Rome: [Calcografia della Camera Apostolica], ca. 1755.
Price: $14,500.00
This issue, which bears the publishing information of Giovanni Giacomo de’ Rossi (de Rubeis), was printed ca. 1755 by the Calcografia della Camera Apostolica (established by Pope Benedict XIV), which had acquired -as its foundation- the de’ Rossi firm’s vast collection of copperplates, its unsold stock, presses, and other equipment...
Palermo: nella stamperia di Francesco Valenza, 1774.
Price: $2,600.00
Bound in attractive contemporary patterned pasteboards (corners bumped, minor wear.) The text is in excellent condition. The two folding engravings show the funeral monument and the catafalque. Clean tear (mended, no loss) to first plate. Marginal tear, not affecting image to second plate. The portrait was etched by Giuseppe Garofalo...
N.p., [Rome]: n.p. [Johann Beplin], n.d., 1512.
Price: $16,000.00
Place, printer, and proposed date from Adams and CNCE. The author’s letter to the reader is dated 31 August, 1512 (“Pridie kal. Septembris M.D.XII.”). Modern limp vellum. A fresh copy with good margins and just a little light staining, the large 4-part woodcut title page border untrimmed. The white-on-black title...
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Venice: In aedibus Aldi et Andreae Asulani Soceri, April, 1524.
Price: $18,000.00
A married set, bound in matching leather bindings (late 18th- early 19th c.), boards ruled in gold, spines tooled with attractive floral ornaments, red labels with “Homerus” tooled in Roman, and green labels with the Greek titles (“ΙΛΙΑΣ “, “ΟΔΥΣΣΕΙΑ”). The Aldine anchor and dolphin device is tooled on the...
Stuttgart: Hulsius, 1616.
Price: $20,000.00
A very rare festival book published by Esaias von Hulsen with etchings by Matthäus Merian the Elder to commemorate the baptism of Prince Friedrich (Dec. 1615-1682), son of Barbara Sophia of Brandenburg, Duchess of Württemberg (1584-1636) and Duke Johann Friedrich von Württemberg (1582-1628). A year later, similar celebrations were held...
Saragossa: Pedro Bernúz, 23 July, 1550.
Price: $38,000.00
Woodcut compartment on title-page incorporating insignia of the dedicatee Philip (later Philip II, King of Spain), fine woodcut portrait of the author aged 25 (folio A4 verso), each letterpress text page enclosed by a four-piece woodcut border (of which there are four designs), full-page woodcut writing samples (some cut white-on-black...
Florence: Bernardo Paperini, 1733.
Price: $11,500.00
Bound in contemporary vellum (front board bowed, soiled, short split at foot of spine, small defect to label). A fine, broad-margined copy. The paper is thick and crisp, the impressions of the type and plates rich and dark. Title lightly soiled, some insignificant soiling to the blank margins of some...
London: Adam Islip, Joice Norton, and Richard Whitakers, 1636.
Price: $10,500.00
A very good copy bound in 17th c. English mottled calfskin, (binding worn, esp. at extremities where there is some flaking and minor loss to the leather; scrapes to lower board) rebacked and re-cornered in the 20th c, endpapers renewed. With an engraved title by John Payne and over 2,000...
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London: [s.n.], 1687.
Price: $9,500.00
Bound in 18th c. sprinkled calf (very nicely rebacked, discreet repairs to the corners), the boards ruled in compartments, with ornaments at the corners. A nice copy, complete with the engraved full-length portrait of Chaucer and his “Progenie”. Light foxing, light toning to scattered leaves. Small spot on lvs. Aa1...
London: ex Officina typographica Thom. Cotes. 1634.
Price: $13,500.00
One of three issues (no priority.) A fine copy bound in contemporary vellum, lightly soiled, spine expertly restored. A crisp copy, the text in nice condition overall with occasional faults and blemishes as follows: light damp-stain with a tidemark to the lower outer corner of the opening quire and again...
London: Willyam Seres, 1565.
Price: $25,000.00
A copy with numerous points of interest, bound in contemporary English calf (worn, rebacked preserving most of the original spine, wear with loss to the leather at three corners), the boards ruled in blind and with large central blind-stamped lozenge with vegetal motifs. The text, resewn at the time of...
Venice: Apud Paulum Manutium, Aldi filium, 1554.
