Venice: Simon Bevilaqua, 3 Aug. 1497.

Price: $150,000.00

A fresh copy in late 18th c. stiff vellum, with a red morocco spine label, gilt (re-cased, text re-sewn), binding lightly soiled, small chips to edge of label, later endpapers and flyleaves). Minor, very discreet repairs to the inner margin of the first leaf and quire E, some skilful restoration...

Rome: Chez Bouchard et Gravier Libraires françois rüe du Cours près l’Eglise de S. Marcel, de l'imprimerie de Komarek, 1763.

Price: $22,000.00

This is a very fine, broad-margined copy bound in 19th c. half vellum (worn, small splits at head and foot of spine and another along the spine. The text and plates are in excellent condition with only a few instances of light marginal foxing or the occasional light blemish. One...

Florence: Giunti, 1574.

Price: $2,500.00

Title page within an architectural woodcut border containing the Medici coat-of-arms and a small view of Florence. Printer’s device at the colophon. Woodcut portrait of Cosimo de’ Medici on the verso of the title-page. Foxed. Bound in attractive 18th-century colored paper over thin boards. Extremely rare. No copies in North...

Germany: ca. 1496.

Price: $12,000.00

A fine impression, with good clarity and strong contrasts. Slight breakdown in the delicate cuts. Trimmed within the platemark, inconspicuous paper repair to edge. Provenance: From the renowned collection of Richard Holtkott (1890-1950) (Lugt 4265). Bartsch 95, High Crown watermark (Meder 20).“The pig represented here refers to 'The Monstrous Pig...

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...

Venice: Girolamo Francini, 1588.

Price: $4,800.00

A very good copy, bound in attractive 18th c. mottled calfskin (wear to extremities, small scrapes), the spine richly tooled in gold, with the author and title tooled onto a citron morocco label. Internally very good, the title trimmed closely at the head, a few small stains, intermittent damp-staining (a...

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...

Rome: Valerio and Luigi Dorico, 1544.

Price: $15,000.00

This is an exceptionally large copy, with none of the usual trimming to the oversized woodcuts that illustrate the volume. It is one of the two largest copies that I have handled. Bound in contemporary limp vellum, laced through with the original rawhide sewing supports intact. The binding is entirely...

Venice: Apresso Bartolomeo Carampello, 1581.

Price: $24,000.00

Bound in 18th-century speckled calf, spine tooled in gold (extremities worn, a few scrapes to the boards, corners bumped, small losses to gilding on spine and label.) A fine, crisp copy internally with minor faults: the slightest hint of discoloration in some signatures, occ. marginal blemishes, light soiling to upper...

Rome:, A spese di Niccola Roisecco, 1765.

Price: $5,500.00

Bound in three uniform bindings of contemporary patterned paste-paper over cartoncino boards. wear to extremities and spines. Internally this is as close to an immaculate set as I have seen, with some deckled edges preserved. The text is bright and clean throughout. The folding engravings are crisp.The three volumes are...

Rome: Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, 1660.

Price: $18,000.00

With an engraved allegorical title with the main title incised within a wolf's hide hung on a monument; an engraved dedication to Matthaeus Wacker von Wackenfels (numbered'1'), with the text incised on a stone tablet between flanking obelisks and with two putti supporting the dedicatee's arms; and 49 full-paged engraved...

Bologna: Presso gli heredi di Euangelista Dozza, 1648, 1663.

Price: $12,000.00

A nice set with good margins, bound in three uniform bindings of 18th century tanned sheepskin, the spines gold-ruled in compartments and with black and citron lettering pieces. Aside from the usual rubbing and some small faults to the joints, the bindings are very nicely preserved. Edges stained red. Internally...

Rome: Presso Lazzarini, 1792.

Price: $8,400.00

Printed on blue paper. In contemporary mottled calf, the spine and boards tooled in gold. A very fine copy of the very rare first catalogue of the Museo Pio-Clementino - founded by Pope Clement XIV in 1771 and greatly expanded his successor by Pius VI-, written for the use of...