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...
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: 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, minor worming to several signatures. All edges red. Bound with an unrelated work. A rare edition of this work, first printed in 1474. 2 copies...
London: [in aedibus Thomae Bertheleti], An. 1546.
Price: $12,000.00
Bound in 20th c. green morocco crushed morocco, ruled in gold, a.e.g. The title page is framed by an architectural woodcut border (Mckerrow and Ferguson 30) dated 1534 in the sill. The text is printed in Black Letter. The colophon appears on the verso of the final leaf. Contemporary signature...
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Venice: Presso Gio. Battista Combi, 1638.
Price: $4,800.00
Bound in contemporary vellum, stained red, some wear and soiling, remains of green silk ties. A nice copy with a little minor damp-staining, and some worming in three signatures, affecting one to two lines of text but not the sense.The first edition of Isabella Andreini's collection of letters appeared in...
Tübingen, Ulrich Morhart the Elder, June, 1523.
Price: $7,600.00
Three works bound in contemporary alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards, ruled and stamped in blind, both clasps intact, with light stains and smudges. The text is in excellent, crisp condition, the last three leaves with a slim worm trail affecting a couple of words on each leaf. Contemporary manuscript index...
Mainz: Johann Schöffer, 2 April (“Uff Mitfasten”), 1508.
Price: $37,500.00
Bound in fine blue morocco by the Belgian binder Charles De Samblanx (1855-1943), boards richly tooled in gold, framed by three fillets and stippling. With a large central ornament and further ornaments at the corners. Fine red morocco doublures, also richly tooled in gold. Spine ruled and tooled in gold...
London: by Thomas Este, 1598.
Price: $12,500.00
An unusually fine, unsophisticated copy, with broad margins and the occasional deckled edge, stab-stitched and bound in a contemporary stiff vellum wrapper (small section of upper cover gnawed. By happy accident, the vellum wrapper has come loose, allowing unimpeded inspection of the sewing structure. Very light marginal foxing to fore-edge...
Germany: ca. 1496.
Price: $12,000.00
A fine impression, with good clarity and strong contrasts. Slight breakdown in the delicate cuts. Trimmed within the platemark, inconspicuous paper repair to edge. Provenance: From the renowned collection of Richard Holtkott (1890-1950) (Lugt 4265). Bartsch 95, High Crown watermark (Meder 20).“The pig represented here refers to 'The Monstrous Pig...
Geneva: Conrad Badius, 1561.
Price: $7,500.00
Title page within a woodcut border with the printer's device at the center. A fine, fresh copy in contemporary limp vellum with overlapping edges, manuscript title on the spine and lower edge, remnants of ties, light stain on the back panel, inked-out ownership's entry dated 1606 on the title page...
Wittenberg: Georg Rhau, 1542, 1556.
Price: $7,500.00
Bound in contemporary alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards, one clasp defective, binding soiled and mildly worn and with small defects. The boards are ruled and tooled in blind, signed and dated “IPN 1556”. The contents are in excellent, crisp condition (one leaf working loose, marginal tear in margin of leaf...
Basel: Henricus Petrus, 1557.
Price: $38,000.00
An exceptional copy, bound in contemporary alum-tawed pigskin (some scuffs and light soiling), elaborately tooled in blind, with stamps of the evangelists, medallion portraits of the reformers, and various floral motifs. With its original paper label, faded, affixed to the upper board. The text is in unusually fine condition for...
Paris: [Jean Le Blanc] Pour Jaques Kerver à la Licorne, rue S. Jaques, 1561.
Price: $45,000.00
Bound in 16th c. French calfskin, rebacked, discreet repairs to corners, some minor scuffs and scrapes. The boards are ruled in blind, with small floral tools, gilt, at the angles, and a central cartouche, gilt, at the center of the boards. Additional blind-tooling was added at the time of rebacking...
Geneva: Excudebat Henricus Stephanus, 1588.
Price: $12,000.00
A fine, tall copy in contemporary blind-ruled vellum, edges of the text block sprinkled red and blue. The text is in very nice condition, lightly toned, with minor blemishes (A FEW small ink stains, sm. burn hole in margin of one leaf, ss2 small rust spot, g3-5 v. light dampstain...
