Venice: Iacomo Cornetti, 1584.
Price: $3,700.00
An untrimmed copy in later paper boards. Very light browning to final leaves. Printer’s device on title page.The "Love letters written by Lady Celia, Roman gentlewoman, to her lover", constitutes one of the earliest collections of Renaissance Italian women's letters, one of the few collections addressed entirely to one recipient...
Venice: [Francesco Rampazetto for] Antonio degli Antoni, [Francesco Rampazetto for] Antonio degli Antoni, 1562.
Price: $6,500.00
20th c. decorated paper over boards. Very lightly toning to first and final leaves. Printer’s device on title page, large woodcut historiated initial in text. Rare. OCLC records only five copies in North American libraries (Harvard, Yale, Duke, UCSF, and UCSB).First edition of "Love letters written by Lady Celia, Roman...
Trier: Apud Emondum Hatotum, 1583.
Price: $2,800.00
Bound in near contemporary sheep, worn, with splitting to the hinges and some loss at corners. Internally fine, cut close occasionally slightly affecting a headline or sidenote. With an attractive woodcut with the arms of the Archbishop of Trier on the verso of the first title.A collection of texts by...
NAPLES: IGNAZIO RUSSO, 1753.
Price: $3,500.00
Bound in contemporary vellum over boards. Foxing. Complete with the 15 engraved plates.Little is known of the author other than that he wrote another book on navigation in 1750. This work on the sector was translated into Spanish in 1758. By the time this book was published, the design of the...
Venice: Impressum a Joan. Anto. de Sabbio & fratribus, 1528.
Price: $12,000.00
Bound in modern quarter calf and paste-paper covered boards. A fine, broad-margined copy with a few minor marginal stains, and some early annotations. The full-page instrument is intact with 3 volvelles. Illustrated with a fine woodcut title page border, astrological diagrams, and a two-page ephemeris of stars of the first...
[Heidelberg: Printed by M. Schirat], 1575.
Price: $6,900.00
Variant of the edition dated 1574 (see ESTC). Bound in 19th c. speckled calf, ruled in gold, spine richly gilt, floral gilt turn-ins. A very good copy of a scarce book. Minor soiling, occ. light damp-staining, first line in title and a few page numbers shaved, final leaf soiled and...
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]...
Eilenburg: Nikolaus Widemar, 1524.
Price: $4,500.00
With a woodcut title page illustration of the shoemaker, the canon, and the canon's housekeeper. Bound in 20th c. brown morocco by Zaehnsdorf, gilt spine. Title a trifle dusty. Printed by Eilenburg's first printer, who apparently operated his shop for the Leipzig printer Wolfgang Stöckel. Provenance: Broxbourne Library with bookplate...
Rome: Presso Lazzarini, 1792.
Price: $8,400.00
Printed on blue paper. In contemporary mottled calf, the spine and boards tooled in gold. A very fine copy of the very rare first catalogue of the Museo Pio-Clementino - founded by Pope Clement XIV in 1771 and greatly expanded his successor by Pius VI-, written for the use of...
Rome:, A spese di Niccola Roisecco, 1765.
Price: $5,500.00
Bound in three uniform bindings of contemporary patterned paste-paper over cartoncino boards. wear to extremities and spines. Internally this is as close to an immaculate set as I have seen, with some deckled edges preserved. The text is bright and clean throughout. The folding engravings are crisp. The three volumes are...
Basel: Per Henricum Petri, 1561.
Price: $8,500.00
Bound in an excellent binding, beautifully preserved, of original pigskin over beveled wooden boards, ornately tooled in blind, with the original brass clasps intact. The text is in excellent condition aside from some minor staining and dustiness to the title page. Otherwise, very fresh. PROVENANCE: Contemporary ownership inscription (Joan. a Salice)...
[N.P, N.D.]: ca. 1774.
Price: $12,500.00
Image size (from plate mark): 121.2 x 71.1 cm. This copy is in excellent condition with no staining or discoloration where the three sheets are joined.Piranesi’s map extends the area covered by the Nolli plan as far north as the Ponte Milvio. Piranesi has made the important innovation of identifying...
