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Item #4183 Confessio Fidei exhibita inuictiss. imp. Carolo V. caesari aug. in comicijs Augustae....

Confessio Fidei exhibita inuictiss. imp. Carolo V. caesari aug. in comicijs Augustae. Anno M.D. XXX. Addita est Apologia confessionis [Bound with: Confessio doctrinae saxonicarum ecclesiarum. Leipzig, V. Bapst, 1553]

Wittenberg: Georg Rhau, 1542, 1556.

Price: $8,500.00

Bound in contemporary alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards, one clasp defective, binding soiled and mildly worn and with small defects. The boards are ruled and tooled in blind, signed and dated “IPN 1556”. The contents are in excellent, crisp condition (one leaf working loose, marginal tear in margin of leaf...

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Item #4340 Saint Augustine, Of the citie of God : with the learned comments of Io. Lodouicus...

Saint Augustine, Of the citie of God : with the learned comments of Io. Lodouicus Viues. Englished first by J. H. and now in this second edition compared with the Latine originall, and in very many places corrected and amended.

London: Printed by G. Eld and M. Flesher, 1620.

Price: $8,500.00

Bound in contemporary English calf, rebacked with wear to hinges; boards scuffed, corners bumped. Internally a very good copy with intermittent light marginal damp-stains, a bit darker in a few signatures. Very fine woodcut initials and headpieces. Leaves of sig. O bound out of sequence, N3 with tiny rust hole...

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Item #4261 Biblia Latina (With printed summaries by Menardus Monachus). BIBLE

Biblia Latina (With printed summaries by Menardus Monachus)

Ulm: Johann Zainer, 29 January, 1480.

Price: $95,000.00

An excellent copy, with noble provenance, of this magnificent Bible. A very large, impressive copy, with broad margins, preserving numerous deckled edges. The quires are numbered in a contemporary hand, in red ink, at the foot of leaves. The stub for the canceled blank leaf ll3 (the conjugate of leaf...

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Item #4437 Das neü Testament, mit gantz nutzlichen vorreden. Martin BIBLIA GERMANICA. NEW...

Das neü Testament, mit gantz nutzlichen vorreden.

Augsburg: Silvan Otmar, 11 June, 1523.

Price: $125,000.00

A very early edition of Luther’s December Testament, appearing within six months of the first (Wittenberg, December 1522). With a large title woodcut by Hans Schäufelein, 25 large historiated woodcut initials (numerous repeats) with scenes of the Evangelists writing the Gospels, Paul writing the Epistles, and John writing the Book...

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Item #3241 Boetius de Consolationae [sic] Philosophiæ. The boke of Boecius, called the comforte...

Boetius de Consolationae [sic] Philosophiæ. The boke of Boecius, called the comforte of philosophye, or wysedome, moche necessary for all men to read and know, wherein suche as be in aduersitie, shall fynde muche consolation and comforte, and suche as be in great worldly prosperitie may knowe the vanitie and frailtie therof, and consequently fynde eternall felycytie. And this boke is in maner of a dialoge or communication betwene two persones, the one is Boecius, and the other is Philosophy, whose disputations and argumentes do playnly declare the diuersitie of th lyfe actiue, that consisteth in worldly, temporall, and transitory thynges, ... Translated out of Latin into the Englyshe toungue by George Coluile, alias Coldewel, to thintent that such as be ignoraunt in the Latin tongue, and can rede Englyshe, maye vnderstande the same. And to the mergentes is added the Latin, accordynge to the boke of the translatour, whiche was a very olde prynte

London: In Paules churche yarde at the sygne of the holy Ghost, by Ihon Cawoode, prynter to the Kynge and Quenes Maiesties, 1556.

Price: $30,000.00

Bound in contemporary English calfskin, rebacked in the 19th c., a few patches to the leather of the boards. Text in very good condition with occasional browning, darker in signatures I and K. Light dampstain to signatures T, Z, Bb, and Ff. Text in Latin and English in two columns...

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Item #4900 Epistole et orationi della seraphica vergine santa Catharina da Siena, nella quali...

Epistole et orationi della seraphica vergine santa Catharina da Siena, nella quali manifestamente si dechiara l'ardentissimo amore dell'eterno padre verso l'humana generatione, & il grandissimo frutto del pretioso sangue del Signor nostro Iesu Christo. Vi è aggionta la vita et canonizatione della detta santa, con alcuni capitoli in sua laude, novamente reviste, & con somma diligentia ristampate. Con la sua tavola.

Venice: (Pietro Nicolini da Sabbio for) Federico Torresano, 1548.

Price: $6,800.00

Bound in 17th c. parchment (some soiling, corners bumped.) Woodcut title page border. Full-page woodcut of Saint Catherine on leaf 8 verso. Printer’s device on recto of final leaf. The text is in very good condition with instances of light damp-staining, scattered mild foxing. And occasional soiling A few marginal...

