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...

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...

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...

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. Rare. 7 copies in the U.S. (Penn, William & Mary, A&M, SUNY Albany, Hopkins, Princeton, BYU).Sole edition of this important translation of the Catholic catechism into Nahuatl, which...

London: Printed for B. Motte…and T. Wotton, 1734.

Price: $6,000.00

With 3 engraved plates (1 folding). Bound in contemporary calf, spine richly gilt in compartments (small repairs to spine and corners), new red morocco label. A very fine and clean copy with very minor blemishes as follows: Opening leaf, last page and last plate a little creased, a few leaves...

Grenoble: Guillaume Verdier, 1608.

Price: $5,900.00

Bound in contemporary vellum (soiling, small defects.) A very good copy, corrected by the author, with a bit of light browning and a short worm-track to the opening signatures, mainly marginal but occ. affecting a few words. A note in ink on the title, written in the same ink as...

London: printed for John Starkey, 1669.

Price: $4,850.00

Bound in contemporary polished calf, rebacked preserving original spine, corners bumped, light wear. Complete with the two engraved portraits of Charles Howard, First Earl of Carlisle (1628–1685) and Tzar Aleksey Mikhaylovich (1629-1676), just shaved at fore-edge. Title a little dusty, clean tear to margin of Z1 (not entering the text)...

Geneva: Henri Estienne, 1568.

Price: $3,500.00

This copy is bound in full 19th-century red morocco, the boards gold-ruled with large, central compartments. The spine is a bit faded and the joints and extremities are worn but the binding is otherwise nicely preserved. The contents are in very good condition with occasional light dampstaining and occasional mild...

The Hague: Isaac Burchoorn for Adriaen van de Venne [In 'sGraven-Hage… van Isaac Burchoorn”], 1634.

Price: $3,500.00

Bound by the Middelburg binder Suenonius Mandelgreen (1736-1758), “one of the few Dutch binders known by name to whom work can be assigned with certainty” (Storm van Leeuwen) in 18th cent. marbled calf w. large gilt floral central ornament and gilt tooled floral borders on both covers, richly gilt spine...

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...

London: Imprynted by Edwarde Whytchurch, wyth the Kynges moste graciouse priuelege for seuen yeres. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum, 1550.

Price: $28,000.00

A fine copy bound in contemporary English calf, rebacked and re-sewn, with leather straps (and possibly the clasps) renewed. The boards are paneled in blind and patterned with decorative roll stamps. Historiated woodcut title border, numerous and varied attractive woodcut initials throughout. The text itself in fine, crisp condition with...