The Hague: Adrian Vlacq, 1659.
Price: $125,000.00
[Bound with:] De circuli magnitudine inventa. Accedunt eiusdem problematum quorundam illustrium constructiones. Leiden: Elzevir, 1654 Quarto: II. (8), 71, (1) p. Collation: *4, A-I4 FIRST EDITION of Huygens' landmark work on Saturn bound with the FIRST EDITION of Huygens’ work on the quadrature of the...
Rome: In Collegio Societatis, 1583.
Price: $3,000.00
Bound in early limp vellum (spine soiled and with small repairs, lacking ties.) A good copy, a number of gatherings browned or foxed, engraved t.p. slightly frayed at outer and lower edges. Early Jesuit inscription at the foot of engraved t.p. (See images).The 1583 Constitutions of the Society of Jesus...
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...
N.p., [Rome]: n.p. [Johann Beplin], n.d., 1512.
Price: $16,000.00
Place, printer, and proposed date from Adams and CNCE. The author’s letter to the reader is dated 31 August, 1512 (“Pridie kal. Septembris M.D.XII.”). Modern limp vellum. A fresh copy with good margins and just a little light staining, the large 4-part woodcut title page border untrimmed. The white-on-black title...
Copenhagen: Joachim Schmetgen, 1696.
Price: $16,000.00
Bound in contemporary sprinkled calf, the spine tooled in blind, with light wear. The contents are in excellent condition with the faintest amount of staining. The plates are in fine condition.The Royal Danish Kunstkammer was founded by King Frederick III in 1650 and was continued by his son, Christian V....
No place or printer: printed for the author (, 1798.
Price: $2,800.00
Bound in contemporary speckled paper over stiff boards (worn, paper chipped at extremities, esp. the lower margin of the upper board and the head of the spine, but sound.) A tall copy, the contents clean and untrimmed (title very lightly foxed). The 18 plates are in excellent condition.A wonderful artist’s...
Amsterdam: Jansson-Waesberg, 1678.
Price: $28,000.00
Bound in attractive 17th c. calfskin. A fine sammelband. The "Sphinx" exhibits the usual browning. The "Musaeum" is in very fine condition with just some closed tears (no loss whatsoever) to some of the folding plates, a small rust blemish on I1, small spot on H4, and light spotting to...
London: Printed by Augustine Mathewes, for Francis Grove, 1633.
Price: $45,000.00
Bound in modern paneled calf with blind-tooled ornaments. Upper and outer margins of title page cut a bit close, without affecting the text. Title soiled and lightly spotted, first gathering soiled and lightly stained, but the majority of the text rather clean, with just some light spots in gatherings G....
![Item #4654 [Ἐρωτήματα (Grammatica Graeca)] and associated texts. Constantine Lascaris](https://liberantiquus.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4654.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1678388625)
Venice: apud Aldum, mense octobri, 1512.
Price: $20,000.00
A truly fine copy. Bound in 16th c. German blind-stamped pigskin over beveled wooden boards with the original clasps preserved (one clasp with small defect, minor wear to extremities, lightly soiled, small abrasions, rear board peppered with tiny wormholes.) A fine, crisp copy with bright leaves; contemporary manuscript headlines and...
![Item #4334 [Prognosticatio]. Hec practice narrat de presenti anno et sequentibus quamplurimis...](https://liberantiquus.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4334-1.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1626648243)
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: $18,000.00
Bound in 17th c. English calf, rebacked in the 20th c. (wear to extremities, corners bumped, some light wear to boards. A very good copy with blemishes as follows: Light marginal staining to the lower corner and occasionally to the outer margin of the opening gatherings, scattered light foxing or...
Cologne: Opera et impensa Ioannis Soteris [Johann Soter], August, 1527.
Price: $5,500.00
Bound in attractive contemporary blind-stamped calfskin over thin wooden boards, with floral tools and rolls of urns. Text possibly re-cased. Somewhat later end-papers. Internally fine. Title page a little dusty, light marginal damp-stain in gathering t, small tear in inner margin of final leaf.The text is printed in italic, with...
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...
London: Printed by Richard Badger, for Philemon Stephens and Christopher Meredith, 1630.
