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Die Reformation: so der aller Durchleuchtigest, Grossmechtigest fürst und herr herr Sigmund...

Die Reformation: so der aller Durchleuchtigest, Grossmechtigest fürst und herr herr Sigmund Roemischer keiser ..., Jn dem nechsten Concilio zuo Costentz, die Christenliche kirchen in bestetige ordenung zuo bringen fürgenummen het.

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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Ein Underschyd zu erkennen den almechtigen got und wie die newen goeter uff sind kom(m)en...

Ein Underschyd zu erkennen den almechtigen got und wie die newen goeter uff sind kom(m)en kürtzlich begriffen.

Augsburg: M. Ramminger, 1521.

Price: $5,400.00

Modern boards with label. Early leather tab at edge of title. A very good copy with minor blemishes: light soiling to title, light dampstain to corner of sig. D, occasional marginal soiling. With a 3-part woodcut title illustration showing the pope as Antichrist (with little flying demons at his side)...

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Vitruvius: De architectura; Cleonides: Harmonicum introductorium [Latin]. Tr: Georgius Valla....

Vitruvius: De architectura; Cleonides: Harmonicum introductorium [Latin]. Tr: Georgius Valla. Angelus Politianus: Panepistemon; Lamia (Praelectio in Priora Aristotelis Analytica); Frontinus: De aquaeductibus

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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Prognosticatio]. Hec practice narrat de presenti anno et sequentibus quamplurimis annis de novis...

[Prognosticatio]. Hec practice narrat de presenti anno et sequentibus quamplurimis annis de novis raris et inauditis rebus que futura sunt in hoc mundo

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...

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Terentius cum quinque commentis: videlicet Donati: Guidonis: Calphurnij: Ascensij & Servij....

Terentius cum quinque commentis: videlicet Donati: Guidonis: Calphurnij: Ascensij & Servij.

Venice: Lazaro De’ Soardi, 3 Oct. 1515.

Price: $9,800.00

THIRD SOARDI EDITION (1st 1497). Bound in contemporary half calf, blind tooled with geometric designs, over beveled wooden boards (repairs to leather along spine, text block re-sewn, some wear to wooden boards) with two of four metal clasps and leather straps preserved, the other two (at the head and foot...

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Hiernach volget das ernstlich vnnd geweltig erobern vnd eynnemen Der löblichen reychen...

Hiernach volget das ernstlich vnnd geweltig erobern vnd eynnemen Der löblichen reychen hochberümbten vn(n) vesten stat pressa, mit sampt dem closter, so daruor gelege(n) welches auch mit gewalt gestürmt vnnd gewunnen worden ist.

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...

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ΑΙΣΧΥΛΟΥ ΤΡΑΓΩΔΙΑΙ ΕΠΤΑ. AESCHYLI TRAGOEDIAE VII. Quae cum omnes multo quam...

ΑΙΣΧΥΛΟΥ ΤΡΑΓΩΔΙΑΙ ΕΠΤΑ. AESCHYLI TRAGOEDIAE VII. Quae cum omnes multo quam antea castigatiores eduntur, tum vero una, quae mutila & decurtata prius erat, integra nunc profertur. SCHOLIA in easdem, plurimis in locis locupletata, & in pene infinitis emendata. Petri Victorii cura et diligentia.

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...

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Voyages aux côtes de Guinée & en Amerique. Par Mr. N***. SLAVERY. VOYAGES. NATURAL HISTORY

Voyages aux côtes de Guinée & en Amerique. Par Mr. N***.

Amsterdam: aux depens d’Etienne Roger, 1719.

Price: $5,500.00

Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and 38 partly folding engraved plates. Bound in contemporary tanned sheep (lightly rubbed and with tiny losses to the leather), the spine richly tooled in gold with attractive ornaments. Both boards have an armorial blind-stamp with a crowned monogram “CM” and a lion rampant. The...

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Biblicae historiae, magno artificio depictae, et utilitatis publicae causa latinis...

Biblicae historiae, magno artificio depictae, et utilitatis publicae causa latinis epigrammatibus…

Frankfurt: Christian Egenolff, 1539.

Price: $8,400.00

Illustrated with a woodcut title border, 80 woodcut illustrations, and Egenolff’s printer’s device. Bound in early 20th c. blind-stamped leather with attractive tools (Madonna and Child, symbols of the Evangelists). Text in good condition with minor soiling and staining, bottom outer corner a little rounded, ink stains on a few...

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De gvaiaci medicina et morbo gallico liber unus. Ulrich von Hutten

De gvaiaci medicina et morbo gallico liber unus.

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...

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De sacramentis Christianae fidei. Hugo de Sancto Victore

De sacramentis Christianae fidei.

[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...

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Speculum aureum decem praeceptorum Dei. Henricus de Herpf, c

Speculum aureum decem praeceptorum Dei.

