Augsburg: Melchior Ramminger, 1523.
Price: $5,500.00
Modern boards. A fine copy with a beautiful four-part title page border, the lower register of which shows a stag hunt. There is also a small woodcut of the Virgin, balancing on the crescent moon, and holding the infant Christ.A sermon for Lichtmeß (Candlemas), the feast of the presentation of...
Basel: Henricus Petrus, 1557.
Price: $18,000.00
Bound in 17th c. English calf, rebacked in the 20th c. (wear to extremities, corners bumped, some light wear to boards. A very good copy with blemishes as follows: Light marginal staining to the lower corner and occasionally to the outer margin of the opening gatherings, scattered light foxing or...
London: St. James's Palace, 7th June, 1556.
Price: $50,000.00
Blind-stamped paper seal and address panel on verso "To our right trustie wellbeloved Counsillor Lord Paget de Beaudesert...", docketed on verso: "for thabsentes... Quene marie to my Lorde for process xvi"A remarkable letter, signed by Mary Tudor as Queen, instructing Lord Paget as Keeper of the Privy Seal to send...
Tübingen, Ulrich Morhart the Elder, June, 1523.
Price: $7,600.00
Three works bound in contemporary alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards, ruled and stamped in blind, both clasps intact, with light stains and smudges. The text is in excellent, crisp condition, the last three leaves with a slim worm trail affecting a couple of words on each leaf. Contemporary manuscript index...
Florence: Per Gaetano Cambiagi, 1792.
Price: $5,500.00
Bound with: Massi, Pasquale, da Cesena 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. Roma: Presso Lazzarini, 1792...
London: Printed by R[ichard]. H[odgkinson]. for Laurence Blaikelocke, 1640.
Price: $9,500.00
Bound in 19th c. half morocco and marbled boards (rubbed, minor defects at head of spine and corners, boards a bit soiled. A very good copy, the lower margin cut short, affecting some catchwords but never the text, title a little dusty, a few light spots. Provenance: Hove Public Library...
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Parma: Expensis & labore Francisci Mazalis, 1505.
Price: $28,000.00
Bound in twentieth-century stiff vellum. A broad-margined copy, some leaves gently washed, contemporary annotations to some leaves, occ. use of light colored wash to the woodcuts, insignificant mild soiling. Illustrated with 59 woodcuts. This is the only book known under Mazali's imprint at Parma (he was established at Reggio Emilia...
Rome: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1762.
Price: $84,000.00
An extremely fine copy of the first edition, bound in a fabulous contemporary Baroque binding by an unidentified Roman binder. Binding and contents in excellent condition. Binding with light wear at the hinges, contents extremely fresh with dark, rich impressions of the plates. There is a little damp-staining to the...
[N.P, N.D.]: ca. 1774.
Price: $8,500.00
Image size (from plate mark): 121.2 x 71.1 cm. A fine impression, tiny area of blank left margin neatly repaired, some marginal finger-soiling. With no staining or discoloration where the three sheets are joined. Paper with watermark of a fleur-de-lis within a double circle.Piranesi’s map extends the area covered by...
Venice: Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1545.
Price: $6,800.00
Bound in modern stiff vellum. Contents with occ. light blemishes. With a woodcut compass on folio 74; woodcut printer’s device on title and final leaf. Embossed bookplate, “Montisalti” on front pastedown.An important account of the 1522 siege of Rhodes, a campaign led by the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman I “the Magnificent”...
Rome: Nella Stamperia di Gio. Battista de Caporali, per andare all'Orso, 1729.
Price: $3,800.00
Bound in later carta rustica. A fine, fresh copy on crisp paper. Very faint soiling to upper margin. A large historiated initial, decorative head- and tail-pieces. With the arms of Cardinal Polignac on the title page.A very rare account of the elaborate transformation of Piazza Navona to celebrate the birth...
Paris: Simon Colines, 7 May, 1543.
Price: $4,800.00
A tall copy in contemporary French panelled calf with gilt ornaments on the boards and spine (wear to hinges). Early ownership inscription inked over on pastedown; another -partially legible- inscription reads ‘Anthonii Eutg..[?]’. Later notes on rear pastedown. Title lightly soiled, occ. marginal dampstains. Coline’s iconic “Tempus” device appears on...
Strasbourg: [Matthias Hupfuff], 1508.
Price: $14,000.00
Printer information from Schmidt (see references.) A very good copy in modern marbled boards. Lightly soiled, a few contemporary corrections to page numbering, tiny chip to blank corner of title, occ. light marginal staining. With a woodcut title illustration (repeated on the final leaf) showing a doctor treating his bed-ridden...
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...
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...
