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Katecismo Indico da lingua Kariris, acrescentado de varias praticas doutrinaes, & moraes,...

Katecismo Indico da lingua Kariris, acrescentado de varias praticas doutrinaes, & moraes, adaptadas ao genio, & capacidade dos Indios do Brasil. pelo padre Fr. Bernardo de Nantes, capuchinho, prêgador, & missionario apostolico; offerecido ao muy alto, e muy poderoso rey de Portugal Dom Joaõ V.S.N. que Deos guarde.

Lisbon: V. da Costa, 1709.

Price: $16,500.00

A very fine copy in contemporary limp vellum. Binding and contents in excellent condition with just a mild stain to two lvs. of the epistle. Provenance: 19th c. Library stamp of Dom Pedro de Sousa Holstein, Duque de Palmela (1781-1850), the first Prime Minister of Portugal, ownership inscription of C....

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C. Valerii Catulli...Liber I. Alb. Tibulli Equitis Romani libri IIII. Sex Aurelii Propertii umbri...

C. Valerii Catulli...Liber I. Alb. Tibulli Equitis Romani libri IIII. Sex Aurelii Propertii umbri libri IIII. C N. Cornelii Galli fragmenta. Basel: Henricus Petri, 1530 b/w Martialis, Marcus Valerius (40- ca. 100) Epigrammaton Libri XIIII Basel: Henricus Petri, 1530

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...

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The Workes of Geffrey Chaucer, newlie printed, with divers addicions, whiche were never in print...

The Workes of Geffrey Chaucer, newlie printed, with divers addicions, whiche were never in print before: With the siege and destruccion of the worthy Citee of Thebes, compiled by Jhon Lidgate, Monke of Berie. As in the table more plainly doeth appere.

London: John Kyngston for John Wight, 1561.

Price: $68,000.00

This is the first of three variants, illustrated with 3 woodcut title borders, woodcut initials and ornaments, and 22 woodcut illustrations that do not appear in the other variants. A fine copy bound in later calf incorporating the original blind-tooled English calfskin boards. Title laid down and slightly frayed at edges...

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Poems on several occasions. Together with The song of the three children paraphras’d. By the...

Poems on several occasions. Together with The song of the three children paraphras’d. By the Lady Chudleigh

London: printed by W[illiam]. B[owyer]. for Bernard Lintott at the Middle Temple Gate in Fleetstreet, 1703.

Price: $15,000.00

Bound in contemporary sprinkled calf, blind-ruled in panels, with floral ornaments on the boards and a gilt label on the spine. Discreet repairs to spine. A fine copy with very light soiling to the title and a few small ink spots.Mary Chudleigh was a friend of Elizabeth Thomas and an...

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Steps to the Temple, The Delights of the Muses and Carmen Deo Nostro. By Ric. Crashaw, sometimes...

Steps to the Temple, The Delights of the Muses and Carmen Deo Nostro. By Ric. Crashaw, sometimes Fellow of Pembroke Hall, and late fellow of St Peters Colledge in Cambridge. The 2nd Edition.

London: In the Savoy, Printed by T.N. for Henry Herringman at the Blew Anchor in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange. 1670.

Price: $8,500.00

Contemporary English calf, upper joint cracked. Complete with the engraved frontispiece. Provenance: Richard Heber, his sale 1834, to Britwell Court; Richard Jennings.This collection of Crashaw’s poetry comprises the third edition (not the second, as the title states) of his “Steps to the Temple” (first 1646), the third edition of “The...

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Devotions vpon emergent occasions, and seuerall steps in my sicknes: digested into 1. Meditations...

Devotions vpon emergent occasions, and seuerall steps in my sicknes: digested into 1. Meditations vpon our humane condition. 2. Expostulations, and debatements with God. 3. Prayers, vpon the seuerall occasions, to him. By Iohn Donne, Deane of S. Pauls, London. The third edition.

London: Printed [by Augustine Mathewes] for Thomas Iones, and are to be sold at the signe of the Black Rauen in the Strand, 1627.

Price: $20,000.00

A beautiful copy bound in its original Oxford binding of full calfskin, ruled in blind. The text is in excellent condition. This is a delightful copy of a book rarely encountered, especially in such fine condition. Provenance: Bent Juel-Jensen (booklabel) to Seven Gables, ca. 1971.“[The ‘Devotions’] present a more vivid...

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Letters to Severall Persons of Honour: Written by John Donne, Sometime Deane of St Pauls London....

Letters to Severall Persons of Honour: Written by John Donne, Sometime Deane of St Pauls London. Published by John Donne Dr. of the Civill Law.

London: Printed by J. Flesher, for Richard Marriot, and are to be sold at his shop in St Dunstans Church-yard under the Dyall. 1651.

Price: $12,000.00

With the fine engraved portrait of Donne by Pieter Lombart bound opposite the title page. This copy is bound in contemporary English calf, rebacked so discreetly that it is impossible to see where the leather has been joined. The original gilded red morocco spine label is preserved and a double...