Price: $6,800.00
Bound in -rather worn- contemporary calf, rebacked and re-cornered, the corners rounded. Text in good condition, with variable browning and a little chipping to the edges of the title and final leaf; small paper flaw at corner of leaf M3, affecting a catchword. Provenance: 18th-century bookplate of George Edwards (1694-1773)...
Padua: Apud Laurentium Pasquatum, 1597.
Price: $3,800.00
Bound in 20th c. drab boards (wear at corners, light surface wear.) A fine copy, with two different printer’s devices (on the title and last leaf), and two woodcut tailpieces. With a final errata leaf not recorded in other copies. Provenance: Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (ink stamp on...
London: Printed by R[ichard]. H[odgkinson]. for Laurence Blaikelocke, 1640.
Price: $9,500.00
Bound in 19th c. half morocco and marbled boards (rubbed, minor defects at head of spine and corners, boards a bit soiled. A very good copy, the lower margin cut short, affecting some catchwords but never the text, title a little dusty, a few light spots. Provenance: Hove Public Library...
Venice: Stephano da Sabbio, March, 1535.
Price: $30,000.00
Bound in fine 20th-century dark green long grained morocco, boards framed by an ornamental roll, gilt. Gilt spine and turn-ins. A very good copy, edges sprinkled blue. Small, discreet repair to blank upper margin of t.p. and lower blank corner of 2nd leaf; small stain at upper corner of 4th...
![Item #4603 Metamorphoses. [With the commentary of Raphael Regius]. Publius Ovidius Naso, 43...](https://liberantiquus.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4603.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1667515831)
Parma: Expensis & labore Francisci Mazalis, 1505.
Price: $28,000.00
Bound in twentieth-century stiff vellum. A broad-margined copy, some leaves gently washed, contemporary annotations to some leaves, occ. use of light colored wash to the woodcuts, insignificant mild soiling. Illustrated with 59 woodcuts. This is the only book known under Mazali's imprint at Parma (he was established at Reggio Emilia...
N.pl. n.pr. 1701.
Price: $11,500.00
Bound in contemporary blind-ruled ivory vellum, re-cased, with blind-stamped floral ornaments at the corners and arabesque at center. The text and etchings are in very fine condition. Minor stain to inner margin of final leaf, tear in blank inner margin of title page,, small nick in outer margin of page...
![Item #4113 [Title in Greek and Latin:] Pindar: Olympia. Pythia. Nemea. Isthmia. Callimachus:...](https://liberantiquus.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4113.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1611008770)
Venice: Aldus Manutius and Andrea Torresani, January, 1513.
Price: $16,000.00
Bound in 18th c. stiff vellum, possibly a deftly executed early 19th c. remboîtage. Attractive spine labels, gilt. Aldine device on title. A very fine copy, the text crisp and bright, with two bifolia uncut, and a few minor faults: title and second leaf lightly soiled and with small repairs...
Parma: Octavianus Saladius et Franciscus Ugoletus, 1510.
Price: $10,500.00
Bound in 19th c. ivory vellum, spine gold-tooled and with red Morocco label (small splits at head and tail of joints.) An excellent copy with wide margins. Outer margin of first few lvs. lightly soiled, the last few leaves with a light damp-stain in the outer margin, a few trivial...
Venice: Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1545.
Price: $6,800.00
Bound in modern stiff vellum. Contents with occ. light blemishes. With a woodcut compass on folio 74; woodcut printer’s device on title and final leaf. Embossed bookplate, “Montisalti” on front pastedown.An important account of the 1522 siege of Rhodes, a campaign led by the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman I “the Magnificent”...
Prague: Aegidius Sadeler, 1606.
Price: $25,000.00
A very fine, broad-margined copy with very rich and clear impressions of the plates. Occ. marginal soiling, a few pin-prick wormholes in the margins of a few leaves. Bound in contemporary morocco, richly tooled in gold. With an engraved allegorical title with the main title incised within a wolf's hide...
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...
London: Various printers (details below). 1591-, 1596.
Price: $85,000.00
Bound in 17th c. calf, the boards gilt-ruled in compartments with ornamental tools at the corners and a large stamp of the Tudor arms at the center of each board (hinges and endcaps restored, corners bumped, later label, lacking ties). Inscriptions: In the Shepheards Calender 1. Contemporary signature of Roger...
