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Item #4712 Observationum ac Paradoxorum chymiatricorum Libri Duo: Quorum Unus medicamentorum...

Observationum ac Paradoxorum chymiatricorum Libri Duo: Quorum Unus medicamentorum Chymicorum praeparatione, Alter eorundem usum succincte perspicuèque explicat.

Leiden: Joannes Maire, 1631.

Price: $5,500.00

A very nice copy in contemporary limp vellum. Light marginal dampstain to outer margin of first gathering, marginal worm-trail in blank lower margin of gatherings Q and R discreetly repaired. Occasional light toning, a few stray marks. Leaf B1 canceled as always. With a fine engraved frontispiece by Gerard Muntinck...

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Item #4503 Florilegium Diversorum Epigrammatum in Septem Libros. [Graece:] Anthologia diaphoron...

Florilegium Diversorum Epigrammatum in Septem Libros. [Graece:] Anthologia diaphoron epigrammaton.

Venice: In Aedibus Aldi, Mense Novembri, 1503.

Price: $29,000.00

Text in Greek type 4:79, (first part of title, register, and colophon in roman 10:82.) Bound in a contemporary Greek-style binding (see below). A tall copy, contents in very good condition with scattered ink stains (mostly light) and minor marks, dampstain at head of some gatherings and in a few...

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Item #4102 Lettere Della Signora Isabella Andreini Padovana, Comica Gelosa, [et] Academica...

Lettere Della Signora Isabella Andreini Padovana, Comica Gelosa, [et] Academica Intenta, nominata l'Accesa. Aggiuntovi di nuovo li Ragionamenti Piacevoli dell'istessa. Con due Tauole vna delle Lettere, e l'altra de' Ragionamenti, che nell'Opera si contengono. Di nuovo ristampate, & con ogni diligenza ricorrette. [With:] Fragmenti.

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...

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Item #4733 AD METELLAE ECHO/ CRETICVS HIC NATAM CRASSVS HVMASE IVGALEM/ FERTVR. ET HINC QVESTVS...

AD METELLAE ECHO/ CRETICVS HIC NATAM CRASSVS HVMASE IVGALEM/ FERTVR. ET HINC QVESTVS CONGEMINARE LOCVM

Rome: Antoine Lafréry, 1549.

Price: $2,800.00

Signed and dated in the plate by the publisher: “Antonii Lafrerii Romae 1549”. Paper with a hard to discern circular watermark. A fine copy, the impression sharp and with good contrast. Very faint foxing and very light soiling to the blank margins.The tomb of Caecilia Metella, one of the best-known...

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Item #4433 Plans et Elevations du Corps de L'Eglize du Port Royal [and other series]. Antoine...

Plans et Elevations du Corps de L'Eglize du Port Royal [and other series]

Paris: No printer stated, 1652.

Price: $12,000.00

A superb album OF NINETY-ONE PLATES IN RICH EARLY IMPRESSIONS presents the work of three French and one Dutch artists, including the Parisian architect Antoine Le Pautre’s ideal and realized designs for exteriors and interiors at the height of the French Baroque. All eight suites are in excellent condition. Bound...

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Item #3976 Orazione ne' funerali di d. Giuseppe Maria Jurato avvocato fiscale della Regia Gran...

Orazione ne' funerali di d. Giuseppe Maria Jurato avvocato fiscale della Regia Gran Corte del Regno di Sicilia nella chiesa di S. Ninfa.

Palermo: nella stamperia di Francesco Valenza, 1774.

Price: $2,600.00

Bound in attractive contemporary patterned pasteboards (corners bumped, minor wear.) The text is in excellent condition. The two folding engravings show the funeral monument and the catafalque. Clean tear (mended, no loss) to first plate. Marginal tear, not affecting image to second plate. The portrait was etched by Giuseppe Garofalo...

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Item #4335 Vitruvius: De architectura; Cleonides: Harmonicum introductorium [Latin]. Tr: Georgius...

Vitruvius: De architectura; Cleonides: Harmonicum introductorium [Latin]. Tr: Georgius Valla. Angelus Politianus: Panepistemon; Lamia (Praelectio in Priora Aristotelis Analytica); Frontinus: De aquaeductibus

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...

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Item #4711 Ἀριστοφάνους εὐτραγεδωτάτου κωμῳδίαι...

Ἀριστοφάνους εὐτραγεδωτάτου κωμῳδίαι ἕνδεκα. Aristophanis facetissimi comoediae undecim.

Paris: Apud Andream Wechelum, sub Pegaso, in vico Bellouaco, 1557.

Price: $4,500.00

A nice copy of a handsome edition, printed in Greek throughout. Bound in 18th century cat’s-paw calf, spine tooled in gold, with red morocco label in the second compartment -upper hinge starting at head and foot, wear along the edges and at the corners, with loss to the leather. A....

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Item #4710 Κωμῳδίαι ἐννέα. Comoediae novem. Aristophanes, BCE

Κωμῳδίαι ἐννέα. Comoediae novem.

Paris: Pierre Vidoue, for Gilles de Gourmont, 1528.

