Venice: In aedibvs Aldi, et Andreæ soceri, 1515.
Price: $10,500.00
Bound in contemporary blind-tooled black morocco, probably Venetian, small repairs to the spine, endpapers dyed red. A fine, crisp copy with some light damp-staining to the lower margin of some signatures.The important second Aldine edition of the poems of Catullus, Tibullus and Propertius, co-edited by Girolamo Avanzi (fl. 1500.) and...
Bologna: [n.p.], 1678.
Price: $18,000.00
Contemporary pale golden-yellow boards (lightly worn, lightly soiled), manuscript title on spine. An attractive, tall copy with minor faults. Finger-soiling to margins, occ. marginal foxing, a few trivial marginal blemishes, pale damp-stain to upper margin (far from the text) starting at pl. 25, more noticeable on the final few plates...
Florence: nella Stamperia di Zanobi Pignoni, 1632.
Price: $14,000.00
The imprimatur is dated 1629 but the printing was delayed due to an outbreak of the plague. With an etched title page and 20 etched half-page illustrations by Stefano della Bella. Decorative initials and headpieces in the text. A nice copy in contemporary vellum. Broad-margined. Light foxing and minor cosmetic...
Venice: Alessandro Paganini, 21st February, 1514.
Price: $4,500.00
Bound in 19th c. vellum, tooled in blind. A nice copy. Title lightly soiled, some very pale staining, a few early notes in the margins. All edges red. Bound with an unrelated work. A rare edition of this work, first printed in 1474. 2 copies of this 1514 edition located...
[London:]: Printed in the year M DCC XXVII: And Sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster, [1727].
Price: $8,500.00
Contemporary gilt-ruled calf, unlettered. One or two very minor spots, but an excellent copy; short splits in the joints at head of spine with a couple of pieces of paper reinforcement sometime added and now failed, other signs of wear, but sound; small marginal tear and mild soiling to final...
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Venice: Aldus Manutius, February 1495 i.e., 1496.
Price: $38,000.00
A fine, large, unwashed copy with broad margins. Provenance: William Beckford (Catalogue (1883) 2530) and Prime Minister Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery (1847-1929). Bound in early nineteenth-century green morocco, spine and boards tooled in gold. Adorned with eight intricate woodcut headpieces (2 by the Poliphilo Master), with twenty-nine...
Antwerp: Apud Adrianum Huberti, 1587.
Price: $9,500.00
Illustrated with 29 half-paged engravings of torture, murder, and execution. Bound in modern blind-ruled vellum with ornaments and central arabesques. A very good copy, lightly soiled and with some marginal foxing. Minor blemishes, small ink spot (leaf L2), small wax drips (leaf B3). There is a tiny tear in blank...
London: [in aedibus Thomae Bertheleti], An. 1546.
Price: $12,000.00
Bound in 20th c. green morocco crushed morocco, ruled in gold, a.e.g. The title page is framed by an architectural woodcut border (Mckerrow and Ferguson 30) dated 1534 in the sill. The text is printed in Black Letter. The colophon appears on the verso of the final leaf. Contemporary signature...
London: Printed by William Bentley, and are to be sold by Thomas Heath, near the Pyazza of the Coven-Garden. Anno Dom. 1651.
Price: $15,000.00
Bound in excellent early eighteenth-century gilt-ruled, sprinkled calf, unlettered. Some mild browning throughout, somewhat heavier in gatherings K-M due to variable paper quality. Complete with the initial leaf, blank except for an oval printer’s crest bearing the motto “Deus est nobis sol et scutum” (“God is a sun and shield...
London: Printed by H. Lownes, and R. Young, 1628.
Price: $2,900.00
Bound in contemporary blind-ruled calf (corners bumped and worn, small defects to spine, leather of hinges cracked but firm) with the initials A.N. and an attractive floral ornament tooled in gold on the boards. Internally, both books are in fine condition with trivial faults as follows: I. (“Imitatio”): Clean tear...
![Lettere Della Signora Isabella Andreini Padovana, Comica Gelosa, [et] Academica Intenta, nominata...](/pictures/medium/4102.jpg?v=1614028564)
Venice: Presso Gio. Battista Combi, 1638.
Price: $4,800.00
Bound in contemporary vellum, stained red, some wear and soiling, remains of green silk ties. A nice copy with a little minor damp-staining, and some worming in three signatures, affecting one to two lines of text but not the sense.The first edition of Isabella Andreini's collection of letters appeared in...
London: Imprynted by Edwarde Whytchurch, wyth the Kynges moste graciouse priuelege for seuen yeres. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum, 1550.
Price: $28,000.00
A fine copy bound in contemporary English calf, rebacked and re-sewn, with leather straps (and possibly the clasps) renewed. The boards are paneled in blind and patterned with decorative roll stamps. Historiated woodcut title border, numerous and varied attractive woodcut initials throughout. The text itself in fine, crisp condition with...
