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Johannis Hevelii Annus climactericus, sive Rerum uranicarum observationum annus quadragesimus...

Johannis Hevelii Annus climactericus, sive Rerum uranicarum observationum annus quadragesimus nonus; exhibens diversas occultationes, tam planetarum, quàm fixarum post editam machinam coelestem; nec non plurimas altitudines meridianas solis, ac distantias planetarum, fixarumq́ue, eo anno, quousque divinaconcessit benignitas, impetratas: cum amicorum nonnullorum epistolis, ad rem istam spectantibus: & continuatione historiae novæ stellæ in collo Ceti, ut & annotationum rerum coelestium ...

Danzig: Sumptibus auctoris, typis D.F. Rhetii, 1685.

Price: $35,000.00

Bound in 18th c. half calf and marbled boards with very slight wear. Spine with citron morocco label, gilt. A nice copy with a few early marginal paper repairs (no loss.) The final two leaves of the table with repaired tears, the second of these with a small natural paper...

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Les Plus Beaux Monuments De Rome Ancienne. Ou Recueíl Des Plus Beaux Morceaux de L'Antiquité...

Les Plus Beaux Monuments De Rome Ancienne. Ou Recueíl Des Plus Beaux Morceaux de L'Antiquité Romaine Qui Existent Encore: Dessinés Par Monsieur Barbault Peintre Ancien Pensionnaire Du Roy a Rome, Et Gravés, en 128 Planches Avec Leur Explication.

Rome: Chez Bouchard et Gravier Libraires François rüe du Cours près de Saint Marcel, de l'imprimerie de Komarek, 1761.

Price: $16,000.00

Magnificently illustrated with 73 etched and engraved plates comprising 88 half-page and 29 full-page images of ancient Roman architecture and sculpture. These were designed by Barbault (83 engravings), Carlo Nolli (1), and L. Bufalino (1) and engraved by Barbault (56), Domenico Montagù (52), Giuseppe? Bouchard (6), and Freicenet (4). The...

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Les Plus Beaux Édifices De Rome Moderne, Ou Recueíl Des Plus Belles Vües Des Principales...

Les Plus Beaux Édifices De Rome Moderne, Ou Recueíl Des Plus Belles Vües Des Principales Églises, Places, Palais, Fontaines &c. Qui Sont Dans Rome Dessinées Par Jean Barbault Peintre, Ancien Pensionnaire Du Roy a Rome, Et Gravées en XLIV. Grandes Planches et Plusieurs Vignettes; Par D’Habiles Maitres. Avec La Description Historique De Chaque Edifice.

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...

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The She-wolf with Romulus and Remus. Nicolas Béatrizet, attrib, Lunéville ca. 1515-...

The She-wolf with Romulus and Remus

Rome: Antonio Lafréry, 1552.

Price: $3,500.00

First state (of three.) A rich impression with wide margins, light marginal foxing and a little light soiling, extreme upper margin a little ragged. Inscribed on the pedestal: “LVPAE ROMVLVM ET REMVM VRBIS CONDITORES LACTANTIS ANTIQVVM AC AENEVM IN CAPITOLIO SIGNVM.” (Ancient bronze image of the she-wolf nursing Romulus and...

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Biblicae historiae, magno artificio depictae, et utilitatis publicae causa latinis...

Biblicae historiae, magno artificio depictae, et utilitatis publicae causa latinis epigrammatibus…

Frankfurt: Christian Egenolff, 1539.

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Illustrated with a woodcut title border, 80 woodcut illustrations, and Egenolff’s printer’s device. Bound in early 20th c. blind-stamped leather with attractive tools (Madonna and Child, symbols of the Evangelists). Text in good condition with minor soiling and staining, bottom outer corner a little rounded, ink stains on a few...

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Das neü Testament, mit gantz nutzlichen vorreden. Martin BIBLIA GERMANICA. NEW TESTAMENT....

Das neü Testament, mit gantz nutzlichen vorreden.

Augsburg: Silvan Otmar, 11 June, 1523.

Price: $125,000.00

A very early edition of Luther’s December Testament, appearing within six months of the first (Wittenberg, December 1522). With a large title woodcut by Hans Schäufelein, 25 large historiated woodcut initials (numerous repeats) with scenes of the Evangelists writing the Gospels, Paul writing the Epistles, and John writing the Book...

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Gemmarum et Lapidum Historia. Quam olim edidit Anselmus Boetius de Boot, Brugensis, Rudolphi II....

Gemmarum et Lapidum Historia. Quam olim edidit Anselmus Boetius de Boot, Brugensis, Rudolphi II. imperatoris Medicus. Postea Adrianus Tollius, Lugd.-Bat., M. D., recensuit; figuris melioribus, & commentariis pluribus illustravit, & indice auxit multo locupletiore. Tertia editio longe purgatissima. Cui accedunt Ioannis De Laet, Antvverpiani, De Gemmis & Lapidibus libri II. Et Theophrasti liber De Lapidibus, Gr. & Lat. cum brevibus notis.

Leiden: Joannes Maire, 1647.

