Rome: Antoine Lafréry, 1549.
Price: $2,800.00
Signed and dated in the plate by the publisher: “Antonii Lafrerii Romae 1549”. Paper with a hard to discern circular watermark. A fine copy, the impression sharp and with good contrast. Very faint foxing and very light soiling to the blank margins.The tomb of Caecilia Metella, one of the best-known...
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Paris: No printer stated, 1652.
Price: $12,000.00
A superb album OF NINETY-ONE PLATES IN RICH EARLY IMPRESSIONS presents the work of three French and one Dutch artists, including the Parisian architect Antoine Le Pautre’s ideal and realized designs for exteriors and interiors at the height of the French Baroque. All eight suites are in excellent condition. Bound...
Paris: Apud Andream Wechelum, sub Pegaso, in vico Bellouaco, 1557.
Price: $4,500.00
A nice copy of a handsome edition, printed in Greek throughout. Bound in 18th century cat’s-paw calf, spine tooled in gold, with red morocco label in the second compartment -upper hinge starting at head and foot, wear along the edges and at the corners, with loss to the leather. A....
Paris: Pierre Vidoue, for Gilles de Gourmont, 1528.
Price: $11,500.00
An exceptional, broad-margined copy, with a few deckled edges, bound in contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, with clasps intact. A near-spotless copy, the title with light finger-soiling at upper corner, a few light marginal spots in 2 gatherings at end.) With tiny, neat interlinear annotations in four comedies: Each...
Rotterdam: F. van Hoogstraeten, 1678.
Price: $12,500.00
A very good, complete copy with all plates. Bound in contemporary Dutch vellum, moderately soiled and a bit warped, corners bumped. Minor blemishes as follows: Etched t.p. lightly soiled, light browning to blank edges of some plates, outer edge of portrait plate with pale damp-stain, light marginal foxing; small spots...
Munich: Lukas Straub for Johannes Wagner, 1662.
Price: $6,500.00
Bound in contemporary blind-stamped calf, dated 1668, with the coat-of-arms of Maximilian Gandolph von Künburg (1622-1687), Archbishop of Salzburg. Binding lacking ties, with small loss to head of spine, small defect to fore-edge of upper board and one corner, minor wear. Very good copies of both books, with some inoffensive...
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...
Rome: Chez Bouchard et Gravier Libraires françois rüe du Cours près l’Eglise de S. Marcel, de l'imprimerie de Komarek, 1763.
Price: $18,000.00
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...
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...
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...
[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...
Venice: Appresso Il [Giovanni Battista] Ciotti, 1621.
Price: $16,000.00
Bound in 20th c. boards covered with a liturgical manuscript leaf. A fine, crisp copy with a little light marginal soiling; verso of final leaf also lightly soiled. Illustrated with 2 engraved title pages, a full-page portrait of Cosimo II, and 15 full-paged engraved plates. One of the engravings is...
Palermo: Andrea Colicchi, 1666.
Price: $20,000.00
Extremely rare (1 copy in North America, at NYPL). "The book celebrates one of the most memorable funeral ceremonies of the seventeenth century.”(M. C. Ruggieri Tricoli, "Funeral Teatro") Bound in contemporary vellum (slight soiling, little chips to vellum at head and foot of spine.), title on spine. An extremely fine...
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...
[Basel: Pamphilus Gengenbach], 1521.
Price: $5,500.00
This work is the second of Eberlin’s “Fünfzehn Bundsgenossen” (“The Fifteen Confederates”). Bound in quarter vellum and modern patterned boards. A nice copy, title a little dusty and with small marginal stain, with a title woodcut of Jesus disputing with the Devil set within an ornamental historiated border.Eberlin von Günzburg...
Paris: Simon de Colines, 1545.
Price: $48,000.00
A truly very fine, crisp copy in 18th c. mottled French calf, the spine richly tooled in gold with floral ornaments and a red morocco label. Roman type, side-notes and index in italic. Colines' woodcut device (Schreiber's "Tempus I") on title. 62 full-page woodcut illustrations printed from 56 blocks, one...
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...
Milan: nella Regia Ducal Corte, per Marc'Antonio Pandolfo Malatesta stampatore regio camerale, 1711.
Price: $12,000.00
Bound in contemporary limp parchment (lightly soiled and a bit warped). A broad-margined copy, complete with all of the plates. There are small splits at the folds of the large plate showing the church interior and another in the blank margin (all easily mended); smaller tears to folds of several...
Antwerp: Ex Officina Plantiniana, apud Ioannem Moretum, 1602.
Price: $16,000.00
A very fine, broad-margined copy, bound in contemporary Dutch vellum (lightly soiled, some stains, corners bumped). The contents are in excellent condition, the text bright, the plates in rich impressions. Insignificant defects as follows: small crease to upper corner of t.p, p. 263-272, 304-312 with small stain at head, very...
Venice: Giovann’ Antonio e Pietro fratelli de Nicolini da Sabio, 1546.
Price: $4,900.00
Bound in 18th-century stiff parchment with a gilt lettering piece on the spine. A fine, clean copy with just some occ. light foxing, a marginal stain on a few leaves, and a small worm hole to the last two leaves slightly affecting the headline. Last leaf backed (and with light...
Rome: Apud Iacobum Mazochium Roman[a]e Achademiae bibliopo., 15 November, 1517.
Price: $11,500.00
Bound in early 20th c. brown morocco (wear at extremities, small abrasion on spine), gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers. Internally a nice copy, lightly washed, bound a bit tight, light soiling to title, verso of final leaf a little dusty. Illustrated with 204 medallion portraits (white on black) within elaborate architectural...
Zürich: Christoph Froschauer, 1555.
Price: $16,500.00
Illustrated with 217 fine woodcuts of birds. Bound in contemporary blind-tooled calfskin over beveled wooden boards (lacking clasps but with catch-plates preserved, sympathetic restorations to leather of spine, corners, and turn-ins, a few small portions of the leather of the boards patched, minor cracks or small defects to the leather...
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Mexico: En casa de Juan Pablos Bressano, 1559.
Price: $65,000.00
Recently rebound in early vellum. A very good if slightly defective copy (missing five leaves) of an extremely rare book, most extant copies of which are incomplete. With scattered early annotations, minor damp-staining to the last half of volume. Title page to Part II printed in red and black, with...
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...
London: in Flete Streete By Thomas Povvell, 1556.
Price: $52,000.00
Bound in fine in 19th-century red morocco tooled in a cottage style, richly gilt, with red silk doublures. This is a fine, clean, and complete copy of a book rarely encountered in such condition. A small section of the upper part of the title page has been restored in pen...
