Rome: Antonio Lafréry, 1552.
Price: $3,500.00
First state (of three.) A rich impression with wide margins, light marginal foxing and a little light soiling, extreme upper margin a little ragged. Inscribed on the pedestal: “LVPAE ROMVLVM ET REMVM VRBIS CONDITORES LACTANTIS ANTIQVVM AC AENEVM IN CAPITOLIO SIGNVM.” (Ancient bronze image of the she-wolf nursing Romulus and...
[Rome:]: no printer, no date, ca. 1574-, 1584.
Price: $16,000.00
Bound in 18th c. stiff parchment, title label with gilt lettering. A fine, wide-margined copy with beautiful, rich impressions of the plates. Title lightly soiled and with upper blank margin restored (not affecting the plate.) A few spots in the blank, inner margin of the first plate, far from the...
Venice: Appresso Il [Giovanni Battista] Ciotti, 1621.
Price: $16,500.00
Bound in 20th c. boards covered with a liturgical manuscript leaf. A fine, crisp copy with a little light marginal soiling; verso of final leaf also lightly soiled. Illustrated with 2 engraved title pages, a full-page portrait of Cosimo II, and 15 full-paged engraved plates. One of the engravings is...
Turin: Gio. Battista Chais, 1737.
Price: $15,000.00
Bound in contemporary marbled boards, worn and soiled, rebacked in later sheep. An unusually nice copy internally, with just the slightest toning to some plates, a few spots, clean tear to center of one plate at fold (no loss), and light finger-soiling in the margins. Magnificent engraved ornamental frontispiece by...
Mainz: Johann Schöffer, 2 April (“Uff Mitfasten”), 1508.
Price: $26,000.00
Bound in fine blue morocco by the Belgian binder Charles De Samblanx (1855-1943), boards richly tooled in gold, framed by three fillets and stippling. With a large central ornament and further ornaments at the corners. Fine red morocco doublures, also richly tooled in gold. Spine ruled and tooled in gold...
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Strasbourg: [Bartholomaeus Kistler], after 31 Dec. 1499.
Price: $45,000.00
Further fifteenth-century editions were published in Latin, German, and Italian versions. This edition, printed by Kistler, is number 11 in Kurze’s census of editions in all languages (for the date, see the bib. notes at the end of this description). Illustrated with 46 woodcut illustrations in text, including large vignette...
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...
