Eilenburg: Nikolaus Widemar, 1524.

Price: $4,500.00

With a woodcut title page illustration of the shoemaker, the canon, and the canon's housekeeper. Bound in 20th c. brown morocco by Zaehnsdorf, gilt spine. Title a trifle dusty. Printed by Eilenburg's first printer, who apparently operated his shop for the Leipzig printer Wolfgang Stöckel. Provenance: Broxbourne Library with bookplate...

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...

Wurzburg: Henricus Pigrin for J. G. Schönwetter, 1657.

Price: $12,500.00

An exceptional copy in contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over beveled wooden boards, covers framed by multiple foliate rolls, upper cover with coat of arms surmounted by the miter of a bishop or abbot at center, the initials R. W. A. T. stamped in black above the central panel, the date 1663...

Antwerp: ex officina Plantiniana apud viduam et filios J. Moreti, 1632.

Price: $5,500.00

A very fine copy bound in contemporary Dutch vellum, ruled in blind and with a large, blind-stamped arabesque at the center of each board. This edition is illustrated with an elaborate engraved title page by Theodore Galle, re-worked to include a new portrait of Seneca after Peter Paul Rubens. The...

Geneva: Henri Estienne, 1568.

Price: $3,500.00

This copy is bound in full 19th-century red morocco, the boards gold-ruled with large, central compartments. The spine is a bit faded and the joints and extremities are worn but the binding is otherwise nicely preserved. The contents are in very good condition with occasional light dampstaining and occasional mild...

London: printed by Thomas Creede for VVilliam Ponsonbie, 1595.

Price: $27,500.00

An attractive copy in early 20th c. calf. Very nice internally, the last leaf with 16th c. verses in Latin and English on the verso of the final leaf. With a woodcut printer’s device (McKerrow 299) and decorative border to the title page, and numerous head- and tailpieces throughout. A....

Venice: Bonetus Locatellus for Octavianus Scotus, 20 February 1488/, 1489.

Price: $16,000.00

Bound in a very nicely preserved, contemporary Esslingen blinding of blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards [Kyriss 134, EBDB w000012] with metal clasps, as well as metal center- and corner pieces. With the title and shelf-mark inked on the spine. Internally this is a crisp copy, rubricated, with a woodcut printer’s...

London: Printed by H. Lownes, and R. Young, 1628.

Price: $2,900.00

Bound in contemporary blind-ruled calf (corners bumped and worn, small defects to spine, leather of hinges cracked but firm) with the initials A.N. and an attractive floral ornament tooled in gold on the boards. Internally, both books are in fine condition with trivial faults as follows: I. (“Imitatio”): Clean tear...

Geneva: Excudebat Henricus Stephanus, 1588.

Price: $18,000.00

A fine, tall copy in contemporary blind-ruled vellum, edges of the text block sprinkled red and blue. The text is in very nice condition, lightly toned, with minor blemishes (A FEW small ink stains, sm. burn hole in margin of one leaf, ss2 small rust spot, g3-5 v. light dampstain...

Basel: Johann Froben, February, 1519.

Price: $4,900.00

Bound in 20th c. blue morocco by Rolando Gozzi of Modena, gilt arabesque at the center of the boards. Contents a little browned, discreet restoration, not affecting the border, to top blank margin of title. Woodcut title border to first leaf by Hans Holbein the younger (see foot of this...

Rome: appresso Francesco Zanetti, 1584.

Price: $4,800.00

Later “carta rustica” boards with spine in early vellum. The text begins on A2. Complete.The extremely rare first Italian edition of this report from India. Streit lists a Latin edition at Goa in 1584 (Streit IV, 1024) but this appears to have been published only in later collections (the 'Littera...

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...

[Beijing: presented to the Emperor 6 March, 1674.

Price: $750,000.00

Bound in two volumes in original golden-yellow silk over paper wrappers (spines perished & with a little fraying) with woodcut Chinese title labels on the upper covers as issued. 106 double-page woodcuts (the first opening is the Chinese Preface, the remaining 105 openings are woodcut illustrations of astronomical instruments and...