Scotland? 17th c., after, 1625.

Price: $25,000.00

Manuscript consisting of 107 full-page Scottish coats-of-arms, each hand-painted over an underlying generic engraved template. The bare-bones template has minimal detail (helm with mantling, outline of a blank shield, empty compartment with flourishes) and serves only as a uniform foundation over which elaborate, individualized crests are painted. The first three...

Amsterdam: Jacob de Meurs, 1680.

Price: $16,000.00

Bound in seventeenth-century calf. Illustrated with an added engraved title page, 1 engraved folding map, 25 double-paged engraved views, and 71 text engravings. The main title is printed in red and black with an engraved vignette. The second part of the work is introduced by a divisional title page: "Ambassade...

Frankfurt: Joh. Feyerabend for S. Feyerabend, H. Takke and P. Fischer, 1587.

Price: $6,500.00

Bound in contemporary alum-tawed pigskin, ruled and tooled in blind, with sheaves of wheat and medallion portrait heads (soiled, minor defect to pigskin of lower board, lacking clasps. Internally a nice copy with the very faintest of toning, some 17th c. line numbering, a very few, insignificant stains, and a....

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...

Wurzburg: Henricus Pigrin for J. G. Schönwetter, 1657.

Price: $12,500.00

An exceptional copy in contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over beveled wooden boards, covers framed by multiple foliate rolls, upper cover with coat of arms surmounted by the miter of a bishop or abbot at center, the initials R. W. A. T. stamped in black above the central panel, the date 1663...

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: 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: 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]...

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...

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)...

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...

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...

[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...