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...

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Confessionale sive Interrogatorium [Add: pseudo-Anselm, Interrogationes faciendae infirmo...

Confessionale sive Interrogatorium [Add: pseudo-Anselm, Interrogationes faciendae infirmo morienti]

Mainz: Peter Schoeffer, 25 May, 1478.

Price: $20,000.00

A very fine, crisp copy, bound in 19th c. blind-tooled calf over wooden boards by Van Rossum of Amsterdam,. Incipit and colophon printed in red. Red initials, capital strokes, and underlining, woodcut printer’s device. Final leaf backed, repairing hole in blank area and tear at top margin just touching type...

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Manuale formarum juramentorum ab his præstandorum, qui in Rectores, Consiliarios, & Officiales...

Manuale formarum juramentorum ab his præstandorum, qui in Rectores, Consiliarios, & Officiales in hac alma, Imperiali, Mexicana Academia eliguntur, & ab his, qui gradu aliquo majori, vel minori sunt insigniendi. Fidei item professio secundum Sanctum Œcumenicum Concilium Tridentinum, quam juxta Constitutiones, ac Sanctiones ejusdem Universitatis emittere tenentur majori, vel minori gradu decorandi, quique Cathedras sunt moderaturi, antequam earum possessionem nanciscantur. Ad Imperialis Mexiceæ Academiæ usum typis mandatum jussu D.D.D. Emmanuelis Ignatii Beye, Zisneros, et Quixano, prædictae Universitatis olim Consiliarij, Decreti Exedræ semel, atque iterum Moderatoris, Regiæ Curiæ Causidici,& tandem Rectoris munus exercentis.

Mexico: Ex novâ Typographiâ editioni Bibliothecae Mexicanae destinatâ, 1759.

Price: $5,600.00

. Bound in contemporary vellum, defects to vellum of upper board; internally very clean and broad margined with some soiling on A4 verso only. Printed in a large handsome type (mostly sixteenth-century roman), text in Latin and Spanish, pagination includes a copper-engraved frontispiece. In the text there is a fine...

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De consensu evangelistarum. Aurelius Augustine, Saint, A D

De consensu evangelistarum.

Lauingen: [Eponymous Press,] 12 April, 1473.

Price: $30,000.00

A very fine, wide-margined copy bound in 19th-century paneled morocco gilt by Holloway (signs of light wear). Rubricated, with large red painted initials at the openings of books 1 and 4, woodcut initials, many painted over in red (a little marginal dampstaining and fingersoiling, a few spots). Provenance: occasional marginalia...

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Accurata, e Succinta Descrizione Topografica e Istorica di Roma Moderna. Opera postuma dell'abate...

Accurata, e Succinta Descrizione Topografica e Istorica di Roma Moderna. Opera postuma dell'abate Ridolfino Venuti Cortonese ... ridotta in miglior forma, accresciuta, e ornata di molte figure in rame.

Rome: Presso Carlo Barbiellini, 1766.

Price: $8,500.00

Bound in contemporary Italian carta rustica (boards lightly foxed, labels worn, else very nicely preserved.) Very large copies in excellent condition with some light, even toning, and sporadic foxing, a few plates more heavily foxed (one of them browned), occ. light soiling. Small worm-track in margin of half-title and final...

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Musurgia Universalis sive Ars magna consoni et dissoni in X. libros digesta. Athanasius MUSIC....

Musurgia Universalis sive Ars magna consoni et dissoni in X. libros digesta.

Rome: Ex Typographia Hæredum Francisci Corbelletti, 1650.

Price: $18,000.00

Two volumes bound as one. With an added engraved title page engraved by Baronius (possibly Jean Baron) after Johannes Paul Schor, an engraved portrait of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria engraved by Paulus Pontius after Schor, and 21 added engraved plates, numbered I-III, IV/V, VI-X, XI/XII, XIII-XXIII, that is, with...

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An essay in defence of the female sex. In which are inserted the characters of a pedant, a...

An essay in defence of the female sex. In which are inserted the characters of a pedant, a squire, a beau, a vertuoso, a poetaster, a city-critick, &c. In a letter to a lady. Written by a lady. The Second Edition.

London: printed for A. Roper and E. Wilkinson at the Black Boy, and R. Clavel at the Peacock, in Fleetstreet, 1696.

Price: $16,000.00

[Bound with:] A Farther Essay Relating to the Female-Sex. Containing Six Characters, and Six Perfections. With the description of Self Love. To which is added, a Character of a Compleat Beau. London: Printed for A. Roper and E Wilkinson at the Black-Boy in Fleet-street, 1696 Octavo: 17.2 x 10.5 cm. I. [24], 148...

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Adversus execrabilem Antichristi Bullam. Martin Luther

Adversus execrabilem Antichristi Bullam.

