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...
Ingolstadt, David Sartorius, 1592.
Price: $11,500.00
Woodcut device of the Society of Jesus on the titlepage and a typographical ornament at the end. Contemporary limp vellum binding made of a vellum leaf from a printed missal (small tear to spine, vellum curled and lightly soiled.) A nice copy with a little light foxing, mild wear to...
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...
![Poems by Michael Drayto[n] Esquyer. Collected into one volume. Newly corrected M.DC.XXXVII....](/pictures/medium/4289.jpg?v=1624032667)
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...
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...
Zaragoza: En Caragoça por Angelo Tauano, 1599.
Price: $6,900.00
Contemporary vellum, lightly worn. Text very good w. occ. light toning, sig. c lightly browned, small hole in leaf K11, worming in gutter of 4 lvs., not affecting text, occ. mild stains. Type-ruled throughout. Woodcut of the Virgin Mary on lvs. B9 and C9, Jesuit emblem on leaf C 10...
London: Printed by J.F. for William Lee, and are to be sold at the Great Turks Head over against Fetter-Lane in Fleetstreet, 1651.
Price: $3,800.00
Bound in contemporary, blind-ruled calf, the binding unsophisticated and in overall good condition but with some scrapes to the leather, wear at the corners, and small tear at the head of the spine. The boards edges are stippled in gold. The contents are in excellent condition, the paper very crisp...
Florence: per haeredes Philippi Iuntae, 6 November, 1522.
Price: $15,000.00
Each of the seven plays is introduced by decorative initials and head-pieces. Bound in 17th c. Dutch vellum (light soiling, scuffing), paneled in blind, with blind-tooled ornaments at the corners and a large arabesque panel stamp at the center of each board. A broad-margined copy of this scarce and important...
[Wittenberg]: [Cranach and Döring], 1524.
Price: $5,200.00
Bound in modern wrappers. With a title border by Lucas Cranach the Elder showing Luther’s monogram and the Luther rose (Luther, Titeleinfassungen, Plate 42). A nice copy with insignificant faults (small loss of paper to blank corner of title, not affecting the woodcut, small stain in blank gutter of two...
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...
Erfurt(?): Michel Buchfürer, 1523.
Price: $18,000.00
Modern wrappers. A fine copy, leaves very lightly toned. Large woodcut arms on title page.The very rare (fourth?) printing of Zwingli’s Sixty-seven Articles, printed in the year of the Zurich disputation and the first Zurich edition. “The Sixty-seven Articles are the first public statement of the Reformed faith. They resemble the...
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...
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....
Providence: Printed and sold, wholesale and retail, by John Carter, at the Post-Office, at Shakespeare’s Head, near the State-House, (1786), 1786.
Price: $600.00
Stitched. Soiled and stained.Erroneously attributed by Evans to Benjamin West. The actual calculator appears to be Nathan Daboll. The eclipse predictions are nearly identical with those in The New England almanack and gentlemen and ladies diary for 1787 (New London), calculated by Daboll under the pseudonym of Edmund Freebetter. The astronomical and horological notes...
Wittenberg: [Melchior Lotter the younger, October 6,], 1520.
Price: $50,000.00
Bound in modern boards. In a folding solander box. A truly excellent copy with crisp, clean leaves. With a fine woodcut title border by Lukas Cranach.This is the first edition of Luther’s “Prelude on The Babylonian Captivity of the Church”, the Reformer’s radical critique of the sacramental system of the...
Basel: Johann Amerbach, not after, 1495.
Price: $30,000.00
Bound in contemporary Augsburg morocco over wooden boards, lacking clasps, the boards stamped in blind (Kyriss 078, EBDB w000959, Sechsblatt-Blüte). Small losses to the leather at extremities and head and foot of spine, small chip to corner of upper board. A fine, crisp copy with occ. light damp stains in...
Ulm: Johann Zainer, 29 January, 1480.
Price: $95,000.00
An excellent copy, with noble provenance, of this magnificent Bible. A very large, impressive copy, with broad margins, preserving numerous deckled edges. The quires are numbered in a contemporary hand, in red ink, at the foot of leaves. The stub for the canceled blank leaf ll3 (the conjugate of leaf...
Prague: Aegidius Sadeler, 1606.
Price: $25,000.00
A very fine, broad-margined copy with very rich and clear impressions of the plates. Occ. marginal soiling, a few pin-prick wormholes in the margins of a few leaves. Bound in contemporary morocco, richly tooled in gold. With an engraved allegorical title with the main title incised within a wolf's hide...
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...
Rome: Antonio Lafreri, 1550.
Price: $3,750.00
First state. With Lafreri’s excudit: “Ant. LafrerI FormIs Romae MDL” at lower right. Watermark “Crossbow with arrow in a circle” similar to Briquet 759. A very good impression, with light surface wear and light marginal soiling. Three early stamps on the verso, two of them from the Kupferstichkabinet Berlin (Lugt...
Rome: Chez Bouchard et Gravier Libraires françois rüe du Cours près l’Eglise de S. Marcel, de l'imprimerie de Komarek, 1763.
Price: $32,000.00
An exceptional copy, entirely untrimmed, with deckled edges throughout and (consequently) with very broad margins. Bound in original marbled boards, the binding moderately soiled and lightly worn, with small imperfections at the corners and along the fore-edge. The text and plates are in fine condition, with minor cosmetic faults: a....
Venice: appresso Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari, 1559.
Price: $3,500.00
Bound in 17th c. vellum, citron label, gilt, to spine. All edges blue. Title lightly toned, text a little loose. Two woodcut headpieces, four woodcut initials in text. Two versions of printer’s phoenix device (title and final leaf).The first edition of Colonna's “Rime” was printed in Parma by Viotto in...
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...
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...
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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...
