Lisbon: Na Officin. de Pedro Ferreira, Impressor da Augustissima Rainha N.S., 1733.

Price: $4,900.00

With a woodcut illustration of conjoined twins on the title. A fine copy bound in modern wrappers.An account of conjoined twins, joined at the pelvis (ischiopagus), The twins were born on 1 October 1732; their mother was a slave named Anna. The illustration on the title page shows the twins...

Berlin: Bey Ambros. Haude und Johann Carl Spener, 1755.

Price: $4,900.00

With 3 folding plates engraved by Nikolaus Friedrich Sauerbrey of the Prussian Academy of Sciences: Plate 1 illustrates the veins on the right side of the face, head, and neck, accompanied by over 310 annotations (inscribed: '[...] sculp. Mem: de l'Acad Tom vii'); Plates 2 and 3 show both sides...

[Basel: Pamphilus Gengenbach], 1521.

Price: $5,500.00

This work is the second of Eberlin’s “Fünfzehn Bundsgenossen” (“The Fifteen Confederates”). Bound in quarter vellum and modern patterned boards. A nice copy, title a little dusty and with small marginal stain, with a title woodcut of Jesus disputing with the Devil set within an ornamental historiated border.Eberlin von Günzburg...

London: by Wyllyam How for Abraham Veale, dwelling in Poules Churchyearde, at the signe of the Lambe, 1573.

Price: $45,000.00

Bound in 19th c. navy morocco, gold-tooled and ruled in compartments, with gilt turn-ins and spine. A very nice copy, lightly pressed, a.e.g., with insignificant flaws as follows: small repair to blank lower margin of title, marginal stains on the leaves of gathering D and the first leaf of gathering...

London: Printed [by Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, 1596.

Price: $28,000.00

Bound in modern crushed red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. First title page, supplied from a smaller copy (in 1974), has near-contemporary verses on the verso. Some headlines are very slightly shaved. Woodcut headpiece and printer's device on first title-page (McKerrow 222), woodcut initial, woodcut and type-ornament headpieces, section-title...

[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...

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...

Bologna: Lelio dalla Volpe, 1754.

Price: $8,500.00

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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:]...