Strasbourg: Ex officina...Martini Flach civis Argentinensis [i.e. Martin Flach], 20 September, 1500.
Price: $11,500.00
Bound in modern vellum. A fine, clean copy with just some occasional, very mild foxing to the upper margin. The Hebrew passages have been transliterated rather than set in Hebrew characters.A methodical refutation of Rabbinic interpretations of the Book of Prophets. Each chapter opens with a passage from the Bible...
Price: $16,000.00
Johann Locher was an Observant Franciscan at Ulm who later became a vociferous advocate of Luther’s program of reform. Persecuted for his reformist sympathies, he eventually took refuge in Zwickau, where he published extensively between 1523 and 1524, writing against the injustices visited upon the lower classes and the corruption...
[Augsburg]: [Heinrich Steiner], 1523.
Price: $5,500.00
A very nice copy, stab-stiched in drab 20th c. wrappers. With an attractive woodcut title border (Pflugk-Hartung 23). Light maginal fingersoiling to title, blank verso of final leaf lightly soiled. . Two early marginal notes in ink in the blank margin of the title. With a duplicate stamp from the...
Wittenberg: [Melchior Lotter the younger], 1520.
Price: $8,500.00
Disbound, with a slim guard along the spine. A crisp copy, the title very lightly soiled, contents with some very light scattered marginal foxing and a few light marginal blemishes; blank verso of last leaf lightly soiled.This is the first response by Luther to the papal bull threatening him with...
Augsburg: Melchior Ramminger, 1523.
Price: $5,500.00
Modern boards. A fine copy with a beautiful four-part title page border, the lower register of which shows a stag hunt. There is also a small woodcut of the Virgin, balancing on the crescent moon, and holding the infant Christ.A sermon for Lichtmeß (Candlemas), the feast of the presentation of...
Basel: Adam Petri, 1519.
Price: $3,800.00
Modern marbled wrappers. Lightly damp-stained, a few side-notes shaved. With an ornamental woodcut title border.A German translation, attributed to Spalatin, of an early Latin work by Luther on confession. In 1518 Spalatin had requested that Luther write a short instruction on how to confess. Luther sent him a Latin version of...
Frankfurt an der Oder: Friedrich Hartmann, 1597.
Price: $8,500.00
Bound in matching 17th c. stiff vellum, ruled in blind (covers slightly bowed, vellum lightly soiled, small split at head of rear hinge of Vol. I, 1 end-band loose). The contents are in overall excellent condition, with minor blemishes (Vol I: leaf D2 with small natural paper flaw affecting a....
Wittenberg: Georg Rhau, 1543.
Price: $6,500.00
Bound in 20th c. half calf. A very good copy, lightly toned, with occasional contemporary marginal annotations. The text is interleaved with 20th c. blank leaves. Modern collector's bookplate and small bookseller's label on inside cover.“As he had announced in On the Jews and Their Lies, Luther immediately set to...
[Strasbourg]: [Johannes Prüß the younger], 1520.
Price: $18,000.00
With a historiated woodcut title border with columns, garlands, wrestling cherubs, and grotesques. Bound in early 20th c. blind-embossed leather, signed “MK” with scrolling vines and Luther roses. A nice crisp copy with just a very faint dampstain to the title page. The border with early color. This is the...
Wittenberg: Johann Rhau-Grunenberg, 1521.
Price: $20,000.00
With a historiated woodcut border from the workshop of Lucas Cranach featuring cherubs lounging about the thistles, dressed as musicians, soldiers, and one with a cardinal’s hat. A crisp copy with broad margins, annotated throughout by a contemporary reader. Bound in modern boards (binding soiled, boards worn). Light stain from...
Wittenberg: Josef Klug, 1539.
Price: $5,500.00
Bound in modern boards, overlaid with a printed leaf. A very good copy with deckled edges in gatherings A, B, and E. Elaborate woodcut initials, attractive architectural title page border, early minor annotations, very light occ. browning to edges, D3 with a clean tear, minor damp to margins of final...
Tübingen, Ulrich Morhart the Elder, June, 1523.
Price: $7,600.00
Three works bound in contemporary alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards, ruled and stamped in blind, both clasps intact, with light stains and smudges. The text is in excellent, crisp condition, the last three leaves with a slim worm trail affecting a couple of words on each leaf. Contemporary manuscript index...
