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Item #4412 Opere di Galileo Galilei ... In questa nuoua editione insieme raccolte, e di varij...

Opere di Galileo Galilei ... In questa nuoua editione insieme raccolte, e di varij trattati dell' istesso autore non piu stampati accresciute.

Bologna: per gli heredi del Dozza, [1655]-, 1656.

Price: $35,000.00

Two volumes bound in matching contemporary vellum, lightly soiled. Internally, a fine, broad-margined set with the usual variable light paper toning associated with this edition and scattered light foxing. Minor faults as follows: a paper repair to the blank margin of one leaf and two short marginal tears, far from...

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Item #4435 Exercitia spiritvalia Ignatij de Loyola. of Loyola Ignatius, Saint

Exercitia spiritvalia Ignatij de Loyola.

Rome: Collegio Societatis Jesu, 1596.

Price: $16,000.00

Jesuit emblem on title-page, wood-cut initials throughout. A very good copy of this rare edition. Small area of corrosion at head of the title page, not affecting text, as the result of an early ink inscription. Contents with scattered foxing and occasional light damp-stains and a few ink spots. Bound...

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Item #4400 Coryats crudities; hastily gobled vp in five moneths trauells in France, Sauoy, Italy,...

Coryats crudities; hastily gobled vp in five moneths trauells in France, Sauoy, Italy, Rhetia co[m]monly called the Grisons country, Heluetia aliàs Switzerland, some parts of high Germany, and the Netherlands; newly digested in the hungry aire of Odcombe in the county of Somerset, & now dispersed to the nourishment of the trauelling members of this kingdome.

London: printed by William Stansby for the author, 1611.

Price: $25,000.00

Bound in 19th c. straight-grain green morocco, gilt (light wear to hinges, and extremities, joints strengthened). A very good, complete copy, a.e.g., with minor faults: plate of the Venetian courtesan facing p.261 re-margined and with small, clean tear, lower edge of leaf e5 restored with loss to a few words...

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Item #4367 Fasciculus rerum expetendarum ac fugiendarum : in quo primu[m] continetur Concilium...

Fasciculus rerum expetendarum ac fugiendarum : in quo primu[m] continetur Concilium Basiliense non illud, quod in magno Concilior[um] volumine vulgo circumfertur, sed quod Aeneas Syluius (qui postea Pius II. est appelatus) & eidem Concilio praesens interfuit, fideliter, & eleganter conscripsit. Insunt praeterea huic operi nobilissimo

Cologne: Ex aedibus nostris [Peter Quentel], 1535.

Price: $7,500.00

Bound in 19th-century quarter calf, rebacked with spine preserved, some wear to extremities. A very good copy with occ. light foxing and scattered pencil notes in the margins. Light stain to one leaf (X4), last leaf verso lightly soiled. With numerous fine woodcut historiated initials. Elaborate woodcut title border by...

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Item #4328 The boke named the Gouernour deuised by sir Thomas Elyot knyght. Thomas Elyot, Sir,...

The boke named the Gouernour deuised by sir Thomas Elyot knyght

London: [Printed by Thomas Marsh], 1557.

Price: $18,000.00

A fine, tall, and interesting copy, bound in contemporary English sheep, with patches of wear, and skilful repairs to spine and corners. The contents are crisp and bright, with a slight worm-trail in the lower margin of the opening leaves. The flyleaves are from William Lily’s grammar, “An introduction of...

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Item #4264 Stultifera navis. [Translated from German by Jacobus Locher Philomusus in...

Stultifera navis. [Translated from German by Jacobus Locher Philomusus in collaboration with the author.]

Basel: Johann Bergmann de Olpe, 1 March, 1498.

Price: $60,000.00

Illustrated with the original woodcuts of the first German edition (1494), of which the majority (73) are often attributed to Albrecht Dürer. Bound in 18th c. blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, soiled, clasps intact, edges minor repairs. A nice, unpressed copy with a small defect to the title woodcut, only...

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Item #4344 The She-wolf with Romulus and Remus. Nicolas Béatrizet, attrib,...

