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Item #3224 Relatione della felice morte di cinque religiosi della Compagnia di Giesu, et di...

Relatione della felice morte di cinque religiosi della Compagnia di Giesu, et di alcuni altri secolari ammazzati da Gentili per la fede nell'India Orientale l'anno 1583. Cavata da una del P. Allesandro Valignano Provinciale dell'india per il P. Generale della compagna di Giesu data in Goa alli 28 Dicembre dell'istesso anno.

Rome: appresso Francesco Zanetti, 1584.

Price: $4,800.00

Later “carta rustica” boards with spine in early vellum. The text begins on A2. Complete.The extremely rare first Italian edition of this report from India. Streit lists a Latin edition at Goa in 1584 (Streit IV, 1024) but this appears to have been published only in later collections (the 'Littera...

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Item #2764 Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori et architetti di Giorgio Vasari, pittore...

Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori et architetti di Giorgio Vasari, pittore & architetto aretino; parte prima e seconda [-terza] ; in questa nuoua edizione diligentemente riviste, ricorrette, accresciute d'alcuni ritratti, & arricchite di postille nel margine.

Bologna: Presso gli heredi di Euangelista Dozza, 1648, 1663.

Price: $8,000.00

A nice set with good margins, bound in three uniform bindings of 18th century tanned sheepskin, the spines gold-ruled in compartments and with black and citron lettering pieces. Aside from the usual rubbing and some small faults to the joints, the bindings are very nicely preserved. Edges stained red. Internally...

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Item #2974 Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori et architetti di Giorgio Vasari, pittore...

Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori et architetti di Giorgio Vasari, pittore & architetto aretino; parte prima e seconda [-terza] ; in questa nuoua edizione diligentemente riviste, ricorrette, accresciute d'alcuni ritratti, & arricchite di postille nel margine.

Bologna: Presso gli heredi di Euangelista Dozza, 1647.

Price: $18,000.00

Bound in three uniform bindings of contemporary stiff vellum, somewhat soiled. The text is in overall fine condition, with some light browning, occasional foxing, and a few marginal damp-stains. The three volumes are illustrated throughout with the well-known woodcut portraits of the artists set within ornate frames. For this edition the...

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Item #3602 Indicazione Antiquaria del Pontificio Museo Pio-Clementino in Vaticano, stesa da...

Indicazione Antiquaria del Pontificio Museo Pio-Clementino in Vaticano, stesa da Pasquale Mass Cesenate Custode del Museo Stesso/ Catalogue Indicatif des Antiquitès Composant Le Musèe Pie-Clèmentin au Vatican par Paschal Massi de Cesèns Garde du dit Musèe.

Rome: Presso Lazzarini, 1792.

Price: $8,400.00

Printed on blue paper. In contemporary mottled calf, the spine and boards tooled in gold. A very fine copy of the very rare first catalogue of the Museo Pio-Clementino - founded by Pope Clement XIV in 1771 and greatly expanded his successor by Pius VI-, written for the use of...

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Item #2463 P. Virgilii Maronis Opera interpretatione et notis illustravit Carolus Ruaeus Soc....

P. Virgilii Maronis Opera interpretatione et notis illustravit Carolus Ruaeus Soc. Iesu… ad usum Serenissimi Delphini. Editio Secunda

Paris: Apud Simonem Benard, Ex Typographia Dionysii Thierry, 1682.

Price: $2,900.00

A very fine copy, bound in contemporary mottled calfskin, the spine elaborately and richly tooled in gold. The spine is separated into compartments by raised sewing supports. The second compartment bears a large red morocco label beautifully tooled in Roman capitals: “RUAEI VIRGILIUS”. The boards are framed by two decorative...

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Item #3017 THE WORKS OF VIRGIL: Containing His PASTORALS , GEORGICS, AND ÆNEIS. Translated into...

THE WORKS OF VIRGIL: Containing His PASTORALS , GEORGICS, AND ÆNEIS. Translated into English Verse; By Mr. Dryden. Adorn’d with a Hundred Sculptures.

