Leipzig: Valentin Schumann, 1521.
Price: $16,000.00
Bound in modern, attractive marbled boards. A very fine copy, gently cleaned, on thick paper and with wide margins. There are two pinprick wormholes in the lower margin and one in the text, a marginal tear (a natural fault in the paper) with no loss, and a small ink spot...
Florence: Typ. B. Paperini, 1748.
Price: $13,000.00
Bound in contemporary red morocco (nicely preserved with minimal signs of wear and a few discreet repairs), the boards elaborately tooled in gold and with the arms of the dedicatee, Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor and Grand Duke of Tuscany. Spine and turn-ins richly tooled in gold. An exceptional, bright...
Amsterdam: Jan Evertsz. Cloppenburgh, 1635.
Price: $9,500.00
Bound in contemporary Dutch vellum (lightly soiled, corners bumped.) Title lightly soiled, small collector’s mark (Lugt 585), with artist’s tools and monogram “CK”, of the Dutch painter, architect, and art historian Christiaan Kramm (1797-1875). Text with scattered light browning and foxing, some spotting (impurities in the paper), light soiling, insignificant...
Amsterdam: Jan Evertsz. Cloppenburgh, 1635.
Price: $7,800.00
Bound in contemporary Dutch vellum, binding bowed, title page lightly soiled and strengthened in gutter. Scattered light soiling, occ. Spotting (due to impurities in the paper), woodcuts on lvs. I3 and I8 cut close but without loss.Illustrated with a title page engraving showing the Ship of Fools, an engraved portrait...
Florence: appresso I Giunti, 1564.
Price: $15,000.00
Bound in early 20th c. parchment over stiff boards, spine label chipped at foot. A nice copy with minor blemishes. The first two lvs. and verso of final leaf lightly soiled, the front endpaper foxed. With a woodcut of the Florentine lily on the title page. With the book ticket...
Venice: appresso Alvise Sessa [per Gio. Antonio Rampazetto], 1588.
Price: $8,500.00
Bound in 17th c. vellum, likely a remboîtage (boards lightly soiled.) The text is in very good condition, on the whole rather fresh with mild cosmetic blemishes: the title and final two leaves lightly soiled and dusty, the blank verso of the last leaf more heavily. Occasional wear to 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...
Basel: ex Offic. Henricpetrina, 1566.
Price: $12,500.00
[Bound with:] De methodo medendi, sectiones quatuor. Paris: in aedibus Rouillij, 1565 Octavo: 15.6 x 10.5 cm. 2 works in one volume. 1. “Ars curandi parva” (in 2 vols): Vol. I: (96), 1-720 pp. Vol. II: (2), 1003-1621 (3) pp. (as numbered by the publisher, instead of...
Bologna: per l'herede del Benacci, 1652.
Price: $7,600.00
Bound in a stunning Bolognese binding of red morocco à l’éventail, the boards elaborately gold-tooled in compartments and richly decorated with intricate floral patterns, a central, open fan, quarter fans at the corners, fleurs-de-lis on a diapered ground, lace-like patterns, etc. The binding is in fine condition, with discreet repairs...
Venice: Pietro de Nicolini da Sabio ad instantia de Marchio Sessa, 1547.
Price: $4,800.00
A very fine, fresh copy in early vellum (corners bumped, light soiling, lacking ties) with the original blue and white silk end-bands intact. Bright and clean internally. With the Sessa cat and mouse device on the title and final leaf. Early, faded inscription and early stamp of the Carthusian library...
Venice: In aedibus Aldi, et Andreae soceri, 1515.
Price: $10,000.00
A lovely, unsophisticated copy in contemporary limp vellum (binding lightly soiled, remains of ties, small splits on spine). Very fresh and bright, with generous margins and only some very minor ink marks or the occasional blemish. Title lightly soiled and with early note deleted in ink. An early reader (possibly...
Venice: Bonetus Locatellus, per Octavianus Scotus, 9 December, 1491.
Price: $18,000.00
[Bound with]: Statius, Publius Papinius (b. ca. 45-50 – d. ca. 96) Statii Achilleida cum comm. Ioannis Britannici Brescia: per Iacobum Brtitannicum, 21 May 1485 Folio: 29 x 19.6 cm. Two works bound as one. I. [158] lvs. (the last leaf blank). Collation: a-c8, d-e6, f-s8...
Basel: Henricus Petri, 1530.
Price: $2,800.00
Bound in contemporary alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards, lacking clasps but with the brass catches, with acorn tools and rolls of 3 of the Muses: Terpsichore, Euterpe (signed N.C.), and Calliope (signed M.A.). First title dusty, damp-stain in the first part of the Martial. Intermittent annotations in the margins of...
Venice: [apud Paulum Manutium, Aldi filium], 1558.
