A June Miscellany 2022

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Das Lob der Pfarrer von dem unnutzen Kosten der gelegt wirt von dem gemainen unverstendigen Volck...

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

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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The boke named the Gouernour deuised by sir Thomas Elyot knyght. Thomas Elyot, Sir, 1490?-1546

The boke named the Gouernour deuised by sir Thomas Elyot knyght

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...

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The Boke named the Gouernour deuised by sir Thomas Elyot knyght. Thomas Elyot, Sir, 1490?-1546

The Boke named the Gouernour deuised by sir Thomas Elyot knyght.

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...

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Aula Subterranea domina dominantium subdita subditorum, das ist, Untererdische Hofhaltung: ohne...

Aula Subterranea domina dominantium subdita subditorum, das ist, Untererdische Hofhaltung: ohne welche weder die Herren regiren, noch die Unterthanen gehorchen können : oder, Grundliche Beschreibung derjenigen Sachen so in der Tieffe der Erden wachsen, als aller Ertzen der königlichen und gemeinen Metallen…

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...

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Esequie dell'Altezza Reale del Serenissimo Cosimo III Granduca di Toscana celebrate in Firenze...

Esequie dell'Altezza Reale del Serenissimo Cosimo III Granduca di Toscana celebrate in Firenze dall’ A.R. Del Serenissimo Gio: Gastone Granduca di Toscana descritte da Leonardo del Riccio.

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...

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The Purple Island, Or The Isle Of Man: Together With Piscatorie Eclogs And Other Poeticall...

The Purple Island, Or The Isle Of Man: Together With Piscatorie Eclogs And Other Poeticall Miscellanies. By P. F.

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...

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Chaos del tri per uno. Teofilo Folengo

Chaos del tri per uno.

Venice: Giovann’ Antonio e Pietro fratelli de Nicolini da Sabio, 1546.

Price: $4,900.00

Bound in 18th-century stiff parchment with a gilt lettering piece on the spine. A fine, clean copy with just some occ. light foxing, a marginal stain on a few leaves, and a small worm hole to the last two leaves slightly affecting the headline. Last leaf backed (and with light...

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Oracion fvnebre, que en las exeqvias de Doña Nicolasa Nvñez Zenteno celebradas en la Iglesia...

Oracion fvnebre, que en las exeqvias de Doña Nicolasa Nvñez Zenteno celebradas en la Iglesia Parrochial del Archangel San Miguel de Orisava. Dixo el Br. Francisco Antonio de Ypinarrieta presbytero el día 27 de Agosto del año de 1689. Dedicada al Capn. D. Joan Gonzales de Olmedo algvacil mayor por sv magestad, de la civdad de la Nveva Veracrvz, y guarda mayor de svs pvertos.

Puebla: En la Imprenta Plantiniana de Diego Fernández de Leon, 1691.

Price: $3,800.00

Modern wrappers. Original sewing preserved. Some foxing, cut close at head, page numbers added in ink. Extremely rare. Two copies located in OCLC, one in Germany, the other in Mexico.A rare funeral sermon for the Pueblan aristocrat Doña Nicolasa Núñez Zenteno, wife of the mayor of the port of Veracruz...

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Nicodemus: or, A treatise against the fear of man. Wherein the causes and sad effects thereof are...

Nicodemus: or, A treatise against the fear of man. Wherein the causes and sad effects thereof are briefly describ’d. With some remedies against it. By August. Herman. Franck. Professor of divinity in the University at Hall, and Minister of Glaucha in the suburbs. Rendred [sic] into English from the High-Dutch; and dedicated to the Honourable Society for Reformation of Manners.

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...

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Catalogus universalis pro nundinis Francofurtensibus autumnalibus de anno MDCLXVIII, hoc est,...

Catalogus universalis pro nundinis Francofurtensibus autumnalibus de anno MDCLXVIII, hoc est, Designatio omnium librorum qui hisce nundinis autumnalibus, vel novi, vel emendatiores et auctiores prodierunt; das ist, Verzeichnüss aller Bücher...