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London: Printed by I.B. for Nicholas Vavasour, and are to be sold at his Shop in the Inner Temple, neere the Church, 1633.
Price: $225,000.00
Bound in modern full dark brown morocco circa 1984, in a custom box. A fine copy, lightly washed, unpressed, the paper preserving its rattle. All edges gilt. Provenance: Ximenes (sold 1993), with receipt and scan of a note from Steve Weissman regarding the sale."Although written about 1589 and entered in...
Amsterdam: Sumptibus Andreae Frisii, 1665.
Price: $9,500.00
The book is introduced by a fantastic engraved title page populated by monsters. The text is illustrated with 73 half and quarter-page engravings of monsters –deformed humans and animals, as well as fantastic, monstrous hybrids of the both. This is the first edition to include Gerard Blasius’ "Appendix of new...
Mexico: por Francisco de Rivera Calderon, 1723.
Price: $10,600.00
Bound in original limp vellum, re-cased, endpapers renewed. A nice copy with light scattered stains. Provenance: small collector’s stamp “G” on title.Sole edition of this important translation of the Catholic catechism into Nahuatl, which marks a significant development in translation theory and practice. Father Pérez was one of Mexico's leading...
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Venice: Aldus Manutius and Andrea Torresani, January, 1513.
Price: $16,000.00
Bound in 18th c. stiff vellum, possibly a deftly executed early 19th c. remboîtage. Attractive spine labels, gilt. Aldine device on title. A very fine copy, the text crisp and bright, with two bifolia uncut, and a few minor faults: title and second leaf lightly soiled and with small repairs...
Antwerp: ex officina Plantiniana apud viduam et filios J. Moreti, 1632.
Price: $5,500.00
A very fine copy bound in contemporary Dutch vellum, ruled in blind and with a large, blind-stamped arabesque at the center of each board. This edition is illustrated with an elaborate engraved title page by Theodore Galle, re-worked to include a new portrait of Seneca after Peter Paul Rubens. The...
London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, at the Judge’s Head, in Chancery-Lane near Fleet-Street, 1691.
Price: $7,500.00
A truly fine copy in its original speckled calf binding, corners bumped, hinges starting. The text is crisp and in fine shape aside from a tear to the upper margin of the title affecting the printed rule and the top edge of the word “Poems.” With the preliminary advertisement leaf...
London: printed for John Starkey, 1669.
Price: $4,850.00
Bound in contemporary polished calf, rebacked preserving original spine, corners bumped, light wear. Complete with the two engraved portraits of Charles Howard, First Earl of Carlisle (1628–1685) and Tzar Aleksey Mikhaylovich (1629-1676), just shaved at fore-edge. Title a little dusty, clean tear to margin of Z1 (not entering the text)...
Venice: Giorgio Valentini, 1615.
Price: $12,000.00
Bound in contemporary vellum, soiled. Edges of textblock stained blue. The text is in very good condition with minor blemishes and occasional stains (see footer for detailed note.) Volume II plate on page 62 a duplication of p.58, no correct plate pasted over. Illustrated with 2 engraved titles incorporating a portrait...
Venice: Bonetus Locatellus for Octavianus Scotus, 20 February 1488/, 1489.
Price: $16,000.00
Bound in a very nicely preserved, contemporary Esslingen blinding of blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards [Kyriss 134, EBDB w000012] with metal clasps, as well as metal center- and corner pieces. With the title and shelf-mark inked on the spine. Internally this is a crisp copy, rubricated, with a woodcut printer’s...
Rome: Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, 1660.
Price: $18,000.00
With an engraved allegorical title with the main title incised within a wolf's hide hung on a monument; an engraved dedication to Matthaeus Wacker von Wackenfels (numbered'1'), with the text incised on a stone tablet between flanking obelisks and with two putti supporting the dedicatee's arms; and 49 full-paged engraved...
Rome: Gregorio Roisecco mercante di libri in Piazza Navona nella stamperia Puccinelli, 1750.
Price: $6,500.00
I. [2], xvi, 654 pp. Collation: π2, a8, A-Z8, Aa-Ss8 (lacking Ss8 blank and with an added leaf *Ii after leaf Ii1. π1 is the engraved t.p.) With 19 folding plates, of which two are folding maps of (ancient and modern) Rome. 68 engravings in the text. Vol. II. [2]...
