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Item #4880 In espettazione delle loro altezze reali Ferdinando III principe reale d’Ungheria, e...

In espettazione delle loro altezze reali Ferdinando III principe reale d’Ungheria, e di Boemia arciduca d’Austria gran duca di Toscana e Luisa Maria di Borbone real principessa di Napoli sua consorte. Feste pubbliche destinate dalla citta di Siena in contrassegno della sua gioia e devozione. Arricchite di rami.

Siena: Dai Torchi Pazzini Carli, 1791.

Price: $6,400.00

A special copy, bound in original pink wrappers with the Greater coat of Arms of the Grand duchy of Tuscany. The text and plates untrimmed and fresh. Illustrated with 4 engraved plates showing costumes, floats and the triumphal arch, engraved by Alessandro Mochetti after Tommaso Paccagnini. Also with an engraved...

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Item #4658 Manuscript Letter, on paper, signed by Ludwig III. A contemporary account the St....

Manuscript Letter, on paper, signed by Ludwig III. A contemporary account the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre (during which thousands of Protestant Huguenots were slaughtered by Catholics) together with a second document which provides the names of 15 important victims and additional information.

Steinhilben: (near Reutlingen, Baden-Wurttemberg), 1572.

Price: $15,000.00

The French Wars of Religion produced one of the most brutal and excessive persecutions in history, including the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in Paris which began on August 24, 1572 and continued for three hellish days. Thousands of Protestant Huguenots were tortured, raped, and murdered on the streets of Paris...

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Item #4432 Gemmarum et Lapidum Historia. Quam olim edidit Anselmus Boetius de Boot, Brugensis,...

Gemmarum et Lapidum Historia. Quam olim edidit Anselmus Boetius de Boot, Brugensis, Rudolphi II. imperatoris Medicus. Postea Adrianus Tollius, Lugd.-Bat., M. D., recensuit; figuris melioribus, & commentariis pluribus illustravit, & indice auxit multo locupletiore. Tertia editio longe purgatissima. Cui accedunt Ioannis De Laet, Antvverpiani, De Gemmis & Lapidibus libri II. Et Theophrasti liber De Lapidibus, Gr. & Lat. cum brevibus notis.

Leiden: Joannes Maire, 1647.

Price: $4,900.00

Bound in contemporary Dutch vellum (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; a....

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Item #4852 The Mysteryes of Nature and Art: conteined in foure severall tretises, the first of...

The Mysteryes of Nature and Art: conteined in foure severall tretises, the first of Water Workes The second of Fyer workes, the third of Drawing, Colouring, Painting and Engraving, The fourth of divers experiments, as wel serviceable as delightful: partly collected, and partly of the authors peculiar practice, and invention.

London: for Ralph Mab and are to be sold by John Jackson and Francis Church, 1634.

Price: $15,000.00

Bound in contemporary speckled sheep (old repair to foot of spine and one lower corner, joints and leather of spine cracked, top of spine worn). Apart from the wear to the spine and a mild dampstain in the last part, a nice, clean copy. The book preserves evidence of its...

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Item #4882 Der Todten-Tantz, wie derselbe in der weitberühmten Statdt Basel als ein Spiegel...

Der Todten-Tantz, wie derselbe in der weitberühmten Statdt Basel als ein Spiegel menschlicher Beschaffenheit, ganz künstlich mit lebendigen Farben gemahlet.

Basel: Gebrüden von Mechel, 1796, i.e., 1842.

Price: $3,900.00

A rare edition, and a very fine copy, of the “Basel” Dance of Death. Despite the date of 1796 indicated on the title, this edition was printed in 1842. The new date appears at the end of the new publisher’s introduction. Bound in 19th c. boards patterned with gold stars...

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Item #4879 Esequie del serenissimo principe Francesco. Celebrate in Fiorenza dal Serenissimo...

Esequie del serenissimo principe Francesco. Celebrate in Fiorenza dal Serenissimo Ferdinando II, Granduca di Toscana, suo fratello, nell'insigne Collegiata di S. Lorenzo il dì 30. d'agosto 1634. Descritte da Andrea Cavalcanti.

Florence: Per Gio. Batista Landini, 1634.

Price: $14,500.00

Bound in contemporary parchment (upper cover soiled and with light staining, small defects to parchment at foot of spine), tooled in gold with attractive ornaments. A fine copy with sharp impressions of the etchings. The text with minor blemishes as follows: light marginal foxing, a few small spots, marginal soiling...

