London: [Printed by Thomas Marsh], 1557.
Price: $18,000.00
A fine, tall, and interesting copy, bound in contemporary English sheep, with patches of wear, and skilful repairs to spine and corners. The contents are crisp and bright, with a slight worm-trail in the lower margin of the opening leaves. The flyleaves are from William Lily’s grammar, “An introduction of...
London: [in aedibus Thomae Bertheleti], An. 1546.
Price: $12,000.00
Bound in 20th c. green morocco crushed morocco, ruled in gold, a.e.g. The title page is framed by an architectural woodcut border (Mckerrow and Ferguson 30) dated 1534 in the sill. The text is printed in Black Letter. The colophon appears on the verso of the final leaf. Contemporary signature...
Frankfurt: Johann David Zunner, 1684.
Price: $6,800.00
Complete with the engraved title page, which has been folded at the bottom to avoid trimming by the binder. Bound in 18th c. quarter vellum and marbled boards with some minor wear. The contents are in very fine condition. Small adhesion scar to title. Illustrated with 41 large woodcuts."Ercker's treatise...
Florence: nella Stamperia di S.A.R. Per li Tartini, e Franchi, 1725.
Price: $3,200.00
Bound in contemporary stiff vellum, edges of text-block sprinkled red. A very fine copy, printed on thick paper. The large, folding plate of the catafalque (51 x 35 cm.) is also in fine condition.An account of the funeral ceremonies for Cosimo III de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 30...
Boston: Printed by [Gamaliel] Rogers and [Daniel] Fowle, for N[athanael]. Procter at the Bible and Dove in Ann-Street, 1744.
Price: $6,800.00
Bound in contemporary American calf, ruled in blind, over thin wooden boards (scuffed and with wear to extremities). Very good internally with a few minor stains, a couple of marginal tears and a longer tear entering the text on leaf F5 (no loss.) Provenance: with the contemporary ownership inscription, “Joseph...
Bologna: per gli heredi del Dozza, [1655]-, 1656.
Price: $35,000.00
Two volumes bound in matching contemporary vellum, lightly soiled. Internally, a fine, broad-margined set with the usual variable light paper toning associated with this edition and scattered light foxing. Minor faults as follows: a paper repair to the blank margin of one leaf and two short marginal tears, far from...
London: A. Islip, Joice Norton, and R. Whitaker, 1633.
Price: $10,500.00
With an engraved title by John Payne and over 2,000 woodcuts of plants throughout the text. This is a fine copy, very clean, with the engraved title page in very good condition (only a little marginal soiling.) Bound in 17th c. English mottled calfskin with discreet repairs. With the original...
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Cologne: Ex aedibus nostris [Peter Quentel], 1535.
Price: $7,500.00
Bound in 19th-century quarter calf, rebacked with spine preserved, some wear to extremities. A very good copy with occ. light foxing and scattered pencil notes in the margins. Light stain to one leaf (X4), last leaf verso lightly soiled. With numerous fine woodcut historiated initials. Elaborate woodcut title border by...
London: printed by W. Rawlins, for the Author, 1682.
Price: $15,000.00
A VERY FINE, LARGE PAPER COPY. Illustrated with eighty-three engraved plates, five of which are double-paged. This copy is bound in contemporary, mottled calf (some abrasions to boards, joints rubbed, small losses at head and foot of spine), spine ornately tooled in gold. Internally, this copy is in fine condition...
Mainz: Peter Schoeffer, 10 September, 1474.
Price: $40,000.00
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...
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...
Mainz: Johann Schöffer, 1524.
Price: $15,000.00
Bound in 20th c. green morocco with gilt turn-ins. A fine copy, a.e.g., with a fine woodcut title border, woodcut initials, and occ. contemporary annotations. The title border incorporates Schöffer's coat of arms (see Johnson no. 62 and Pflugk-Harttung no. 52).Ulrich von Hutten's famous work on the treatment of syphilis...
Rome: Vincenzo Mariotti, 1697.
Price: $3,500.00
Single sheet etching: 38 x 63 cm. First Issue. Signed in the lower margin “Vincentius Mariottus Romanus delin. et sculpsit Romae, Cum superiorum Facultate” and, in the image, along the base of the pedestal, “Andreas Puteus Soc. Iesu Pictor et Architectus inv. an. 1693” and higher up, “Io. Baps Gaullus...
