Paris, s.n., 1652.
Price: $12,000.00
Contemporary vellum over stiff boards, four green ties.Bound with: LEPAUTRE, Antoine. 1621-1679. [Desseins de plusieurs plans d'eglises, pallais et chasteaux]. Paris, s.n. before 1652. Large folio. Forty-nine leaves with fifty-two unnumbered etched plates. Bound with: PERELLE, Gabriel. 1603-1677. [Views of the ruins of Rome and environs]. Paris, P. Mariette...
London: Hugh Newman, 1681.
Price: $6,800.00
Including thirty-one full-paged engraved plates (one folding) of the marvelous and exotic subjects of the collections of the Royal Society. This copy is bound in contemporary English mottled calf, rebacked, with repairs to hinges and corners but preserving the original spine and labels; short split along leather where lower board...
[Rome:]: [Antonio Salamanca?], ca. 1540.
Price: $2,800.00
Monogram “SR” engraved at foot of plate, beneath the inscription. Possibly printed by Antonio Salamanca, who reprinted many works by Dente, who perished in the Sack of Rome in 1527. The composition reproduces a bas relief sculpture and thus, the upper part of the composition is curved, Trimmed within the...
Florence: Per haeredes Philippi Iuntae, 1526.
Price: $3,800.00
A tall, unsophisticated copy, in its original limp vellum binding (vellum stained, lacking ties, short split to upper hinge). The text is in very good condition with intermittent foxing, heavier in some gatherings.A compendium of ancient geographical texts, including descriptions of the known world by Pomponius Mela, Dionysius Periegetes, and...
Barcelona: Por Pablo Nadal, No date but, 1752.
Price: $12,000.00
Bound in contemporary calf, spine tooled with ornaments (surface of the leather worn, spine with small defects at head and foot, tooling faded). Overall an excellent, very clean copy with just a few small spots and marginal tears, tiny hole in one leaf, minor soiling and stains to title. Extremely...
![Item #4529 [The Decameron.] The Modell of Wit, Mirth, Eloquence, and Conversation. Giovanni...](/pictures/medium/4529.jpg?v=1674696015)
London: Printed by Isaac Jaggard, for Mathew Lownes, 1625 and, 1620.
Price: $22,500.00
Bound in contemporary English calf ruled in blind, neatly rebacked retaining the original spine, corners mended, later end-leaves. A crisp copy with minor scattered stains and clean tears (no loss). Light ink stain to first title, light dampstain to lower blank margin of first two gatherings, slight chipping to lower...
![Item #4503 Florilegium Diversorum Epigrammatum in Septem Libros. [Graece:] Anthologia diaphoron...](/pictures/medium/4503.jpg?v=1675705619)
Venice: In Aedibus Aldi, Mense Novembri, 1503.
Price: $29,000.00
Text in Greek type 4:79, (first part of title, register, and colophon in roman 10:82.) Bound in a contemporary Greek-style binding (see below). A tall copy, contents in very good condition with scattered ink stains (mostly light) and minor marks, dampstain at head of some gatherings and in a few...
London: Printed [by Richard Field] for Nathaniell Butter, ca. 1612.
Price: $47,500.00
Bound in 17th c. English paneled calf, rebacked (early 20th c.?), minor wear at extremities. A very fine copy. Engraved t.p. lightly soiled and with a few light spots, and a small adhesion scar. The text is crisp and bright with occ. light blemishes; light marginal damp-staining or soling in...
Wittenberg: Hans Lufft, 1531.
Price: $3,800.00
Bound in modern paste-paper stiff wrappers. With a fine historiated woodcut border (Luther, TE 34). Lower edge cut irregularly. Finger-soiling to lower margin of t.p. Last leaf with traces of folds and wax seal remnant. With a contemporary gift inscription by an unknown person to the humanist, poet and pedagogue...
Leiden: Joannes Maire, 1647.
Price: $4,500.00
Bound in contemporary Dutch vellum (lightly soiled, lower “yapped” edge a bit warped). Complete with both folding tables. Illustrated with eighty-seven (87) woodcuts of gems and minerals, including geodes, hematite, crystals, corral, and fossils.A very good copy, with scattered mild soiling and light foxing, very lightly stained at upper margin;...
Nuremberg: Georg Merckel, 1553.
Price: $4,400.00
Bound in modern quarter vellum and paste paper over boards. With an unsigned title woodcut (by Georg Pencz?). A tall, broad-margined copy with a few deckled edges preserved. Small natural paper flaw on the final leaf. Bound with a second, anonymous poem, “Klaglied: Deren von Magdeburgk, zu Gott und allen...
Various places: Various printers, ca. 1500-, 1502.
Price: $28,000.00
Bound in contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards (catch-plate of the single clasp present but catch missing, hinges cracked, two cords of upper board repaired.) With an original vellum label on the upper board. Flyleaves and pastedowns from a thirteenth century manuscript waste (probably German) of an unidentified biblical commentary...
Rome: Tommaso Barlacchi, 1550.