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Item #4841 PASQUINO. ROME. ANTIQUITY. RENAISSANCE. Enea Vico, Nicolas Beatrizet, attributed...

PASQUINO.

Rome: Antonio Lafreri, 1550.

Price: $3,750.00

First state. With Lafreri’s excudit: “Ant. LafrerI FormIs Romae MDL” at lower right. Watermark “Duck in a Circle”(cf. Woodward 79-80). A fine impression, rich in tone, with light marginal foxing and light soiling, particularly in the lower right corner, and some trivial surface soiling to the image.An iconic image of...

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Item #4831 Pro[g]nosticatio […] iam denuo sublatis mendis, quibus scatebat pluribus, quam...

Pro[g]nosticatio […] iam denuo sublatis mendis, quibus scatebat pluribus, quam diligentissime excussa.

Cologne: Peter Quentell, January, 1528.

Price: $5,900.00

Bound in 17th-century calf with a nicely executed modern quarter-calf re-back. The text is in very good condition, with a 16th c. inscription (scored through) and initials on the title page. Fore-edge cut very close but never affecting the text or woodcuts. Illustrated with a fine historiated woodcut border (composed...

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Item #4488 A Rich Storehouse, or Treasurie for the Diseased. Wherein are many approved medicines...

A Rich Storehouse, or Treasurie for the Diseased. Wherein are many approved medicines for divers and sundry diseases, which have beene long hidden, and not come to light before this time. First set forth for the benefit and comfort of the poorer sort of people, that are not of abilitie to go the Physicions. By G. W. And now seventhly augmented and inlarged by A. T. Practitioner in Physicke and Chirurgerie.

London: Printed by Richard Badger, for Philemon Stephens and Christopher Meredith, 1630.

Price: $6,800.00

Bound in -rather worn- contemporary calf, rebacked and re-cornered, the corners rounded. Text in good condition, with variable browning and a little chipping to the edges of the title and final leaf; small paper flaw at corner of leaf M3, affecting a catchword. Provenance: 18th-century bookplate of George Edwards (1694-1773)...

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Item #4747 Ain götliche ermanung an die Ersamen Weisen Erenuesten, eltisten Aydgnossen zu...

Ain götliche ermanung an die Ersamen Weisen Erenuesten, eltisten Aydgnossen zu Schweytz das sy sich vor frembden herren hueten und entladen.

[Augsburg]: [Jörg Nadler], 1522.

Price: $7,800.00

Bound in quarter vellum and paste-paper over boards. Title page with a pretty historiated woodcut border. 16th c. foliation in red at upper corners, small marginal tear on final leaf, little brown spots in the lower margin. Extremely rare. Two copies (of any edition) traced in North America (Columbia and...

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Item #4579 Paradise Lost· A Poem in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. The Third Edition....

Paradise Lost· A Poem in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. The Third Edition. Revised and Augmented by the same Author.

London: Printed by S. Simmons next door to the Golden Lion in Aldersgate-street, 1678.

Price: $6,800.00

With the added engraved portrait of Milton by Dolle after Faithorne. Bound in contemporary paneled calf with ornaments in blind (discreet restoration to head and tail of spine and front hinge). The text is in fine condition, with just a few small blemishes and a few minor marginal dampstains; last...

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Item #4402 The Fisher Catched in his owne Net. Daniel Featley

The Fisher Catched in his owne Net

[London]: n.p., 1623.

Price: $3,800.00

Bound in 20th c. quarter Morocco and olive cloth over boards with gold-tooling on spine (spine rubbed). A very good copy. Small wormhole to blank upper, inner corner of opening leaves (with a smidge of loss to the margin of the t.p., not affecting text.) Lower margin of t.p. slightly...

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Item #4165 Omnium homicidiorum examen in duas partes dispertitum, Quarum prima, Ad fiscum...

Omnium homicidiorum examen in duas partes dispertitum, Quarum prima, Ad fiscum potissimè spectantia dilucidat, secunda, Quae reis principaliter prosunt accuratè complectitur.

Venice: Lorenzo Basilio, 1728.

Price: $3,900.00

Bound in contemporary carta rustica. Untrimmed, with deckled edges preserved throughout. Fine condition with just a few leaves spotted. Extremely rare. OCLC and KVK locate 4 copies outside of Italy, only 1 of which is in North America (Harvard Law Library).The work has been attributed to Bartolommeo Mlechiori, who also...

