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Item #4823 Assertio Septem Sacramentorum Adversus Mart. Lutherum, Henrico VIII. Angliæ Rege...

Assertio Septem Sacramentorum Adversus Mart. Lutherum, Henrico VIII. Angliæ Rege auctore. Cui subnexa est Eiusdem Regis epistola, Assertionis ipsius Contra eundem defensoria. Accedit quoque R.P.D. Iohan. Rossen. Episcopi contra Lutheri Captivitatem Babylonicam, Assertionis Regis defensio.

Paris: Sébastien Nivelle, 1562.

Price: $5,500.00

A very fine copy bound in contemporary limp vellum (lightly soiled, lacking ties, slight damage to lower end-band) with “Henricus 8 Cont. Luth.” on the spine in ink. The text is in excellent fresh condition with just a faint bit of soiling to the title page, and three small stains...

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Item #4629 The Iliads of Homer prince of poets· Neuer before in any languag (sic!) truely...

The Iliads of Homer prince of poets· Neuer before in any languag (sic!) truely translated. With a co[m]ment vppon some of his chiefe places; donne according to the Greeke by Geo: Chapman

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...

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Item #4794 The Spanish Tragedy: Or, Hieronimo is Mad Againe. Containing the Lamentable End of Don...

The Spanish Tragedy: Or, Hieronimo is Mad Againe. Containing the Lamentable End of Don Horatio, and Belimperia; with the pitifull death of Hieronimo.

London: Printed by Augustine Mathewes, for Francis Grove, 1633.

Price: $45,000.00

Bound in modern paneled calf with blind-tooled ornaments. Upper and outer margins of title page cut a bit close, without affecting the text. Title soiled and lightly spotted, first gathering soiled and lightly stained, but the majority of the text rather clean, with just some light spots in gatherings G....

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Item #3113 The Romane historie vvritten by T. Livius of Padua. Also, the Breviaries of L. Florus:...

The Romane historie vvritten by T. Livius of Padua. Also, the Breviaries of L. Florus: with a chronologie to the whole historie: and the Topographie of Rome in old time. Translated out of Latine into English, by Philemon Holland, Doctor in Physicke

London: Adam Islip, 1600.

Price: $20,000.00

This is a very fine copy in contemporary calfskin, ruled in gold, with decorative tools at the corners of the central compartment, and a fine arabesque at the center of the boards, gilt. Rebacked with original spine preserved, small defects. A very fine copy with minor smudges or inkspots (including...

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Item #2987 The Romane historie vvritten by T. Livius of Padua. Also, the Breviaries of L. Florus:...

The Romane historie vvritten by T. Livius of Padua. Also, the Breviaries of L. Florus: with a chronologie to the whole historie: and the Topographie of Rome in old time. Translated out of Latine into English, by Philemon Holland, Doctor in Physicke

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...

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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 #4544 Letter on vellum signed "Marye the Quene" to Lord Paget, signed at head, titled at...

Letter on vellum signed "Marye the Quene" to Lord Paget, signed at head, titled at head "By the King and Quene".

London: St. James's Palace, 7th June, 1556.

Price: $50,000.00

Blind-stamped paper seal and address panel on verso "To our right trustie wellbeloved Counsillor Lord Paget de Beaudesert...", docketed on verso: "for thabsentes... Quene marie to my Lorde for process xvi"A remarkable letter, signed by Mary Tudor as Queen, instructing Lord Paget as Keeper of the Privy Seal to send...

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Item #4488 A Rich Storehouse, or Treasurie for the Diseased. Wherein are many approved medicines...

A Rich Storehouse, or Treasurie for the Diseased. Wherein are many approved medicines for divers and sundry diseases, which have beene long hidden, and not come to light before this time. First set forth for the benefit and comfort of the poorer sort of people, that are not of abilitie to go the Physicions. By G. W. And now seventhly augmented and inlarged by A. T. Practitioner in Physicke and Chirurgerie.

London: Printed by Richard Badger, for Philemon Stephens and Christopher Meredith, 1630.

Price: $6,800.00

Bound in -rather worn- contemporary calf, rebacked and re-cornered, the corners rounded. Text in good condition, with variable browning and a little chipping to the edges of the title and final leaf; small paper flaw at corner of leaf M3, affecting a catchword. Provenance: 18th-century bookplate of George Edwards (1694-1773)...

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Item #4579 Paradise Lost· A Poem in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. The Third Edition....

Paradise Lost· A Poem in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. The Third Edition. Revised and Augmented by the same Author.

London: Printed by S. Simmons next door to the Golden Lion in Aldersgate-street, 1678.

Price: $6,800.00

With the added engraved portrait of Milton by Dolle after Faithorne. Bound in contemporary paneled calf with ornaments in blind (discreet restoration to head and tail of spine and front hinge). The text is in fine condition, with just a few small blemishes and a few minor marginal dampstains; last...

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Item #4800 The Bride, A Comedie. Acted in the yeere 1638 at the private house in Drury-lane by...

The Bride, A Comedie. Acted in the yeere 1638 at the private house in Drury-lane by their Majesties Servants.

London: Printed by R[ichard]. H[odgkinson]. for Laurence Blaikelocke, 1640.

Price: $9,500.00

Bound in 19th c. half morocco and marbled boards (rubbed, minor defects at head of spine and corners, boards a bit soiled. A very good copy, the lower margin cut short, affecting some catchwords but never the text, title a little dusty, a few light spots. Provenance: Hove Public Library...

