Venice: Theodorus de Ragazonibus, 23 August, 1491.
Price: $18,000.00
Bound in early vellum with later endpapers. A fine, fresh copy with nice margins, printed on high-quality paper. First leaf slightly soiled and with mild wear to the edges, a few trivial light stains, verso of final leaf lightly soiled, faded early inscription to title.The “Mirabilia Romae” (Marvels of Rome)...
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]...
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...
Antwerp: Apud Adrianum Huberti, 1587.
Price: $9,500.00
Illustrated with 29 half-paged engravings of torture, murder, and execution. Bound in modern blind-ruled vellum with ornaments and central arabesques. A very good copy, lightly soiled and with some marginal foxing. Minor blemishes, small ink spot (leaf L2), small wax drips (leaf B3). There is a tiny tear in blank...
[Cologne: Ulrich Zel], about, 1472.
Price: $6,800.00
The printer, Ulrich Zel (d. ca. 1505), was the first printer in Cologne. A fine copy. Bound in nineteenth-century green morocco gilt. Later 4-line initial in red on a gold ground with red penwork decoration, early red paraphs and initial strokes, early manuscript note on verso of final blank. With watermarks...
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)...
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...
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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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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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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Geneva: Henri Estienne, 1568.
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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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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...
London: printed by Thomas Creede for VVilliam Ponsonbie, 1595.
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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...
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....
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...
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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Florence: Benedetto Giunta, 1540.
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First two works (Theocritus’ poems and the Scholia) printed in Greek throughout. Third work (Theocritus’s poems, translated) in Latin throughout. Each book with printer’s woodcut devices on title and final printed leaf. In the first volume, two of the shape poems, the “Axe” and “Wings” are set within woodcut frames...
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Venice: Aldus Manutius, February 1495 i.e., 1496.
Price: $38,000.00
A fine, large, unwashed copy with broad margins. Provenance: William Beckford (Catalogue (1883) 2530) and Prime Minister Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery (1847-1929). Bound in early nineteenth-century green morocco, spine and boards tooled in gold. Adorned with eight intricate woodcut headpieces (2 by the Poliphilo Master), with twenty-nine...
London: Printed by H. Lownes, and R. Young, 1628.
Price: $2,900.00
Bound in contemporary blind-ruled calf (corners bumped and worn, small defects to spine, leather of hinges cracked but firm) with the initials A.N. and an attractive floral ornament tooled in gold on the boards. Internally, both books are in fine condition with trivial faults as follows: I. (“Imitatio”): Clean tear...