Price: $4,900.00

Bound in contemporary Dutch vellum. Contents in excellent condition (light stain in outer margin of two leaves), complete with both folding tables (both with small tears without loss.) Illustrated with eighty-seven (87) woodcuts of gems and minerals, including geodes, hematite, crystals, corral, and fossils.Third and best edition (1st 1609, 2nd...

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Battaglia Navale rapp. In Arno per le nozze del Ser.mo Principe fi Tosc. l’an: 1608 [title from...

Battaglia Navale rapp. In Arno per le nozze del Ser.mo Principe fi Tosc. l’an: 1608 [title from caption of first plate]

[Florence:]: 1608.

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Stab-stitched in early wrappers. Preserved in a modern folding case. A fine, unsophisticated set. Upper wrapper with creasing and small tears. First leaves with light soiling (more heavily at lower, blank right corner) and light foxing to the margins; lighter soiling and occ. mild stains to margins of the other...

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Antiquarum statuarum urbis Romae primus et secundus liber. Ludouico Madrucio S.R.E. Card...

Antiquarum statuarum urbis Romae primus et secundus liber. Ludouico Madrucio S.R.E. Card amplissimo dic. Baptista de Caualleriis authore

[Rome:]: no printer, no date, ca. 1574-, 1584.

Price: $16,000.00

Bound in 18th c. stiff parchment, title label with gilt lettering. A fine, wide-margined copy with beautiful, rich impressions of the plates. Title lightly soiled and with upper blank margin restored (not affecting the plate.) A few spots in the blank, inner margin of the first plate, far from the...

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Hypnerotomachie ou Discours du songe de Poliphile. Deduisant comme Amour le combat à l'occasion...

Hypnerotomachie ou Discours du songe de Poliphile. Deduisant comme Amour le combat à l'occasion de Polia

Paris: [Jean Le Blanc] Pour Jaques Kerver à la Licorne, rue S. Jaques, 1561.

Price: $45,000.00

Bound in 16th c. French calfskin, rebacked, discreet repairs to corners, some minor scuffs and scrapes. The boards are ruled in blind, with small floral tools, gilt, at the angles, and a central cartouche, gilt, at the center of the boards. Additional blind-tooling was added at the time of rebacking...

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Le nouveau cuisinier royal et bourgeois : qui apprend a ordonner toute sorte de repas en gras &...

Le nouveau cuisinier royal et bourgeois : qui apprend a ordonner toute sorte de repas en gras & en maigre, & la meilleure maniere des ragoûts les plus délicats & les plus à la mode, & toutes sortes de pâtisseries : avec des nouveaux desseins de tables ... [3 volumes].

Paris: Claude Prudhomme, 1733 [and], 1730.

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Bound in contemporary sprinkled calf, spines richly tooled in gold, with labels (some wear to extremities, minor defects to leather, corners bumped.) Very nice copies internally, the woodcut plates and text crisp. George Baillie (1664-1738), Scottish politician and parliamentarian, armorial bookplates dated 1724. First published as a single volume in 1691 and...

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Dante col sito, et forma dell’Inferno tratta dalla istessa descrittione del Poeta. Dante Alighieri

Dante col sito, et forma dell’Inferno tratta dalla istessa descrittione del Poeta

Venice: nelle Case d’Aldo et d’Andrea de Asola, August, 1515.

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With woodcut schematic diagrams of the sins punished in the Inferno and the moral scheme of Purgatory, as well as a double-paged woodcut illustration of the Inferno, based on the researches of Antonio Manetti (1423-1497). The Aldine anchor and dolphin device appears three times: on the title page, the recto...

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Philocophus: or, The deafe and dumbe mans friend. Exhibiting the philosophicall verity of that...

Philocophus: or, The deafe and dumbe mans friend. Exhibiting the philosophicall verity of that subtile art, which may inable one with an observant eie, to heare what any man speaks by the moving of his lips. Upon the same ground, with the advantage of an historicall exemplification, apparently proving, that a man borne deafe and dumbe, may be taught to heare the sound of words with his eie, & thence learne to speake with his tongue. By I.B. sirnamed the Chirosopher

London: for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard, 1648.

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[Bound with:] Bulwer, John (active 1648-1654) Pathomyotomia or A dissection of the significative muscles of the affections of the minde. Being an essay to a new method of observing the most important movings of the muscles of the head, as they are the neerest and immediate organs of the voluntarie or impetuous...

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Tumulus Henrici Secundi Gallorum regis christianiss. per Joach. Bellaium. Idem gallice totidem...

Tumulus Henrici Secundi Gallorum regis christianiss. per Joach. Bellaium. Idem gallice totidem versibus expressum per eumdem. Accessit et ejusdem elegia ad illustriss. principem Carolum card. Lotharingum.

Paris: Frédéric Morel, 1559.

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Bound in 19th c. speckled calf, ruled in gold (hinges rubbed, small loss at head of spine.) A fine copy. Small clean tear to blank margin of plate. Printed in Latin and French. Morel’s printer’s device on the title. Attractive ornamental initials. With the oversized woodcut plate of the fictive...

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Die Mißgeburt eines Schweins. Albrecht Dürer

Die Mißgeburt eines Schweins.