Frankfurt: Johann Görlin for the Heirs of Sigmund Latomus, 1668.

Price: $4,800.00

A fine survivor of this ephemeral catalogue. Disbound and untrimmed, retaining deckle edges. Worn at the spine folds, especially the first gathering, though each gathering remains intact (bifolium A1.4 just barely); small hole in the title, not affecting any text.A general catalog of books available at the 1668 autumn book...

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L' Antichità di Roma di Andrea Fulvio antiquiario romano, di nuouo con ogni diligenza corretta &...

L' Antichità di Roma di Andrea Fulvio antiquiario romano, di nuouo con ogni diligenza corretta & ampliata, con gli adornamenti di disegni de gli edificij antichi & moderni; con le aggiuntioni & annotationi di Girolamo Ferrucci Romano

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...

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Opere di Galileo Galilei ... In questa nuoua editione insieme raccolte, e di varij trattati dell'...

Opere di Galileo Galilei ... In questa nuoua editione insieme raccolte, e di varij trattati dell' istesso autore non piu stampati accresciute.

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...

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De Naturae Divinis Characterismis; seu Raris & admirandis spectaculis, causis, indiciis,...

De Naturae Divinis Characterismis; seu Raris & admirandis spectaculis, causis, indiciis, proprietatibus rerum in partibus singulis universi, Libri II. Auctore D. Corn. Gemma, Louaniensi, Regio Medicinae professore. Peculiarem partis utriusque materiem vel argumentum sequens pagina planius explicabit.

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...

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The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. Gathered by John Gerarde of London Master in...

The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. Gathered by John Gerarde of London Master in Chirvrgerie. Very much Enlarged and Amended by Thomas Johnson Citizen and Apothecarye of London.

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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Fasciculus rerum expetendarum ac fugiendarum : in quo primu[m] continetur Concilium Basiliense...

Fasciculus rerum expetendarum ac fugiendarum : in quo primu[m] continetur Concilium Basiliense non illud, quod in magno Concilior[um] volumine vulgo circumfertur, sed quod Aeneas Syluius (qui postea Pius II. est appelatus) & eidem Concilio praesens interfuit, fideliter, & eleganter conscripsit. Insunt praeterea huic operi nobilissimo

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...

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The Anatomy of Plants. With an Idea of a Philosophical History of Plants. And several other...

The Anatomy of Plants. With an Idea of a Philosophical History of Plants. And several other Lectures, Read before the Royal Society.

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...

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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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Ain treüe Ermanung an die strengen, Edlen, Festen, From(m)en und weyßen Eidgnossen, das sy nit...

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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De gvaiaci medicina et morbo gallico liber unus. Ulrich von Hutten

De gvaiaci medicina et morbo gallico liber unus.

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...

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Exercitia spiritvalia. of Loyola Ignatius, Saint, S. J

Exercitia spiritvalia

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...

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Exercitia spiritvalia Ignatij de Loyola. of Loyola Ignatius, Saint

Exercitia spiritvalia Ignatij de Loyola.

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...

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Dell'Historia Natvrale di Ferrante Imperato Napoletano Libri XXVIII: nella qvale ordinatamente si...

Dell'Historia Natvrale di Ferrante Imperato Napoletano Libri XXVIII: nella qvale ordinatamente si tratta della diuersa condition di miniere e pietre: con alcune historie di piante & animali, sin'hora non date in luce.

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...

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Bambergische halszgerichts Ordenung. Johann von LAW. TORTURE. Schwarzenberg, 1463–1528

Bambergische halszgerichts Ordenung.

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...

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Fortunius Licetus De Monstris. Ex recensione Gerardi Blasii, M. D. & P. P. Qui Monstra quaedam...

Fortunius Licetus De Monstris. Ex recensione Gerardi Blasii, M. D. & P. P. Qui Monstra quaedam nova & rariora ex recentiorum scriptis addidit. Editio Novissima. Iconibus illustrata.

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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