London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1697.

Price: $20,000.00

An exceptional, and exceptionally large, “large paper” copy. This copy is complete with the engraved frontispiece, the extra plate depicting Vergil reading the Aeneid to Augustus, and all 101 of the magnificent engraved plates by W. Hollar called for in this edition: ten in the Bucolics, twenty in the Georgics...

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Item #3122 The Thirteene Bookes of Aeneidos. The first twelve beeing the worke of the diuine...

The Thirteene Bookes of Aeneidos. The first twelve beeing the worke of the diuine poet, Virgil Maro, and the thirteenth, the supplement of Maphæus Vegius. Translated into English verse, to the first third part of the tenth booke, by Thomas Phaer Esquier: and the residue finished, and now newly set forth for the delight of such as are studious in poetrie: By Thomas Twyne, Doctor in Physicke.

London: Printed by Thomas Creede, 1607.

Price: $20,000.00

Bound in an exquisite binding of eighteenth-century mottled calf, highly polished and beautifully tooled in gold along the edges of the boards. The spine is separated into six compartments by the raised sewing supports, each of which, aside from that bearing the citron morocco label, is decorated with attractive floral...

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Item #4535 The xiii. Bukes of Eneados of the Famose Poete Virgill Translatet out of Latyne verses...

The xiii. Bukes of Eneados of the Famose Poete Virgill Translatet out of Latyne verses into Scottish metir.

London: William Copland, 1553.

Price: $75,000.00

Bound in 18th century diced russia, boards and spine ornately tooled in gold, housed in a modern full dark blue morocco folding case by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Title page printed with an elaborate woodcut compartment (McKerrow & Ferguson 49a), text in black letter, with the inserted leaf in signature X....

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Item #4534 The Whole xii Bookes of the Aeneidos of Virgill. Whereof the first .ix. and part of...

The Whole xii Bookes of the Aeneidos of Virgill. Whereof the first .ix. and part of the tenth, were conuerted into English Meeter by Thomas Phaër Esquire, and the residue supplied, and the Whole Worke together newly set forth, by Thomas Twyne Gentleman. There is added moreouer to this edition, Virgils life out of Donatus, and the argument before euery booke. There is added moreouer to this edition, Virgils life out of Donatus, and the Argument before euery booke.

London: by Wyllyam How for Abraham Veale, dwelling in Poules Churchyearde, at the signe of the Lambe, 1573.

Price: $45,000.00

Bound in 19th c. navy morocco, gold-tooled and ruled in compartments, with gilt turn-ins and spine. A very nice copy, lightly pressed, a.e.g., with insignificant flaws as follows: small repair to blank lower margin of title, marginal stains on the leaves of gathering D and the first leaf of gathering...

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Item #4321 Hiernach volget das ernstlich vnnd geweltig erobern vnd eynnemen Der löblichen...

Hiernach volget das ernstlich vnnd geweltig erobern vnd eynnemen Der löblichen reychen hochberümbten vn(n) vesten stat pressa, mit sampt dem closter, so daruor gelege(n) welches auch mit gewalt gestürmt vnnd gewunnen worden ist.

Nuremberg: Wolfgang Huber, 1512.

Price: $6,500.00

Modern quarter vellum. A good copy with mild marginal soiling, discreet repairs in the gutter of the first bifolium, and a restored section of the blank margin on the final leaf. Occasional contemporary underscores. With a large woodcut title illustration. No copies of this or the other two printings in...

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Item #3920 Poems, (&c.) on Several Occasions: with Valentinian: a Tragedy. Written by the Right...

Poems, (&c.) on Several Occasions: with Valentinian: a Tragedy. Written by the Right Honourable John late Earl of Rochester.

London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, at the Judge’s Head, in Chancery-Lane near Fleet-Street, 1691.

Price: $7,500.00

A truly fine copy in its original speckled calf binding, corners bumped, hinges starting. The text is crisp and in fine shape aside from a tear to the upper margin of the title affecting the printed rule and the top edge of the word “Poems.” With the preliminary advertisement leaf...

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