Brescia: Appresso Vincenzo Sabbio, 1592.
Price: $8,500.00
Bound in 18th c. stiff vellum (lightly soiled, covers slightly bowed), edges sprinkled red. A very good, clean copy, cut a bit sort at the head (affecting headline on lvs. H1, M1, and M2 and page number on leaf M8). Very slim worm-trail not affecting text to first three leaves.A....
Venice: Appresso i Gioliti, 1586.
Price: $8,500.00
Bound in an attractive, modern cardboard binding and slipcase by Eva Szily. Contents lightly washed, t.p. discreetly mended in gutter, collector’s stamp on title, gathering I lightly toned. With an intricate woodcut compartment and Jesuit emblem on the title page. A number of other attractive headpieces and large woodcut initials...
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...
[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...
Basel: Adam Petri, 1519.
Price: $3,800.00
Modern marbled wrappers. Lightly damp-stained, a few side-notes shaved. With an ornamental woodcut title border.A German translation, attributed to Spalatin, of an early Latin work by Luther on confession. In 1518 Spalatin had requested that Luther write a short instruction on how to confess. Luther sent him a Latin version of...
Frankfurt an der Oder: Friedrich Hartmann, 1597.
Price: $8,500.00
Bound in matching 17th c. stiff vellum, ruled in blind (covers slightly bowed, vellum lightly soiled, small split at head of rear hinge of Vol. I, 1 end-band loose). The contents are in overall excellent condition, with minor blemishes (Vol I: leaf D2 with small natural paper flaw affecting a....
Basel: Adam Petri, 1521.
Price: $8,500.00
Bound in modern blind-ruled vellum. A good if worn copy, contents soiled, especially the opening leaves; small tape repair to blank verso of title, one blank corner with small chip (not affecting the text), gatherings guarded in the gutter.One of Luther’s three landmark works of 1520, here in the original...
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...
Mexico: por Francisco de Rivera Calderon, 1723.
Price: $12,500.00
Bound in contemporary vellum, repaired along the upper hinge, binding lightly soiled and stained, end-papers renewed. Internally an overall fine, fresh copy with bright leaves and only minor faults: edges of first and final four leaves slightly ragged, the slightest of worming in the blank gutter of various gatherings, very...
Rome: Antonio Lafreri, 1547.
Price: $5,600.00
Signed at the lower right with the names of the engraver, “NB. LOTARINGVS F”, and the publisher, "ANT. LAFRERI/SEQVANVS EXCVD. ROMAE/1547”. At the foot of the image, the source is identified as Michelangelo’s fresco in the Sistine Chapel, “HIEREMIAS/MICH. ANG. PINXIT IN VATICANO”.A fine impression, rich in tone, with mild...
Naples: per maestro Ioanne Sulsbach [Giovanni Sultzbach] Alemano, 1532.
Price: $7,500.00
Bound in contemporary vellum (a bit wrinkled, small defects to spine) with a contemporary Sicilian gift inscription occupying the full length of the lower cover: “Al mio padre Gia[como] Batt[ist]a Serabone [?] della Compagnia del Giesu. Messina.” Inscription on title (scored through) “Collegii Messiniensis Soc. Jesu.”; 16th or 17th c....
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...
Nuremberg: Georg Merckel, 1553.
Price: $4,500.00
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...
Florence: [Gianstephano di Carlo da Pavia], 23 October, 1508.
Price: $9,500.00
Bound in 20th c. brown morocco. A fine copy. Savonarola’s name has been censored on the title. With a fine woodcut scene on the title page showing Savonarola conversing with the Abbess and sisters of the Monastero delle Murate. On the final leaf is a Crucifixion scene with the Virgin...
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: John Day for Nicholas England, 25 Sept. 1560.
Price: $15,000.00
Bound in attractive contemporary calf, lacking clasps and catches, the boards ruled in gold, with a blind-stamped arabesque with flanking rosettes and the initials 'RL' within an single filet border, nicely rebacked, spine ruled in compartments, with green label, gilt, in the second compartment. Later endpapers and later end-bands (but...
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...
[Augsburg]: [Heinrich Steiner], 1522.
Price: $15,000.00
Bound in modern blind-ruled vellum with a large blind-stamped arabesque at the center. Title page with an attractive, floral woodcut title border. Contents in fine condition with just the palest of marginal damp-staining. Small tab on outer margin of title, small numeral 8 at upper corner of the same leaf.A....
