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...
Wittenberg: Josef Klug, 1539.
Price: $5,500.00
Bound in modern boards, overlaid with a printed leaf. A very good copy with deckled edges in gatherings A, B, and E. Elaborate woodcut initials, attractive architectural title page border, early minor annotations, very light occ. browning to edges, D3 with a clean tear, minor damp to margins of final...
Tübingen, Ulrich Morhart the Elder, June, 1523.
Price: $7,600.00
Three works bound in contemporary alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards, ruled and stamped in blind, both clasps intact, with light stains and smudges. The text is in excellent, crisp condition, the last three leaves with a slim worm trail affecting a couple of words on each leaf. Contemporary manuscript index...
Regenspurg: Hans Khol, 1553.
Price: $3,500.00
Modern paste-paper boards. A very nice copy with just a few instances of light soiling.The German-language edition, translated by Justus Jonas the Elder, of Melanchthon’s “Causae quare et amplexae sint, et retinendam ducant doctrinam, quam profitentur, ecclesiae, quae Confessionem Augustae exhibitam imperatori sequuntur & quare iniquis iudicibus, collectis in synodo...
Amsterdam: Jacob de Meurs, 1680.
Price: $16,000.00
Bound in seventeenth-century calf. Illustrated with an added engraved title page, 1 engraved folding map, 25 double-paged engraved views, and 71 text engravings. The main title is printed in red and black with an engraved vignette. The second part of the work is introduced by a divisional title page: "Ambassade...
?Madrid: n.p., 1750.
Price: $5,800.00
A very rare and attractive broadside papal bull. A fine, crisp copy, untrimmed, with horizontal fold and a few light creases. With blank (“unaccomplished”) spaces where the name of the purchaser and the date are to be written. With five woodcuts: Saints Paul and Francis, the arms of the reigning...
Augsburg: Christoph. Mangius, 1615.
Price: $18,000.00
A fine copy bound in strictly contemporary limp vellum, soiled, lacking ties. The text is in truly excellent condition with a little fraying to the outer, blank margin of the engraved title, which shows Matteo Ricci and Blessed Francis Xavier in an architectural framework, flanking Ricci’s map of China. The...
Antwerp: Apud Adrianum Huberti, 1592.
Price: $9,500.00
Bound in 20th c. quarter morocco and marbled boards (gilt rules along edge, spine ruled in compartments, light wear to hinges.) The text is in overall fine condition; the lower edge of the title page (and a small hole in the blank margin) have been discreetly restored; the same leaf...
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...
Nuremberg: Georg Merckel, 1553.
Price: $4,400.00
Bound in modern quarter vellum and paste paper over boards. With an unsigned title woodcut (by Georg Pencz?). A tall, broad-margined copy with a few deckled edges preserved. Small natural paper flaw on the final leaf. Bound with a second, anonymous poem, “Klaglied: Deren von Magdeburgk, zu Gott und allen...
Basel: Thomas Wolff, 1521.
Price: $5,500.00
Bound in modern quarter vellum and drab boards. With a large woodcut of the emperor by Urs Graf (ca. 1485-1528) on the title page and a large, dramatic, historiated initial. A very good, crisp copy with a little light marginal foxing and occ. minor marginal blemishes.The “Reformation of Emperor Sigismund”...
London: Printed by John Daye, and are to be sold at his Shop under Aldersgate, 1573.
Price: $45,000.00
A fine copy with some minor tears and stains (see below), some small wormholes and a few short worm-trails. The edges of general title slightly frayed and lightly browned at the edges (and a little loose). Final leaf lightly soiled and with small light dampstain in the lower margin; minor...
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...
