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...
![Item #4654 [Ἐρωτήματα (Grammatica Graeca)] and associated texts. Constantine Lascaris](https://liberantiquus.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4654.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&v=1678388625)
Venice: apud Aldum, mense octobri, 1512.
Price: $20,000.00
A truly fine copy. Bound in 16th c. German blind-stamped pigskin over beveled wooden boards with the original clasps preserved (one clasp with small defect, minor wear to extremities, lightly soiled, small abrasions, rear board peppered with tiny wormholes.) A fine, crisp copy with bright leaves; contemporary manuscript headlines and...
Padua: Apud Paulum Frambottum, 1634.
Price: $10,000.00
A fine copy in early 19th c. quarter calf and speckled boards, spine ruled in gold, with minor wear. The text is crisp, with only two small blemishes and a few very tiny (barely noticeable) pinprick wormholes. The impressions of the plates are rich and sharp. The engraving on leaf...
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...
Florence: Giunta, 1515.
Price: $6,500.00
A very nice copy in 18th c. vellum with a single blind-ruled fillet and a citron morocco label, gilt; edges of text-block stained red. The text is in very good condition with scattered light foxing, heavier to a few leaves. A few minor stains, wax seal remnant on final leaf...
Venice: Appresso gli Heredi di Marchio Sessa, 1578.
Price: $5,500.00
A fair, complete copy in 17th c. vellum (vellum lightly soiled, lower cover stained, small defect to spine). The contents are in overall good condition, with light to moderate soiling and exhibiting the wear common to these utilitarian publications. There are careful restorations to the outer margin of the title...
Rome: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1762.
Price: $84,000.00
An extremely fine copy of the first edition, bound in a fabulous contemporary Baroque binding by an unidentified Roman binder. Binding and contents in excellent condition. Binding with light wear at the hinges, contents extremely fresh with dark, rich impressions of the plates. There is a little damp-staining to the...
Parma: Octavianus Saladius et Franciscus Ugoletus, 1510.
Price: $10,500.00
Bound in 19th c. ivory vellum, spine gold-tooled and with red Morocco label (small splits at head and tail of joints.) An excellent copy with wide margins. Outer margin of first few lvs. lightly soiled, the last few leaves with a light damp-stain in the outer margin, a few trivial...
Florence: Per haeredes Philippi Iuntae, 1526.
Price: $3,800.00
A tall, unsophisticated copy, in its original limp vellum binding (vellum stained, lacking ties, short split to upper hinge). The text is in very good condition with intermittent foxing, heavier in some gatherings.A compendium of ancient geographical texts, including descriptions of the known world by Pomponius Mela, Dionysius Periegetes, and...
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Rome: Marcello and Eucharius Silber, alias Franck, ca. 1509-, 1527.
Price: $26,000.00
SIX SEPARATE WORKS BOUND AS ONE. Bound in early 20th c. olive morocco (rubbed, spine lightly sunned). Very good copies internally with a few small marginal tears, light damp-staining to margins of several leaves, a little more extensive on the final three leaves but still very pale. Illustrated with 11...
Rome: Nella Stamperia di Gio. Battista de Caporali, per andare all'Orso, 1729.
Price: $3,800.00
Bound in later carta rustica. A fine, fresh copy on crisp paper. Very faint soiling to upper margin. A large historiated initial, decorative head- and tail-pieces. With the arms of Cardinal Polignac on the title page.A very rare account of the elaborate transformation of Piazza Navona to celebrate the birth...
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...
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...
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...
Venice: In casa de' figliuoli di Aldo, July, 1544.
Price: $6,800.00
A very fine copy bound in 20th c. stiff vellum, citron label, gilt on spine. Aldine device on title and final leaf. Broad-margined with just a very light dampstain to the lower margin and a little light soiling and staining to the title; text on bifolium D2-3 lightly printed. Provenance...
Bologna: Presso gli heredi di Euangelista Dozza, 1647.
Price: $18,000.00
Bound in three uniform bindings of contemporary stiff vellum, somewhat soiled. The text is in overall fine condition, with some light browning, occasional foxing, and a few marginal damp-stains. The three volumes are illustrated throughout with the well-known woodcut portraits of the artists set within ornate frames. For this edition the...
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...
