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...
London: ex Officina typographica Thom. Cotes. 1634.
Price: $13,500.00
One of three issues (no priority.) A fine copy bound in contemporary vellum, lightly soiled, spine expertly restored. A crisp copy, the text in nice condition overall with occasional faults and blemishes as follows: light damp-stain with a tidemark to the lower outer corner of the opening quire and again...
Frankfurt: Johann David Zunner, 1684.
Price: $6,800.00
Complete with the engraved title page, which has been folded at the bottom to avoid trimming by the binder. Bound in 18th c. quarter vellum and marbled boards with some minor wear. The contents are in very fine condition. Small adhesion scar to title. Illustrated with 41 large woodcuts."Ercker's treatise...
Antwerp: Ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1575.
Price: $18,000.00
A fine copy bound in contemporary vellum. First title page with 17th c. ownership inscription, lightly toned at head, one woodcut slightly shaved at outer edge, small natural paper flaw in blank corner of p. 216 and 229 (2nd part). Illustrated with numerous woodcuts of deformities and monstrosities; anatomical illustrations...
London: Adam Islip, Joice Norton, and Richard Whitakers, 1636.
Price: $10,500.00
A very good copy bound in 17th c. English mottled calfskin, (binding worn, esp. at extremities where there is some flaking and minor loss to the leather; scrapes to lower board) rebacked and re-cornered in the 20th c, endpapers renewed. With an engraved title by John Payne and over 2,000...
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...
In Napoli: Nella Stamparia à Porta Reale per Costantino Vitale, 1599.
Price: $48,000.00
Bound in original limp vellum (minor defects to binding). The text is illustrated with 126 woodcuts of gems and minerals, plants, animals, and a folding, double-paged woodcut of Imperato’s private cabinet of curiosities. This is a fine, genuine copy. A handful of gatherings are foxed or lightly browned. A light...
Copenhagen: Joachim Schmetgen, 1696.
Price: $16,000.00
Bound in contemporary sprinkled calf, the spine tooled in blind, with light wear. The contents are in excellent condition with the faintest amount of staining. The plates are in fine condition.The Royal Danish Kunstkammer was founded by King Frederick III in 1650 and was continued by his son, Christian V....
Amsterdam: Jansson-Waesberg, 1678.
Price: $28,000.00
Bound in attractive 17th c. calfskin. A fine sammelband. The "Sphinx" exhibits the usual browning. The "Musaeum" is in very fine condition with just some closed tears (no loss whatsoever) to some of the folding plates, a small rust blemish on I1, small spot on H4, and light spotting to...
London: Impensis G. Bishop, 1601.
Price: $20,000.00
Bound in contemporary English calfskin, ruled in blind, rebacked and recornered in morocco. An excellent, crisp, bright copy with very minor faults: repaired clean tear with no loss, leaf P4. A few signatures with very light marginal dampstains. Occasional rust spots, marginal tears, or marginal natural paper flaws, no loss...