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...

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Insectorvm Sive Minimorum Animalium Theatrvm: Olim ab Edoardo Wottono. Conrado Gesnero. ...

Insectorvm Sive Minimorum Animalium Theatrvm: Olim ab Edoardo Wottono. Conrado Gesnero. Thomaqve Pennio inchoatum: Tandem Tho. Movfeti Londinatis opera sumptibusq; maximis concinnatum, auctum, perfectum: Et ad vivum expressis Iconibus supra quingentis illustratum.

London: ex Officina typographica Thom. Cotes. Et venales extant apud Guiliel. Hope, ad insigne Chirothechae, prope regium Excambium, 1634.

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An unusual copy, bound in 17th c. vellum, inter-leaved throughout with blanks. Light dampstains at various points, occasionally darker but never very offensive. Three leaves soiled. Binding with small losses at head, corners bumped, minor wear. The interleaving shows that this copy was clearly meant for a naturalist. Illustrated with...

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Breve descrizione della pompa funerale fatta nelle essequie del serenissimo d. Francesco Medici....

Breve descrizione della pompa funerale fatta nelle essequie del serenissimo d. Francesco Medici. Il gran duca di Toscana. Nella inclita città di Fiorenza, il dì 15. di dicembre 1587.

Florence: nella stamperia di Filippo Giunti, e' fratelli, 1587.

Price: $4,200.00

Bound in 20th c. quarter calf and marbled boards (scuffed). A good copy, with some faults, of a rare work. Lower margin cut short, shaving imprint at foot of title and occ. catchword and just entering the corner of one etching, lower fore-corner of lvs. repaired, occ. costing a letter...

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La Sontuosa Illuminazione della Città di Torino per l'Augusto Sposalizio delle Reali Maesta' di...

La Sontuosa Illuminazione della Città di Torino per l'Augusto Sposalizio delle Reali Maesta' di Carlo Emmanuele Re di Sardegna e di Elisabetta Teresa di Lorena.

Turin: Gio. Battista Chais, 1737.

Price: $15,000.00

Bound in contemporary marbled boards, worn and soiled, rebacked in later sheep. An unusually nice copy internally, with just the slightest toning to some plates, a few spots, clean tear to center of one plate at fold (no loss), and light finger-soiling in the margins. Magnificent engraved ornamental frontispiece by...

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Orontii Finei Delphinatis Protomathesis opus uarium, ac scitu non minus utile quàm iucundum,...

Orontii Finei Delphinatis Protomathesis opus uarium, ac scitu non minus utile quàm iucundum, nunc primùm in lucem foeliciter emissum: cuius index uniuersalis, in uersa pagina continetur.

Paris: Impensis Gerardi Morrhij & Ioannis Petri, 1532.

Price: $35,000.00

Bound in near-contemporary vellum, worn at corners, damage to upper, rear corner, rebacked at an early date. Overall a fine, broad-margined copy with minor cosmetic faults as follows: Title slightly shaved at head; conjugates D1/8, E1/8, and Cc1/6 browned; Damp-stain in margin of sigs R-T, and gutter of sig. N;...

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Novae Coelestium Terrestriumq[ue] Rerum Observationes, et fortasse hactenus non vulgatae à...

Novae Coelestium Terrestriumq[ue] Rerum Observationes, et fortasse hactenus non vulgatae à Francisco Fontana, specillis a se inventis, et ad summam perfectionem perductis editae.

Naples: Apud Gaffarum, Mense Februarii, 1646.

Price: $85,000.00

A fine copy in contemporary limp vellum with a few light dampstains and minor blemishes. Complete with the engraved title page, portrait of the author, and folding plate of the moon. The text is illustrated with 27 full-paged engravings of the moon, and 26 large woodcuts of planets.A truly remarkable...

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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: $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...

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Cours complet d’anatomie, peint et gravé en couleurs naturelles. Arnaud-Éloi GAUTIER...

Cours complet d’anatomie, peint et gravé en couleurs naturelles.

Nancy: Jean-Baptiste-Hyacinthe LeClerc, 1773.

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A fine copy of this magnificent book, bound in contemporary green vellum, somewhat rubbed and spotted, re-backed. Some marginal spotting and thumbing, waterstaining to lower inner blank margin and upper, outer corner of 3 plates, slight crease in image on final plate, a few marginal tears. Illustrated with 15 very...

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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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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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Musaeum Regalis Societatis or a Catalogue & Description Of the Natural and Artificial Rarities...

Musaeum Regalis Societatis or a Catalogue & Description Of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and preserved at Gresham Colledge. Made By Nehemiah Grew M. D. Fellow of the Royal Society, and of the Colledge of Physitians. Whereunto is Subjoyned the Comparative Anatomy of Stomachs and Guts. By the same Author.

London: Hugh Newman, 1681.

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Including thirty-one full-paged engraved plates (one folding) of the marvelous and exotic subjects of the collections of the Royal Society. This copy is bound in contemporary English mottled calf, discreet repairs to hinges and corners, light wear to extremities. Internally a very fine, crisp, tall copy, in excellent condition. Small...

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