[England], c. 1835.
Price: $6,500.00
Bound in contemporary blind-ruled vellum, with the contemporary signature ‘Anne Michel’ inked prominently on the upper cover, covers a trifle bowed, the odd small ink spot. A very good, clean copy. Written in an English cursive hand in black ink, very minor toning, first recto and last verso minimally dusty...
Paris: Le Petit Laurens for Jean Petit at Paris and for Jean Alexandre, Jean Alisot and Charles Debougne at Angers, c. April, 1499.
Price: $50,000.00
Very fine copy in 16th c. French paneled sheep with skillful restorations, with a central gold tool and fleurons at the angles of the boards (wear at extremities, upper hinge chipped). The text is in excellent, fresh condition with just the lightest of staining, small repairs and two short clean...
Basel: Johann Bergmann de Olpe, 1 March, 1498.
Price: $60,000.00
Illustrated with the original woodcuts of the first German edition (1494), of which the majority (73) are often attributed to Albrecht Dürer. Bound in 18th c. blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, soiled, clasps intact, edges minor repairs. A nice, unpressed copy with a small defect to the title woodcut, only...
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Basel: Adam Petri, 1520.
Price: $2,800.00
Modern patterned boards. Light dampstaining, some small spots, small ink blot on 2 lvs., a few side notes shaved. One of numerous editions of this treatise on the Church's abuse of the ban (excommunication) published in the year of the first issue (1520). Bound in modern half morocco and marbled...
London: Printed for J. Hodges, 1740.
Price: $3,800.00
Bound in contemporary calf, spine gilt, citron morocco label, the label chipped, spine worn and wormed at the foot, slight damage to the leather on the sides. Internally a very nice, fresh copy. Unidentified 18th c. armorial bookplate on front paste-down.The sole English edition of “Nouveau recueil d'observations chirurgicales”(1702), by...
London: Printed for B. Motte…and T. Wotton, 1734.
Price: $6,000.00
With 3 engraved plates (1 folding). Bound in contemporary calf, spine richly gilt in compartments (small repairs to spine and corners), new red morocco label. A very fine and clean copy with very minor blemishes as follows: Opening leaf, last page and last plate a little creased, a few leaves...
Grenoble: Guillaume Verdier, 1608.
Price: $5,900.00
Bound in contemporary vellum (soiling, small defects.) A very good copy, corrected by the author, with a bit of light browning and a short worm-track to the opening signatures, mainly marginal but occ. affecting a few words. A note in ink on the title, written in the same ink as...
Venice: Apresso Bartolomeo Carampello, 1581.
Price: $24,000.00
Bound in 18th-century speckled calf, spine tooled in gold (extremities worn, a few scrapes to the boards, corners bumped, small losses to gilding on spine and label.) A fine, crisp copy internally with minor faults: the slightest hint of discoloration in some signatures, occ. marginal blemishes, light soiling to upper...
London: Rafe Newberie and Henrie Denham, 1584.
Price: $18,000.00
Bound in contemporary English calf with central blind-stamped lozenge flanked by the initials “W.B.”, rebacked retaining original spine, deftly re-sewn at the time of rebacking by the British Museum, later endpapers. An excellent copy with occasional marginal staining; first few leaves with small, discreet marginal repairs to first and final...
London: Printed for A. Roper at the Black Boy, and R. Clavel at the Peacock, both in Fleetstreet, 1697.
Price: $10,500.00
Bound in modern paneled calf in period style. Internally a very fine, fresh copy with wide margins on crisp paper. Complete with the engraved frontispiece "The Compleat Beau", bound opposite the printed title page, trimmed close on the outer margin but without loss. With just the lightest bit of soiling...
Rome: Antonio Lafréry, 1552.
Price: $3,500.00
First state (of three.) A rich impression with wide margins, light marginal foxing and a little light soiling, extreme upper margin a little ragged. Inscribed on the pedestal: “LVPAE ROMVLVM ET REMVM VRBIS CONDITORES LACTANTIS ANTIQVVM AC AENEVM IN CAPITOLIO SIGNVM.” (Ancient bronze image of the she-wolf nursing Romulus and...
Rome: Vincenzo Mariotti, 1697.
Price: $3,500.00
Single sheet etching: 38 x 63 cm. First Issue. Signed in the lower margin “Vincentius Mariottus Romanus delin. et sculpsit Romae, Cum superiorum Facultate” and, in the image, along the base of the pedestal, “Andreas Puteus Soc. Iesu Pictor et Architectus inv. an. 1693” and higher up, “Io. Baps Gaullus...
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...