The She-wolf with Romulus and Remus

Rome: Antonio Lafréry, 1552.

Price: $3,500.00

First state (of three.) A rich impression with wide margins, light marginal foxing and a little light soiling, extreme upper margin a little ragged. Inscribed on the pedestal: “LVPAE ROMVLVM ET REMVM VRBIS CONDITORES LACTANTIS ANTIQVVM AC AENEVM IN CAPITOLIO SIGNVM.” (Ancient bronze image of the she-wolf nursing Romulus and...

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Item #4339 De revolutionibus orbium coelestium libri VI : habes in hoc opere iam recens nato, &...

De revolutionibus orbium coelestium libri VI : habes in hoc opere iam recens nato, & ædito, studiose lector, motus stellarum, tam fixarum, quàm erraticarum, cum ex ueteribus, tum etiam ex recentibus obseruationibus restitutos : & nouis insuper ac admirabilibus hypothesibus ornatos : habes etiam tabulas expeditissimas, ex quibus eosdem ad quoduis tempus quàm facilli me calculare poteris : igitur eme, lege, fruere.

Nuremberg: Johannes Petreius, 1543.

Price: $2,500,000.00

Bound in attractive, contemporary Parisian calf with some discreet repairs. The boards are blind-ruled and adorned with gold-tooled ornaments. This is one of very few to have appeared on the market in a contemporary binding. The text is in excellent condition, with just minor blemishes (small early erasure of an...

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Item #4280 Ain treüe Ermanung an die strengen, Edlen, Festen, From(m)en und weyßen Eidgnossen,...

Ain treüe Ermanung an die strengen, Edlen, Festen, From(m)en und weyßen Eidgnossen, das sy nit durch ire falsche(n) propheten verfürt sich wyder die lere Christi setzent.

Augsburg: Ramminger, 1523.

Price: $3,800.00

Bound in modern wrappers. With a four-part woodcut “Wildman” border. Marginal foxing, light soiling.A very rare work by Sebastian Hofmeister, an early compatriot of Zwingli and an admirer and correspondent of Luther, considered one of the most learned and rhetorically skilled of the Swiss reformers. A Franciscan friar and humanist...

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Item #4242 Die Reformation: so der aller Durchleuchtigest, Grossmechtigest fürst und herr herr...

Die Reformation: so der aller Durchleuchtigest, Grossmechtigest fürst und herr herr Sigmund Roemischer keiser ..., Jn dem nechsten Concilio zuo Costentz, die Christenliche kirchen in bestetige ordenung zuo bringen fürgenummen het.

Basel: Thomas Wolff, 1521.

Price: $5,500.00

Bound in modern quarter vellum and drab boards. With a large woodcut of the emperor by Urs Graf (ca. 1485-1528) on the title page and a large, dramatic, historiated initial. A very good, crisp copy with a little light marginal foxing and occ. minor marginal blemishes.The “Reformation of Emperor Sigismund”...

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Item #4335 Vitruvius: De architectura; Cleonides: Harmonicum introductorium [Latin]. Tr: Georgius...

Vitruvius: De architectura; Cleonides: Harmonicum introductorium [Latin]. Tr: Georgius Valla. Angelus Politianus: Panepistemon; Lamia (Praelectio in Priora Aristotelis Analytica); Frontinus: De aquaeductibus

Venice: Simon Bevilaqua, 3 Aug. 1497.

Price: $150,000.00

A fresh copy in late 18th c. stiff vellum, later red morocco spine label, gilt (re-cased, text re-sewn), binding lightly soiled, small chips to edge of label, later endpapers and flyleaves). Minor, very discreet repairs to the inner margin of the first leaf and quire E, some skilful restoration to...

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Item #4334 [Prognosticatio]. Hec practice narrat de presenti anno et sequentibus quamplurimis...

[Prognosticatio]. Hec practice narrat de presenti anno et sequentibus quamplurimis annis de novis raris et inauditis rebus que futura sunt in hoc mundo

Strasbourg: [Bartholomaeus Kistler], after 31 Dec. 1499.

