Augsburg: Silvan Otmar, 11 June, 1523.
Price: $125,000.00
A very early edition of Luther’s December Testament, appearing within six months of the first (Wittenberg, December 1522). With a large title woodcut by Hans Schäufelein, 25 large historiated woodcut initials (numerous repeats) with scenes of the Evangelists writing the Gospels, Paul writing the Epistles, and John writing the Book...
London: printed by S.R. for R. Clavel, at the Peacock at the west end of S. Pauls, 1678.
Price: $4,900.00
A good copy with mild soiling and occ. small stains, complete with the portrait by R. White and all five plates. Bound in contemporary paneled calf, rebacked, bound a bit tight, corners worn. Portrait leaf deftly re-margined (very slight loss to the lower corner of the plate), small rust hole...
Milan: Giovanni Angelo Schinzenzeler per Giovanni Giacomo Da Legnano & fratelli, 1518.
Price: $7,500.00
Bound in 18th c. cat’s-paw sheepskin, spine ruled in gold and with small gilt ornaments, gilt label (corners bumped, light wear to extremities.) A very good, crisp copy with minor defects as follows: scattered light spotting or staining, a few marginal tears, title page and final few leaves lightly browned...
[England:]: begun ca. 1760.
Price: $6,900.00
Manuscript on paper, bound in contemporary blind-ruled vellum (soiled, upper joint starting, covers slightly bowed, coming loose from text-block at front. Contents in very good, clean condition on thick paper, some signatures working loose, a few leaves chipped at the margins. First 6 leaves also loose (5 of them with...
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Rome: Ulrich Han (Udalricus Gallus) and Simon Nicolai Chardella, de Lucca, 4 Nov. 1473.
Price: $30,000.00
Bound in a Roman binding of blind-stamped calfskin over wooden boards (remboîtage), rebacked, lacking bosses and clasps, corners with signs of wear. The text, while incomplete and with some damp-stains and foxing, is largely in very fine condition, partially rubricated, printed on heavy paper, and annotated at various points (Eclogues...
Florence: nella stamperia di Filippo Giunti, e' fratelli, 1587.
Price: $4,200.00
Bound in 20th c. quarter calf and marbled boards (scuffed). A good copy, with some faults, of a rare work. Lower margin cut short, shaving imprint at foot of title and occ. catchword and just entering the corner of one etching, lower fore-corner of lvs. repaired, occ. costing a letter...
London: By Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill, printers to the Kings most excellent Maiestie, 1618.
Price: $8,500.00
Bound in early 20th c. ¼ blond calf with 18th c. marbled paper over boards. A crisp copy with good margin, complete with the first leaf (blank). Recto of first leaf and verso of last leaf dusty, soiling and slight rounding to lower, outer corner of final leaves, far from...
Milan: Apud haer. Pacificij Pontij, & Ioan. Baptistam Piccaleum, impressores Archiepiscopales, 1622.
Price: $8,500.00
Excellent, fresh copies of both parts, bound in contemporary Italian carta rustica (light wear and soiling). Contents with just a few light blemishes and a few lightly creased corners. Divisional title page to second part. Both titles with Jesuit emblem.On July 27th, 1609 Pope Paul V promulgated a bull that...
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Rome: Marcello and Eucharius Silber, alias Franck, ca. 1509-, 1527.
Price: $26,000.00
SIX SEPARATE WORKS BOUND AS ONE. Bound in early 20th c. olive morocco (rubbed, spine lightly sunned). Very good copies internally with a few small marginal tears, light damp-staining to margins of several leaves, a little more extensive on the final three leaves but still very pale. Illustrated with 11...
Paris: Henri Estienne, for himself and Jean Petit, 10 December, 1510.
Price: $11,500.00
An excellent copy, bound in contemporary, blind-tooled calf over wooden boards (brass catches preserved, lacking clasps, expert, very discreet restoration to spine). Internally very fine, crisp, and broad-margined, with contemporary annotations in sig. q of the first part and only trivial faults as follows: small marginal nicks to lvs. C8...
[Augsburg: Sigmund Grimm and Marx Wirsung], 1522.
Price: $4,500.00
A very good copy in modern paste-paper wrappers. Small adhesion scar to blank portion of title, far from text.An early edition of Eberlin’s “In praise of parish priests Concerning the useless sums paid out by the common, unsuspecting people for mass readings, funerals, internments, sevenths and thirtieths, etc. And in...
Oxford: printed by W[illiam]. Hall for R[ichard]. Davis, 1666.
Price: $7,400.00
A fine copy in contemporary blind-ruled calfskin, front joint strengthened. Contents crisp with the only faults being: edges of imprimatur leaf and head of t.p. lightly browned, tiny tear to leaf D4 affecting the catchword, N1 with small burn hole. The three folding plates are in excellent condition. Provenance: 18th...
Venice: Giovanni Battista Ciotti, 1604.