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Item #4828 Pianta di Roma e del Campo Marzo. Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Pianta di Roma e del Campo Marzo

[N.P, N.D.]: ca. 1774.

Price: $8,500.00

Image size (from plate mark): 121.2 x 71.1 cm. A fine impression, tiny area of blank left margin neatly repaired, some marginal finger-soiling. With no staining or discoloration where the three sheets are joined. Paper with watermark of a fleur-de-lis within a double circle.Piranesi’s map extends the area covered by...

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Item #4751 Il Puttino, altramente detto il cavaliero errante [with:] Trattato dell' Inventione et...

Il Puttino, altramente detto il cavaliero errante [with:] Trattato dell' Inventione et Arte Liberale del Gioco di Scacchi.

Naples: Giovanni Domenico Montanaro, 1634.

Price: $9,000.00

Bound in contemporary limp vellum, moderately soiled. Internally very good copies: I. (‘Il Puttino’): Free end-paper a little ragged, upper blank margin of first few leaves slightly nibbled, mild foxing, gatherings G-I lightly browned, occasional small stains. II. (‘Inventione’): Small dark stain in upper blank margin throughout, not affecting the...

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Item #4823 Assertio Septem Sacramentorum Adversus Mart. Lutherum, Henrico VIII. Angliæ Rege...

Assertio Septem Sacramentorum Adversus Mart. Lutherum, Henrico VIII. Angliæ Rege auctore. Cui subnexa est Eiusdem Regis epistola, Assertionis ipsius Contra eundem defensoria. Accedit quoque R.P.D. Iohan. Rossen. Episcopi contra Lutheri Captivitatem Babylonicam, Assertionis Regis defensio.

Paris: Sébastien Nivelle, 1562.

Price: $5,500.00

A very fine copy bound in contemporary limp vellum (lightly soiled, lacking ties, slight damage to lower end-band) with “Henricus 8 Cont. Luth.” on the spine in ink. The text is in excellent fresh condition with just a faint bit of soiling to the title page, and three small stains...

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Item #3630 Ein yder sehe für sich und verberg sich hinder keinen Schmeichler. [with] Ein schöne...

Ein yder sehe für sich und verberg sich hinder keinen Schmeichler. [with] Ein schöne Histori von dem Neidigen und dem Geitzigen [and] Ein yder trag sein joch dise Zeit.

Nuremberg: Gedrückt zu Nürnberg durch Friderich Gutknecht, 1554.

Price: $5,500.00

Bound in modern vellum over boards (soiled, slightly bowed). The text is in very good condition with a little light dust-soiling, a few small spots on the final two leaves, and soiling to the verso of the final leaf. With two woodcut illustrations and a fine woodcut ornament on the...

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Item #3543 Notte d'Amore, rappresentata tra danze, nelle nozze del Sereniss. D. Cosimo de Medici,...

Notte d'Amore, rappresentata tra danze, nelle nozze del Sereniss. D. Cosimo de Medici, Principe di Toscana e della Sereniss. Arciduchessa Maria Maddalena d'Austria, in Firenze l'anno MDCVIII.

Florence: Appresso Cristofano Marescotti, 1608.

Price: $2,100.00

Recently bound in early parchment (slight wear). The text is in very good condition with scattered mild foxing. Early ink note at head of title (illegible). Small woodcut (impaled arms of Cosimo II and Maria Magdalena) on the title. PROVENANCE: 1. Unidentified collector’s stamp (three hills with initials PLT, surmounted...

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Item #4366 Rime di Agnolo del Favilla nelle reali nozze de serenissimi principi di Toscana Cosimo...

Rime di Agnolo del Favilla nelle reali nozze de serenissimi principi di Toscana Cosimo Medici e Maria Maddalena d'Austria.

Florence: Appresso Bartolomeo Sermartelli e frateli, 1608.

Price: $5,800.00

Bound in early 20th c. quarter red Morocco and marbled boards (small repairs to head and foot of spine). A fine copy with scattered mild spotting. Complete with the folding plate of the banquet (signed “Mattheus Greuter excudit”.) Two lines have been erased from the plate, as is the case...

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Item #3234 Descrizione della Reale Galleria di Firenze secondo lo stato attuale. Gaetano MUSEUMS....

