Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 14 October, 1482.
Price: $35,000.00
Illustrated with 47 half-page woodcuts of the constellations and the planets personified. The text of Hyginus was first published in an unillustrated edition in Ferrara in 1475. A very good copy in 18th c. stiff vellum. The initial blank is soiled and stained. Light stains to top of second leaf...
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Puebla de los Ángeles: En el Colegio del Espíritu Sãto, por los Herederos del Capitan Iuan de Villa Real, 1698.
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Bound in contemporary vellum (lightly soiled, small losses to edges, remains of ties). The text is in fine condition with occ. light foxing, a small dampstain to the upper corner of the second part, and a few small marginal tears. Woodcut Jesuit devices and decorative printed borders on both title...
Rome: Vincenzo Mariotti, 1697.
Price: $3,500.00
Single sheet etching: 38 x 63 cm. First Issue. Signed in the lower margin “Vincentius Mariottus Romanus delin. et sculpsit Romae, Cum superiorum Facultate” and, in the image, along the base of the pedestal, “Andreas Puteus Soc. Iesu Pictor et Architectus inv. an. 1693” and higher up, “Io. Baps Gaullus...
Milan: Apud haer. Pacificij Pontij, & Ioan. Baptistam Piccaleum, impressores Archiepiscopales, 1622.
Price: $8,500.00
Excellent, fresh copies of both parts, bound in contemporary Italian carta rustica (light wear and soiling). Contents with just a few light blemishes and a few lightly creased corners. Divisional title page to second part. Both titles with Jesuit emblem.On July 27th, 1609 Pope Paul V promulgated a bull that...
Rome: Collegio Societatis Jesu, 1596.
Price: $16,000.00
Jesuit emblem on title-page, wood-cut initials throughout. A very good copy of this rare edition. Small area of corrosion at head of the title page, not affecting text, as the result of an early ink inscription. Contents with scattered foxing and occasional light damp-stains and a few ink spots. Bound...
Rome: Apud F. Zannettum, 1585.
Price: $5,500.00
Bound in contemporary vellum. A fine, fresh copy with small, discreet repairs to the inner margin of the first leaf and the outer blank margin of another. Light toning to a couple of signatures otherwise bright and crisp.Maffei, author of the influential history of the Jesuit missions in Asia, wrote...
Venice: Presso Combi, & La Noù. 1672.
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The text is illustrated with 127 woodcuts of gems and minerals, plants, animals, and a folding, double-paged scene of the museum’s interior. Mortimer (Harvard Italian 240) notes that Manzi (Stigliola, p. xiv) suggests Mario Cartaro as the artist of these blocks. This copy is bound in contemporary calf, re-backed and...
Marienthal: Fratres Vitae Communis, about, 1475.
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Bound in 17th-century gilt-tooled calf over wooden boards, initials FWGH and date 1601, stamped lozenges of Virgin and Child and IHS on covers, brass corner pieces and catch plates, one brass clasp (the other lacking), edges stained blue, leather index tabs. Provenance: Elaine and Alexander Rosenberg, acquired from Lathrop C....
Providence: Printed and sold, wholesale and retail, by John Carter, at the Post-Office, at Shakespeare’s Head, near the State-House, (1786), 1786.
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Stitched. Soiled and stained.Erroneously attributed by Evans to Benjamin West. The actual calculator appears to be Nathan Daboll. The eclipse predictions are nearly identical with those in The New England almanack and gentlemen and ladies diary for 1787 (New London), calculated by Daboll under the pseudonym of Edmund Freebetter. The astronomical and horological notes...
[Cologne: Conrad Winters de Homborch], not after, 1476.
Price: $180,000.00
An impressive, rubricated and illuminated copy with broad margins. Illuminated with 27 acanthus initials in gold, red, green, and blue with scrolling tendrils extending into the margins; numerous red and blue Lombard initials, and 6 hand-colored woodcut illustrations including the T-O map, and a full-page type-set tree of consanguinity.Bound in...
Copenhagen: Joachim Schmetgen, 1696.
Price: $16,000.00
Bound in contemporary sprinkled calf, the spine tooled in blind, with light wear. The contents are in excellent condition with the faintest amount of staining. The plates are in fine condition.The Royal Danish Kunstkammer was founded by King Frederick III in 1650 and was continued by his son, Christian V....
Zaragoza: En Caragoça por Angelo Tauano, 1599.
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Contemporary vellum, lightly worn. Text very good w. occ. light toning, sig. c lightly browned, small hole in leaf K11, worming in gutter of 4 lvs., not affecting text, occ. mild stains. Type-ruled throughout. Woodcut of the Virgin Mary on lvs. B9 and C9, Jesuit emblem on leaf C 10...
