[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...
Paris: De l'Imprimerie de Moutard, 1782.
Price: $10,500.00
An excellent copy, complete with the two large plates. Scattered minor soiling, short tear to blank margin of one plate, far from the image. Bound in contemporary catspaw calf, spine richly tooled in gold. Extremely rare. A single copy traced in North America (Univ. of Michigan).Rare first edition of this...
[Rome:]: Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, after, 1638.
Price: $3,800.00
Lettered title across top, extensive description throughout. At right dedication to Cardinal Barberini and lower right 'Romae Superior licentia Anno 1635.' At left, beneath the cartouche: “La presente Pianta ridotta nella forma che al presente si ritrova con le Quattro Capelle fatte dalla Sat m. di Urbano VIII disegata. da...
Wittenberg: Georg Rhau, 1543.
Price: $9,500.00
“As he had announced in On the Jews and Their Lies, Luther immediately set to work on a follow-up treatise, On the Ineffable Name and On the Lineage of Christ, making clear that he was not interested in debating with or trying to convert Jews, rather he writes to warn...
Bologna: [n.p.], 1678.
Price: $16,000.00
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...
Venice: Appresso Il [Giovanni Battista] Ciotti, 1621.
Price: $14,000.00
Bound in 20th c. boards covered with a liturgical manuscript leaf. A fine, crisp copy with a little light marginal soiling; verso of final leaf also lightly soiled. Illustrated with 2 engraved title pages, a full-page portrait of Cosimo II, and 15 full-paged engraved plates. One of the engravings is...
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...
Bologna: Lelio dalla Volpe, 1754.
Price: $7,500.00
Bound in 19th c. half vellum and blue paper over boards (lightly stained.) A clean copy with wide margins printed on fine paper. Splits along the fold discreetly mended on three plates with slight discoloration and a few tiny defects. Engraved vignette on title, half-page engraving with the arms of...
London: ex Officina typographica Thom. Cotes. Et venales extant apud Guiliel. Hope, ad insigne Chirothechae, prope regium Excambium, 1634.
Price: $14,000.00
This is the second of Lisney's three issues (no priority given). Bound in contemporary blind-ruled calf, rebacked, corners lightly bumped, discoloration to leather along hinges. A fine, crisp copy with minor cosmetic faults as follows: small rust hole in the 3rd leaf, affecting a couple of letters; light spotting to...
Turin: Gianfrancesco Mairesse, 1737.
Price: $13,500.00
Bound in contemporary limp vellum. Engraved portrait frontispiece of Guarini, printed title with large woodcut device with the arms of the dedicatee Emanuele III Duke of Savoy and King of Sardinia. Profusely illustrated with 79 engraved plates by Antonio Verga, Francesco Guenotto, Giovanni Fayneau, Giovanni Abbiati, and Antonio de Piene...
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Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 24 Dec. 1485.
Price: $35,000.00
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...
Wittenberg: Georg Rhau, 1530.
Price: $14,000.00
Modern blind-ruled calf. A nice copy, woodcut border and initials heightened in red. Scattered light soiling, a few contemp. annotations, sm. paper flaw to upper margin of one leaf (not affecting the text), short worm-trail to five leaves, affecting a few letters. The elaborate woodcut border (Luther, Titeleinfassung 42; Koepplin/Falk...
Angers: Pierre Avril, 1675.
Price: $5,800.00
A very nice copy of this extremely rare book, preserving its original vellum binding (binding a little wrinkled and slightly soiled.) The text is crisp, with only the occ. blemish and a very light dampstain to the margin of the final leaves. There is a small woodcut of the penitent...
London: printed by E. Cotes, for G. Sawbridge at the Bible on Ludgate-hill, T. Williams at the Bible in Little-Britain, and T. Johnson, at the Key in Pauls Church-yard, 1658.
Price: $20,000.00
Bound in contemporary blind-ruled calf (rebacked, minor wear to boards and extremities, corners bumped). A nice copy of a book usually found in poor condition. Foxing and soiling to half-title and final index lvs., some marginal soiling to first few leaves and scattered leaves in the body of the work...
[Basel: Martin Flach (printer of Basel),] not after, 1474.
