Venice: Giovanni Tacuino de Tridino, 21 May, 1516.
Price: $8,500.00
Bound in contemporary quarter calf and wooden boards (lacking clasps, spine discreetly repaired, scattered pinprick wormholes, corners a little worn). A fine copy overall, still in its original binding, with some sporadic damp-stains and a few instances of minor worming, as follows: Opening gatherings with marginal damp-stains (a darker one...
![Item #4335 Vitruvius: De architectura; Cleonides: Harmonicum introductorium [Latin]. Tr: Georgius...](/pictures/medium/4335-1.jpg?v=1626643682)
Venice: Simon Bevilaqua, 3 Aug. 1497.
Price: $150,000.00
A fresh copy in late 18th c. stiff vellum, later 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 to...
Mainz: [Peter Schoeffer], 1469.
Price: $600,000.00
Collation: [1-610, 74]: grammar, 1r incipit (P)rosodia quedam pars grammatice nuncupatur. Partes siquidem grammatice sunt quattuor (contractions resolved); [8-1910 204(4+1)]: dictionary A-H, 8/1r incipit (I)am divina potencia auxiliante supra determinavimus de quatuor particulis principalibus huius operis. Nunc restat ut de quinta parte, 20/4+1r incipit manus cum suis derivativis, verso blank; [21-3810 394]...
Lyon: Antonius Vincentius for Symphorianus Barbierus, 1558.
Price: $3,800.00
Bound in contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over beveled wooden boards, one clasp defective, corners bumped with minor loss to pigskin, moderates surface wear. A later (17th c.?) gold tooled stamp, “Biblioth. Schol. Altenburg” on the upper board. A tall copy, contents in good condition with some faults: title leaf separating from...
London: Willyam Seres, 1565.
Price: $25,000.00
A copy with numerous points of interest, bound in contemporary English calf (worn, rebacked preserving most of the original spine, wear with loss to the leather at three corners), the boards ruled in blind and with large central blind-stamped lozenge with vegetal motifs. The text, resewn at the time of...
Basel: Henricus Petri, 1530.
Price: $2,800.00
Bound in contemporary alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards, lacking clasps but with the brass catches, with acorn tools and rolls of 3 of the Muses: Terpsichore, Euterpe (signed N.C.), and Calliope (signed M.A.). First title dusty, damp-stain in the first part of the Martial. Intermittent annotations in the margins of...
Paris: Ex Officina Roberti Stephani, 1538-, 1539.
Price: $10,500.00
Bound in matching 18th c. speckled calfskin bindings, rebacked, the gilding to the spine largely preserved, minor wear, corners bumped. The text is clean and broad-margined, with just the occasional minor dampstain to the upper edge of the upper blank margin. A few 18th c. annotations and underscores. 17th(?) c....
Cologne: Ex officina Ioannis Gymnici, 1540.
Price: $6,500.00
A very fine copy bound in contemporary pigskin over beveled wooden boards, tooled in blind. The clasps lacking, some scuffing and soiling to lower board, otherwise a very nice binding. Internally a beautiful copy with the lightest of occasional soiling. Gyminus’ fine hippocamp device appears on the title.A very rare...
![Item #2455 Moriae encomium D. Erasmi Roterodami cu[m] Gerardi Listrii trium linguarum periti...](/pictures/medium/2455.jpg?v=1632154450)
Paris: Jodocus Badius Ascensius, 1524.
Price: $12,500.00
Bound in contemporary limp vellum, lightly soiled. The contents are in very good condition with a few pencil annotations and light soiling to the title page. With Badius' device of his print shop, the “Praelum Ascensianum” showing printers working a press, on the title page. With large, attractive crible initials...
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...
Venice: per Melchiorem Sessam & Petrum de Rauanis socios, 3 May, 1520.
Price: $9,500.00
Bound in 18th c. stiff parchment (lightly soiled and spotted, corners bumped.) Overall a very nice copy of this beautifully-illustrated edition, with minor cosmetic faults as follows: title and opening leaves lightly damp-stained, title and second leaf soiled, corner of title with a few marginal tears and nicks, and some...
![Item #4603 Metamorphoses. [With the commentary of Raphael Regius]. Publius Ovidius Naso, 43...](/pictures/medium/4603.jpg?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...
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...
Florence: Per haeredes Philippi Iuntae, 1526.
Price: $3,800.00
A tall, unsophisticated copy, in its original limp vellum binding (vellum stained, lacking ties, short split to upper hinge). The text is in very good condition with intermittent foxing, heavier in some gatherings.A compendium of ancient geographical texts, including descriptions of the known world by Pomponius Mela, Dionysius Periegetes, and...
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Rome: Marcello and Eucharius Silber, alias Franck, ca. 1509-, 1527.
Price: $26,000.00
SIX SEPARATE WORKS BOUND AS ONE. Bound in early 20th c. olive morocco (rubbed, spine lightly sunned). Very good copies internally with a few small marginal tears, light damp-staining to margins of several leaves, a little more extensive on the final three leaves but still very pale. Illustrated with 11...
Paris: Apud Simonem Benard, Ex Typographia Dionysii Thierry, 1682.
Price: $2,900.00
A very fine copy, bound in contemporary mottled calfskin, the spine elaborately and richly tooled in gold. The spine is separated into compartments by raised sewing supports. The second compartment bears a large red morocco label beautifully tooled in Roman capitals: “RUAEI VIRGILIUS”. The boards are framed by two decorative...