Price: $6,500.00
Bound in modern vellum. A very good copy with scattered foxing and occasional, short worm-trail, discreetly filled, in signature C, restoration to the lower outer corner of leaf F11 slightly affecting the last few words, which have been skillfully supplied by hand. Woodcut Jesuits' emblem on title page. The Lettera...
[Cologne: Conrad Winters de Homborch], not after, 1476.
Price: $180,000.00
An impressive, rubricated and illuminated copy with broad margins. Illuminated with 27 acanthus initials in gold, red, green, and blue with scrolling tendrils extending into the margins; numerous red and blue Lombard initials, and 6 hand-colored woodcut illustrations including the T-O map, and a full-page type-set tree of consanguinity.Bound in...
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Venice: In aedibus Aldi, et Andreae soceri, 1515-, 1516.
Price: $9,600.00
Three volumes bound in matching 19th c. parchment, Aldine device in gold on the boards, spines with citron morocco labels, gilt. Volumes mis-numbered on spines. Marbled endpapers. A tall set, overall clean with minor blemishes (see descriptions of individual volumes below.).Edited by the Venetian poet Andrea Navagero (1483—1529), official historian...
London: Printed by J[ohn]. G[rismond]. for Rich. Marriott, at his shop under S. Dunstans Church in Fleet-street, 1664.
Price: $16,000.00
This was the only edition published in Philips’ lifetime. Philips’ died of smallpox in June 1664, five months after the appearance of this publication. The first authorized edition did not appear until 1667. Bound in contemporary blind-ruled English calf, rebacked, upper right corner of upper board repaired. The contents are...
Rome: apud Valerium et Ludovicum fratres Brixienses, 1552.
Price: $4,500.00
Bound in a contemporary vellum binding using a re-purposed manuscript leaf). Printed in an elegant cursive by the Brescian brothers Valerio e Luigi Dorico, fine engravers and printers active in Rome from 1538 to 1559. A very good copy, with variable light spotting, outer corners slightly trimmed. With a two-page...
Bologna: per gli heredi del Dozza, [1655]-, 1656.
Price: $35,000.00
Two volumes bound in matching contemporary vellum, lightly soiled. Internally, a fine, broad-margined set with the usual variable light paper toning associated with this edition and scattered light foxing. Minor faults as follows: a paper repair to the blank margin of one leaf and two short marginal tears, far from...
Rome: Collegio Societatis Jesu, 1596.
Price: $16,000.00
Jesuit emblem on title-page, wood-cut initials throughout. A very good copy of this rare edition. Small area of corrosion at head of the title page, not affecting text, as the result of an early ink inscription. Contents with scattered foxing and occasional light damp-stains and a few ink spots. Bound...
London: printed by William Stansby for the author, 1611.
Price: $25,000.00
Bound in 19th c. straight-grain green morocco, gilt (light wear to hinges, and extremities, joints strengthened). A very good, complete copy, a.e.g., with minor faults: plate of the Venetian courtesan facing p.261 re-margined and with small, clean tear, lower edge of leaf e5 restored with loss to a few words...
Mexico: Por Francisco Rodríguez Lupercio, 1673.
Price: $12,500.00
Text in Spanish and Nahuatl. A very good copy bound in contemporary vellum (soiled, fore-edge of rear cover nibbled.) Mild soiling to text, v. light dampstain to first two leaves, inner margin of first two leaves with small defects, upper corner of text and blank outer margin of last few...
Rome: Sumptibus N[icoli]. A[ngeli]. Tinassij, 1679.
Price: $12,500.00
Complete in 2 volumes. A fine set in matching contemporary vellum, complete with all 24 inserted leaves with woodcuts (as called for). The text is in fine, crisp condition with only minor cosmetic faults: Vol. I: Light dampstain to head of first few leaves only. Cut a little close, with...
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Cologne: Ex aedibus nostris [Peter Quentel], 1535.
Price: $7,500.00
Bound in 19th-century quarter calf, rebacked with spine preserved, some wear to extremities. A very good copy with occ. light foxing and scattered pencil notes in the margins. Light stain to one leaf (X4), last leaf verso lightly soiled. With numerous fine woodcut historiated initials. Elaborate woodcut title border by...
London: [Printed by Thomas Marsh], 1557.
Price: $18,000.00
A fine, tall, and interesting copy, bound in contemporary English sheep, with patches of wear, and skilful repairs to spine and corners. The contents are crisp and bright, with a slight worm-trail in the lower margin of the opening leaves. The flyleaves are from William Lily’s grammar, “An introduction of...
Basel: Johann Bergmann de Olpe, 1 March, 1498.
Price: $60,000.00
Illustrated with the original woodcuts of the first German edition (1494), of which the majority (73) are often attributed to Albrecht Dürer. Bound in 18th c. blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, soiled, clasps intact, edges minor repairs. A nice, unpressed copy with a small defect to the title woodcut, only...
