London: Printed [by Augustine Mathewes] for William Lee, at the Turkes Head in Fleete-Streete, next to the Miter and Phaenix, 1627.

Price: $12,000.00

Bound in 17th c. speckled calf, wear to edges, nicely rebacked. Crisp copies, clean overall, with minor blemishes and occasional browning in the second work (see below). These books, while printed eight year apart, are often found bound together. As usual, when bound with the 1619 “Poems”, which includes the...

Frankfurt: Martin Lechler for the heirs of Christian Egenolff, 1572.

Price: $8,500.00

Bound in attractive brocade wrappers, with endpapers from a 15th century vellum manuscript with small initials in gold and colours. Title page printed in red and black (and with two small woodcut monsters and Atlas in modern (i.e. 16th c.) clothing holding a compass and supporting the Earth. Illustrated with...

London: In Fletestrete by Thomas Berthelette, 1554.

Price: $20,000.00

Bound in 19th c. speckled calf (rebacked in paler calf, corners bumped), boards ruled in gold, edges tooled in gold, spine richly gilt. Generally a nice, clean copy with scattered minor faults, as follows: A few tiny wormholes to the first few leaves, title lightly soiled and margins lightly foxed...

Florence: Per Gio. Batista Landini, 1634.

Price: $14,500.00

Bound in contemporary parchment (lightly soiled and very slightly wrinkled), tooled in gold with attractive ornaments. Etched portrait on a smaller sheet than the text, tipped in before title page. Text in very good condition with a few light stains. Title lightly soiled and with dampstain at upper, outer corner.Illustrations...

Rotterdam: F. van Hoogstraeten, 1678.

Price: $12,000.00

A very good, complete copy with all plates. Bound in contemporary Dutch vellum, moderately soiled and a bit warped, corners bumped. Minor blemishes as follows: Etched t.p. lightly soiled, light browning to blank edges of some plates, outer edge of portrait plate with pale damp-stain, light marginal foxing; small spots...

Zaragoza: Por los Herederos de Diego Dormer, 1697.

Price: $16,000.00

Extremely rare. I have located 2 copies in North American libraries: Oberlin (defective), University of South Dakota and two copies of the 1674-1675 first edition: Newberry (incomplete) and Yale. The copy listed in the University of Florida catalogue is in fact held in the Biblioteca Nacional de Cuba José Martí.A....

London: Printed for Samuel Smith, and B. Walford, printers to the Royal Society at the Prince’s Armes in St. Paul’s Church-yard, 1696 [and] printed for J. Taylor, at the Ship in St. Paul’s Church Yard, 1694.

Price: $3,800.00

The first version of this book, of 50 receipts, was published as “Some receipts of medicines” in 1688 (British Library only). In 1692, the greatly-expanded second edition (100 receipts in two parts), appeared under the title “Medicinal experiments [etc.]”. This was followed by another expanded edition, now in two volumes...

Rome: apud Valerium et Ludovicum fratres Brixienses, 1552.

Price: $4,800.00

Bound in a contemporary vellum binding using a re-purposed manuscript leaf). Printed in an elegant cursive by the Brescian brothers Valerio e Luigi Dorico, fine engravers and printers active in Rome from 1538 to 1559. A very good copy bound in 18th c. vellum, red morocco label, gilt. Title page...

Frankfurt: Cyriacus Jacob, 1543.

Price: $8,500.00

Bound in 20th c. quarter vellum and speckled paper boards. Light toning, small stain on title, ink stain on leaf E4, tiniest worm-trail in gutter of a few quires, a small wrinkle in the blank iiner margin to the later gatherings. With a woodcut title border of two pilasters of...

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...

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...

Antwerp: Ex Officina Plantiniana, apud Ioannem Moretum, 1602.

Price: $16,000.00

A very fine, broad-margined copy, bound in contemporary Dutch vellum (lightly soiled, some stains, corners bumped). The contents are in excellent condition, the text bright, the plates in rich impressions. Insignificant defects as follows: small crease to upper corner of t.p, p. 263-272, 304-312 with small stain at head, very...

Oxford: And are to be had there: And in London at Mr. S. Millers, at the Star near the West-end of St. Pauls Church-yard. 1677.

Price: $8,500.00

An excellent, very tall copy on heavy paper. Bound in contemporary English paneled calf, (nicely rebacked and with repairs to the corners, some mild surface wear. The boards are framed by a double gilt rule, the central compartment with a roll-tooled border and ornate floral tools at the corners, gilt.The...