae. Et in eas: Pyladae Brixiani lucubrationes. Thadaei...

Comoediae viginti nuper emendatae. Et in eas: Pyladae Brixiani lucubrationes. Thadaei Vgoleti et Grapaldi virorum illustrium scholia. Anselmi Epiphyllides.

Parma: Octavianus Saladius et Franciscus Ugoletus, 1510.

Price: $10,500.00

Bound in 19th c. ivory vellum, spine gold-tooled and with red Morocco label (small splits at head and tail of joints.) An excellent copy with wide margins. Outer margin of first few lvs. lightly soiled, the last few leaves with a light damp-stain in the outer margin, a few trivial...

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Item #3078 The Historie of the World. Commonly called, the Naturall Historie of C. Plinius...

The Historie of the World. Commonly called, the Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. Translated into English by Philemon Holland Doctor in Physicke. The first [& Second] tome.

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...

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Item #4610 Pomponius Mela. Iulius Solinus. Itinerarium Antonini Aug. Vibius Sequester. P. Victor...

Pomponius Mela. Iulius Solinus. Itinerarium Antonini Aug. Vibius Sequester. P. Victor De Regionibus Urbis Romae. Dionysius Afer de Situ Orbis Prisciano interprete. Iter[u]m castigatus & cum Graeco exe[m]plari collatus.

Florence: Per haeredes Philippi Iuntae, 1526.

Price: $3,800.00

A tall, unsophisticated copy, in its original limp vellum binding (vellum stained, lacking ties, short split to upper hinge). The text is in very good condition with intermittent foxing, heavier in some gatherings.A compendium of ancient geographical texts, including descriptions of the known world by Pomponius Mela, Dionysius Periegetes, and...

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Item #2773 De Christiana Expeditione apud Sinas suscepta ab Societate Iesu ex P. Matthaei Riccii...

De Christiana Expeditione apud Sinas suscepta ab Societate Iesu ex P. Matthaei Riccii eiusdem Societatis co[m]mentariis libri V. Ad S.D.N. Paulum. V. In quibus Sinensis Regni mores, leges atq[ue] instituta & novae illius Ecclesiae difficill[iss]ima primordia accurate & summa fide describuntur. Auctore P. Nicolao Trigautio Belga ex eadem societate.

Augsburg: Christoph. Mangius, 1615.

Price: $18,000.00

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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Item #4422 Mirabilia Urbis Romae [and associated texts]. ROME

Mirabilia Urbis Romae [and associated texts]

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...

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Item #4449 Circo agonale di Roma restituito all'antica forma con illuminazioni e macchine...

Circo agonale di Roma restituito all'antica forma con illuminazioni e macchine artificiali dall'E.mo, e R.mo Cardinale di Polignac ministro di S.M. Christianissima per celebrare il felice nascimento.

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...

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Item #3598 Roma antica, e moderna: o sia Nuova descrizione di tutti gl' edifizj antichi, e...

Roma antica, e moderna: o sia Nuova descrizione di tutti gl' edifizj antichi, e moderni sagri, e profani della città di Roma: co' nomi degl' autori di tutte le opere di architettura, scultura, e pittura ... : Una relazione della presente corte di Roma de' suoi ministri, cogregazioni, e tribunali, e la cronologia de' re, consoli, imperadori e pontefici Romani: con duecento e piu figure in rame. Il tutto cavato dal Baronio, Bosio, Nardini, Grevio, ed altri classici autori. Tomo primo[-terzo].

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...

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Item #4235 Vestigi delle antichita di Roma Tivoli Pozzvolo et altri luochi. Con privilegio di sua...

Vestigi delle antichita di Roma Tivoli Pozzvolo et altri luochi. Con privilegio di sua Sac. Ces. Mae. Stampati in Praga da Aegidio Sadeler scultore di essa mae 1606.

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...

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Item #4777 Theatrum crudelitatum hæreticorum nostri temporis. Richard Rowlands, alias Verstegan

Theatrum crudelitatum hæreticorum nostri temporis.

Antwerp: Apud Adrianum Huberti, 1592.

Price: $9,500.00

Bound in 20th c. quarter morocco and marbled boards (gilt rules along edge, spine ruled in compartments, light wear to hinges.) The text is in overall fine condition; the lower edge of the title page (and a small hole in the blank margin) have been discreetly restored; the same leaf...

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Item #3916 A Relation of Three Embassies from His Sacred Majestie Charles II to the Great Duke of...

A Relation of Three Embassies from His Sacred Majestie Charles II to the Great Duke of Muscovie, the King of Sweden, and the King of Denmark. Performed by the Earle of Carlisle in the Years 1663 and 1664. Written by an Attendant.

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)...

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Item #3624 Disputatio zwischen eynem Chorherren und Schuchmacher darinn das wort Gottis und ein...

Disputatio zwischen eynem Chorherren und Schuchmacher darinn das wort Gottis und ein recht Christlich wesen verfochten wirt.

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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Item #3625 Nachred das greulich laster, sampt seinen zwölff Eygenschafften. Hans Sachs

Nachred das greulich laster, sampt seinen zwölff Eygenschafften.

Nuremberg: Georg Merckel, 1553.