Milan: Apud haer. Pacificij Pontij, & Ioan. Baptistam Piccaleum, impressores Archiepiscopales, 1622.
Price: $8,500.00
Excellent, fresh copies of both parts, bound in contemporary Italian carta rustica (light wear and soiling). Contents with just a few light blemishes and a few lightly creased corners. Divisional title page to second part. Both titles with Jesuit emblem.On July 27th, 1609 Pope Paul V promulgated a bull that...
Rome: Collegio Societatis Jesu, 1596.
Price: $16,000.00
Jesuit emblem on title-page, wood-cut initials throughout. A very good copy of this rare edition. Small area of corrosion at head of the title page, not affecting text, as the result of an early ink inscription. Contents with scattered foxing and occasional light damp-stains and a few ink spots. Bound...
[Cologne: Conrad Winters de Homborch], not after, 1476.
Price: $180,000.00
An impressive, rubricated and illuminated copy with broad margins. Illuminated with 27 acanthus initials in gold, red, green, and blue with scrolling tendrils extending into the margins; numerous red and blue Lombard initials, and 6 hand-colored woodcut illustrations including the T-O map, and a full-page type-set tree of consanguinity.Bound in...
Rome: Sumptibus N[icoli]. A[ngeli]. Tinassij, 1679.
Price: $12,500.00
Complete in 2 volumes. A fine set in matching contemporary vellum, complete with all 24 inserted leaves with woodcuts (as called for). The text is in fine, crisp condition with only minor cosmetic faults: Vol. I: Light dampstain to head of first few leaves only. Cut a little close, with...
Mainz: Johann Schöffer, 2 April (“Uff Mitfasten”), 1508.
Price: $37,500.00
Bound in fine blue morocco by the Belgian binder Charles De Samblanx (1855-1943), boards richly tooled in gold, framed by three fillets and stippling. With a large central ornament and further ornaments at the corners. Fine red morocco doublures, also richly tooled in gold. Spine ruled and tooled in gold...
Amsterdam: Sumptibus Andreae Frisii, 1665.
Price: $9,500.00
The book is introduced by a fantastic engraved title page populated by monsters. The text is illustrated with 73 half and quarter-page engravings of monsters –deformed humans and animals, as well as fantastic, monstrous hybrids of the both. This is the first edition to include Gerard Blasius’ "Appendix of new...
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Strasbourg: [Bartholomaeus Kistler], after 31 Dec. 1499.
Price: $45,000.00
Further fifteenth-century editions were published in Latin, German, and Italian versions. This edition, printed by Kistler, is number 11 in Kurze’s census of editions in all languages (for the date, see the bib. notes at the end of this description). Illustrated with 46 woodcut illustrations in text, including large vignette...
Basel: Henricus Petrus, 1557.
Price: $38,000.00
An exceptional copy, bound in contemporary alum-tawed pigskin (some scuffs and light soiling), elaborately tooled in blind, with stamps of the evangelists, medallion portraits of the reformers, and various floral motifs. With its original paper label, faded, affixed to the upper board. The text is in unusually fine condition for...
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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...
Mexico: Por Francisco Rodríguez Lupercio, 1673.
Price: $12,500.00
Text in Spanish and Nahuatl. A very good copy bound in contemporary vellum (soiled, fore-edge of rear cover nibbled.) Mild soiling to text, v. light dampstain to first two leaves, inner margin of first two leaves with small defects, upper corner of text and blank outer margin of last few...
Mexico: por Francisco de Rivera Calderon, 1723.
Price: $10,600.00
Bound in original limp vellum, re-cased, endpapers renewed. A nice copy with light scattered stains. Provenance: small collector’s stamp “G” on title.Sole edition of this important translation of the Catholic catechism into Nahuatl, which marks a significant development in translation theory and practice. Father Pérez was one of Mexico's leading...
Rome: Ex Typographia Hæredum Francisci Corbelletti, 1650.
Price: $18,000.00
Two volumes bound as one. With an added engraved title page engraved by Baronius (possibly Jean Baron) after Johannes Paul Schor, an engraved portrait of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria engraved by Paulus Pontius after Schor, and 21 added engraved plates, numbered I-III, IV/V, VI-X, XI/XII, XIII-XXIII, that is, with...
