Sampaloc: Por Fr. Pedro Arguelles de la Concepcion, Religioso Francisco, 1803.
Price: $11,500.00
An excellent copy bound in later treed calf, boards decorated in gilt, spine gilt and with contrasting lettering piece, with a name label stamped in gilt ‘Al. Malavois’ at foot of spine. Printed on Chinese laid paper ("rice" paper); historiated initial, tail-piece. Internally very fresh and clean with just two...
Erfurt: Gervasius und Wolffgangus Sthürmer, gebrüder, 1549.
Price: $4,500.00
Bound in modern quarter vellum and marbled boards. A very good copy with broad margins, with some faint marginal foxing (mainly in the upper margin) and a small, faint damp-stain in the lower corner of the final 3 leaves.Translation of title: “A written exhortation to peace and unity, from the...
London: printed, and are to be sold by William Cademan, at the Popes-Head in the New-Exchange, and Middle-Exchange in the Strande, 1676.
Price: $5,500.00
A fresh, crisp copy, bound in original 17th c. sheep (corners bumped, wear along the hinges, a few small scrapes) with a later label (chipped). The contents are in very fine condition, with just a small nick in the blank margin of C7, creasing to a few leaves, a bit...
Trnava [Nagyszombat in Hungarian]: Typis Academici Societatis Jesu, 1746.
Price: $3,800.00
Bound in full original sponged sheepskin, the spine tooled in gold and with a later black label (small defects and light wear to the binding, gilding muted.) A very good copy, complete with the engraved frontispiece showing the icon. The opening leaves are slightly worn at the edges; the engraving...
Venice: Alessandro Gardano, 1580.
Price: $9,800.00
Bound in 18th c. paste-paper over boards with a slim red morocco spine (light wear to boards and spine, upper joint starting, corners bumped). A very nice copy, preserving earlier endpapers with a 17th c. ownership inscription and a calligraphic flourish. The volume is overall very fresh with just a....
Frankfurt: Heirs of Matthäus Merian, 1696.
Price: $9,500.00
Bound in original tanned sheepskin (light surface wear, corners bumped, lower edge of rear board abraded), faithfully and almost imperceptibly rebacked, the new spine richly tooled in gold and with a red morocco label. Internally an attractive copy with minor soiling and discoloration to margins of the title page, scattered...
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Frankfurt: Theodor de Bry, “1595”, but, 1617.
Price: $24,000.00
An excellent, tall copy with broad margins. Bound in early 20th c. green morocco with a large central arabesque, gilt, at the center of each board (hinges heavily rubbed and just starting but sound, some wear to the corners and board edges.) Illustrated with an engraved title-page, engraved portrait, double-page...
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Florence: [printer of Virgil C6061, probably Bartolommeo di Libri, and possibly Demetrius Damilas, for the brothers Bernardus and Nerius Nerlius, with the financial support of Giovanni Acciaiuoli], 9 December 1488, but not before 13 January, 1489.
Price: $275,000.00
On the press, see Ridolfi. BMC assigned the printing to the Nerli brothers, and Proctor to Bartolommeo Di Libri, who Ridolfi argues only printed the dedication. The date derives from the dedication (13th January 1488/89); the Greek text has a colophon (f.439v) dated 9 Dec. 1488.Types: text 121Gk (recast by...
[Rome?]: ca. 1683.
Price: $24,000.00
Bound in modern marbled papered boards with leather title label in gilt to the upper board. 17th c. manuscript in ink in a fine secretarial hand, on laid paper with watermark of an anchor within circle. Fine condition, leading edge untrimmed. A little light spotting on the first leaf, very...
Lisbon: Francisco da Silva, 1751.
Price: $8,500.00
Bound in later sheep, boards ruled with gold filet, spine in compartments with gilt decoration and morocco title label (spine sunned, hinges and extremities rubbed, a second label with date loosely inserted). With the ex libris label of H. P. Kraus on the front paste-down. Title with woodcut Jesuit device...
Venice: Appresso Gabriel Giolito De'Ferrari, 1559.
Price: $3,800.00
Bound in late 20th c. morocco, gilt. With an attractive woodcut headpiece and the Giolito device on the title page. The fine portrait of Laura Terracina, set within an ornate frame, appears on the verso of the same leaf. With woodcut initials and 46 woodcut scenes taken from the 1542...
Bologna: Presso gli heredi di Euangelista Dozza, 1647.
Price: $20,000.00
An extremely fine, bright set. Bound in 17th c. mottled calf, the spines richly gilt (some crackling and wear to the boards). Trivial faults as follows: very short (a few millimeters) worm-trail in the outer margins in the latter half of Vol. I, a small marginal damp-stain in the lower...
Mexico: Joseph Bernardo de Hogal, 1738.