Nürnberg: Georg Merckel, around, 1554.
Price: $4,800.00
With a large woodcut on the title page showing death (as a skeleton). A clean copy, two tiny wormholes. Bound in modern boards. The woodcut shows the man lying in his bed, death (as a skeleton) and Virtue and Vice (personified as women) flanking his bed, beneath which can be...
[Cologne: Ulrich Zel], about, 1472.
Price: $6,800.00
The printer, Ulrich Zel (d. ca. 1505), was the first printer in Cologne. A fine copy. Bound in nineteenth-century green morocco gilt. Later 4-line initial in red on a gold ground with red penwork decoration, early red paraphs and initial strokes, early manuscript note on verso of final blank. With watermarks...
London: printed by Thomas Creede for VVilliam Ponsonbie, 1595.
Price: $27,500.00
An attractive copy in early 20th c. calf. Very nice internally, the last leaf with 16th c. verses in Latin and English on the verso of the final leaf. With a woodcut printer’s device (McKerrow 299) and decorative border to the title page, and numerous head- and tailpieces throughout. A....
Frankfurt: heirs of Johann David Zunner and Johann Adam Jungen, 1714.
Price: $24,000.00
A very good set in contemporary vellum, backed in calf, tooled in gold, the transition from leather to vellum a little crude aesthetically. The text and plates are in very fine condition.The first complete edition of Valentini’s “Museum of museums”, a comprehensive survey of European Wunder- kunst- und Schatzkammern. “Valentini...
Rome: appresso Francesco Zanetti, 1584.
Price: $4,800.00
Later “carta rustica” boards with spine in early vellum. The text begins on A2. Complete.The extremely rare first Italian edition of this report from India. Streit lists a Latin edition at Goa in 1584 (Streit IV, 1024) but this appears to have been published only in later collections (the 'Littera...
Wittenberg: Cranach and Döring, 1524.
Price: $5,500.00
Bound in marbled boards. With an excellent woodcut title page by Lucas Cranach (Luther 43c), cut from a single block, with putti, cornucopiae, architectural motifs and stags. A good copy, light soiling, a few stains.First edition of Luther’s response to the growing danger posed by the radical preacher Thomas Münzer...
Wittenberg: [Cranach and Döring], 1523.
Price: $4,800.00
A very nice copy in modern boards. With an attractive woodcut title border by Lucas or Hans Cranach.“But if they do not have self-control, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with desire.”-1 Corinthians 7:9 First edition of Luther’s important sermon on the problem of celibacy...
[Erfurt: Stürmer], 1523.
Price: $4,500.00
Modern boards with a stamped Luther rose. With a narrow woodcut title border. A very fresh, clean copy, with an intricate title page border. All printings are rare.Luther wrote this letter in August 1522 to Hans von Rechenberg, a strong supporter of the Reformation and a man who distinguished himself...
Wittenberg: [Melchior Lotter the younger], 1521.
Price: $5,600.00
A very good copy in modern boards and quarter vellum. A few light stains. Small tear repaired with no loss.“In December 1520 Jerome Emser renewed his attack on Luther with a lengthy treatise written against Luther’s famous address ‘To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation’(August 1520) entitled ‘Against the...
London: Imprinted by Felix Kyngston, 1610.
Price: $25,000.00
A fine copy, bound in 17th c. calf, rebacked, with only minor cosmetic blemishes.This edition collects all three earlier parts of “Mirrour for Magistrates” and adds “A Winter Nights Vision” and “Englands Eliza,” written by Richard Niccols. “Shakespeare was familiar with it and used the story of Queen Cordelia for...
Regenspurg: Hans Khol, 1553.
Price: $3,500.00
Modern paste-paper boards. A very nice copy with just a few instances of light soiling.The German-language edition, translated by Justus Jonas the Elder, of Melanchthon’s “Causae quare et amplexae sint, et retinendam ducant doctrinam, quam profitentur, ecclesiae, quae Confessionem Augustae exhibitam imperatori sequuntur & quare iniquis iudicibus, collectis in synodo...