Price: $22,000.00
Bound in modern calf. A fine, broad-margined copy. Initials in blue and red. One of only two 15th c. editions.First edition of two works imposing and enforcing restrictions on European Jews. The first is Pope Nicholas V’s papal bull “Super gregem dominicum” (Rome 23 June, 1447), which lists a detailed...
Rome: Zacharias Kallierges for Cornelio Benigno, 15 January, 1516.
Price: $14,000.00
"Edition rare et très recherchée" (Legrand). Variant with "enestin" spelled correctly on t.p. and the Latin privilege printed on the verso of the final leaf. A nice, tall, generally clean copy with good margins (t.p. and conjugate leaf lightly foxed and probably supplied in the 18th c., occ. light foxing...
Frankfurt: Peter Braubach, 1542.
Price: $7,500.00
Contemporary blindstamped pigskin, two clasps. The binding is by Paul Thiele, active in Wittenberg from 1555 to 1575; see the image with his initials P and T left and right of David’s head on the King David roll used on this binding. Printing in red and black on three divisional...
Antwerp: Ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1575.
Price: $18,000.00
A fine copy bound in contemporary vellum. First title page with 17th c. ownership inscription, lightly toned at head, one woodcut slightly shaved at outer edge, small natural paper flaw in blank corner of p. 216 and 229 (2nd part). Illustrated with numerous woodcuts of deformities and monstrosities; anatomical illustrations...
Douai: Jean Bogard, 1586.
Price: $10,500.00
Bound in contemporary vellum, lightly soiled, re-cased but binding original. Title page dusty, a few blank corners a little frayed, occ. light soiling, corners slightly rounded. Clean tear (no loss) in blank margin of leaf G5. Woodcut Jesuit device on title. Woodcut floriated initials in the text.With the contemporary ex...
Modena: Bartolomeo Soliani, 1745.
Price: $18,000.00
FIRST EDITION of Vandelli's contributions to a history of the Accademia dei Lincei, together with the SECOND EDITION (1st ed. 1624) of the Academy's constitutions, the "Praescriptiones". An engraved lynx, symbol of the Academy, appears on the title page of the "Praescriptiones". [See below for an in-depth description.].[Bound with:] “Sincero...
Frankfurt: Johann Görlin for the Heirs of Sigmund Latomus, 1668.
Price: $4,800.00
A fine survivor of this ephemeral catalogue. Disbound and untrimmed, retaining deckle edges. Worn at the spine folds, especially the first gathering, though each gathering remains intact (bifolium A1.4 just barely); small hole in the title, not affecting any text.A general catalog of books available at the 1668 autumn book...
Rome: presso l’autore, 1819-, 1823.
Price: $45,000.00
A fine, complete set with all 101 engraved plates. Bound in contemporary three-quarter ivory vellum and marbled boards, decorative gold tooling along the edge of the vellum. Discreet repairs to the binding at head and foot of spine, slight damage to corners. Contents in very fine condition with broad margins...
Cologne: Johann Gymnich, 1536.
Price: $8,500.00
Bound in contemporary alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards (moderate surface wear, 1 catch and both catch-plates preserved). Fine copies internally. Historiated woodcut initials.With 65 known manuscripts, the “Dialogue Against the Jews” was one of the most widespread anti-Jewish texts in the Late Middle Ages. The author, the originally Jewish doctor...
Venice: Cesare Arrivabene, 1517.
Price: $4,500.00
A very good copy bound in later vellum. First and final leaf lightly soiled. With a woodcut on the title page showing Savonarola writing in his cell, a woodcut of King David in prayer (in the text), and Arrivabene’s device on the final leaf.The Dominican preacher, reformer, and martyr, Girolamo...
London: printed for Joh. Taylor at the Ship in St. Paul’s Church-yard, and S. Holford in the Pell Mell, 1692.
Price: $10,500.00
Bound in contemporary paneled calf, gilt spine (corners bumped, hinges rubbed, upper joints starting, gilding worn.) A nice, tall, copy, complete with all five plates. Three plates a trifle browned, a little spotting to the first; leaf I4 with minor paper flaw to blank margin; light damp-stain to a few...