The Hague: Isaac Burchoorn for Adriaen van de Venne [In 'sGraven-Hage… van Isaac Burchoorn”], 1634.
Price: $3,500.00
Bound by the Middelburg binder Suenonius Mandelgreen (1736-1758), “one of the few Dutch binders known by name to whom work can be assigned with certainty” (Storm van Leeuwen) in 18th cent. marbled calf w. large gilt floral central ornament and gilt tooled floral borders on both covers, richly gilt spine...
Augsburg: Ramminger, 1523.
Price: $3,500.00
Bound in modern wrappers. With a four-part woodcut “Wildman” border. Marginal foxing, light soiling.A very rare work by Sebastian Hofmeister, an early compatriot of Zwingli and an admirer and correspondent of Luther, considered one of the most learned and rhetorically skilled of the Swiss reformers. A Franciscan friar and humanist...
Amsterdam: Lowjis Elzevier, 1651.
Price: $2,400.00
Bound in contemporary vellum with later citron label, gilt, white and gold silk end-bands, original green silk book marker. Text crisp, bright and attractive, complete with the engraved title page.The London first edition was followed by three Amsterdam editions; "It is usually assumed that the Elzevir edition was the first...
Genoa: Typis Antonij Georgij Franchelli, 1674.
Price: $7,900.00
[Bound with:] Ciassi, Gian Maria (1654-1686) Meditationes de natura plantarum et tractatus physicomathematicus de aequilibrio praesertim fluidorum ac de levitate ignis. Venice: B. Miloco, 1677 Two works bound as one: 12mo: 12 x 7 cm. I. 285, [2] p. II. [12], 106 of 108 (lacking final blank pages). With 11 engraved plates. Collations: I....
Basel: Thomas Wolff, 1521.
Price: $5,500.00
Bound in modern quarter vellum and drab boards. With a large woodcut of the emperor by Urs Graf (ca. 1485-1528) on the title page and a large, dramatic, historiated initial. A very good, crisp copy with a little light marginal foxing and occ. minor marginal blemishes.The “Reformation of Emperor Sigismund”...
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Venice: Simon Bevilaqua, 3 Aug. 1497.
Price: $150,000.00
A fresh copy in late 18th c. stiff vellum, with a red morocco spine label, gilt (re-cased, text re-sewn), binding lightly soiled, small chips to edge of label, later endpapers and flyleaves). Minor, very discreet repairs to the inner margin of the first leaf and quire E, some skilful restoration...
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Strasbourg: [Bartholomaeus Kistler], after 31 Dec. 1499.
Price: $45,000.00
Further fifteenth-century editions were published in Latin, German, and Italian versions. This edition, printed by Kistler, is number 11 in Kurze’s census of editions in all languages (for the date, see the bib. notes at the end of this description). Illustrated with 46 woodcut illustrations in text, including large vignette...
Nuremberg: Wolfgang Huber, 1512.
Price: $6,500.00
Modern quarter vellum. A good copy with mild marginal soiling, discreet repairs in the gutter of the first bifolium, and a restored section of the blank margin on the final leaf. Occasional contemporary underscores. With a large woodcut title illustration. No copies of this or the other two printings in...
Geneva: Ex officina Henrici Stephani, 1557.
Price: $9,500.00
A fine copy, bound in eighteenth-century sprinkled calf, with one blind-tooled compartment with ornamental tools at the corners and a central armorial stamp, gilt on both boards. Spine with attractive red morocco label, tooled in gold. Binding in fine condition, with minor cracking to the leather along the joints and...
Mainz: Johann Schöffer, 1524.
Price: $15,000.00
Bound in 20th c. green morocco with gilt turn-ins. A fine copy, a.e.g., with a fine woodcut title border, woodcut initials, and occ. contemporary annotations. The title border incorporates Schöffer's coat of arms (see Johnson no. 62 and Pflugk-Harttung no. 52).Ulrich von Hutten's famous work on the treatment of syphilis...
[Augsburg: Günther Zainer,] c., 1477.
Price: $20,000.00
Bound in contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, the brass clasp with catch-plate preserved. An original title on label on upper board is preserved, with slight loss. The binding has been rebacked and has some other minor restorations; the lower boards is a bit wormed, the upper hinge is cracked...
Mainz: Peter Schoeffer, 10 September, 1474.
Price: $40,000.00
A fine copy, in an impressive binding, of the first edition, printed by Gutenberg’s apprentice, Peter Schoeffer. Bound in contemporary Bamberg blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards [Kyriss 006, EBDB w000078, Bamberg Minoritenkloster], with flyleaves from vellum manuscript antiphonal, brass catch-plates with sphinxes, straps and clasps intact. Wormholes to both boards...
