Mainz: Johann Schöffer, 1520.
Price: $5,900.00
Bound in 17th c. calfskin, spine tooled in gold (discreet repairs to joints corners, and top compartment of spine; minor wear to the gilding. A nice copy with minor soiling to title and final leaf, and a few instances of light marginal foxing. With a title page allegorical woodcut of...
[Wittenberg]: [Cranach and Döring], 1524.
Price: $5,200.00
Bound in modern drab wrappers. With a title border by Lucas Cranach the Elder showing Luther’s monogram and the Luther rose (Luther, Titeleinfassungen, Plate 42). This particular woodcut border is significant; it marks the first time Luther’s initials and the “Luther rose” have been incorporated into the woodcut itself to...
Mexico: Bibliotheca Mexicana, 1767.
Price: $7,500.00
An excellent copy bound in contemporary vellum. Unidentified marca de fuego along the top edge. Ornamental border to title. Engraved arms on the second leaf.An important Huastec grammar, dictionary and confessor’s manual, “the earliest surviving book which contains substantial information about the Huastec language.” The book contains valuable information about...
Lyon: Matthieu Bonhomme, 1550.
Price: $9,500.00
A fine copy, lightly washed, in 19th c. red morocco, ca. 1880, signed Trautz-Bauzonnet, with gilt edges and turn-ins. Title page mildly foxed, gathering F toned. Illustrated with 211 woodcut emblems within elaborate woodcut borders. Ex Joost R. Ritman’s Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, Amsterdam.Illustrated with 211 woodcut emblems “by various hands”...
London: Printed by J[ohn] L[egat] for Andrew Hebb, and are to be sold at the signe of the Bell in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1640.
Price: $9,500.00
Bound in 18th c. speckled calf, worn at the corners and extremities, re-backed. In addition to the engraved title, there is a full-paged engraving (with a medallion portrait) of Ovid, and fifteen full-page engravings by Salomon Savery (1594-1665) after drawings by Francis Clein (1582-1658). This copy is EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with the...
Florence: nella nuova Stamperia all'Insegna della Stella, 1661.
Price: $22,500.00
Bound in contemporary vellum, lightly soiled, corners bumped, with “Ercole in Tebe” in manuscript on the spine. Very fine internally and complete with all of the plates. There is a tear on the blank flyleaf and a small natural paper flaw on the last leaf affecting two words. Title with...
London: Imprynted by Edwarde Whytchurch, wyth the Kynges moste graciouse priuelege for seuen yeres. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum, 1550.
Price: $18,000.00
Bound in contemporary blind-ruled and tooled English calfskin over wooden boards, lacking the clasps but with the original catches present. The binding has been rebacked with sheepskin, preserving the original calfskin spine, with some wear and flaking to the sheep at the hinges. A small section of the leather on...
England: Lincolnshire: ca. 1781.
Price: $6,800.00
Bound in contemporary vellum, double blind fillet around boards, heavily stained, head of spine worn, slightly warped, outer margins of first five leaves browned, light spotting and thumbing throughout.A manuscript of 133 numbered recipes for the pantry, the barrel, and the sweet tooth, written in a few different hands. The...
Paris: M. Lambert for Briasson, 1767.
Price: $9,500.00
Bound in near-contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt with green and red morocco labels. Bindings with light wear, small imperfections at a few corners. Internally, all three volumes are in excellent condition with just the occasional spot. All 30 plates are crisp and in fine impressions; a few of the larger...
London: Printed by Nicholas Okes for Richard Collins, 1633.
Price: $65,000.00
Bound in 19th century half calf and marbled boards (leather scraped at corners and spine, light wear at lower edges.), spine with title and date tooled in gold. Contents foxed and spotted, some minor stains, outer margin of H4 and I3 trimmed with some minor loss to the ends of...
Imprinted at N. [i.e. Antwerp]: [By Arnout Coninx] with licence, 1594.
Price: $11,600.00
Bound in 18th c. English sprinkled calf (minor wear, corners bumped, upper joint starting and with abrasion to head of spine) the boards paneled in blind with decorative floral tools at the corners; spine ruled in blind, with red morocco label, gilt. Contents in very good condition though with the...
Paris: Chrestien Wechel, 1540.
Price: $8,000.00
Bound in 19th c. citron Morocco, gilt. A nice copy, lightly washed, with 16th c. annotations (faded and in some cases irretrievable due to the washing). The washing of the annotations has resulted in some light staining, with occasional shine-through to the image on the verso of the sheet. Very...
Rome: Antonio Lafreri, 1547.
Price: $5,600.00
Signed at the lower right with the names of the engraver, “NB. LOTARINGVS F”, and the publisher, "ANT. LAFRERI/SEQVANVS EXCVD. ROMAE/1547”. At the foot of the image, the source is identified as Michelangelo’s fresco in the Sistine Chapel, “HIEREMIAS/MICH. ANG. PINXIT IN VATICANO”.A fine impression, rich in tone, with mild...
