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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 #3101 Poems, by J.D. VVith elegies on the authors death. John Donne

Poems, by J.D. VVith elegies on the authors death

London: Printed by M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, and are to be sold at his shop in St Dunstans Church-yard in Fleet-street, 1639.

Price: $18,500.00

A very desirable copy, bound in its original binding of polished calf, ruled in blind, with only minor wear and abrasions. The text is in very fine condition and is complete with the portrait of Donne –now rarely encountered- by William Marshall, apparently after a lost miniature by Hillyard, showing...

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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 #1764 Works, in Greek. Euripidis quæ Extant Omnia: Tragoediæ nempe XX, præter ultimam,...

Works, in Greek. Euripidis quæ Extant Omnia: Tragoediæ nempe XX, præter ultimam, omnes completæ: item fragmenta aliarum plusquam LX tragœdiarum; et epistolæ V. Nunc primùm & ipsæ hùc adjectæ: scholia demùm doctorum virorum in septem priores tragœdias, ex diversis antiquis exemplaribus undiquaque collecta & concinnata ab Arsenio Monembasiæ Archiepiscopo. ... Operâ & studio Josuæ Barnes S.T.B. Emmanuelis Collegii apud Cantabrigienses Socii maximè senioris.

Cambridge: Ex officinâ Johan. Hayes, celeberrimæ Academiæ typographi. Impensis Richardi Green bibliopolæ Cantab. 1694.

Price: $2,500.00

Bound in contemporary English calf, rebacked preserving the original spine. The boards are blind-ruled in compartments; there is an attractive red morocco lettering piece, gilt, on the spine. Aside from light wear and bumping to the corners, the binding is very well preserved. Internally, this copy is in excellent condition...

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Item #3700 The art of glass. Shewing how to make all sorts of glass, crystal and enamel....

The art of glass. Shewing how to make all sorts of glass, crystal and enamel. Likewise the making of pearls, precious stones, china and looking-glasses. To which is added, the method of painting on glass and enameling. Also how to extract the colours from minerals, metals, herbs and flowers. A work containing many secrets and curiosities never before discovered. Illustrated with proper sculptures. Written originally in French, by Mr. H. Blancourt, and now first translated into English. With an appendix, containing exact instructions for making glass-eyes of all colours.

London: printed for Dan. Brown at the Black Swan without Temple-Bar; Tho. Bennet at the Half-Moon, D. Midwinter and Tho. Leigh at the Rose and Crown, and R. Wilkin at the King’s-Head in St. Paul’s Church-yard, 1699.

Price: $6,850.00

Bound in contemporary English paneled calf, rebacked. Very fine condition. Two plates lightly browned, marginal foxing to a few leaves. Illustrated with 9 engraved plates of glass-making furnaces, tools, crucibles, and other apparatus.The core of Blancourt's text is Christopher Merret's annotated Latin edition (1668) of Antonio Neri's "L'Arte Vetraria"(1612). Merret...

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Item #4627 De Confessione Amantis. John Gower

De Confessione Amantis.

London: In Fletestrete by Thomas Berthelette printer to the kingis grace, 1532.

Price: $48,000.00

Bound in 19th c. russia, boards ruled by a triple filet, gilt. Spine ruled in compartments, author, title and date on spine, gilt. The title is printed within a decorative woodcut border copied from master printer Geoffroy Tory. Text in black letter, double columns. With 16th c. signatures of John...

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Item #4597 Copia originalis littere ad Leonem X de pace et federe per eum et Francorum regem....

Copia originalis littere ad Leonem X de pace et federe per eum et Francorum regem.

[Rome]: [Marcello Silber], after 12th August, 1514.

Price: $16,000.00

Bound in 19th c. green morocco, a.e.g., gilt turn-ins, spine rubbed. Ex libris R.B.. A fine copy. Early foliation at upper corners of the lvs.A political letter from Henry VIII to Pope Leo X of Rome, written by Henry when he was only 23 years old. The letter is a....

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Item #4172 The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew [Ievv] of Malta. Christopher Marlowe

The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew [Ievv] of Malta.

London: Printed by I.B. for Nicholas Vavasour, and are to be sold at his Shop in the Inner Temple, neere the Church, 1633.

Price: $225,000.00

Bound in modern full dark brown morocco circa 1984, in a custom box. A fine copy, lightly washed, unpressed, the paper preserving its rattle. All edges gilt. Provenance: Ximenes (sold 1993), with receipt and scan of a note from Steve Weissman regarding the sale."Although written about 1589 and entered in...

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Item #4587 The Natural History of Oxford-shire, Being an Essay toward the Natural History of...

The Natural History of Oxford-shire, Being an Essay toward the Natural History of England. By Robert Plot, LL.D.

Oxford: And are to be had there: And in London at Mr. S. Millers, at the Star near the West-end of St. Pauls Church-yard. 1677.

Price: $8,500.00

An excellent, very tall copy on heavy paper. Bound in contemporary English paneled calf, (nicely rebacked and with repairs to the corners, some mild surface wear. The boards are framed by a double gilt rule, the central compartment with a roll-tooled border and ornate floral tools at the corners, gilt.The...

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Item #3078 The Historie of the World. Commonly called, the Naturall Historie of C. Plinius...

The Historie of the World. Commonly called, the Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. Translated into English by Philemon Holland Doctor in Physicke. The first [& Second] tome.

London: Impensis G. Bishop, 1601.

Price: $20,000.00

Bound in contemporary English calfskin, ruled in blind, re-backed and re-cornered in morocco. An excellent copy internally with very minor faults. A few signatures have very marginal damp-stains, there are occasional rust spots, minor marginal tears, and a few natural paper flaws (no loss to text.) The first title page...

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Item #3916 A Relation of Three Embassies from His Sacred Majestie Charles II to the Great Duke of...

A Relation of Three Embassies from His Sacred Majestie Charles II to the Great Duke of Muscovie, the King of Sweden, and the King of Denmark. Performed by the Earle of Carlisle in the Years 1663 and 1664. Written by an Attendant.

London: printed for John Starkey, 1669.

Price: $4,850.00

Bound in contemporary polished calf, rebacked preserving original spine, corners bumped, light wear. Complete with the two engraved portraits of Charles Howard, First Earl of Carlisle (1628–1685) and Tzar Aleksey Mikhaylovich (1629-1676), just shaved at fore-edge. Title a little dusty, clean tear to margin of Z1 (not entering the text)...

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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 #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 #3122 The Thirteene Bookes of Aeneidos. The first twelve beeing the worke of the diuine...

The Thirteene Bookes of Aeneidos. The first twelve beeing the worke of the diuine poet, Virgil Maro, and the thirteenth, the supplement of Maphæus Vegius. Translated into English verse, to the first third part of the tenth booke, by Thomas Phaer Esquier: and the residue finished, and now newly set forth for the delight of such as are studious in poetrie: By Thomas Twyne, Doctor in Physicke.

London: Printed by Thomas Creede, 1607.

Price: $20,000.00

Bound in an exquisite binding of eighteenth-century mottled calf, highly polished and beautifully tooled in gold along the edges of the boards. The spine is separated into six compartments by the raised sewing supports, each of which, aside from that bearing the citron morocco label, is decorated with attractive floral...

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