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Item #4595 Antibarbarorum D. Erasmi Roterodami, liber unus, quem iuuenis quidem adhuc lusit:...

Antibarbarorum D. Erasmi Roterodami, liber unus, quem iuuenis quidem adhuc lusit: caeterum diu desideratum, demum repertum non iuuenis recognouit, & uelut postliminio studiosis restituit. Ex quo reliquorum, qui diis propiciis propediem accedent, lector coniecturam facias licebit.

Basel: Apud Ioan. Froben. Mense Xbri. 1520.

Price: $12,000.00

Bound in contemporary reversed-calf (with stains and surface wear). A fine, tall, and fresh copy. Woodcut border by Hans Holbein to title page, additional woodcut borders to second leaf and the opening leaf of the text. Woodcut Froben device on verso of final leaf. Neat contemporary annotations in the margins...

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Item #4585 The Royall Game of Chesse-Play. Sometimes The Recreation of the late King, with many...

The Royall Game of Chesse-Play. Sometimes The Recreation of the late King, with many of the Nobility. Illustrated with almost an hundred Gambetts. Being The study of Biochimo the famous Italian.

London: Printed for Henry Herringman, and are to be sold at his shop at the sign of the Anchor, in the lower walk of the New Exchange, 1656.

Price: $15,000.00

A very good, crisp, complete copy of this rare book, bound in contemporary English sheepskin, ruled in blind, rebacked, boards heavily worn. Metal-cut t.p. rule shaved on two sides, portrait leaf with small repair to lower left corner, just entering the blank corner of the plate mark (no loss to...

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Item #4581 C. Suetonii Tranquilli XII caesares. Sexti Aurelii Victoris a D. Caesare Augusto...

C. Suetonii Tranquilli XII caesares. Sexti Aurelii Victoris a D. Caesare Augusto usq[ue] ad Theodosium excerpta. Eutropii de gestis Romanorum lib. X. Pauli Diaconi libri VIII ad Eutropii historiam additi. Index reru[m] memorabiliu[m]… ab Ioa[n]ne Baptista Egnatio… Annotationes eiusdem Egnatii Annotationes etiam Erasmi…

Venice: in aedibus Aldi et Andreae Soceri, 1521.

Price: $4,800.00

Woodcut Aldine device to title and last page; occasional light marks; overall very good in eighteenth-century calf, rebacked in the nineteenth century, black morocco spine label lettered in gilt; some splitting to joints, wear to corners and edges, a few abrasions to covers; inscription to title ‘Ornatiss: viro Dno Petro...

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Item #4556 Musaeum Franc. CalceolarI iun. Veronensis a Benedicto Ceruto medico incaeptum: et ab...

Musaeum Franc. CalceolarI iun. Veronensis a Benedicto Ceruto medico incaeptum: et ab Andrea Chiocco med. physico excellentiss. collegii luculenter descriptum, & perfectum, in quo multa ad naturalem, moralemq[ue] philosophia[m] spectantia, non pauca ad rem medicam pertinentia erudité proponuntur, & explicantur; non sine magna rerum exoticarum supellectile, quæ artifici plane manu in æs incisæ, studiosis exhibentur.

Verona: Apud Angelum Tamum, 1622.

Price: $40,000.00

With a printed half-title: “Musaeum Calceolarianum Veronense”, a fine, historiated, engraved title page, and a folding engraving showing the interior of Calzolari’s museum. The text is illustrated with 43 engravings of animals, plants, minerals, and ethnographic objects. There is also a profusion of woodcut initials throughout the text. The plates...

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Item #4600 Libro primo de la conquista del Peru & provincia del Cuzco de le Indie Occidentali....

Libro primo de la conquista del Peru & provincia del Cuzco de le Indie Occidentali.

Venice: Stephano da Sabbio, March, 1535.

Price: $30,000.00

Bound in fine 20th-century dark green long grained morocco, boards framed by an ornamental roll, gilt. Gilt spine and turn-ins. A very good copy, edges sprinkled blue. Small, discreet repair to blank upper margin of t.p. and lower blank corner of 2nd leaf; small stain at upper corner of 4th...

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Item #3976 Orazione ne' funerali di d. Giuseppe Maria Jurato avvocato fiscale della Regia Gran...

Orazione ne' funerali di d. Giuseppe Maria Jurato avvocato fiscale della Regia Gran Corte del Regno di Sicilia nella chiesa di S. Ninfa.

