Kempten: Per Rudolphum Dreherr, 1673.

Price: $16,000.00

Bound in contemporary stiff vellum (small repairs to foot of the spine, re-cased, endpapers renewed.) Internally, this copy is in fine condition with only minor faults as follows: half-title soiled, small wormholes in first four lvs., a peppering of small wormholes to final four index lvs. and final blank leaf...

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...

[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...

Venice: apud Franciscum Zilettum, 1584.

Price: $5,800.00

Bound in 18th c. quarter vellum and patterned paste-paper. A fine copy. Small stain to leaf H4 and margin of b3, very pale dampstain to two gatherings. Woodcut printer’s devices on main and divisional title page. Rare. 5 copies traced in North America: Hagley Museum, Michigan, Newberry, NLM, Columbia.A very...

N.p. [France]: No printer [for Joseph Vitta], 1900.

Price: $12,500.00

Printed on laid paper, with watermarks “A. Portabeuf” and “Arches”. Most margins untrimmed, with their deckled edges preserved. Light marginal soiling to some plates, one plate with light foxing in lower margin, not touching the image, one plate with foxing to blank verso (not visible on the printed recto), final...

Mainz: Johann Schöffer, February, 1522.

Price: $5,800.00

[Bound with:] Erasmus, Desiderius (1466-1536); Cato, Dionysius (ca. 3rd c.); Colet, John (1467-1519), et al. Catonis disticha moralia cum scholiis auctis Erasmi Roterodam... Isocratis paraenesis ad Demonicum. dennuo cum Graecis collata per Eras[mum] Strasbourg: Johann Knobloch, 1523 Octavo: 15.5 x 10.1 cm. I. (Adagia): [8] lvs...

Frankfurt: Johann David Zunner, 1684.

Price: $7,500.00

Complete with the engraved title page, which has been folded at the bottom to avoid trimming by the binder. Bound in 18th c. quarter vellum and marbled boards with some minor wear. The contents are in very fine condition. Small adhesion scar to title. Illustrated with 41 large woodcuts."Ercker's treatise...

Turin: Gio. Battista Chais, 1737.

Price: $15,000.00

Bound in contemporary marbled boards, worn and soiled, rebacked in later sheep. An unusually nice copy internally, with just the slightest toning to some plates, a few spots, clean tear to center of one plate at fold (no loss), and light finger-soiling in the margins. Magnificent engraved ornamental frontispiece by...

Amsterdam: Apud Joannem Janssonium à Waesberge, 1672.

Price: $45,000.00

Bound in 18th c. pigskin, richly tooled in blind and with two spine labels. A fine copy. Portrait leaf skillfully re-margined, small nick in blank margin of leaf Z2, light dampstain in blank margin of one folding plate. Wormtrail to pastedown, flyleaves and blank margin of portrait, clean tear to...

[Ulm: Conrad Dinckmut,] c., 1488.

Price: $18,000.00

A large copy bound in contemporary Augsburg blindstamped calf over wooden boards [Kyriss 81, EBDB w002144], title tooled on upper board, author’s name inscribed on fore-edge, label on upper board. The binding is a little worn, with a few wormholes, some restoration to the head and tail of the spine...

Imprinted at Edinburgh: [s.n.], 1618.

Price: $7,400.00

With cancel title page and dedication printed by A. Hart; Page 109-12 are a cancel bifolium printed in London by the Eliot's Court Press. Cf. STC. This copy is bound with bound with, as often, “Ta tōn Musōn exodia” (see STC 142). There are two variants of Hart’s issue, the...

Wittenberg: [Melchior Lotter the younger], 1520.

Price: $8,500.00

Disbound, with a slim guard along the spine. A crisp copy, the title very lightly soiled, contents with some very light scattered marginal foxing and a few light marginal blemishes; blank verso of last leaf lightly soiled.This is the first response by Luther to the papal bull threatening him with...

London: Printed by I.B. for Nicholas Vavasour, and are to be sold at his Shop in the Inner Temple, neere the Church, 1633.

Price: $225,000.00

Bound in modern full dark brown morocco circa 1984, in a custom box. A fine copy, lightly washed, unpressed, the paper preserving its rattle. All edges gilt. Provenance: Ximenes (sold 1993), with receipt and scan of a note from Steve Weissman regarding the sale."Although written about 1589 and entered in...