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Item #3243 Certain most godly, fruitful, and comfortable letters of such true saintes and holy...

Certain most godly, fruitful, and comfortable letters of such true saintes and holy martyrs of God, as in the late bloodye persecution here within this realme, gaue their lyues for the defence of Christes holy gospel: written in the tyme of theyr affliction and cruell imprysonment.

London: By Iohn Day, dwelling ouer Aldersgate, beneath Saint Martines, 1564.

Price: $18,000.00

A very fine copy, clean throughout, bound in early 20th c. brown morocco, gilt. Printed in Black Letter, With a fine, historiated, woodcut title page border populated by swans, youths playing instruments, griffins, and masks. A large woodcut illustration, taken from Foxe’s “Martyrs”, shows six reformers being burned at the...

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Item #4440 Das Lob der Pfarrer von dem unnutzen Kosten der gelegt wirt von dem gemainen...

Das Lob der Pfarrer von dem unnutzen Kosten der gelegt wirt von dem gemainen unverstendigen Volck auff Meß lesen, Volgungen, Begrebnus, sybent, dreysigst, Jartag etc. Und vo(m) Lob der Pfarrer unnd jrer nötigen Caplan.

[Augsburg: Sigmund Grimm and Marx Wirsung], 1522.

Price: $4,500.00

A very good copy in modern paste-paper wrappers. Small adhesion scar to blank portion of title, far from text.An early edition of Eberlin’s “In praise of parish priests Concerning the useless sums paid out by the common, unsuspecting people for mass readings, funerals, internments, sevenths and thirtieths, etc. And in...

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Item #4539 Der ander bundtsgnosz. Vom fasten der xl. tag vor Osteren vnd andern, wie do so...

Der ander bundtsgnosz. Vom fasten der xl. tag vor Osteren vnd andern, wie do so jämmerlich wirt beschwärt das christenlich volck.

[Basel: Pamphilus Gengenbach], 1521.

Price: $5,500.00

This work is the second of Eberlin’s “Fünfzehn Bundsgenossen” (“The Fifteen Confederates”). Bound in quarter vellum and modern patterned boards. A nice copy, title a little dusty and with small marginal stain, with a title woodcut of Jesus disputing with the Devil set within an ornamental historiated border.Eberlin von Günzburg...

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Item #4926 Disputatio excellentium D. Doctoru[m] Iohannis Eccii & Andreae Carolostadii q(uae)...

Disputatio excellentium D. Doctoru[m] Iohannis Eccii & Andreae Carolostadii q(uae) cepta est Lipsi(a)e XXVII. Iunij. AN. M.D.XIX. Disputatio secunda D. Doctorum Iohannis Eccii & Andreae Carolostadii q(uae) cepit XV. Iulij. Disputatio eiusdem eiusdem d. Iohannis Eccii & D. Martini Lutheri Augustiniani q(uae) cepit IIII. Iulij.

No place: ?Erfurt: No printer: ?Matthes Maler, No date: ? 1519.

Price: $11,500.00

Bound in 19th c. drab wrappers (sunned.) The text is in fine condition, a few leaves lightly toned, title and blank verso of final leaf lightly soiled. Title with short bibliographical reference and 2 stamps (Nuremberg city library with deaccession stamp).A printed, eye-witness transcript of the Leipzig Disputation of 1519...

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Item #4917 OEDIPVS AEGYPTIACVS. HOC EST Vniuersalis Hieroglyphicae Veterum Doctrinae temporum...

OEDIPVS AEGYPTIACVS. HOC EST Vniuersalis Hieroglyphicae Veterum Doctrinae temporum iniuria abolitae instauratio. Opus ex omni Orientalium doctrina & sapientia conditum, nec non viginti diuersarum linguarum authoritate stabilitum. [With] Tomus II. Phrontisterion Hieroglyphicum [and] Tomus III. THEATRVM HIEROGLYPHICVM.

Rome: Ex Typographia Vitalis Mascardi, 1652 -, 1655.

Price: $30,000.00

Bound in eighteenth-century calf (rebacked seamlessly in the nineteenth-century, light wear to hinges, boards with light marks. The boards are framed by a triple gold filet, board edges and turn-ins roll-tooled in gold. Spines richly tooled in gold, with red and green Morocco spine labels. All edges red. The majority...

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Item #2455 Moriae encomium D. Erasmi Roterodami cu[m] Gerardi Listrii trium linguarum periti...

Moriae encomium D. Erasmi Roterodami cu[m] Gerardi Listrii trium linguarum periti commentariis. Praemittuntur Ludus L. Annei Senec[ae], de morte Claudii, cu[m] scholiis Beati Rhenani. Synesius Cyrenen[sis] de Laudibus caluitii. Adduntur Martini Dorpii theologi ad Erasmum epistola et Erasmi ad eandem responsio apologetica.

