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...

Cambridge: ¶ Printed by the Printers to the University of Cambridge, 1633.

Price: $5,800.00

[Bound with:]Fletcher, Giles (1585/6-1623)Christs victorie and triumph in heaven and earth, over and after death. The second edition.Cambridge: printed [by Thomas and John Buck] for Francis Green, 1632[Bound with:]Fletcher, Phineas (1582-1650)Locustae, vel Pietas Iesuitica. Per Phineam Fletcher Collegii Regalis Cantabrigiae [Second title page:] The Locusts, or Appollyonists. By Phineas Fletcher...

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...

Venice: Girolamo Francini, 1588.

Price: $7,800.00

Bound in 17th c. vellum (an early remboîtage, moderate soiling, ties renewed), the spine with gold ornaments, boards ruled in gold, central armorial stamps (unidentified), also gilt, to both boards, that on the upper board quite worn, that on the lower board distinct. Internally contents very good and generally fresh...

Antwerp: Ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1575.

Price: $18,000.00

A fine copy bound in contemporary vellum. First title page with 17th c. ownership inscription, lightly toned at head, one woodcut slightly shaved at outer edge, small natural paper flaw in blank corner of p. 216 and 229 (2nd part). Illustrated with numerous woodcuts of deformities and monstrosities; anatomical illustrations...

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...

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...

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...

Douai: Jean Bogard, 1586.

Price: $10,500.00

Bound in contemporary vellum, lightly soiled, re-cased but binding original. Title page dusty, a few blank corners a little frayed, occ. light soiling, corners slightly rounded. Clean tear (no loss) in blank margin of leaf G5. Woodcut Jesuit device on title. Woodcut floriated initials in the text.With the contemporary ex...

In Napoli: Nella Stamparia à Porta Reale per Costantino Vitale, 1599.

Price: $48,000.00

Bound in original limp vellum (minor defects to binding). The text is illustrated with 126 woodcuts of gems and minerals, plants, animals, and a folding, double-paged woodcut of Imperato’s private cabinet of curiosities. This is a fine, genuine copy. A handful of gatherings are foxed or lightly browned. A light...

Mainz: Johann Schöffer, 2 April (“Uff Mitfasten”), 1508.

Price: $26,000.00

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...

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...