Wittenberg: [Melchior Lotter the younger], 1520.

Price: $8,500.00

A crisp copy in 19th c. colored wrappers. Title a trifle soiled, small dampstain to corner, ink stain on leaf B4. Provenance: Bookplate of the German physician, philologist, and Freemason George Kloss (1787-1854)."This is the first of four answers by Luther to the bull 'Exsurge Domine' issued by Pope Leo...

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Nicodemus: or, A treatise against the fear of man. Wherein the causes and sad effects thereof are...

Nicodemus: or, A treatise against the fear of man. Wherein the causes and sad effects thereof are briefly describ’d. With some remedies against it. By August. Herman. Franck. Professor of divinity in the University at Hall, and Minister of Glaucha in the suburbs. Rendred [sic] into English from the High-Dutch; and dedicated to the Honourable Society for Reformation of Manners.

Boston: Printed by [Gamaliel] Rogers and [Daniel] Fowle, for N[athanael]. Procter at the Bible and Dove in Ann-Street, 1744.

Price: $6,800.00

Bound in contemporary American calf, ruled in blind, over thin wooden boards (scuffed and with wear to extremities). Very good internally with a few minor stains, a couple of marginal tears and a longer tear entering the text on leaf F5 (no loss.) Provenance: with the contemporary ownership inscription, “Joseph...

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Poems by Michael Drayto[n] Esquyer. Collected into one volume. Newly corrected M.DC.XXXVII....

Poems by Michael Drayto[n] Esquyer. Collected into one volume. Newly corrected M.DC.XXXVII.

London: printed [by R. Young] for Iohn Smethwick, 1637.

Price: $5,500.00

Bound in 19th c. polished, gold-ruled blond calf, with gilt turn-ins and the spine richly tooled in gold, with green morocco labels. Text in fine condition throughout, a.e.g. Complete with engraved t.p. by William Marshall and the first leaf (blank except for sig. mark). "Englands heroicall epistles" and "The legends...

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The Annales of Cornelius Tacitus. The Description of Germanie. Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Sir...

The Annales of Cornelius Tacitus. The Description of Germanie.

London: By Arn. Hatfield, for Bonham and Iohn Norton], 1598.

Price: $16,000.00

[Bound with, as issued:] The End of Nero and Beginning of Galba. Fower Bookes of The Histories of Cornelius Tacitus. The Life of Agricola. The second edition. London: [By Edm. Bollifant, for Bonham and Iohn Norton], 1598 Folio: 30 x 20.7 cm. [8], 271, [1] p. (1st 2 p. blank) Collation: [par.]⁴ A-Y⁶...

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Poems on several occasions. Together with The song of the three children paraphras’d. By the...

Poems on several occasions. Together with The song of the three children paraphras’d. By the Lady Chudleigh

London: printed by W[illiam]. B[owyer]. for Bernard Lintott at the Middle Temple Gate in Fleetstreet, 1703.

Price: $15,000.00

Bound in contemporary sprinkled calf, blind-ruled in panels, with floral ornaments on the boards and a gilt label on the spine. Discreet repairs to spine. A fine copy with very light soiling to the title and a few small ink spots.Mary Chudleigh was a friend of Elizabeth Thomas and an...

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Raguaglio dell'origine et giornali successi della gran peste contagiosa, venefica, & malefica...

Raguaglio dell'origine et giornali successi della gran peste contagiosa, venefica, & malefica seguita nella Città di Milano.

Milan: Filippo Ghisolfi ad instanza di Giovan Battista Bidelli, 1648.

Price: $6,500.00

Bound in modern cartoncino. A fine copy with good margins of this rare book. Minor blemishes as follows: Small, light stain at upper corner of opening leaves, dampstain in margin of final three leaves (and an inconspicuous, short wormtrail in the blank margin of those same few leaves), occ. light...

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The Safegard of Saylers: or, Great Rutter, Containing the courses, distances, soundings, flouds...

The Safegard of Saylers: or, Great Rutter, Containing the courses, distances, soundings, flouds and ebbs, with the markes for the entring of sundry harboroughs, both of England, France, Spain, Ireland, Flanders, and the Sounds of Denmarke, with other Necessary Rules of common Navigation. Translated out of Dutch into English, by Robert Norman, hydrographer. Newly Corrected with Discovery of a new Spits.

London: Printed by T[homas]. F[awcet]. for G. Hurlock, and are to be sold at his Shop at St. Magnus-corner, 1647.

Price: $17,500.00

A very fine, fresh copy. Bound in modern blind-ruled calf. Very small tear at upper blank margin of title, no loss. With an elaborate woodcut title border [McKerrow & Ferguson 302] showing celestial and terrestrial spheres, mariners standing on column bases taking sightings with mariner’s staves, a ship, and a....

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