Paris: Jodocus Badius Ascensius, 1524.

Price: $12,500.00

Bound in contemporary limp vellum, lightly soiled. The contents are in very good condition with a few pencil annotations and light soiling to the title page. With Badius' device of his print shop, the “Praelum Ascensianum” showing printers working a press, on the title page. With large, attractive crible initials...

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Item #4595 Antibarbarorum D. Erasmi Roterodami, liber unus, quem iuuenis quidem adhuc lusit:...

Antibarbarorum D. Erasmi Roterodami, liber unus, quem iuuenis quidem adhuc lusit: caeterum diu desideratum, demum repertum non iuuenis recognouit, & uelut postliminio studiosis restituit. Ex quo reliquorum, qui diis propiciis propediem accedent, lector coniecturam facias licebit.

Basel: Apud Ioan. Froben. Mense Xbri. 1520.

Price: $12,000.00

Bound in contemporary reversed-deerskin (with minor stains and surface wear). A fine, tall, and fresh copy. Woodcut border by Hans Holbein to title page, additional woodcut borders to second leaf and the opening leaf of the text. Woodcut Froben device on verso of final leaf. Neat contemporary annotations in the...

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Item #3630 Ein yder sehe für sich und verberg sich hinder keinen Schmeichler. [with] Ein schöne...

Ein yder sehe für sich und verberg sich hinder keinen Schmeichler. [with] Ein schöne Histori von dem Neidigen und dem Geitzigen [and] Ein yder trag sein joch dise Zeit.

Nuremberg: Gedrückt zu Nürnberg durch Friderich Gutknecht, 1554.

Price: $5,500.00

Bound in modern vellum over boards (soiled, slightly bowed). The text is in very good condition with a little light dust-soiling, a few small spots on the final two leaves, and soiling to the verso of the final leaf. With two woodcut illustrations and a fine woodcut ornament on the...

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Item #4269 Speculum aureum decem praeceptorum Dei. Henricus de Herpf, c

Speculum aureum decem praeceptorum Dei.

Mainz: Peter Schoeffer, 10 September, 1474.

Price: $45,000.00

A fine copy, in an impressive binding, of the first edition, printed by Gutenberg’s apprentice, Peter Schoeffer. Bound in contemporary Bamberg blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards [Kyriss 006, EBDB w000078, Bamberg Minoritenkloster], with flyleaves from vellum manuscript antiphonal, brass catch-plates with sphinxes, straps and clasps intact. Wormholes to both boards...

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Item #4280 Ain treüe Ermanung an die strengen, Edlen, Festen, From(m)en und weyßen Eidgnossen,...

Ain treüe Ermanung an die strengen, Edlen, Festen, From(m)en und weyßen Eidgnossen, das sy nit durch ire falsche(n) propheten verfürt sich wyder die lere Christi setzent.

Augsburg: Ramminger, 1523.

Price: $3,800.00

Bound in modern wrappers. With a four-part woodcut “Wildman” border. Marginal foxing, light soiling.A very rare work by Sebastian Hofmeister, an early compatriot of Zwingli and an admirer and correspondent of Luther, considered one of the most learned and rhetorically skilled of the Swiss reformers. A Franciscan friar and humanist...

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Item #4270 De sacramentis Christianae fidei. Hugo de Sancto Victore

De sacramentis Christianae fidei.

[Augsburg: Günther Zainer,] c., 1477.

Price: $20,000.00

Bound in contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, the brass clasp with catch-plate preserved. An original title on label on upper board is preserved, with slight loss. The binding has been rebacked and has some other minor restorations; the lower boards is a bit wormed. A fine, broad-margined copy, with...

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Item #3705 Auslegung uber Sankt Augustins Regel. Humbertus de Romanis

Auslegung uber Sankt Augustins Regel

[Ulm: Conrad Dinckmut,] c., 1488.

Price: $16,000.00

A large copy bound in contemporary Augsburg blindstamped calf over wooden boards [Kyriss 81, EBDB w002144], title tooled on upper board, author’s name inscribed on fore-edge, label on upper board. The binding is a little worn, with a few wormholes, some leather missing from spine, lacking clasps. An early printed...

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Item #4905 Dialogi. Fortuna. Febris prima. Febris secunda. Trias Romana. Inspicientes. Ulrich von...

Dialogi. Fortuna. Febris prima. Febris secunda. Trias Romana. Inspicientes.

Mainz: Johann Schöffer, 1520.

Price: $5,900.00

Bound in 17th c. calfskin, spine tooled in gold (discreet repairs to joints, corners, and top compartment of spine; slim crack at head of rear joint, minor wear to the gilding.) A nice copy with minor soiling to title and final leaf, and a few instances of light marginal foxing...