Naples: per maestro Ioanne Sulsbach [Giovanni Sultzbach] Alemano, 1532.
Price: $7,500.00
Bound in contemporary vellum (a bit wrinkled, small defects to spine) with a contemporary Sicilian gift inscription occupying the full length of the lower cover: “Al mio padre Gia[como] Batt[ist]a Serabone [?] della Compagnia del Giesu. Messina.” Inscription on title (scored through) “Collegii Messiniensis Soc. Jesu.”; 16th or 17th c....
London: printed by Tho[mas] Johnson for the author, 1670.
Price: $20,000.00
A fine, tall copy bound in contemporary calf, rebacked (corners bumped, wear to the extremities, some scuffs and scrapes to the boards, recent endpapers.) Profusely illustrated with an engraved title page, a folding engraved map showing the Tōkaidō road from Osaka to Edo (Tokyo) and the sea route from Osaka...
[Erfurt]: [Melchior Sachse], 1525.
Price: $22,000.00
Stitched. Housed in a modern clamshell box. A very good copy of this scarce publication. Very slight curling to extreme upper and outer margin of title, title lightly toned at head. Very light marginal stain on penultimate leaf. Early foliation in upper corners. Blank verso of final leaf with mild...
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Bath: Isaac Pitman, for the British and Foreign Bible Society, Bath, England, 1859.
Price: $2,000.00
Bound in contemporary sprinkled sheepskin (corners bumped, three worm-trails to front cover, light wear to corners and head and tail of spine). A fine copy internally with very light marginal soiling to the title page.FIRST EDITION OF THE BOOK OF PSALMS TRANSLATED INTO MI’KMAQ, printed in syllabics using a phonotypic...
Mexico: Por los Herederos de la Viuda de Miguel de Ribera, 1715.
Price: $4,500.00
Bound in contemporary vellum, cockled and lightly soiled, with the original ties preserved. A fine copy, with just an early paper repair to leaf M4, no loss, and short tears in the outer margin of lvs. ¶1-2. Leaf ¶¶¶3 dog-eared. Rare. 3 copies traced in the U.S. (JCB, UC Berkeley...
Augsburg: Christoph. Mangius, 1615.
Price: $18,000.00
A fine copy bound in strictly contemporary limp vellum, soiled, lacking ties. The text is in truly excellent condition with a little fraying to the outer, blank margin of the engraved title, which shows Matteo Ricci and Blessed Francis Xavier in an architectural framework, flanking Ricci’s map of China. The...
Rome: Antonio Brambilla, 1579.
Price: $8,500.00
Etched by Ambrogio Brambilla (active 1579-99) after his own drawing. Signed and dated in the plate "Io. Ambr. Bram. Inv et fe. 1579". Published by Claudio Duchetti, whose name appears at the foot of the plate. Two other states were printed (in the 17th c.). The second state (1602) bore...
Nuremberg: Georg Merckel, 1553.
Price: $4,500.00
Bound in modern quarter vellum and paste paper over boards. With an unsigned title woodcut (by Georg Pencz?). A tall, broad-margined copy with a few deckled edges preserved. Small natural paper flaw on the final leaf. Bound with a second, anonymous poem, “Klaglied: Deren von Magdeburgk, zu Gott und allen...
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...
Dillingen: Johannes Mayer, 1585.
Price: $20,000.00
Bound in levant morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, ruled in gold, spine with raised bands decorated and lettered in gold; gilt dentelles, joints starting. A fine copy. Title with woodcut device, woodcut decorated initials, head- and tailpieces; occasional, very light spotting.The official account of Pope Gregory XIII's reception of the...
Wittenberg: Georg Rhau, 1546.
Price: $4,000.00
With a woodcut medallion portrait of Martin Luther on the title page and 2 three-quarter length portraits of Luther (dated 1546) and his protector, Frederick the Wise, Elector of Saxony. The Luther portrait is based on an image by Lucas Cranach the Younger (1515-1586), whose serpent device appears on the...
Various places: various printers, 1521 to, 1524.
Price: $95,000.00
Bound in contemporary half-pigskin over wooden boards, tooled in blind. The binding is well-preserved with small defects (chipping along the leading edge of the lower boards, with loss of one strap and clasp. Both catch-plates and one of the two straps are preserved.) Fine, broad-margined copies of all 17 works...