Price: $5,800.00
With three divisional title pages, all featuring the Aldine dolphin and anchor device. Bound in contemporary blind-tooled pigskin (lightly soiled, corners bumped, small hole in pigskin at head of spine, wear at extremities), signed “A.S.K.” and dated 1562 on the upper board. Title page lightly soiled, intermittent mild foxing, light...
[Rome:]: no printer, no date, ca. 1574-, 1584.
Price: $16,000.00
Bound in 18th c. stiff parchment, title label with gilt lettering. A fine, wide-margined copy with beautiful, rich impressions of the plates. Title lightly soiled and with upper blank margin restored (not affecting the plate.) A few spots in the blank, inner margin of the first plate, far from the...
Florence: Giunti, 1574.
Price: $2,500.00
Title page within an architectural woodcut border containing the Medici coat-of-arms and a small view of Florence. Printer’s device at the colophon. Woodcut portrait of Cosimo de’ Medici on the verso of the title-page. Foxed. Bound in attractive 18th-century colored paper over thin boards. Extremely rare. No copies in North...
Venice: Appresso Il [Giovanni Battista] Ciotti, 1621.
Price: $16,000.00
Bound in 20th c. boards covered with a liturgical manuscript leaf. A fine, crisp copy with a little light marginal soiling; verso of final leaf also lightly soiled. Illustrated with 2 engraved title pages, a full-page portrait of Cosimo II, and 15 full-paged engraved plates. One of the engravings is...
![Item #4875 The Works of our ancient, learned, [and] excellent English poet, Jeffrey Chaucer: as...](https://liberantiquus.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4875-1.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1705335799)
London: [s.n.], 1687.
Price: $9,800.00
Bound in 17th c. sprinkled calf, the boards framed by a repeating gold tool. Discreetly rebacked preserving most of the original spine, corners bumped; new endpapers. With the full-page engraved portrait of Chaucer bound opposite the title page and a second title page (leaf c1) with a three-quarter page woodcut...
London: Printed for Henry Herringman, and are to be sold at his shop at the sign of the Anchor, in the lower walk of the New Exchange, 1656.
Price: $15,000.00
A very good, crisp, complete copy of this rare book, bound in contemporary English sheepskin, ruled in blind, rebacked, boards heavily worn. Metal-cut t.p. rule shaved on two sides, portrait leaf with small repair to lower left corner, just entering the blank corner of the plate mark (no loss to...
![Item #4751 Il Puttino, altramente detto il cavaliero errante [with:] Trattato dell' Inventione et...](https://liberantiquus.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4751.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1694183165)
Naples: Giovanni Domenico Montanaro, 1634.
Price: $9,000.00
Bound in contemporary limp vellum, moderately soiled. Internally very good copies: I. (‘Il Puttino’): Free end-paper a little ragged, upper blank margin of first few leaves slightly nibbled, mild foxing, gatherings G-I lightly browned, occasional small stains. II. (‘Inventione’): Small dark stain in upper blank margin throughout, not affecting the...
Venice: Per Giovan Battista et Melchior Sessa fratelli, 1558.
Price: $8,500.00
A nice, unsophisticated copy in contemporary limp vellum. Title dusty, a few light marginal stains, marginal paper flaw (not affecting text) to leaf *4, short worm-trail in lower margin of five gatherings (Q-S, V-X), touching a single letter in the bottom line of text on some lvs., damp-stain to 4...
Nuremberg: Johannes Petreius, 1543.
Price: $2,500,000.00
Bound in attractive, contemporary Parisian calf with some discreet repairs. The boards are blind-ruled and adorned with gold-tooled ornaments. This is one of very few to have appeared on the market in a contemporary binding. The text is in excellent condition, with just minor blemishes (small early erasure of an...
London: printed by William Stansby for the author, 1611.
Price: $25,000.00
Bound in 19th c. straight-grain green morocco, gilt (light wear to hinges, and extremities, joints strengthened). A very good, complete copy, a.e.g., with minor faults: plate of the Venetian courtesan facing p.261 re-margined and with small, clean tear, lower edge of leaf e5 restored with loss to a few words...
Venice: Appresso Gio. Bernardo Sessa, 1598.
Price: $18,000.00
A fine, large copy in contemporary limp vellum, re-cased (vellum soiled, a little rumpled, lacking ties.) Internally fresh with scattered minor finger-soiling and a few light stains. There is very subtle waviness to the text due to humidity. Title discreetly strengthened along leading blank edge and inner margin (not affecting...
London: By Iohn Day, dwelling ouer Aldersgate, beneath Saint Martines, 1564.
Price: $18,000.00
A very fine copy, clean throughout, bound in early 20th c. brown morocco, gilt. Printed in Black Letter, With a fine, historiated, woodcut title page border populated by swans, youths playing instruments, griffins, and masks. A large woodcut illustration, taken from Foxe’s “Martyrs”, shows six reformers being burned at the...