Rome: Various publishers: Nicolaes van Aelst; Hendrick van Schoel; Giovanni Orlandi; Giovanni Giacomo de' Rossi, ca. 1587-, 1675.
Price: $50,000.00
Bound in contemporary limp vellum (lightly soiled, a few light stains, two small defects to spine, wear to corners), with remains of rawhide ties. The contents are in excellent, overall fresh condition, with very minor faults as follows: (a few light marginal damp-stains, a half-inch tear in the blank portion...
Tübingen, Ulrich Morhart the Elder, June, 1523.
Price: $7,600.00
Three works bound in contemporary alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards, ruled and stamped in blind, both clasps intact, with light stains and smudges. The text is in excellent, crisp condition, the last three leaves with a slim worm trail affecting a couple of words on each leaf. Contemporary manuscript index...
Venice: Theodorus de Ragazonibus, 23 August, 1491.
Price: $18,000.00
Bound in early vellum with later endpapers. A fine, fresh copy with nice margins, printed on high-quality paper. First leaf slightly soiled and with mild wear to the edges, a few trivial light stains, verso of final leaf lightly soiled, faded early inscription to title.The “Mirabilia Romae” (Marvels of Rome)...
Florence: Nella stamperia Imperiale, 1759.
Price: $6,500.00
A crisp, bright copy in original three-quarter calf and speckled paper over boards, spine with floral ornaments (light wear). The text is adorned with attractive woodcut initials and headpieces.First edition of the first guide to one of the world’s most important museums. This guide to the Medici collections of the...
Rome: Giovanni Komarek, 1689.
Price: $4,900.00
Although advertised as “Parte Prima”, no second part was published. Bound in contemporary stiff vellum, soiled. The text is in very good condition with a little light toning to scattered leaves, very mild marginal foxing to some leaves and plates, small light dampstain to upper margin of 4 lvs. Last...
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Basel: Johannes Froben, 1522.
Price: $8,500.00
A broad-margined copy, bound in seventeenth-century English calfskin, ruled in blind with small blind-tooled ornaments at the corners and an attractive red morocco label, gilt, on the spine. Slight chipping to spine, upper hinges starting. With the 16th c. ownership inscription of William Hunsdon on the title page (a little...
Mainz: Johann Schöffer, 2 April (“Uff Mitfasten”), 1508.
Price: $37,500.00
Bound in fine blue morocco by the Belgian binder Charles De Samblanx (1855-1943), boards richly tooled in gold, framed by three fillets and stippling. With a large central ornament and further ornaments at the corners. Fine red morocco doublures, also richly tooled in gold. Spine ruled and tooled in gold...
[Basel:]: [Andreas Cratander], 1521.
Price: $6,500.00
A fine, fresh copy with broad margins, in modern marbled wrappers. Title-page with the woodcut “Indian border”, dated 1519.Karlstadt’s controversial critique of monasticism and his condemnation of clerical celibacy. In many instances and on many important matters, Karlstadt’s work and actions anticipate those of Luther (although the political and theological...
London: by Thomas Este, 1598.
Price: $12,500.00
An unusually fine, unsophisticated copy, with broad margins and the occasional deckled edge, stab-stitched and bound in a contemporary stiff vellum wrapper (small section of upper cover gnawed. By happy accident, the vellum wrapper has come loose, allowing unimpeded inspection of the sewing structure. Very light marginal foxing to fore-edge...
Germany: ca. 1496.
Price: $12,000.00
A fine impression, with good clarity and strong contrasts. Slight breakdown in the delicate cuts. Trimmed within the platemark, inconspicuous paper repair to edge. Provenance: From the renowned collection of Richard Holtkott (1890-1950) (Lugt 4265). Bartsch 95, High Crown watermark (Meder 20).“The pig represented here refers to 'The Monstrous Pig...
London: Printed by William Iones, for Iames Bowler, and are to be sold at the Marigold in Pauls Church-yard, 1636.
Price: $9,500.00
Bound in contemporary blind-ruled calf, nicely rebacked and re-sewn. Light wear to edges. A clean copy, complete with the inserted slips. Small, light ink spot on engraved title. One leaf dusty. Numerous woodcut diagrams and instruments in the text. The engraved instrument bound after the engraved title has the advertisement...
London: by Jhon Daye, 1550.
Price: $12,500.00
Bound in contemporary English blind-stamped calf, upper hinge cracked with board coming loose, small losses to corners. Inside the rear board is an early vellum fragment from a breviary, “…quos inanducent . Et respondens ait illis, Dare illis manducare..” A nice, complete copy with wide margins. Title and final leaf...
Geneva: Conrad Badius, 1561.
Price: $7,500.00
Title page within a woodcut border with the printer's device at the center. A fine, fresh copy in contemporary limp vellum with overlapping edges, manuscript title on the spine and lower edge, remnants of ties, light stain on the back panel, inked-out ownership's entry dated 1606 on the title page...