Price: $45,000.00

Further fifteenth-century editions were published in Latin, German, and Italian versions. This edition, printed by Kistler, is number 11 in Kurze’s census of editions in all languages (for the date, see the bib. notes at the end of this description). Illustrated with 46 woodcut illustrations in text, including large vignette...

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Item #4321 Hiernach volget das ernstlich vnnd geweltig erobern vnd eynnemen Der löblichen...

Hiernach volget das ernstlich vnnd geweltig erobern vnd eynnemen Der löblichen reychen hochberümbten vn(n) vesten stat pressa, mit sampt dem closter, so daruor gelege(n) welches auch mit gewalt gestürmt vnnd gewunnen worden ist.

Nuremberg: Wolfgang Huber, 1512.

Price: $6,500.00

Modern quarter vellum. A good copy with mild marginal soiling, discreet repairs in the gutter of the first bifolium, and a restored section of the blank margin on the final leaf. Occasional contemporary underscores. With a large woodcut title illustration. No copies of this or the other two printings in...

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Item #4320 De gvaiaci medicina et morbo gallico liber unus. Ulrich von Hutten

De gvaiaci medicina et morbo gallico liber unus.

Mainz: Johann Schöffer, 1524.

Price: $15,000.00

Bound in 20th c. green morocco with gilt turn-ins. A fine copy, a.e.g., with a fine woodcut title border, woodcut initials, and occ. contemporary annotations. The title border incorporates Schöffer's coat of arms (see Johnson no. 62 and Pflugk-Harttung no. 52).Ulrich von Hutten's famous work on the treatment of syphilis...

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Item #4270 De sacramentis Christianae fidei. Hugo de Sancto Victore

De sacramentis Christianae fidei.

[Augsburg: Günther Zainer,] c., 1477.

Price: $20,000.00

Bound in contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, the brass clasp with catch-plate preserved. An original title on label on upper board is preserved, with slight loss. The binding has been rebacked and has some other minor restorations; the lower boards is a bit wormed, the upper hinge is cracked...

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Item #4269 Speculum aureum decem praeceptorum Dei. Henricus de Herpf, c

Speculum aureum decem praeceptorum Dei.

Mainz: Peter Schoeffer, 10 September, 1474.

Price: $45,000.00

A fine copy, in an impressive binding, of the first edition, printed by Gutenberg’s apprentice, Peter Schoeffer. Bound in contemporary Bamberg blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards [Kyriss 006, EBDB w000078, Bamberg Minoritenkloster], with flyleaves from vellum manuscript antiphonal, brass catch-plates with sphinxes, straps and clasps intact. Wormholes to both boards...

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Item #3880 Manuale formarum juramentorum ab his præstandorum, qui in Rectores, Consiliarios, &...

Manuale formarum juramentorum ab his præstandorum, qui in Rectores, Consiliarios, & Officiales in hac alma, Imperiali, Mexicana Academia eliguntur, & ab his, qui gradu aliquo majori, vel minori sunt insigniendi. Fidei item professio secundum Sanctum Œcumenicum Concilium Tridentinum, quam juxta Constitutiones, ac Sanctiones ejusdem Universitatis emittere tenentur majori, vel minori gradu decorandi, quique Cathedras sunt moderaturi, antequam earum possessionem nanciscantur. Ad Imperialis Mexiceæ Academiæ usum typis mandatum jussu D.D.D. Emmanuelis Ignatii Beye, Zisneros, et Quixano, prædictae Universitatis olim Consiliarij, Decreti Exedræ semel, atque iterum Moderatoris, Regiæ Curiæ Causidici,& tandem Rectoris munus exercentis.

Mexico: Ex novâ Typographiâ editioni Bibliothecae Mexicanae destinatâ, 1759.

Price: $5,600.00

Bound in contemporary vellum, defects to vellum of upper board; internally very clean and broad margined with some soiling on A4 verso only. Printed in a large handsome type (mostly sixteenth-century roman), text in Latin and Spanish, pagination includes a copper-engraved frontispiece. In the text there is a fine engraving...