Venice: (Pietro Nicolini da Sabbio for) Federico Torresano, 1548.
Price: $6,800.00
Bound in 17th c. parchment (some soiling, corners bumped.) Woodcut title page border. Full-page woodcut of Saint Catherine on leaf 8 verso. Printer’s device on recto of final leaf. The text is in very good condition with instances of light damp-staining, scattered mild foxing. And occasional soiling A few marginal...
Augsburg: Maria Magdalena Utzschneider, 1699.
Price: $10,500.00
Bound in contemporary, blind-stamped pigskin over beveled wooden boards (re-cased and with new endpapers), deftly rebacked in pigskin, spine with author’s name and the title in ink, minor defects, metal clasps removed. A fine copy internally with scattered light foxing and occasional toning. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece, 6 added...
Brescia: Appresso Vincenzo Sabbio, 1592.
Price: $8,500.00
Bound in 18th c. stiff vellum (lightly soiled, covers slightly bowed), edges sprinkled red. A very good, clean copy, cut a bit sort at the head (affecting headline on lvs. H1, M1, and M2 and page number on leaf M8). Very slim worm-trail not affecting text to first three leaves.A....
Venice: Appresso i Gioliti, 1586.
Price: $8,500.00
Bound in an attractive, modern cardboard binding and slipcase by Eva Szily. Contents lightly washed, t.p. discreetly mended in gutter, collector’s stamp on title, gathering I lightly toned. With an intricate woodcut compartment and Jesuit emblem on the title page. A number of other attractive headpieces and large woodcut initials...
Venice: Apresso Bartolomeo Carampello, 1581.
Price: $18,000.00
An attractive, unsophisticated copy, bound in contemporary vellum (re-used from an identified Hebrew manuscript, the text of which is on the inward facing side of the manuscript leaf and can be vaguely discerned.) Aside from discreet repairs to the vellum, a copy with no interventions, the condition very appealing. Binding...
Basel: Ex Officina Hervagiana, 1540.
Price: $6,500.00
Bound in contemporary blind-tooled pigskin (lightly soiled, some surface abrasions, discreet repairs to hinges). The binding is stamped with the date 1542 and the initial M. The boards are ruled in compartments, with blind-stamped figurative rolls featuring female personifications of Prudence (holding a mirror) and Justice (with her scales), as...
Basel: Johann Froben, August 21 1521 - January, 1522.
Price: $16,000.00
An excellent copy, bound in contemporary half-pigskin and wooden boards with very minor wear, and with the brass clasps and catches perfectly preserved. The paper is very fresh, the margins ample. The outer margin of the title is very slightly frayed, not affecting the woodcut border. There are a few...
London: John Day for Nicholas England, 25 Sept. 1560.
Price: $15,000.00
Bound in attractive contemporary calf, lacking clasps and catches, the boards ruled in gold, with a blind-stamped arabesque with flanking rosettes and the initials 'RL' within an single filet border, nicely rebacked, spine ruled in compartments, with green label, gilt, in the second compartment. Later endpapers and later end-bands (but...
Strasbourg: Johann Knobloch the Elder, 1508.
Price: $20,000.00
[Bound with]: Aeneis cum familiari expositione annexo quoque vocabulorum in dice iuxta seriem alphabeti Strasbourg: Johann Knobloch the Elder, April 1509 Quarto: 20 x 14.6 cm. I. (Georgics) LXXXI, [3] lvs. Collation: a8, b-d4, e8, f-h4, i8, k-m4, n8, o-p4, q8 II. (Aeneid) CCCXC, [6] lvs. Collation...
[Breslau]: [Adam Dion], 1521.
Price: $4,900.00
Modern marbled boards. Lightly soiled and spotted, inky fingers (possibly those of a careless pressman) have left minor smears in the blank margins.One of fourteen printings recorded in the Benzing of this German-language edition. VD16 attributes the printing to Adam Dion of Silesia in Breslau while Benzing lists Hieronymus Höltzel...
Naples: per maestro Ioanne Sulsbach [Giovanni Sultzbach] Alemano, 1532.
Price: $7,500.00
Bound in contemporary vellum (a bit wrinkled, small defects to spine) with a contemporary Sicilian gift inscription occupying the full length of the lower cover: “Al mio padre Gia[como] Batt[ist]a Serabone [?] della Compagnia del Giesu. Messina.” Inscription on title (scored through) “Collegii Messiniensis Soc. Jesu.”; 16th or 17th c....
London: By Wynkyn de Worde, 27 August, 1527.
Price: $110,000.00
An excellent, complete copy bound in late 18th c. russia, gilt, hinges neatly repaired, corners bumped. Illustrated with a full page woodcut on leaf A1 showing an assembly of saints and martyrs, and 85 woodcuts in the text. Wynkyn de Worde’s woodcut printer’s device (incorporating Caxton’s initials) on verso of...
