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Roma Antica, e Moderna: o sia Nuova descrizione di tutti gl' edifizj antichi, e moderni tanto...

Roma Antica, e Moderna: o sia Nuova descrizione di tutti gl' edifizj antichi, e moderni tanto sagri, quanto profani della città di Roma: formata con l’autorità del Cardinale Baronio, Ciacconio, Bosio, Panciroli, Marliani, Panvinio… Abbellita con duecento, e più figure di rame e con curiose notizie istoriche. Distinta in 14 rioni secondo l’ultimo dipartimento fattone per comandamento di N.S.Benedetto XIV.. felicemente regnante. Divisa in tre tomi.

Rome: Gregorio Roisecco mercante di libri in Piazza Navona nella stamperia Puccinelli, 1750.

Price: $6,500.00

I. [2], xvi, 654 pp. Collation: π2, a8, A-Z8, Aa-Ss8 (lacking Ss8 blank and with an added leaf *Ii after leaf Ii1. π1 is the engraved t.p.) With 19 folding plates, of which two are folding maps of (ancient and modern) Rome. 68 engravings in the text. Vol. II. [2]...

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Roma antica, e moderna: o sia Nuova descrizione di tutti gl' edifizj antichi, e moderni sagri, 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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Vestigi delle antichita di Roma Tivoli Pozzvolo et altri luochi. Con privilegio di sua Sac. Ces....

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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A Relation of Three Embassies from His Sacred Majestie Charles II to the Great Duke of Muscovie,...

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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Der Todt ein Endt, aller yrdischen ding. Hans Sachs

Der Todt ein Endt, aller yrdischen ding.

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...

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Disputatio zwischen eynem Chorherren und Schuchmacher darinn das wort Gottis und ein recht...

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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Sphaera mundi [with] Johannes Regiomontanus: Disputationes contra Cremonensia deliramenta [and]...

Sphaera mundi [with] Johannes Regiomontanus: Disputationes contra Cremonensia deliramenta [and] Georg von Peurbach: Theoricae novae planetarum.

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...

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Vestigi delle antichita di Roma Tivoli Pozzvolo et altri luochi. Con privilegio di sua Sac. Ces....

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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L'idea della architettura universale, di Vincenzo Scamozzi architetto veneto divisa in X. libri...

L'idea della architettura universale, di Vincenzo Scamozzi architetto veneto divisa in X. libri [...] Parte seconda Dell'esquisitezza de' cinque ordini ...

Venice: Giorgio Valentini, 1615.

Price: $12,000.00

Bound in contemporary vellum, soiled. Edges of textblock stained blue. The text is in very good condition with minor blemishes and occasional stains (see footer for detailed note.) Volume II plate on page 62 a duplication of p.58, no correct plate pasted over. Illustrated with 2 engraved titles incorporating a portrait...

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Mechanica Hydraulico-Pneumatica Ad Eminentiss: S.R.I. Principem Joannem Philippum Electorem...

Mechanica Hydraulico-Pneumatica Ad Eminentiss: S.R.I. Principem Joannem Philippum Electorem Mogunt: Auctore. P. Gaspare Schotto. Soc. Jesu.

Wurzburg: Henricus Pigrin for J. G. Schönwetter, 1657.

Price: $12,500.00

An exceptional copy in contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over beveled wooden boards, covers framed by multiple foliate rolls, upper cover with coat of arms surmounted by the miter of a bishop or abbot at center, the initials R. W. A. T. stamped in black above the central panel, the date 1663...

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17th century volume of painted arms of the Scottish nobility, each painting executed over a...

17th century volume of painted arms of the Scottish nobility, each painting executed over a generic engraved armorial template.

Scotland? 17th c., after, 1625.

Price: $25,000.00

Manuscript consisting of 107 full-page Scottish coats-of-arms, each hand-painted over an underlying generic engraved template. The bare-bones template has minimal detail (helm with mantling, outline of a blank shield, empty compartment with flourishes) and serves only as a uniform foundation over which elaborate, individualized crests are painted. The first three...

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Opera, quae extant omnia: A Iusto Lipsio emendata et Scholiis illustrata. Editio Tertia, atque ab...

Opera, quae extant omnia: A Iusto Lipsio emendata et Scholiis illustrata. Editio Tertia, atque ab ultima Lipsii manu.

Antwerp: ex officina Plantiniana apud viduam et filios J. Moreti, 1632.

Price: $5,500.00

A very fine copy bound in contemporary Dutch vellum, ruled in blind and with a large, blind-stamped arabesque at the center of each board. This edition is illustrated with an elaborate engraved title page by Theodore Galle, re-worked to include a new portrait of Seneca after Peter Paul Rubens. The...

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Die Reformation: so der aller Durchleuchtigest, Grossmechtigest fürst und herr herr Sigmund...

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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Fragmenta aurea. A collection of all the incomparable peeces, written by Sir John Suckling. And...

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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Voyages aux côtes de Guinée & en Amerique. Par Mr. N***. SLAVERY. VOYAGES. NATURAL HISTORY

Voyages aux côtes de Guinée & en Amerique. Par Mr. N***.

Amsterdam: aux depens d’Etienne Roger, 1719.

