Wittenberg: Johann Rhau-Grunenberg, after 3 October, 1520.

Price: $5,500.00

Bound in modern boards. A good copy of this rare work. Discreetly strengthened in the gutter, light dampstain to leading edge, 16th c. inscription washed out but certainly recoverable with ultraviolet light. Imprint from VD 16. The letter is dated 5 May 1520 but because the printer references another letter...

Basel: Per Nicolaum Bryling, 1561.

Price: $4,800.00

Bound in a signed and dated (L.S. 1563) contemporary tanned pigskin, lacking ties, ruled in compartments and richly tooled with decorative rolls with vines and two panel stamps. The binding has suffered some surface abrasions and moderate wear; the corners are bumped. The first of the panel stamps, on the...

Venice: In Aedib. Aldi, Et Andreae Asulani Soceri, June, 1518.

Price: $4,800.00

Bound in brown Morocco preserving the panels and spine from the original, probably Venetian, binding. The upper board with “EP.LE PLINII” (i.e. “Epistolae Plinii”) tooled in gold within a circle and framed by panels tooled in gold and in blind, with fleur-de-lys corner tools, also gilt. The lower board with...

London: Printed by G. Eld and M. Flesher, 1620.

Price: $8,500.00

Bound in contemporary English calf, rebacked with wear to hinges; boards scuffed, corners bumped. Internally a very good copy with intermittent light marginal damp-stains, a bit darker in a few signatures. Very fine woodcut initials and headpieces. Leaves of sig. O bound out of sequence, N3 with tiny rust hole...

Oxford: At the Theater, 1679.

Price: $3,500.00

Bound in 20th c. quarter calf and marbled boards. A crisp copy, some very light damp-staining.An anonymous tract on optics and lenses, attributed variously to Obadiah Walker (“one of the most productive scholars of Restoration Oxford”, Abraham Woodhead, or Robert Cooper. Illustrated throughout with diagrams. Pages 1 to 23 concern...

Augsburg: Silvan Otmar, 1519.

Price: $4,500.00

Bound in modern patterned paper over thin boards. V. light soiling, lower margin cut a bit close. Attractive woodcut border on title.An important, early work by Luther, written at a crucial moment in his confrontation with the Rome, that showcases his evolving ideas on such diverse matters as indulgences and...

London: Various printers (details below). 1591-, 1596.

Price: $85,000.00

Bound in 17th c. calf, the boards gilt-ruled in compartments with ornamental tools at the corners and a large stamp of the Tudor arms at the center of each board (hinges and endcaps restored, corners bumped, later label, lacking ties). Inscriptions: In the Shepheards Calender 1. Contemporary signature of Roger...

[Basel: Pamphilus Gengenbach], 1521.

Price: $5,500.00

This work is the second of Eberlin’s “Fünfzehn Bundsgenossen” (“The Fifteen Confederates”). Bound in quarter vellum and modern patterned boards. A nice copy, title a little dusty and with small marginal stain, with a title woodcut of Jesus disputing with the Devil set within an ornamental historiated border.Eberlin von Günzburg...

London: by Wyllyam How for Abraham Veale, dwelling in Poules Churchyearde, at the signe of the Lambe, 1573.

Price: $45,000.00

Bound in 19th c. navy morocco, gold-tooled and ruled in compartments, with gilt turn-ins and spine. A very nice copy, lightly pressed, a.e.g., with insignificant flaws as follows: small repair to blank lower margin of title, marginal stains on the leaves of gathering D and the first leaf of gathering...

[Florence: No place no printer], 1569.

Price: $18,000.00

A rare, complete suite of Dosio’s important views of Roman monuments. A very good set, bound in modern blind-ruled calf, with minor blemishes: Two plates (27 and 34) slightly shaved at fore-margin, four plates (38-41) with light damp-stain just entering the printed area, some other plates with staining in the...

Bologna: [n.p.], 1678.

Price: $18,000.00

20th c. stiff vellum. A tall copy with some mainly marginal foxing; some mended marginal tears with light discoloration, only one entering an etching, small light stain to plate 36 and 38, a few paper repairs in the gutter, far from the image. The etchings are signed and numbered in...

Florence: Bernardo Paperini, 1733.

Price: $12,500.00

Bound in contemporary vellum. A very fine, broad-margined copy. The paper is thick and crisp, the impressions of the type and plates rich and dark. The plates were engraved by Sgrilli after drawings by Giovanni Battista Nelli (1661-1725). The frontispiece portrait of Giovanni Gastone I was engraved by V. Franceschini...

Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 24 Dec. 1485.

Price: $35,500.00

Bound in recent smooth parchment. Illustrated with one full-paged text woodcut of an equatorium and sixteen schematic astronomical diagrams in the text. The text is in Gothic with two large and numerous smaller white-on-black decorative woodcut initials. A fine, crisp copy on bright paper. First leaf lightly soiled on blank...