Modena: Bartolomeo Soliani, 1745.
Price: $18,000.00
FIRST EDITION of Vandelli's contributions to a history of the Accademia dei Lincei, together with the SECOND EDITION (1st ed. 1624) of the Academy's constitutions, the "Praescriptiones". An engraved lynx, symbol of the Academy, appears on the title page of the "Praescriptiones". [See below for an in-depth description.].[Bound with:]...
Cologne: Johann Gymnich, 1536.
Price: $8,500.00
Bound in contemporary alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards (moderate surface wear, 1 catch and both catch-plates preserved). Fine copies internally. Historiated woodcut initials.With 65 known manuscripts, the “Dialogue Against the Jews” was one of the most widespread anti-Jewish texts in the Late Middle Ages. The author, the originally Jewish doctor...
![Item #4102 Lettere Della Signora Isabella Andreini Padovana, Comica Gelosa, [et] Academica...](/pictures/medium/4102.jpg?v=1614028564)
Venice: Presso Gio. Battista Combi, 1638.
Price: $4,800.00
Bound in contemporary vellum, stained red, some wear and soiling, remains of green silk ties. A nice copy with a little minor damp-staining, and some worming in three signatures, affecting one to two lines of text but not the sense.The first edition of Isabella Andreini's collection of letters appeared in...
Venice: Alessandro Paganini, 21st February, 1514.
Price: $4,500.00
Bound in 19th c. vellum, tooled in blind. A nice copy. Title lightly soiled, some very pale staining, a few early notes in the margins, minor worming to several signatures. All edges red. Bound with an unrelated work. A rare edition of this work, first printed in 1474. 2 copies...
![Item #4335 Vitruvius: De architectura; Cleonides: Harmonicum introductorium [Latin]. Tr: Georgius...](/pictures/medium/4335-1.jpg?v=1626643682)
Venice: Simon Bevilaqua, 3 Aug. 1497.
Price: $150,000.00
A fresh copy in late 18th c. stiff vellum, later red morocco spine label, gilt (re-cased, text re-sewn), binding lightly soiled, small chips to edge of label, later endpapers and flyleaves). Minor, very discreet repairs to the inner margin of the first leaf and quire E, some skilful restoration to...
London: Printed by Iohn Daye, dwelling ouer Aldersgate, ca. 1570.
Price: $45,000.00
Truly excellent copies, all three texts clean and very fresh, with just a small, very light ink mark on the second title page. With John Day's woodcut printer's device at the end of the Schoolmaster. "Toxophilus" with fine woodcut title with grotesque caryatids. The binding is original limp vellum with...
![Item #4514 De Nativitatibus. [Translated by Henricus Bate.] (and) Magistralis compositio...](/pictures/medium/4514.jpg?v=1651695788)
Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 24 Dec. 1485.
Price: $35,500.00
Bound in recent smooth parchment. Illustrated with one full-paged text woodcut of an equatorium and sixteen schematic astronomical diagrams in the text. The text is in Gothic with two large and numerous smaller white-on-black decorative woodcut initials. A fine, crisp copy on bright paper. First leaf lightly soiled on blank...
Danzig: Sumptibus auctoris, typis D.F. Rhetii, 1685.
Price: $35,000.00
Bound in 18th c. half calf and marbled boards with very slight wear. Spine with citron morocco label, gilt. A nice copy with a few early marginal paper repairs (no loss.) The final two leaves of the table with repaired tears, the second of these with a small natural paper...
Wittenberg: Georg Rhau, 1542, 1556.
Price: $7,500.00
Bound in contemporary alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards, one clasp defective, binding soiled and mildly worn and with small defects. The boards are ruled and tooled in blind, signed and dated “IPN 1556”. The contents are in excellent, crisp condition (one leaf working loose, marginal tear in margin of leaf...
London: Printed by G. Eld and M. Flesher, 1620.
Price: $8,500.00
Bound in contemporary English calf, rebacked with wear to hinges; boards scuffed, corners bumped. Internally a very good copy with intermittent light marginal damp-stains, a bit darker in a few signatures. Very fine woodcut initials and headpieces. Leaves of sig. O bound out of sequence, N3 with tiny rust hole...
Mainz: [Peter Schoeffer, ca. [1469], 1460.
Price: $600,000.00
Collation: [1-610, 74]: grammar, 1r incipit (P)rosodia quedam pars grammatice nuncupatur. Partes siquidem grammatice sunt quattuor (contractions resolved); [8-1910 204(4+1)]: dictionary A-H, 8/1r incipit (I)am divina potencia auxiliante supra determinavimus de quatuor particulis principalibus huius operis. Nunc restat ut de quinta parte, 20/4+1r incipit manus cum suis derivativis, verso blank; [21-3810 394]...
Geneva: Conrad Badius, 1561.
Price: $7,500.00
Title page within a woodcut border with the printer's device at the center. A fine, fresh copy in contemporary limp vellum with overlapping edges, manuscript title on the spine and lower edge, remnants of ties, light stain on the back panel, inked-out ownership's entry dated 1606 on the title page...
Rome: Chez Bouchard et Gravier Libraires François rüe du Cours près de Saint Marcel, de l'imprimerie de Komarek, 1761.