Palermo: nella stamperia di Francesco Valenza, 1774.

Price: $2,600.00

Bound in attractive contemporary patterned pasteboards (corners bumped, minor wear.) The text is in excellent condition. The two folding engravings show the funeral monument and the catafalque. Clean tear (mended, no loss) to first plate. Marginal tear, not affecting image to second plate. The portrait was etched by Giuseppe Garofalo...

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Item #4364 Imperiae Panaegyricus. IMPERIA COGNATI, Giano Vitale

Imperiae Panaegyricus

N.p., [Rome]: n.p. [Johann Beplin], n.d., 1512.

Price: $16,000.00

Place, printer, and proposed date from Adams and CNCE. The author’s letter to the reader is dated 31 August, 1512 (“Pridie kal. Septembris M.D.XII.”). Modern limp vellum. A fresh copy with good margins and just a little light staining, the large 4-part woodcut title page border untrimmed. The white-on-black title...

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Item #4502 ΟΜΗΡΟΥ ΙΛΙΑΣ HOMERI ILIAS [and:] ΟΔΥΣΣΕΙΑ....

ΟΜΗΡΟΥ ΙΛΙΑΣ HOMERI ILIAS [and:] ΟΔΥΣΣΕΙΑ. Βατραχομυομαχια. Υμνοι. ?β. VLYSSEA. Batrachomyomachia. Hymni XXXII.

Venice: In aedibus Aldi et Andreae Asulani Soceri, April, 1524.

Price: $18,000.00

A married set, bound in matching leather bindings (late 18th- early 19th c.), boards ruled in gold, spines tooled with attractive floral ornaments, red labels with “Homerus” tooled in Roman, and green labels with the Greek titles (“ΙΛΙΑΣ “, “ΟΔΥΣΣΕΙΑ”). The Aldine anchor and dolphin device is tooled on the...

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Item #4446 Urbis Romae aedificiorum illustriumquae Supersunt Reliquiae. Giovanni Antonio Dosio,...

Urbis Romae aedificiorum illustriumquae Supersunt Reliquiae

[Florence: No place no printer], 1569.

Price: $24,000.00

A very good, complete set bound in eighteenth-century mottled calf, spine richly tooled in gold, red Morocco label (minor wear, corners bumped, small repairs, modern endpapers.) Two plates (27 and 34) slightly shaved at fore-margin, four plates (38-41) with light damp-stain just entering the printed area, final plates with staining...

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Item #4537 The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. Gathered by John Gerarde of London Master...

The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. Gathered by John Gerarde of London Master in Chirurgerie. Very much Enlarged and Amended by Thomas Johnson Citizen and Apothecarie of London.

London: Adam Islip, Joice Norton, and Richard Whitakers, 1636.

Price: $10,500.00

A very good copy bound in 17th c. English mottled calfskin, (binding worn, esp. at extremities where there is some flaking and minor loss to the leather; scrapes to lower board) rebacked and re-cornered in the 20th c, endpapers renewed. With an engraved title by John Payne and over 2,000...

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Item #4577 The eyght bookes of Caius Iulius Caesar conteyning his martiall exploytes in the...

The eyght bookes of Caius Iulius Caesar conteyning his martiall exploytes in the realme of Gallia and the countries bordering vppon the same translated oute of latin into English by Arthur Goldinge G.

London: Willyam Seres, 1565.

Price: $25,000.00

A copy with numerous points of interest, bound in contemporary English calf (worn, rebacked preserving most of the original spine, wear with loss to the leather at three corners), the boards ruled in blind and with large central blind-stamped lozenge with vegetal motifs. The text, resewn at the time of...

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Item #3541 C. Iulii Caesaris Commentariorum Libri VIII. Quibus adiecimus suis in locis D Henrici...

C. Iulii Caesaris Commentariorum Libri VIII. Quibus adiecimus suis in locis D Henrici Glareani doctissimas annotationes. Quae praeterea hac in editione addita sunt, sequens pagella docebit.

Basel: Per Nicolaum Bryling, 1561.

Price: $5,500.00

Bound in a signed and dated (L.SZ. 1563) contemporary panel-stamped tanned sheepskin, lacking ties, ruled in compartments and richly tooled with decorative rolls with vines and two panel stamps. The binding has suffered some surface abrasions and moderate wear; the corners are bumped.Panel-stamped tanned sheepskin bindings are very rare. Such...

