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...

Augsburg: Christoph. Mangius, 1615.

Price: $22,000.00

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...

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...

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...

Rome: presso l’autore, 1819-, 1823.

Price: $45,000.00

A fine, complete set with all 101 engraved plates. Bound in contemporary three-quarter ivory vellum and marbled boards, decorative gold tooling along the edge of the vellum. Discreet repairs to the binding at head and foot of spine, slight damage to corners. Contents in very fine condition with broad margins...

Nürnberg: Georg Merckel, around, 1554.

Price: $4,800.00

With a large woodcut on the title page showing death (as a skeleton). A clean copy, two tiny wormholes. Bound in modern boards. The woodcut shows the man lying in his bed, death (as a skeleton) and Virtue and Vice (personified as women) flanking his bed, beneath which can be...

Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 6 July, 1482.

Price: $38,000.00

Bound in fine 20th c. dark green crushed morocco with the gilt monogram and armorial device of the noted collector George Abrams. Leaf a2 is printed in red and black and has two very fine decorative initials on black ground. There is a full-page woodcut of an armillary sphere on...

Venice: Cesare Arrivabene, 1517.

Price: $4,500.00

A very good copy bound in later vellum. First and final leaf lightly soiled. With a woodcut on the title page showing Savonarola writing in his cell, a woodcut of King David in prayer (in the text), and Arrivabene’s device on the final leaf.The Dominican preacher, reformer, and martyr, Girolamo...

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...

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...

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], 1598Folio: 30 x 20.7 cm. [8], 271, [1] p. (1st 2 p. blank) Collation: [par.]⁴ A-Y⁶...

Geneva: Excudebat Henricus Stephanus, 1588.

Price: $7,500.00

Bound in contemporary calf, rebacked. The boards are framed by a single gold fillet. Central, wreath-like cartouches, also gilt, are stamped at the centers of both boards. The text is in very good condition, with good margins. There is, however, a bit of worming affecting the text in the first...

London: Charles Harper, 1676.

Price: $6,500.00

Bound in contemporary sprinkled calf, re-backed in the 20th c., boards ruled in compartments with decorative tools at each corner of the central panel. Slight loss at corners, extremities with signs of wear. The contents are in good condition, with all the maps and plates present. One map with mended...