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Item #4799 Hannibal and Scipio. An historicall tragedy. Acted in the yeare 1635. by the Queenes...

Hannibal and Scipio. An historicall tragedy. Acted in the yeare 1635. by the Queenes Majesties Servants, at their private house in Drury Lane.

London: Printed by Richard Oulton for Charles Greene, 1637.

Price: $9,600.00

Bound in 19th c. calf, with the gilt arms of Frederick Perkins on the boards, edges of boards gilt (binding rebacked preserving spine with some chipping, discoloration at the board edges.) The text is in fine condition, with just a mended tear to leaf H3 without loss and another small...

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Item #4832 Oo Meyo Achimoowin St. Mark. [The Gospel According to St. Mark]; Translated into the...

Oo Meyo Achimoowin St. Mark. [The Gospel According to St. Mark]; Translated into the Language of the Cree Indians, of the Diocese of Rupert's Land, North-West America. By the venerable James Hunter, M.A., late Archdeacon of Cumberland, Rupert's Land

London: The British and Foreign Bible Society, 1876.

Price: $2,200.00

A fine copy, bound in original pebbled green cloth over thin boards (with minor edge-wear, light staining), ruled in blind and with "St Mark" tooled in blind at foot of upper board. Contents extremely fine. Small tear to blank front endpaper.“The Cree are the most populous and widely distributed Indigenous...

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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, rebacked and recornered in morocco. An excellent, crisp, bright copy with very minor faults: repaired clean tear with no loss, leaf P4. A few signatures with very light marginal dampstains. Occasional rust spots, marginal tears, or marginal natural paper flaws, no loss...

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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 #3133 Fragmenta aurea. A collection of all the incomparable peeces, written by Sir John...

Fragmenta aurea. A collection of all the incomparable peeces, written by Sir John Suckling. And published by a friend to perpetuate his memory. Printed by his owne copies

London: Printed [by Ruth Raworth and Thomas Walkley] for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his shop, at the signe of the Princes Armes in St Pauls Churchyard, 1646.

Price: $4,500.00

A very fine, crisp copy in contemporary blind-ruled calf with minor wear to the head of the spine and the very bottom of the hinge.The engraved frontispiece portrait (A1v) is signed: “W. Marshall fecit.” With separate title pages for “Poems &c.”, “Letters to Divers Eminent Personages” and “An Account of...

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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 #4632 Terence in English. Fabulae comici facetissimi et elegantissimi poetæ Terentii omnes...

Terence in English. Fabulae comici facetissimi et elegantissimi poetæ Terentii omnes Anglicæ factae primúmque hac noua forma nunc editæ: opera ac industria R.B. in Axholmiensi insula Lincolnsherij Epvvortheatis

Cambridge: ex officina Iohannis Legat, 1598.

Price: $15,000.00

Bound in contemporary vellum, a bit rumpled, lightly soiled, text block loose at front. A very fine, crisp copy. Smudge on leaf C1, ink spot on leaf G2; small, faint dampstain to upper margin in gatherings E and F. Variable light damp-stain to lower, outer corner starting in gathering L....

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Item #3017 THE WORKS OF VIRGIL: Containing His PASTORALS , GEORGICS, AND ÆNEIS. Translated into...

THE WORKS OF VIRGIL: Containing His PASTORALS , GEORGICS, AND ÆNEIS. Translated into English Verse; By Mr. Dryden. Adorn’d with a Hundred Sculptures.

London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1697.

Price: $20,000.00

An exceptional, and exceptionally large, “large paper” copy. This copy is complete with the engraved frontispiece, the extra plate depicting Vergil reading the Aeneid to Augustus, and all 101 of the magnificent engraved plates by W. Hollar called for in this edition: ten in the Bucolics, twenty in the Georgics...

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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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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 #3920 Poems, (&c.) on Several Occasions: with Valentinian: a Tragedy. Written by the Right...

Poems, (&c.) on Several Occasions: with Valentinian: a Tragedy. Written by the Right Honourable John late Earl of Rochester.

London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, at the Judge’s Head, in Chancery-Lane near Fleet-Street, 1691.

Price: $7,500.00

A truly fine copy in its original speckled calf binding, corners bumped, hinges starting. The text is crisp and in fine shape aside from a tear to the upper margin of the title affecting the printed rule and the top edge of the word “Poems.” With the preliminary advertisement leaf...

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Item #4565 God's Revenge Against Murther and Adultery, express’d in thirty several tragical...

God's Revenge Against Murther and Adultery, express’d in thirty several tragical histories. Wherein are lively delineated the various stratagems, subtle practices and deluding oratory used by our modern gallants, in order to the seducing young ladies to their unlawful pleasures. To which are annexed the triumphs of friendship and chastity, in some heroick examples and delightful histories. The whole illustrated with about fifty elegant epistles, relating to love and gallantry. The second edition. By Thomas Wright, M.A. of St. Peter’s College in Cambridge

London: for B. Crayle, 1688.

Price: $3,800.00

Bound in 18th c. speckled calf, serviceably rebacked, spine gilt, red Morocco label, new endpapers. A very good copy, complete with the additional engraved title and the two plates. Scattered light soiling and spotting, some dog-earing, edges of one plate silked. According to "The introduction", some of the histories are...

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