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Item #4301 Nicodemus: or, A treatise against the fear of man. Wherein the causes and sad effects...

Nicodemus: or, A treatise against the fear of man. Wherein the causes and sad effects thereof are briefly describ’d. With some remedies against it. By August. Herman. Franck. Professor of divinity in the University at Hall, and Minister of Glaucha in the suburbs. Rendred [sic] into English from the High-Dutch; and dedicated to the Honourable Society for Reformation of Manners.

Boston: Printed by [Gamaliel] Rogers and [Daniel] Fowle, for N[athanael]. Procter at the Bible and Dove in Ann-Street, 1744.

Price: $6,800.00

Bound in contemporary American calf, ruled in blind, over thin wooden boards (scuffed and with wear to extremities). Very good internally with a few minor stains, a couple of marginal tears and a longer tear entering the text on leaf F5 (no loss.) Provenance: with the contemporary ownership inscription, “Joseph...

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Item #4299 The Annales of Cornelius Tacitus. The Description of Germanie. Publius Cornelius...

The Annales of Cornelius Tacitus. The Description of Germanie.

London: By Arn. Hatfield, for Bonham and Iohn Norton], 1598.

Price: $16,000.00

[Bound with, as issued:] The End of Nero and Beginning of Galba. Fower Bookes of The Histories of Cornelius Tacitus. The Life of Agricola. The second edition. London: [By Edm. Bollifant, for Bonham and Iohn Norton], 1598 Folio: 30 x 20.7 cm. [8], 271, [1] p. (1st 2 p. blank) Collation: [par.]⁴ A-Y⁶...

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Item #3587 Poems on several occasions. Together with The song of the three children...

Poems on several occasions. Together with The song of the three children paraphras’d. By the Lady Chudleigh

London: printed by W[illiam]. B[owyer]. for Bernard Lintott at the Middle Temple Gate in Fleetstreet, 1703.

Price: $15,000.00

Bound in contemporary sprinkled calf, blind-ruled in panels, with floral ornaments on the boards and a gilt label on the spine. Discreet repairs to spine. A fine copy with very light soiling to the title and a few small ink spots.Mary Chudleigh was a friend of Elizabeth Thomas and an...

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Item #4261 Biblia Latina (With printed summaries by Menardus Monachus). BIBLE

Biblia Latina (With printed summaries by Menardus Monachus)

Ulm: Johann Zainer, 29 January, 1480.

Price: $95,000.00

An excellent copy, with noble provenance, of this magnificent Bible. A very large, impressive copy, with broad margins, preserving numerous deckled edges. The quires are numbered in a contemporary hand, in red ink, at the foot of leaves. The stub for the canceled blank leaf ll3 (the conjugate of leaf...

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Item #4235 Vestigi delle antichita di Roma Tivoli Pozzvolo et altri luochi. Con privilegio di sua...

Vestigi delle antichita di Roma Tivoli Pozzvolo et altri luochi. Con privilegio di sua Sac. Ces. Mae. Stampati in Praga da Aegidio Sadeler scultore di essa mae 1606.

Prague: Aegidius Sadeler, 1606.

Price: $25,000.00

A very fine, broad-margined copy with very rich and clear impressions of the plates. Occ. marginal soiling, a few pin-prick wormholes in the margins of a few leaves. Bound in contemporary morocco, richly tooled in gold. With an engraved allegorical title with the main title incised within a wolf's hide...

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Item #4234 PASQUINO. Enea Vico, Nicolas Beatrizet, attributed artists. Antonio Lafreri, publisher

PASQUINO.

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...

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Item #4240 Tractatus Rabby Samuelis, errorem Iudeorum indicans. Samuel Abu Nasr Ibn ANTISEMITISM....

Tractatus Rabby Samuelis, errorem Iudeorum indicans.

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...

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Item #4236 The Boke named the Gouernour deuised by sir Thomas Elyot knyght. Thomas Elyot, Sir,...

The Boke named the Gouernour deuised by sir Thomas Elyot knyght.

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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