Price: $2,800.00
A fine, even impression with light surface soiling, a very faint trace of a vertical crease, and several very discreet paper repairs. Re-margined, almost imperceptibly, on one side, just shaving the plate mark. Signed and dated in the plate by the publisher: “THOMA BARLACHI EXCVDEBAT M.D.L”. Watermark: crossbow and circle.Tommaso...
Rome: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1762.
Price: $84,000.00
An extremely fine copy of the first edition, bound in a fabulous contemporary Baroque binding by an unidentified Roman binder. Binding and contents in excellent condition. Binding with light wear at the hinges, contents extremely fresh with dark, rich impressions of the plates. There is a little damp-staining to the...
The Hague: Adrian Vlacq, 1659.
Price: $125,000.00
[Bound with:] De circuli magnitudine inventa. Accedunt eiusdem problematum quorundam illustrium constructiones. Leiden: Elzevir, 1654 Quarto: II. (8), 71, (1) p. Collation: *4, A-I4 FIRST EDITION of Huygens' landmark work on Saturn bound with the FIRST EDITION of Huygens’ work on the quadrature of the...
Venice: In aedibus Aldi et Andreae soceri, mense Octobri, 1518.
Price: $5,200.00
A tall, unsophisticated copy, in its original limp vellum binding (vellum stained, lacking ties). The text is in overall fine condition, aside from the title, which is a bit soiled, slightly frayed at the edges, and feels a bit thin (with two tiny holes in the blank portion), otherwise the...
[Speyer: Anastasius Nolt], ca. 1525.
Price: $4,900.00
Modern speckled wrappers. A fine copy. Half-page woodcut with Christ enthroned and the Last Judgment taking place below. The dead are seen rising from their graves. Some are captured by devils and dragged away, others are rescued by angels. Christ is shown with a lily and a sword. The lily...
Strasbourg: [Matthias Hupfuff], 1508.
Price: $14,000.00
Printer information from Schmidt (see references.) A very good copy in modern marbled boards. Lightly soiled, a few contemporary corrections to page numbering, tiny chip to blank corner of title, occ. light marginal staining. With a woodcut title illustration (repeated on the final leaf) showing a doctor treating his bed-ridden...
Venice: In casa de' figliuoli di Aldo, July, 1544.
Price: $6,800.00
A very fine copy bound in 20th c. stiff vellum, citron label, gilt on spine. Aldine device on title and final leaf. Broad-margined with just a very light dampstain to the lower margin and a little light soiling and staining to the title; text on bifolium D2-3 lightly printed. Provenance...
London: printed by E[dward]. G[riffin]. for Iohn Waterson, and are to be sold at his shop, at the signe of the Crowne, in S. Pauls Church-yard, 1639.
Price: $11,000.00
The Hoe copy. Contents fine with a few light stains. With a printer's ornament on title, woodcut headpieces and decorative initials in the text. Bound in 19th-century green morocco, gilt arms of noted Shakespeare collector Frederick Perkins (1780-1860) on boards, gilt-lettered on spine, all edges gilt. Bookplates of Robert Hoe...
Oxford: Printed by Leon: Lichfield, Printer to the University, for Rob: Young, & Ed: Forrest, 1640.
Price: $15,500.00
An excellent copy bound in attractive contemporary calf, boards ruled in blind and gold, with ornaments at the angles and diamond-shaped cartouche at center; spine tooled with ornaments, gilt. The binding is in fine shape with minor defects to the head and tail of spine, mild wear to hinges and...
London: John Haviland, 1638.
Price: $15,000.00
A COMPLETE COPY with the often-missing engraved frontispiece by William Marshall. Bound in late 19th c. tan morocco, gilt edges and turn-ins. A very good copy, washed and pressed, contents lightly toned, engraved t.p. soiled and with slightly ragged fore-edge, discreet restoration to printed t.p. Leaves X7-8 trimmed close at...
![Item #4621 Vita Philosophorum et Poetaru[m] : cum auctoritatibus et sententiis aureis eorunde[m]...](/pictures/medium/4621.jpg?v=1672171370)
Strasbourg: Johann Knobloch, 1516.
Price: $10,500.00
[Bound with]: Erasmus, Desiderius (1466?-1536) De duplici copia, verborum ac rerum commentarij duo. Ab authore ipso diligentissime recogniti & emaculati, atque in plerisque locis aucti. ... ; Item Epistola Erasmi Roterodami ad Iacobum Vuimphelingium Selestatinum. Strasbourg: Mathias Schürer, October 1516 [And]: Hutten, Ulrich von...
[Rome]: [Marcello Silber], after 12th August, 1514.
Price: $16,000.00
Bound in 19th c. green Morocco, a.e.g., gilt turn-ins, spine rubbed. Ex libris R.B.. A fine copy. Early foliation at upper corners of the lvs.A political letter from Henry VIII to Pope Leo X of Rome, written by the King when he was only 23 years of age. The letter...
Nuremberg: Christoph Lochner for Levinus Hulsius, 1599.
Price: $18,500.00
Rebound in the 20th c. using early parchment, with ms. title on spine. Contents in very good condition, complete with all 6 plates and the map. A light stain in the outer margin carefully cleaned, with resulting stiffness to the fore-edge. A few small chips to the margin, outer blank...