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Item #4983 S. Patricio, qui Hibernos ad fidem Christi convertit, adscripta opuscula, quorum...

S. Patricio, qui Hibernos ad fidem Christi convertit, adscripta opuscula, quorum aliqua nunc primum ex antiquis mss. Codicibus in lucem emissa sunt, reliqua recognita; omnia notis ad rem historicam et antiquariam spectantibus illustrata, opera et studio Jacobi Waraei Euquitis Aurati. Apud Johannem Crook, sub signo navis in coemeterio Paulino. MDCLVI.

London: Johannes Crook, 1656.

Price: $15,000.00

Bound in contemporary blind-ruled calf (discreet repairs to spine, boards a little bowed.) A very fine, fresh copy. Provenance: Robert Davies (early signature on title); Robert Pirie. Very rare. ESTC locates 6 copies in the U.S.: Harvard, Folger, Huntington, UCLA, Yale., B.C.First edition, edited by the Irish historian, scholar, and...

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Item #4957 Emanuel. Leabhar ina bhfuil modh iarrata [agus] fhaghala fhoirbhtheachda na beathadh...

Emanuel. Leabhar ina bhfuil modh iarrata [agus] fhaghala fhoirbhtheachda na beathadh riaghaltha. [Ar] attugadh drong airighthe Sgáthan an chrábhaidh drong oile Desiderius / ar na chur anosa a ngaoidhilg lé brathair airidhe dórd S. Fpronsias F.C.

a Lobain [Louvain]: [Irish Franciscan Press] Ar na chur a ccló maille ré hughdadhás, 1616.

Price: $18,500.00

Text printed in Irish type (known as “Louvain A” after the Irish Franciscan press at Louvain where this book was printed.) Small woodcut of Christ carrying the Cross on title, another of the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus on 2nd leaf verso; text on the final leaf set in...

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Item #4896 The legend named in latyn Legēda aurea. that is to saye in englysshe the Golden...

The legend named in latyn Legēda aurea. that is to saye in englysshe the Golden legende ... : which werke hath ben diligētly amended in divers places where as grete nede was.

London: By Wynkyn de Worde, 27 August, 1527.

Price: $110,000.00

An excellent, complete copy bound in late 18th c. russia, gilt, hinges neatly repaired, corners bumped. Illustrated with a full page woodcut on leaf A1 showing an assembly of saints and martyrs, and 85 woodcuts in the text. Wynkyn de Worde’s woodcut printer’s device (incorporating Caxton’s initials) on verso of...

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Item #4923 Acht Sermon von D.M. Luthers von jm geprediget zu Wittemberg in der fasten, Darinn...

Acht Sermon von D.M. Luthers von jm geprediget zu Wittemberg in der fasten, Darinn kurtzlich begryffen, vo(n) den Messen, Byldnussen, bayderlay gestalt des Sacraments, von de(n) speysen un(d) haimlichen beicht etc.

[Augsburg]: [Heinrich Steiner], 1523.

Price: $5,500.00

A very nice copy, stab-stiched in drab 20th c. wrappers. With an attractive woodcut title border (Pflugk-Hartung 23). Light maginal fingersoiling to title, blank verso of final leaf lightly soiled. . Two early marginal notes in ink in the blank margin of the title. With a duplicate stamp from the...

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Item #3029 Ayn Sermon am tag unser Frawen Liechtmeß gethon zuo Witemberg durch Doctor Marthin...

Ayn Sermon am tag unser Frawen Liechtmeß gethon zuo Witemberg durch Doctor Marthin Luther. Im Jar MDXXIII.

Augsburg: Melchior Ramminger, 1523.

Price: $5,500.00

Modern boards. A fine copy with a beautiful four-part title page border, the lower register of which shows a stag hunt. There is also a small woodcut of the Virgin, balancing on the crescent moon, and holding the infant Christ.A sermon for Lichtmeß (Candlemas), the feast of the presentation of...

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Item #4906 Copia einer Missiue: so Doctor Martinus Luther nach seinem abscheid zu Uuormbs zuruck...

Copia einer Missiue: so Doctor Martinus Luther nach seinem abscheid zu Uuormbs zuruck an die Churfursten Fursten vnd Stende des heiligen Romischen Reichs daselbest versamlet geschriben hat

[Breslau]: [Adam Dion], 1521.

Price: $4,900.00

Modern marbled boards. Lightly soiled and spotted, inky fingers (possibly those of a careless pressman) have left minor smears in the blank margins.One of fourteen printings recorded in the Benzing of this German-language edition. VD16 attributes the printing to Adam Dion of Silesia in Breslau while Benzing lists Hieronymus Höltzel...

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