Descrizione della Reale Galleria di Firenze secondo lo stato attuale.

Florence: Per Gaetano Cambiagi, 1792.

Price: $5,500.00

Bound with: Massi, Pasquale, da Cesena Indicazione Antiquaria del Pontificio Museo Pio-Clementino in Vaticano, stesa da Pasquale Mass Cesenate Custode del Museo Stesso/ Catalogue Indicatif des Antiquitès Composant Le Musèe Pie-Clèmentin au Vatican par Paschal Massi de Cesèns Garde du dit Musèe. Roma: Presso Lazzarini, 1792...

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Item #4782 Macrobii aurelii theodosii viri consularis in Somnium Scipionis, libri II. Eiusdem...

Macrobii aurelii theodosii viri consularis in Somnium Scipionis, libri II. Eiusdem Saturnaliorum libri VII. Nunc denuo recogniti, & multis in locis aucti.

Cologne: Opera et impensa Ioannis Soteris [Johann Soter], August, 1527.

Price: $5,500.00

Bound in attractive contemporary blind-stamped calfskin over thin wooden boards, with floral tools and rolls of urns. Text possibly re-cased. Somewhat later end-papers. Internally fine. Title page a little dusty, light marginal damp-stain in gathering t, small tear in inner margin of final leaf.The text is printed in italic, with...

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Item #4770 Cathecismo Romano, traducido en Castellano, y Mexicano por el P.F. Manuel Perez....

Cathecismo Romano, traducido en Castellano, y Mexicano por el P.F. Manuel Perez.

Mexico: por Francisco de Rivera Calderon, 1723.

Price: $12,500.00

Bound in contemporary vellum, repaired along the upper hinge, binding lightly soiled and stained, end-papers renewed. Internally an overall fine, fresh copy with bright leaves and only minor faults: edges of first and final four leaves slightly ragged, the slightest of worming in the blank gutter of various gatherings, very...

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Item #4738 Von der freyheit eins Christen menschen: Von Martino Luther selbs dütsch gemacht. Zu...

Von der freyheit eins Christen menschen: Von Martino Luther selbs dütsch gemacht. Zu Wittenberg Im. XXI. iar.

Basel: Adam Petri, 1521.

Price: $8,500.00

Bound in modern blind-ruled vellum. A good if worn copy, contents soiled, especially the opening leaves; small tape repair to blank verso of title, one blank corner with small chip (not affecting the text), gatherings guarded in the gutter.One of Luther’s three landmark works of 1520, here in the original...

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Item #4713 A Nievve Herball, or, Historie of Plantes : wherein is contayned the vvhole discourse...

A Nievve Herball, or, Historie of Plantes : wherein is contayned the vvhole discourse and perfect description of all sortes of herbes and plantes, their diuers and sundry kindes, their straunge figures, fashions, and shapes: their names, natures, operations, and vertues, and that not onely of those which are here growyng in this our countrie of Englande, but of all others also of forrayne realmes, commonly used in physicke / first set foorth in the Doutche or Almaigne tongue, by that learned D. Rembert Dodoens, Physitian to the Emperour: And nowe first translated out of French into English, by Henry Lyte esquyer.

Antwerp: [Printed by Henry Loë and sold] at London by me Gerard Dewes, dwelling in Pawles Churchyarde at the Signe of the Swanne, 1578.

Price: $25,000.00

A fine copy in eighteenth-century calf, very nicely re-backed; boards ruled in gold, minor wear to extremities, corners lightly bumped. Illustrated with more than 850 quarter-paged woodcuts of plants in the text. The title is framed by an elaborate woodcut border by Arnold Nicolai after Pierre van der Borcht, depicting...

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Item #4599 Comedies and Tragedies Written by Francis Beaumont and Iohn Fletcher, Gentlemen....

Comedies and Tragedies Written by Francis Beaumont and Iohn Fletcher, Gentlemen. Neverprinted [sic!] before and now Published by the Authours Originall Copies.

London: Printed for Humphrey Robinson, at the three Pidgeons, and for Humphrey Moseley, at the Princes Armes in St Pauls Church-yard, 1647.

Price: $15,000.00

With the full-paged portrait of Fletcher by Marshall bound before the title page. Bound in 18th c. blind-ruled mottled calf, very nicely re-backed with the original label preserved; corners bumped, minor scrapes and light wear to boards. Complete with the engraved portrait (first state, with "vates duplex” with v and...

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