Price: $6,000.00
A nice, tall, unsophisticated copy of this important book, bound in its original limp vellum binding (mild wear, lacking ties) with the author’s name on the spine. The text is in fine condition with just a little ink staining at the upper and lower edges of the opening leaves and...
Basel: Per Nicolaum Bryling, 1561.
Price: $5,500.00
Bound in a signed and dated (L.SZ. 1563) contemporary panel-stamped tanned sheepskin, lacking ties, ruled in compartments and richly tooled with decorative rolls with vines and two panel stamps. The binding has suffered some surface abrasions and moderate wear; the corners are bumped.Panel-stamped tanned sheepskin bindings are very rare. Such...
Venice: In Aedib. Aldi, Et Andreae Asulani Soceri, June, 1518.
Price: $4,800.00
Bound in brown Morocco preserving the panels and spine from the original, probably Venetian, binding. The upper board with “EP.LE PLINII” (i.e. “Epistolae Plinii”) tooled in gold within a circle and framed by panels tooled in gold and in blind, with fleur-de-lys corner tools, also gilt. The lower board with...
Basel: Adam Petri, 1519.
Price: $3,800.00
Modern marbled wrappers. Lightly damp-stainned, a few sidenotes shaved. With an ornamental woodcut title border.A German translation, attributed to Spalatin, of an early Latin work by Luther on confession. In 1518 Spalatin had requested that Luther write a short instruction on how to confess. Luther sent him a Latin version of...
London: Printed by G. Eld and M. Flesher, 1620.
Price: $8,500.00
Bound in contemporary English calf, rebacked with wear to hinges; boards scuffed, corners bumped. Internally a very good copy with intermittent light marginal damp-stains, a bit darker in a few signatures. Very fine woodcut initials and headpieces. Leaves of sig. O bound out of sequence, N3 with tiny rust hole...
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London: in aedibus Wina[n]di de Worden, 1521.
Price: $22,000.00
Bound in full red morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, with de Worde's trademark tooled in blind on front board, along with title, author, and imprint date. Title page printed within four-part woodcut compartment with Wynkyn de Worde's (d. 1534?) logo on shields at top and bottom [McKerrow 49 & 50]...
Oxford: At the Theater, 1679.
Price: $3,500.00
Bound in 20th c. quarter calf and marbled boards. A crisp copy, some very light damp-staining.An anonymous tract on optics and lenses, attributed variously to Obadiah Walker (“one of the most productive scholars of Restoration Oxford”, Abraham Woodhead, or Robert Cooper. Illustrated throughout with diagrams. Pages 1 to 23 concern...
[Bamberg: Georg Erlinger], 1523.
Price: $4,500.00
An excellent, clean copy with broad margins. Bound in modern speckled boards. With a fine woodcut title page border.As with many aspects of Church ritual and practice, Luther perceived the liturgy to have been corrupted and in need of serious reform. “Three great and serious misuses have entered into divine...
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Augsburg: Silvan Otmar, 1519.
Price: $4,500.00
Bound in modern patterned paper over thin boards. V. light soiling, lower margin cut a bit close. Attractive woodcut border on title.An important, early work by Luther, written at a crucial moment in his confrontation with the Rome, that showcases his evolving ideas on such diverse matters as indulgences and...
?Madrid: n.p., 1750.
Price: $5,800.00
A very rare and attractive broadside papal bull. A fine, crisp copy, untrimmed, with horizontal fold and a few light creases. With blank (“unaccomplished”) spaces where the name of the purchaser and the date are to be written. With five woodcuts: Saints Paul and Francis, the arms of the reigning...
London: Various printers (details below). 1591-, 1596.
Price: $85,000.00
Bound in 17th c. calf, the boards gilt-ruled in compartments with ornamental tools at the corners and a large stamp of the Tudor arms at the center of each board (hinges and endcaps restored, corners bumped, later label, lacking ties). Inscriptions: In the Shepheards Calender 1. Contemporary signature of Roger...
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: William Copland, 1553.
Price: $75,000.00
Bound in 18th century diced russia, boards and spine ornately tooled in gold, housed in a modern full dark blue morocco folding case by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Title page printed with an elaborate woodcut compartment (McKerrow & Ferguson 49a), text in black letter, with the inserted leaf in signature X....