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Item #4574 Ein kurtze Vnderweysung wie man bychten sol. Martin Luther

Ein kurtze Vnderweysung wie man bychten sol

Basel: Adam Petri, 1519.

Price: $3,800.00

Modern marbled wrappers. Lightly damp-stainned, a few sidenotes shaved. With an ornamental woodcut title border.A German translation, attributed to Spalatin, of an early Latin work by Luther on confession. In 1518 Spalatin had requested that Luther write a short instruction on how to confess. Luther sent him a Latin version of...

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Item #4340 Saint Augustine, Of the citie of God : with the learned comments of Io. Lodouicus...

Saint Augustine, Of the citie of God : with the learned comments of Io. Lodouicus Viues. Englished first by J. H. and now in this second edition compared with the Latine originall, and in very many places corrected and amended.

London: Printed by G. Eld and M. Flesher, 1620.

Price: $8,500.00

Bound in contemporary English calf, rebacked with wear to hinges; boards scuffed, corners bumped. Internally a very good copy with intermittent light marginal damp-stains, a bit darker in a few signatures. Very fine woodcut initials and headpieces. Leaves of sig. O bound out of sequence, N3 with tiny rust hole...

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Item #4536 [De Syllabarum Quantitate] Secunda Grammatic[a]e Pars de Syllabaru[m] Quantitate....

[De Syllabarum Quantitate] Secunda Grammatic[a]e Pars de Syllabaru[m] Quantitate. acce[n]tu. & varijs metroru[m] generibus. nup[er]rime rece[n]sita. limatius polita. adiectis co[m]plusculis: & no[n]nullis calcographoru[m] elimatis erratis. [Second part titled]: VVhitintoni editio cum interpretame[n]to Francisci nigri. Diomedes de accentu in pedestri or[ati]one potius q[ue] soluta obserua[n]da.

London: in aedibus Wina[n]di de Worden, 1521.

Price: $22,000.00

Bound in full red morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, with de Worde's trademark tooled in blind on front board, along with title, author, and imprint date. Title page printed within four-part woodcut compartment with Wynkyn de Worde's (d. 1534?) logo on shields at top and bottom [McKerrow 49 & 50]...

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Item #4572 Von ordenung Gottis diennst yn̄ der gemeyne. Martin Luther

Von ordenung Gottis diennst yn̄ der gemeyne

[Bamberg: Georg Erlinger], 1523.

Price: $4,500.00

An excellent, clean copy with broad margins. Bound in modern speckled boards. With a fine woodcut title page border.As with many aspects of Church ritual and practice, Luther perceived the liturgy to have been corrupted and in need of serious reform. “Three great and serious misuses have entered into divine...

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Item #4571 Doctor Martini Lutther Augustiners vnderricht auff etlich Artikel die jm von seine[n]...

Doctor Martini Lutther Augustiners vnderricht auff etlich Artikel die jm von seine[n] mißgünnern auffgelegt vnnd zugemessen werden

Augsburg: Silvan Otmar, 1519.

Price: $4,500.00

Bound in modern patterned paper over thin boards. V. light soiling, lower margin cut a bit close. Attractive woodcut border on title.An important, early work by Luther, written at a crucial moment in his confrontation with the Rome, that showcases his evolving ideas on such diverse matters as indulgences and...

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Item #4555 Segunda Predicacion de la Decima Quinta Concession de Vrbano Octavo. Bulla de la Santa...

Segunda Predicacion de la Decima Quinta Concession de Vrbano Octavo. Bulla de la Santa Cruzada, concedida por la Santidad de Vrbano VIII. de felice recordacion, para todos los Fieles Christianos, vezinos, estantes, y habitantes en las Provincias del Peru, Tierra-firme, y sus Partidos, sujetas al Rey nuestro señor Don Fernando Sexto, con grandes indulgencies para socorro de la guerra contra Infieles…

?Madrid: n.p., 1750.

Price: $5,800.00

A very rare and attractive broadside papal bull. A fine, crisp copy, untrimmed, with horizontal fold and a few light creases. With blank (“unaccomplished”) spaces where the name of the purchaser and the date are to be written. With five woodcuts: Saints Paul and Francis, the arms of the reigning...

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Item #4531 Three works bound together: I. The Shepheards Calender (1591); II. The Faerie Queene...