Price: $12,500.00

An exceptional, broad-margined copy, with a few deckled edges, bound in contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, with clasps intact. A near-spotless copy, the title with light finger-soiling at upper corner, a few light marginal spots in 2 gatherings at end.) With tiny, neat interlinear annotations in four comedies: Each...

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Item #3502 The Scholemaster or plaine and perfite way of teaching children, to vnderstand, write,...

The Scholemaster or plaine and perfite way of teaching children, to vnderstand, write, and speake, the Latin tong, but specially purposed for the priuate bringing vp of youth in Ientlemen and Noble mens houses, and commodious also for all such, as haue forgot the Latin tonge, and would, by them selves, without a Scholemaster, in short time, and with small paines, recover a sufficient habilitie, to understand, write, and speake Latin. By Roger Ascham. An. 1571. At London: Printed by Iohn Daye, dwelling ouer Aldersgate, [1571] [Bound with:] Ascham, Roger (1514/15-1568) Toxophilus, the schole, or partitions of shooting contayned in ij. bookes, vvritte[n] by Roger Ascham. London: In Fletestreate neare to Saint Dunstones Churche by Thomas Marshe, 1571 [Bound with:] Ascham, Roger (1514/15-1568) A Report and Discourse written by Roger Ascham of the affaires and state of Germany and the Emperour Charles his court, duryng certaine yeares while the said Roger was there. At London, Printed by Iohn Daye, dwelling ouer Aldersgate, [ca. 1570]

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...

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Item #4183 Confessio Fidei exhibita inuictiss. imp. Carolo V. caesari aug. in comicijs Augustae....

Confessio Fidei exhibita inuictiss. imp. Carolo V. caesari aug. in comicijs Augustae. Anno M.D. XXX. Addita est Apologia confessionis [Bound with: Confessio doctrinae saxonicarum ecclesiarum. Leipzig, V. Bapst, 1553]

Wittenberg: Georg Rhau, 1542, 1556.

Price: $8,500.00

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...

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Item #4340 Saint Augustine, Of the citie of God : with the learned comments of Io. Lodouicus...

Saint Augustine, Of the citie of God : with the learned comments of Io. Lodouicus Viues. Englished first by J. H. and now in this second edition compared with the Latine originall, and in very many places corrected and amended.

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...

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Item #4676 Of The Advancement And Proficience of Learning or the Partitions of Sciences IX Bookes...

Of The Advancement And Proficience of Learning or the Partitions of Sciences IX Bookes Written in Latin by the Most Eminent Illustrious & Famous Lord Francis Bacon Baron of Verulam Vicont St Alban Consilour of Estate and Lord Chancellor of England. Interpreted by Gilbert Wats.

Oxford: Printed by Leon: Lichfield, Printer to the University, for Rob: Young, & Ed: Forrest, 1640.

Price: $15,500.00

An excellent copy bound in attractive contemporary calf, boards ruled in blind and gold, with ornaments at the angles and diamond-shaped cartouche at center; spine tooled with ornaments, gilt. The binding is in fine shape with minor defects to the head and tail of spine, mild wear to hinges and...

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Item #3672 Catholicon. Johannes BALBUS, O. P., d.1298

Catholicon.

Mainz: [Peter Schoeffer], 1469.

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]...

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Item #3649 Les Plus Beaux Monuments De Rome Ancienne. Ou Recueíl Des Plus Beaux Morceaux de...

Les Plus Beaux Monuments De Rome Ancienne. Ou Recueíl Des Plus Beaux Morceaux de L'Antiquité Romaine Qui Existent Encore: Dessinés Par Monsieur Barbault Peintre Ancien Pensionnaire Du Roy a Rome, Et Gravés, en 128 Planches Avec Leur Explication.

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...

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Item #3623 Les Plus Beaux Édifices De Rome Moderne, Ou Recueíl Des Plus Belles Vües Des...

Les Plus Beaux Édifices De Rome Moderne, Ou Recueíl Des Plus Belles Vües Des Principales Églises, Places, Palais, Fontaines &c. Qui Sont Dans Rome Dessinées Par Jean Barbault Peintre, Ancien Pensionnaire Du Roy a Rome, Et Gravées en XLIV. Grandes Planches et Plusieurs Vignettes; Par D’Habiles Maitres. Avec La Description Historique De Chaque Edifice.

Rome: Chez Bouchard et Gravier Libraires françois rüe du Cours près l’Eglise de S. Marcel, de l'imprimerie de Komarek, 1763.

Price: $18,000.00

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...

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Item #4344 The She-wolf with Romulus and Remus. Nicolas Béatrizet, attrib,...

The She-wolf with Romulus and Remus

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...

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Item #4599 Comedies and Tragedies Written by Francis Beaumont and Iohn Fletcher, Gentlemen....

Comedies and Tragedies Written by Francis Beaumont and Iohn Fletcher, Gentlemen. Neverprinted [sic!] before and now Published by the Authours Originall Copies.

London: Printed for Humphrey Robinson, at the three Pidgeons, and for Humphrey Moseley, at the Princes Armes in St Pauls Church-yard, 1647.

