Madrid: Por P[edro]. Madrigal, 1592 and, 1597.

Price: $28,500.00

Bound in contemporary limp vellum with rawhide ties, (binding re-cased but original), lightly soiled, spine lettered in ink, end-papers renewed. Very nice copies of both volumes with occasional mild foxing or light toning, and scattered light stains. Contemporary inscription to title. Complete with the final blank in part 1.First edition...

London: A. Islip, Joice Norton, and R. Whitaker, 1633.

Price: $12,500.00

A nice copy, with the engraved title page by John Payne in fine condition. Bound in early paneled calfskin, nicely rebacked and with minor restoration to the leather, the spine with attractive gilt ornaments and the author, title, and date tooled in gold. The text is in very good shape...

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

Price: $11,500.00

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...

Venice: per Melchiorem Sessam & Petrum de Rauanis socios, 3 May, 1520.

Price: $9,500.00

Bound in 18th c. stiff parchment (lightly soiled and spotted, corners bumped.) Overall a very nice copy of this beautifully-illustrated edition, with minor cosmetic faults as follows: title and opening leaves lightly damp-stained, title and second leaf soiled, corner of title with a few marginal tears and nicks, and some...

London: Printed for J.B. and sold by Benj. Tooke at the Middle-Temple-Gate, William Taylor in Pater-Noster-Row, and James Round in Exchange-Alley, Cornhil, 1713.

Price: $7,500.00

A very fine copy in contemporary paneled calf (skillfully rebacked, preserving the original spine, minor wear to extremities, gilding of spine faded in places), ruled and tooled in bind, spine tooled with gilt ornaments, red morocco label in second compartment. The contents are in excellent, bright, crisp condition (trivial soiling...

London: Printed by William Stansby, 1613.

Price: $18,500.00

Bound in 17th c. blind-ruled calf, rebacked in the 20th c., hinges and extremities rubbed. A nice copy with intriguing manuscript waste fragments. Contents fine with light damp-stains to the opening and closing leaves and few other places in the text, ink stains to head of leaves B3-4, small piece...

Frankfurt: Peter Braubach, 1544.

Price: $7,500.00

Bound in contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards dated 1546. The boards are blind-ruled in compartments and elaborately tooled with decorative rolls (the Crucifixion, King David -dated 1543, John the Baptist, urns, interlocking sheaves of wheat, and small floral stamps (binding moderately soiled, lacking one clasp, small defects at extremities)...

Paris, s.n., 1652.

Price: $12,000.00

Contemporary vellum over stiff boards, four green ties.Bound with: LEPAUTRE, Antoine. 1621-1679.  [Desseins de plusieurs plans d'eglises, pallais et chasteaux]. Paris, s.n. before 1652. Large folio. Forty-nine leaves with fifty-two unnumbered etched plates. Bound with: PERELLE, Gabriel. 1603-1677.  [Views of the ruins of Rome and environs]. Paris, P. Mariette...

Florence: Per haeredes Philippi Iuntae, 1526.

Price: $3,800.00

A tall, unsophisticated copy, in its original limp vellum binding (vellum stained, lacking ties, short split to upper hinge). The text is in very good condition with intermittent foxing, heavier in some gatherings.A compendium of ancient geographical texts, including descriptions of the known world by Pomponius Mela, Dionysius Periegetes, and...

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...

Wittenberg: Hans Lufft, 1531.

Price: $3,800.00

Bound in modern paste-paper stiff wrappers. With a fine historiated woodcut border (Luther, TE 34). Lower edge cut irregularly. Finger-soiling to lower margin of t.p. Last leaf with traces of folds and wax seal remnant. With a contemporary gift inscription by an unknown person to the humanist, poet and pedagogue...

Nuremberg: Georg Merckel, 1553.

Price: $4,400.00

Bound in modern quarter vellum and paste paper over boards. With an unsigned title woodcut (by Georg Pencz?). A tall, broad-margined copy with a few deckled edges preserved. Small natural paper flaw on the final leaf. Bound with a second, anonymous poem, “Klaglied: Deren von Magdeburgk, zu Gott und allen...

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...