Three works bound together: I. The Shepheards Calender (1591); II. The Faerie Queene (1596); III. Colin Clouts Come Home Againe (1595)

London: Various printers (details below). 1591-, 1596.

Price: $85,000.00

Bound in 17th c. calf, the boards gilt-ruled in compartments with ornamental tools at the corners and a large stamp of the Tudor arms at the center of each board (hinges and endcaps restored, corners bumped, later label, lacking ties). Inscriptions: In the Shepheards Calender 1. Contemporary signature of Roger...

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Item #4513 Physiologische und anatomische Abhandlungen von einer ungewohnlichen Erweiterung des...

Physiologische und anatomische Abhandlungen von einer ungewohnlichen Erweiterung des Herzens und denen Spannadern des Angesichts aus den Nachrichten der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin.

Berlin: Bey Ambros. Haude und Johann Carl Spener, 1755.

Price: $4,900.00

With 3 folding plates engraved by Nikolaus Friedrich Sauerbrey of the Prussian Academy of Sciences: Plate 1 illustrates the veins on the right side of the face, head, and neck, accompanied by over 310 annotations (inscribed: '[...] sculp. Mem: de l'Acad Tom vii'); Plates 2 and 3 show both sides...

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Item #4539 Der ander bundtsgnosz. Vom fasten der xl. tag vor Osteren vnd andern, wie do so...

Der ander bundtsgnosz. Vom fasten der xl. tag vor Osteren vnd andern, wie do so jämmerlich wirt beschwärt das christenlich volck.

[Basel: Pamphilus Gengenbach], 1521.

Price: $5,500.00

This work is the second of Eberlin’s “Fünfzehn Bundsgenossen” (“The Fifteen Confederates”). Bound in quarter vellum and modern patterned boards. A nice copy, title a little dusty and with small marginal stain, with a title woodcut of Jesus disputing with the Devil set within an ornamental historiated border.Eberlin von Günzburg...

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Item #4535 The xiii. Bukes of Eneados of the Famose Poete Virgill Translatet out of Latyne verses...

The xiii. Bukes of Eneados of the Famose Poete Virgill Translatet out of Latyne verses into Scottish metir.

London: William Copland, 1553.

Price: $75,000.00

Bound in 18th century diced russia, boards and spine ornately tooled in gold, housed in a modern full dark blue morocco folding case by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Title page printed with an elaborate woodcut compartment (McKerrow & Ferguson 49a), text in black letter, with the inserted leaf in signature X....

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Item #4534 The Whole xii Bookes of the Aeneidos of Virgill. Whereof the first .ix. and part of...

The Whole xii Bookes of the Aeneidos of Virgill. Whereof the first .ix. and part of the tenth, were conuerted into English Meeter by Thomas Phaër Esquire, and the residue supplied, and the Whole Worke together newly set forth, by Thomas Twyne Gentleman. There is added moreouer to this edition, Virgils life out of Donatus, and the argument before euery booke. There is added moreouer to this edition, Virgils life out of Donatus, and the Argument before euery booke.

London: by Wyllyam How for Abraham Veale, dwelling in Poules Churchyearde, at the signe of the Lambe, 1573.

Price: $45,000.00

Bound in 19th c. navy morocco, gold-tooled and ruled in compartments, with gilt turn-ins and spine. A very nice copy, lightly pressed, a.e.g., with insignificant flaws as follows: small repair to blank lower margin of title, marginal stains on the leaves of gathering D and the first leaf of gathering...

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Item #4532 Fowre Hymnes. Edmund Spenser, 1552?-1599

Fowre Hymnes.

London: Printed [by Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, 1596.

Price: $28,000.00

Bound in modern crushed red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. First title page, supplied from a smaller copy (in 1974), has near-contemporary verses on the verso. Some headlines are very slightly shaved. Woodcut headpiece and printer's device on first title-page (McKerrow 222), woodcut initial, woodcut and type-ornament headpieces, section-title...

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Item #4538 Pianta delle Grotte Vaticane. Benedetto, Pietro Paolo Drei

Pianta delle Grotte Vaticane

[Rome:]: Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, after, 1638.

Price: $3,800.00

Lettered title across top, extensive description throughout. At right dedication to Cardinal Barberini and lower right 'Romae Superior licentia Anno 1635.' At left, beneath the cartouche: “La presente Pianta ridotta nella forma che al presente si ritrova con le Quattro Capelle fatte dalla Sat m. di Urbano VIII disegata. da...

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