Price: $16,000.00
Magnificently illustrated with 73 etched and engraved plates comprising 88 half-page and 29 full-page images of ancient Roman architecture and sculpture. These were designed by Barbault (83 engravings), Carlo Nolli (1), and L. Bufalino (1) and engraved by Barbault (56), Domenico Montagù (52), Giuseppe? Bouchard (6), and Freicenet (4). The...
Rome: Chez Bouchard et Gravier Libraires françois rüe du Cours près l’Eglise de S. Marcel, de l'imprimerie de Komarek, 1763.
Price: $22,000.00
This is a very fine, broad-margined copy bound in 19th c. half vellum (worn, small splits at head and foot of spine and another along the spine. The text and plates are in excellent condition with only a few instances of light marginal foxing or the occasional light blemish. One...
Rome: Antonio Lafréry, 1552.
Price: $3,500.00
First state (of three.) A rich impression with wide margins, light marginal foxing and a little light soiling, extreme upper margin a little ragged. Inscribed on the pedestal: “LVPAE ROMVLVM ET REMVM VRBIS CONDITORES LACTANTIS ANTIQVVM AC AENEVM IN CAPITOLIO SIGNVM.” (Ancient bronze image of the she-wolf nursing Romulus and...
[Rome:]: Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, after, 1638.
Price: $3,800.00
Lettered title across top, extensive description throughout. At right dedication to Cardinal Barberini and lower right 'Romae Superior licentia Anno 1635.' At left, beneath the cartouche: “La presente Pianta ridotta nella forma che al presente si ritrova con le Quattro Capelle fatte dalla Sat m. di Urbano VIII disegata. da...
Ulm: Johann Zainer, 29 January, 1480.
Price: $95,000.00
An excellent copy, with noble provenance, of this magnificent Bible. A very large, impressive copy, with broad margins, preserving numerous deckled edges. The quires are numbered in a contemporary hand, in red ink, at the foot of leaves. The stub for the canceled blank leaf ll3 (the conjugate of leaf...
Augsburg: Silvan Otmar, 11 June, 1523.
Price: $125,000.00
A very early edition of Luther’s December Testament, appearing within six months of the first (Wittenberg, December 1522). With a large title woodcut by Hans Schäufelein, 25 large historiated woodcut initials (numerous repeats) with scenes of the Evangelists writing the Gospels, Paul writing the Epistles, and John writing the Book...
Lyon: Sébastien Gryphe, 1551.
Price: $8,000.00
Bound in a beautiful near-contemporary strapwork binding with a few tiny defects. The text is in very good condition with light soiling and light occasional stains. Gauphered edges, gilt. Text ruled in red, Gryphius’ device on the title.The extant works of Sallust, the "Bellum Iugurthinum", "Bellum Catilinarium" (and associated texts)...
![Item #3241 Boetius de Consolationae [sic] Philosophiæ. The boke of Boecius, called the comforte...](/pictures/medium/3241.jpg?v=1614007264)
London: In Paules churche yarde at the sygne of the holy Ghost, by Ihon Cawoode, prynter to the Kynge and Quenes Maiesties, 1556.
Price: $30,000.00
Bound in contemporary English calfskin, rebacked in the 19th c., a few patches to the leather of the boards. Text in very good condition with occasional browning, darker in signatures I and K. Light dampstain to signatures T, Z, Bb, and Ff. Text in Latin and English in two columns...
Leiden: Joannes Maire, 1647.
Price: $4,900.00
Bound in contemporary Dutch vellum. Contents in excellent condition (light stain in outer margin of two leaves), complete with both folding tables (both with small tears without loss.) Illustrated with eighty-seven (87) woodcuts of gems and minerals, including geodes, hematite, crystals, corral, and fossils.Third and best edition (1st 1609, 2nd...
Basel: Johann Bergmann de Olpe, 1 March, 1498.
Price: $60,000.00
Illustrated with the original woodcuts of the first German edition (1494), of which the majority (73) are often attributed to Albrecht Dürer. Bound in 18th c. blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, soiled, clasps intact, edges minor repairs. A nice, unpressed copy with a small defect to the title woodcut, only...
Oxford: Joseph Barnes, 1599.
Price: $40,000.00
Bound in 20th c. calf, gilt, by Pratt. With a typographic ornament on the title, woodcut initials, head-and tail-pieces. An unusually nice copy of this scarce book, title very lightly soiled, headlines on 2 leaves and side-note on C4 just shaved. With more than 50 early text corrections (largely making...
Basel: Per Nicolaum Bryling, 1561.
Price: $4,800.00
Bound in a signed and dated (L.S. 1563) contemporary tanned pigskin, lacking ties, ruled in compartments and richly tooled with decorative rolls with vines and two panel stamps. The binding has suffered some surface abrasions and moderate wear; the corners are bumped. The first of the panel stamps, on the...
Modena: Dionysius Bertochus, 15 May, 1500.
Price: $28,000.00
Bound in 16th c. limp vellum. Fine, broad-margined copies on thick paper with just some occasional light soiling and a few instances of foxing in the Hyginus and a dampstain to the upper, inner corner of opening leaves.Bound with: Hyginus, C. Julius (1st century A.D.); Aratus, of Soli. (c. 315-c. 245...