Price: $28,000.00
Bound in contemporary vellum. Manuscript annotation at front endpaper “Este libro va para D. Sebastian de Arauna beneficiado, y cura en la Villa de Helorrio en el Señorio de Vizcaya”.An extremely rare Japanese grammar, printed in Mexico for the use of Franciscan missionaries to Japan. It also includes a number...
Macerata: Appresso Sebastiano Martellini, con licenza de' superiori, 1583.
Price: $9,500.00
Bound in 19th c. ivory vellum (hinges repaired at head and foot, light soiling, spine label fragmentary), the boards ruled in gold, the spine gold-tooled with repeating floral tools. Illustrated with six engraved plates of Catholic priests being abused, apprehended, tortured and executed (described in detail, below.) With a woodcut...
Vicenza: Ex typographia G. Angelerii, 1577.
Price: $3,800.00
Bound in modern boards. A very nice, crisp copy, title lightly soiled and with small burn hole, leaves A4 and D4 with light stains, blank verso of final leaf with contemporary annotations (light shine-through on recto). Elaborate woodcut printer’s device on title. With decorative woodcut borders throughout. EXTREMELY RARE. I....
Rome: presso l’autore, 1819-, 1823.
Price: $48,000.00
A fine, complete set of Rossini's masterpiece, with all 101 engraved plates, bound with two other suites of plates (see below). Bound in contemporary quarter mottled calf and sprinkled paper (plover papier) over heavy boards. The plates are untrimmed, with deckled edges throughout. Dust-soiling to some margins. One short tear...
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Venice: per Philippum Pincium Mantuanum, 18 February, 1510.
Price: $16,000.00
The title page features a fine woodcut (8 x 11.5 cm.) depicting the birth of Caesar (repeated in the text). The text is illustrated with an additional 71 small woodcut scenes (50 x 75 mm). Bound in contemporary (Swiss or German) half pigskin over original wooden boards, the pigskin richly...
Bologna: typis excussoriis editum in ergasterio Hieronymi Baptistæ de Benedictis Platonici Boniensis [Girolamo Benedetti], 1511.
Price: $18,000.00
Bound in 18th c. stiff parchment (lightly soiled, with a peppering of wormholes on the spine) with a citron wash label, gilt, on the spine. An excellent, broad-margined copy on heavy paper. Title lightly soiled, some instances of marginal foxing, occasional light marginal stains (toward the end of the text)...
Mexico: Por Ioan Ruyz, 1616.
Price: $30,000.00
Bound in contemporary limp vellum, with two of four ties preserved. Title-page with woodcut Jesuit device; woodcut headpieces and initials. An attractive, unsophisticated copy with broad margins in its original binding. Light stain on title and following two leaves. Early paper repair at outer margin of title page (removing an...
[Genoa]: 29 July, 1760.
Price: $8,500.00
Manuscript in Italian written in a neat cursive in brown/black ink on laid paper. With some minor foxing, some folding lines, the creases slightly flattened, the bottom edge of the leaves is slightly frayed. Otherwise in very good condition.A harrowing, eye-witness account by a Jesuit Father of the Province of...
Amsterdam: Sumptibus Andreae Frisii, 1665.
Price: $9,500.00
Bound in contemporary stiff vellum (soiled, repair to the foot of spine.) The text is in very good condition with a handful of lightly browned gatherings, a few instances of spotting, scattered marginal soiling and light marginal foxing. The book is introduced by a fantastic engraved title page populated by...
Troyes: chez Jean-Antoine Garnier, ca. 1766 to, 1773.
Price: $16,500.00
Bound with: Le Grand Calendrier et Compost des bergers, composé par le berger de la Grande Montagne, Avec le Compôt naturel reformé selon le retranchement des dix jours, par le Pape Gregoire III. Ensemble la manière comme se doit gouverner le Berger pour empêcher qu’aucun Sorciers ne fassent mourir...
Venice: Giovanni Battista Sessa, June, 1504.
Price: $11,000.00
Bound in modern vellum. Title with large woodcut showing the author in his study, surrounded by books, lecturing his students, one of whom takes notes. Sessa's cat-and-mouse printer's device appears on the same leaf.,The text is illustrated with 77 woodcut diagrams. A very fine copy, crisp and bright. There is...
Roma: A spese di Fausto Amidei Libraro al Corso sotto il Palazzo del Signor Marchese Raggi, per Generoso Salomone, 1760.
Price: $4,800.00
TWO COPIES, both bound in contemporary stiff vellum with speckled edges (the first soiled; the second with small stains.) Fine copies, each with a little bit of light foxing and a few light stains. Second copy with light spots on plate 12 and a small stain on the half-title. The...
Antwerp: Ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1575.
Price: $18,000.00
A fine, tall copy in its original limp vellum binding (vellum lightly soiled, ties perished). Occasional light marginal foxing and the occasional light ink stain. Some short passages neatly underlined. Small damp-stain at the head of gathering a. Deaccession stamp (and duplicate stamp of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich) on title...
