Frankfurt: Peter Braubach, 1544.

Price: $7,500.00

Bound in contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards dated 1546. The boards are blind-ruled in compartments and elaborately tooled with decorative rolls (the Crucifixion, King David -dated 1543, John the Baptist, urns, interlocking sheaves of wheat, and small floral stamps (binding moderately soiled, lacking one clasp, small defects at extremities)...

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...

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...

Leiden: Joannes Maire, 1647.

Price: $4,900.00

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;...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Venice: Lucio Spineda, 1628.

Price: $12,000.00

Contemporary limp vellum in fine condition (paste-down torn). The text is in excellent condition with a few instances of light toning (in gatherings O, S, and X), and a small worm-track in the margin of the first few lvs. The text is illustrated with woodcut diagrams. An extremely rare book...

Cambridge: ex officina Iohannis Legat, 1598.

Price: $15,000.00

Bound in contemporary vellum, a bit rumpled, lightly soiled, text block loose at front. A very fine, crisp copy. Smudge on leaf C1, ink spot on leaf G2; small, faint dampstain to upper margin in gatherings E and F. Variable light damp-stain to lower, outer corner starting in gathering L....

Venice: [Per Comin da Trino di Monferrato], 1574.

Price: $15,000.00

Bound in near-contemporary limp vellum, remains of ties, paper label chipped. Contents fine. Light soiling to title, short worm-trail in the inner margin of gatherings F and G, small portion of blank corner of leaf F6 snipped away. Five parts in one volume; Four divisional title pages dated 1573. All...

Rotterdam: F. van Hoogstraeten, 1678.

Price: $12,500.00

A very good, complete copy with all plates. Bound in contemporary Dutch vellum, moderately soiled and a bit warped, corners bumped. Minor blemishes as follows: Etched t.p. lightly soiled, light browning to blank edges of some plates, outer edge of portrait plate with pale damp-stain, light marginal foxing; small spots...

Rome: apud Valerium et Ludovicum fratres Brixienses, 1552.

Price: $4,800.00

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 bound in 18th c. vellum, red morocco label, gilt. Title page...