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Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and 38 partly folding engraved plates. Bound in contemporary tanned sheep (lightly rubbed and with tiny losses to the leather), the spine richly tooled in gold with attractive ornaments. Both boards have an armorial blind-stamp with a crowned monogram “CM” and a lion rampant. The...

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ΣΟΦΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ ΑΙ ΕΠΤΑ ΤΡΑΓΟΙΔΙΑΙ. [Works in Greek] Tragoediae Septem. Una...

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: $3,500.00

This copy is bound in full 19th-century red morocco, the boards gold-ruled with large, central compartments. The spine is a bit faded and the joints and extremities are worn but the binding is otherwise nicely preserved. The contents are in very good condition with occasional light dampstaining and occasional mild...

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ΣΟΦΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ ΑΙ ΕΠΤΑ ΤΡΑΓΟΙΔΙΑΙ. [Works in Greek] Tragoediae Septem. Una...

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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ΣΟΦΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ ΑΙ ΕΠΤΑ ΤΡΑΓΟΙΔΙΑΙ. [Works in Greek] Tragoediae Septem. Una...

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: $14,000.00

Bound in contemporary German tanned calfskin over beveled wooden boards, signed “I.M.” and dated “1577, with brass catch-plates (lacking clasps) and corner guards. The binding is elaborately tooled in compartments with numerous fine and unusual tools. The outermost compartment has two rows of interlocking sheaves of wheat. The double central...

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ΣΟΦΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ ΤΡΑΓΟΙΔΙΑΙ ΕΠΤA. Tragoediae septem cum interpretationibus...

ΣΟΦΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ ΤΡΑΓΟΙΔΙΑΙ ΕΠΤA. Tragoediae septem cum interpretationibus vetustis…

Florence: per haeredes Philippi Iuntae, 6 November, 1522.

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Each of the seven plays is introduced by decorative initials and head-pieces. Bound in 17th c. Dutch vellum (light soiling, scuffing), paneled in blind, with blind-tooled ornaments at the corners and a large arabesque panel stamp at the center of each board. A broad-margined copy of this scarce and important...

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Colin Clouts come home againe. By Ed. Spencer. Edmund Spenser, ca

Colin Clouts come home againe. By Ed. Spencer.

London: printed by Thomas Creede for VVilliam Ponsonbie, 1595.

Price: $27,500.00

A wonderful copy bound in fine early 20th c. burgundy morocco by Riviere & Sons. Very nice internally, the last leaf carefully washed. With a woodcut printer’s device (McKerrow 299) and decorative border to the title page, and numerous head- and tailpieces throughout. A lovely copy of the first edition...

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Colin Clouts come home againe. By Ed. Spencer. Edmund Spenser, ca

Colin Clouts come home againe. By Ed. Spencer.

London: printed by Thomas Creede for VVilliam Ponsonbie, 1595.

Price: $27,500.00

An attractive copy in early 20th c. calf. Very nice internally, the last leaf with 16th c. verses in Latin and English on the verso of the final leaf. With a woodcut printer’s device (McKerrow 299) and decorative border to the title page, and numerous head- and tailpieces throughout. A....

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Complaints. Containing sundrie small poemes of the worlds vanitie. VVhereof the next page maketh...

Complaints. Containing sundrie small poemes of the worlds vanitie. VVhereof the next page maketh mention. By Ed. Sp.

London: Imprinted by Thomas Orwin for VVilliam Ponsonbie, dwelling in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the Bishops head, 1591.

Price: $35,000.00

Bound in fine early 20th c. green morocco with gilt turn-ins and the words “Complaints – Edmund Spenser – 1591” tooled in gold on the front board. The same neatly tooled on the spine. A nice copy, never washed or pressed, with wide outer margins. The edge of the title...

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Quadragesimale de floribus sapientiae. Edited by Marcus Venetus. Ambrosius de Spiera

Quadragesimale de floribus sapientiae. Edited by Marcus Venetus.

Venice: Bonetus Locatellus for Octavianus Scotus, 20 February 1488/, 1489.

Price: $16,000.00

Bound in a very nicely preserved, contemporary Esslingen blinding of blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards [Kyriss 134, EBDB w000012] with metal clasps, as well as metal center- and corner pieces. With the title and shelf-mark inked on the spine. Internally this is a crisp copy, rubricated, with a woodcut printer’s...

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A true and summarie reporte of the declaration of some part of the Earle of Northumberlands...

A true and summarie reporte of the declaration of some part of the Earle of Northumberlands treasons, deliuered publiquelie in the Court at the Starrechamber by the Lord Chauncellour and others of her Maiesties most Honourable priuie Counsell, and Counsell learned, by her Maiesties special commandement, together with the examinations & depositions of sundrie persons touching the maner of his most wicked & violent murder committed vpon him selfe with his owne hand, in the Towre of London, the 20. day of Iune, 1585

London: in aedibus C. B[arker], undated but, 1585.

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Bound in 19th c. quarter morocco and marbled boards, with the arms of the Signet Library. A good copy with some damp-stains, occ. light stains and minor soiling. Headline of a few leaves shaved. Complete the both blanks, the first with the signature mark A1.Very rare. ESTC locates copies in...

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The Annales of Cornelius Tacitus. The Description of Germanie. Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Sir...

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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