Venice: Appreso I Gioliti, 1585.
Price: $8,500.00
Bound in modern cartoncino. A very good copy with some minor repairs, lightly washed. With a fine woodcut headpiece and Jesuit emblem on the title page and numerous decorative head- and tailpieces and initials, including one of a dragon, throughout.This collection contains the following letters from the Jesuit missions in...
Ingolstadt, David Sartorius, 1592.
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Woodcut device of the Society of Jesus on the titlepage and a typographical ornament at the end. Contemporary limp vellum binding made of a vellum leaf from a printed missal (small tear to spine, vellum curled and lightly soiled.) A nice copy with a little light foxing, mild wear to...
Rome: In Collegio Societatis Iesu, 1591.
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Bound in 19th c. patterned paper, very worn, with a little worming to foot of the upper board. Contents foxed throughout and some sextions browned. With a large Jesuit emblem on title page and a smaller one on the colophon leaf, decorative initials. Two library stamps on title page: 1...
Augsburg: M. Ramminger, 1521.
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Modern boards with label. Early leather tab at edge of title. A very good copy with minor blemishes: light soiling to title, light dampstain to corner of sig. D, occasional marginal soiling. With a 3-part woodcut title illustration showing the pope as Antichrist (with little flying demons at his side)...
[Basel:]: [Andreas Cratander], 1521.
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A fine, fresh copy with broad margins, in modern marbled wrappers. Title-page with the woodcut “Indian border”, dated 1519.Karlstadt’s controversial critique of monasticism and his condemnation of clerical celibacy. In many instances and on many important matters, Karlstadt’s work and actions anticipate those of Luther (although the political and theological...
Amsterdam: Apud Jacobum a Meurs, in fossa vulgo de Keyfersgracht, 1667.
Price: $16,000.00
Complete with the engraved title page, a full-paged portrait of Kircher, 2 large folding engraved maps of China, 59 text engravings, and 23 full-paged engravings (one of which is a large folding reproduction of the "Nestorian Stele"), including some executed by the artist Willem van der Laegh. A nice copy...
Kempten: Per Rudolphum Dreherr, 1673.
Price: $15,000.00
A fine copy in near-contemporary stiff vellum (small defects to spine.) Internally, this copy is in fine condition with only minor cosmetic blemishes (occasional spots or marginal foxing. Half-title lightly soiled). Overall crisp and bright.The “Phonurgia” is illustrated with an added engraved allegorical title by G. And. Wolfgang after Felix...
Kempten: Per Rudolphum Dreherr, 1673.
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Bound in contemporary pigskin over wooden boards, with intact clasps. An extremely fine copy, bright and crisp throughout with the most minor of faults: engraved t.p. very slightly shaved at outer edge, occ. very light marginal dampstains, a few marginal spots on leaf C4. Truly excellent.The “Phonurgia” is illustrated with...
Rome: Sumptibus N[icoli]. A[ngeli]. Tinassij, 1679.
Price: $12,500.00
Complete in 2 volumes. A fine set in matching contemporary vellum, complete with all 24 inserted leaves with woodcuts (as called for). The text is in fine, crisp condition with only minor cosmetic faults: Vol. I: Light dampstain to head of first few leaves only. Cut a little close, with...
Amsterdam: Jansson-Waesberg, 1678.
Price: $22,000.00
Bound in attractive 17th c. calfskin. A fine sammelband. The "Sphinx" exhibits the usual browning. The "Musaeum" is in very fine condition with just some closed tears (no loss whatsoever) to some of the folding plates, a small rust blemish on I1, small spot on H4, and light spotting to...
Venice: Four Books Printed on the Press of the Convertite at Venice – With Early Conventual Provenance, 1559.
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Bound in 18th c. Italian parchment over boards, citron morocco label, gilt. Edges sprinkled red. Occasional damp-staining, mild soiling, scattered foxing, early annotations and some printed sidenotes shaved. The four works printed by the Convertite with early underscores; the fourth work with one marginal note (a reference to the Council...
Mainz: Johann Schöffer, 2 April (“Uff Mitfasten”), 1508.
Price: $37,500.00
Bound in fine blue morocco by the Belgian binder Charles De Samblanx (1855-1943), boards richly tooled in gold, framed by three fillets and stippling. With a large central ornament and further ornaments at the corners. Fine red morocco doublures, also richly tooled in gold. Spine ruled and tooled in gold...
Bologna: Per Giacomo Monti, 1677.
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An unusually large copy on thick paper, bound in contemporary speckled calfskin over boards, the spine richly tooled in gold (light wear, corners bumped, small tear to the leather at the head of the spine, upper endband missing, lower endband partially loose.) A wide-margined copy, contents in very good condition...
