London: Hugh Newman, 1681.

Price: $6,800.00

Including thirty-one full-paged engraved plates (one folding) of the marvelous and exotic subjects of the collections of the Royal Society. This copy is bound in contemporary English mottled calf, rebacked, with repairs to hinges and corners but preserving the original spine and labels; short split along leather where lower board...

London: in Flete Streete By Thomas Povvell, 1556.

Price: $52,000.00

Bound in fine in 19th-century red morocco tooled in a cottage style, richly gilt, with red silk doublures. This is a fine, clean, and complete copy of a book rarely encountered in such condition. A small section of the upper part of the title page has been restored in pen...

London: Printed [by Richard Field] for Nathaniell Butter, ca. 1612.

Price: $47,500.00

Bound in 17th c. English paneled calf, rebacked (early 20th c.?), minor wear at extremities. A very fine copy. Engraved t.p. lightly soiled and with a few light spots, and a small adhesion scar. The text is crisp and bright with occ. light blemishes; light marginal damp-staining or soling in...

London: Adam Islip, 1600.

Price: $16,000.00

This is a fine copy in its original binding of contemporary mottled calf, age-worn, with skillful repairs to the hinges and extremities. The contents are in excellent condition with wide margins and only some light marginal damp-staining towards the end of the volume. A woodcut portrait of Queen Elizabeth is...

London: Printed [by Simon Miller?] for Robert Boulter, at the Turks-Head in Cornhill, 1681.

Price: $32,000.00

An untrimmed copy, bound in later marbled wrappers. The leaves are crisp, broad-margined, and have deckled edges throughout. Minor marginal tears and scattered minor stains, largely confined to the outer edge of the closing leaves. Final leaf with small losses in the blank margin. Ink stain in the blank margin...

London: printed by E[dward]. G[riffin]. for Iohn Waterson, and are to be sold at his shop, at the signe of the Crowne, in S. Pauls Church-yard, 1639.

Price: $11,000.00

The Hoe copy. Contents fine with a few light stains. With a printer's ornament on title, woodcut headpieces and decorative initials in the text. Bound in 19th-century green morocco, gilt arms of noted Shakespeare collector Frederick Perkins (1780-1860) on boards, gilt-lettered on spine, all edges gilt. Bookplates of Robert Hoe...

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...

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)...

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...

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], 1598Folio: 30 x 20.7 cm. [8], 271, [1] p. (1st 2 p. blank) Collation: [par.]⁴ A-Y⁶...

London: Charles Harper, 1676.

Price: $6,500.00

Bound in contemporary sprinkled calf, re-backed in the 20th c., boards ruled in compartments with decorative tools at each corner of the central panel. Slight loss at corners, extremities with signs of wear. The contents are in good condition, with all the maps and plates present. One map with mended...

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...

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...