Price: $15,000.00

With the full-paged portrait of Fletcher by Marshall bound before the title page. Bound in 18th c. blind-ruled mottled calf, very nicely re-backed with the original label preserved; corners bumped, minor scrapes and light wear to boards. Complete with the engraved portrait (first state, with "vates duplex” with v and...

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Item #4538 Pianta delle Grotte Vaticane. Benedetto, Pietro Paolo Drei

Pianta delle Grotte Vaticane

[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...

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Item #4261 Biblia Latina (With printed summaries by Menardus Monachus). BIBLE

Biblia Latina (With printed summaries by Menardus Monachus)

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...

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Item #4529 [The Decameron.] The Modell of Wit, Mirth, Eloquence, and Conversation. Giovanni...

[The Decameron.] The Modell of Wit, Mirth, Eloquence, and Conversation.

London: Printed by Isaac Jaggard, for Mathew Lownes, 1625 and, 1620.

Price: $22,500.00

Bound in contemporary English calf ruled in blind, neatly rebacked retaining the original spine, corners mended, later end-leaves. A crisp copy with minor scattered stains and clean tears (no loss). Light ink stain to first title, light dampstain to lower blank margin of first two gatherings, slight chipping to lower...

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Item #3241 Boetius de Consolationae [sic] Philosophiæ. The boke of Boecius, called the comforte...

Boetius de Consolationae [sic] Philosophiæ. The boke of Boecius, called the comforte of philosophye, or wysedome, moche necessary for all men to read and know, wherein suche as be in aduersitie, shall fynde muche consolation and comforte, and suche as be in great worldly prosperitie may knowe the vanitie and frailtie therof, and consequently fynde eternall felycytie. And this boke is in maner of a dialoge or communication betwene two persones, the one is Boecius, and the other is Philosophy, whose disputations and argumentes do playnly declare the diuersitie of th lyfe actiue, that consisteth in worldly, temporall, and transitory thynges, ... Translated out of Latin into the Englyshe toungue by George Coluile, alias Coldewel, to thintent that such as be ignoraunt in the Latin tongue, and can rede Englyshe, maye vnderstande the same. And to the mergentes is added the Latin, accordynge to the boke of the translatour, whiche was a very olde prynte

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...

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Item #4432 Gemmarum et Lapidum Historia. Quam olim edidit Anselmus Boetius de Boot, Brugensis,...

Gemmarum et Lapidum Historia. Quam olim edidit Anselmus Boetius de Boot, Brugensis, Rudolphi II. imperatoris Medicus. Postea Adrianus Tollius, Lugd.-Bat., M. D., recensuit; figuris melioribus, & commentariis pluribus illustravit, & indice auxit multo locupletiore. Tertia editio longe purgatissima. Cui accedunt Ioannis De Laet, Antvverpiani, De Gemmis & Lapidibus libri II. Et Theophrasti liber De Lapidibus, Gr. & Lat. cum brevibus notis.

Leiden: Joannes Maire, 1647.

Price: $4,900.00

Bound in contemporary Dutch vellum (lightly soiled, lower “yapped” edge a bit warped). Complete with both folding tables. Illustrated with eighty-seven (87) woodcuts of gems and minerals, including geodes, hematite, crystals, corral, and fossils.A very good copy, with scattered mild soiling and light foxing, very lightly stained at upper margin;...

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Item #4844 Drunken Barnaby’s four journeys to the north of England. In Latin and English...

Drunken Barnaby’s four journeys to the north of England. In Latin and English verse. Wittily and Merrily (tho’ near One Hundred Years ago) compos’d; found among some old musty Books, that had a long time lain by in a Corner; and now at last made publick. To which is added, Bessy Bell

London: printed for S. Illidge, under Searle’s Gate Lincolns-Inn New-Square: and sold by S. Ballard in Little-Britain, J. Graves in St. James’s-Street, and J. Walthoe over-against the Royal Exchange, 1716.

Price: $4,500.00

A fine copy in contemporary calfskin (corners lightly bumped, upper hinge rubbed), boards ruled with a double gilt fillet, spine ruled in gold, citron morocco label. Text in very nice condition with just some occasional, light marginal soiling. Complete with the engraved frontis. and the engraved plate.“In Brathwaite’s most famous...

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Item #4214 Philobiblon Richardi Dunelmensis sive De amore librorum, et institutione bibliothecæ,...

Philobiblon Richardi Dunelmensis sive De amore librorum, et institutione bibliothecæ, tractatus pulcherrimus. Ex collatione cum varijs manuscriptis editio jam secunda; cui accessit appendix de manuscriptis Oxoniensibus. Omnia hæc, opera & studio T.I. Novi Coll. in alma Academia Oxoniensi socij. B.P.N

Oxford: Joseph Barnes, 1599.

Price: $25,000.00

Bound in modern calf, gilt. With a typographic ornament on the title, woodcut initials, head-and tail-pieces. A tall copy with good margins, title lightly soiled and with small restoration in the blank gutter, last leaf also lightly soiled and with a similar repair to the blank corner. Some early annotations...

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