Price: $4,400.00

Bound in modern quarter vellum and paste paper over boards. With an unsigned title woodcut (by Georg Pencz?). A tall, broad-margined copy with a few deckled edges preserved. Small natural paper flaw on the final leaf. Bound with a second, anonymous poem, “Klaglied: Deren von Magdeburgk, zu Gott und allen...

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Item #3639 Vestigi delle antichita di Roma Tivoli Pozzvolo et altri luochi. Con privilegio di sua...

Vestigi delle antichita di Roma Tivoli Pozzvolo et altri luochi. Con privilegio di sua Sac. Ces. Mae. Stampati in Praga da Aegidio Sadeler scultore di essa mae 1606.

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...

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Item #4669 Della vera tranquillità dell'animo. Isabella Sforza, Ortensio Lando, ca. 1512-ca. 1553

Della vera tranquillità dell'animo.

Venice: In casa de' figliuoli di Aldo, July, 1544.

Price: $6,800.00

A very fine copy bound in 20th c. stiff vellum, citron label, gilt on spine. Aldine device on title and final leaf. Broad-margined with just a very light dampstain to the lower margin and a little light soiling and staining to the title; text on bifolium D2-3 lightly printed. Provenance...

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Item #4242 Die Reformation: so der aller Durchleuchtigest, Grossmechtigest fürst und herr herr...

Die Reformation: so der aller Durchleuchtigest, Grossmechtigest fürst und herr herr Sigmund Roemischer keiser ..., Jn dem nechsten Concilio zuo Costentz, die Christenliche kirchen in bestetige ordenung zuo bringen fürgenummen het.

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”...

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Item #3133 Fragmenta aurea. A collection of all the incomparable peeces, written by Sir John...

Fragmenta aurea. A collection of all the incomparable peeces, written by Sir John Suckling. And published by a friend to perpetuate his memory. Printed by his owne copies

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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Item #2231 ΣΟΦΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ ΑΙ ΕΠΤΑ ΤΡΑΓΟΙΔΙΑΙ. [Works in Greek] Tragoediae...

ΣΟΦΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ ΑΙ ΕΠΤΑ ΤΡΑΓΟΙΔΙΑΙ. [Works in Greek] Tragoediae Septem. Una cum omnibus Graecis scholiis, & cum Latinis Ioach. Camerarij. Annotationes Henrici Stephani in Sophoclem & Euripidem, seorsum excusae, simul prodeunt.

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...

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Item #4701 Τραγῳδίαι ἑπτὰ μετὰ σχολίων παλαιῶν καὶ...

Τραγῳδίαι ἑπτὰ μετὰ σχολίων παλαιῶν καὶ πάνυ ὠφελίμων. Tragoediae septem, cum interpretationibus vetustis & valde utilibus […]

Frankfurt: Peter Braubach, 1544.

Price: $7,500.00

Bound in contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards dated 1546. The boards are blind-ruled in compartments and elaborately tooled with decorative rolls (the Crucifixion, King David -dated 1543, John the Baptist, urns, interlocking sheaves of wheat, and small floral stamps (binding moderately soiled, lacking one clasp, small defects at extremities)...

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Item #4531 Three works bound together: I. The Shepheards Calender (1591); II. The Faerie Queene...

Three works bound together: I. The Shepheards Calender (1591); II. The Faerie Queene (1596); III. Colin Clouts Come Home Againe (1595)

London: Various printers (details below). 1591-, 1596.

Price: $85,000.00

Bound in 17th c. calf, the boards gilt-ruled in compartments with ornamental tools at the corners and a large stamp of the Tudor arms at the center of each board (hinges and endcaps restored, corners bumped, later label, lacking ties). Inscriptions: In the Shepheards Calender 1. Contemporary signature of Roger...

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Item #4732 Duodecim Caesares, ex Erasmi recognitione. Suetonius, ca. 70 - after 122, Gaius...

Duodecim Caesares, ex Erasmi recognitione.

Paris: Simon Colines, 7 May, 1543.

Price: $4,800.00

A tall copy in contemporary French panelled calf with gilt ornaments on the boards and spine (wear to hinges). Early ownership inscription inked over on pastedown; another -partially legible- inscription reads ‘Anthonii Eutg..[?]’. Later notes on rear pastedown. Title lightly soiled, occ. marginal dampstains. Coline’s iconic “Tempus” device appears on...

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Item #4299 The Annales of Cornelius Tacitus. The Description of Germanie. Publius Cornelius...

The Annales of Cornelius Tacitus. The Description of Germanie.

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...

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Item #4632 Terence in English. Fabulae comici facetissimi et elegantissimi poetæ Terentii omnes...

Terence in English. Fabulae comici facetissimi et elegantissimi poetæ Terentii omnes Anglicæ factae primúmque hac noua forma nunc editæ: opera ac industria R.B. in Axholmiensi insula Lincolnsherij Epvvortheatis

Cambridge: ex officina Iohannis Legat, 1598.

Price: $15,000.00

Bound in contemporary vellum, a bit rumpled, lightly soiled, text block loose at front. A very fine, crisp copy. Smudge on leaf C1, ink spot on leaf G2; small, faint dampstain to upper margin in gatherings E and F. Variable light damp-stain to lower, outer corner starting in gathering L....

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