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Poems, by J.D. VVith elegies on the authors death. John Donne

Poems, by J.D. VVith elegies on the authors death

London: Printed by M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, and are to be sold at his shop in St Dunstans Church-yard in Fleet-street, 1639.

Price: $16,500.00

A very desirable copy, bound in its original binding of sprinkled calf, ruled in blind, with a discreet repair to the front joint and foot of the spine. The text is in fine condition and is complete with the portrait of Donne –now rarely encountered- by William Marshall, apparently after...

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Poems, by J.D. VVith elegies on the authors death. John Donne

Poems, by J.D. VVith elegies on the authors death

London: Printed by M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, and are to be sold at his shop in St Dunstans Church-yard in Fleet-street, 1639.

Price: $18,500.00

A very desirable copy, bound in its original binding of polished calf, ruled in blind, with only minor wear and abrasions. The text is in very fine condition and is complete with the portrait of Donne –now rarely encountered- by William Marshall, apparently after a lost miniature by Hillyard, showing...

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Poems, by J.D. With elegies on the authors death. To which is added divers copies under his own...

Poems, by J.D. With elegies on the authors death. To which is added divers copies under his own hand never before in print

London: Printed by J. Flesher, and are to be sold by John Sweeting, at the Angel in Popeshead-Alley, 1654.

Price: $9,000.00

A very fine copy in contemporary tanned sheep, the boards framed by a double blind rule. The spine is ruled in compartments with a red morocco label, “Dr. Donne’s poems” tooled in gold and with small ornaments. Extremely fresh, within and without, with the faintest of wear to the front...

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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.

Price: $4,800.00

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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The Spider and the Flie. A parable of the Spider and the Flie, made by John Heywood. John...

The Spider and the Flie. A parable of the Spider and the Flie, made by John Heywood

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...

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ΟΜΗΡΟΥ ΙΛΙΑΣ HOMERI ILIAS [and:] ΟΔΥΣΣΕΙΑ. Βατραχομυομαχια....

ΟΜΗΡΟΥ ΙΛΙΑΣ HOMERI ILIAS [and:] ΟΔΥΣΣΕΙΑ. Βατραχομυομαχια. Υμνοι. ϕβ. VLYSSEA. Batrachomyomachia. Hymni XXXII.

Venice: In aedibus Aldi et Andreae Asulani Soceri, April, 1524.

Price: $24,500.00

Two octavo volumes bound in 19th c. blue calf, gilt. With the Aldine anchor and dolphin device (A6) on the title page and the verso of the final leaf in each volume. Fine copies. A few marginal wormholes.This edition reprints Aldus’ letter to Girolamo Aleandro from the first Aldine edition.

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A mirour for magistrates: being a true chronicle historie of the vntimely falles of such...

A mirour for magistrates: being a true chronicle historie of the vntimely falles of such vnfortunate princes and men of note, as haue happened since the first entrance of Brute into this iland, vntill this our latter age. Newly enlarged with a last part, called A winter nights vision, being an addition of such tragedies, especially famous, as are exempted in the former historie, with a poem annexed, called Englands Eliza.

London: Imprinted by Felix Kyngston, 1610.

Price: $25,000.00

A fine copy, bound in 17th c. calf, rebacked, with only minor cosmetic blemishes.This edition collects all three earlier parts of “Mirrour for Magistrates” and adds “A Winter Nights Vision” and “Englands Eliza,” written by Richard Niccols. “Shakespeare was familiar with it and used the story of Queen Cordelia for...

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Lettere amorose ... scritte al suo Amante. Celia Romana, pseudonym?, fl. 1562

Lettere amorose ... scritte al suo Amante.

Venice: [Francesco Rampazetto for] Antonio degli Antoni, [Francesco Rampazetto for] Antonio degli Antoni, 1562.

Price: $6,500.00

20th c. decorated paper over boards. Very lightly toning to first and final leaves. Printer’s device on title page, large woodcut historiated initial in text. Rare. OCLC records only five copies in North American libraries (Harvard, Yale, Duke, UCSF, and UCSB).First edition of "Love letters written by Lady Celia, Roman...

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Lettere amorose ... scritte al suo Amante. Celia Romana, pseudonym?, fl. 1562

Lettere amorose ... scritte al suo Amante.

Venice: Iacomo Cornetti, 1584.

Price: $3,700.00

An untrimmed copy in later paper boards. Very light browning to final leaves. Printer’s device on title page.The "Love letters written by Lady Celia, Roman gentlewoman, to her lover", constitutes one of the earliest collections of Renaissance Italian women's letters, one of the few collections addressed entirely to one recipient...

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Der Todt ein Endt, aller yrdischen ding. Hans Sachs

Der Todt ein Endt, aller yrdischen ding.

Nürnberg: Georg Merckel, around, 1554.

Price: $4,800.00

With a large woodcut on the title page showing death (as a skeleton). A clean copy, two tiny wormholes. Bound in modern boards. The woodcut shows the man lying in his bed, death (as a skeleton) and Virtue and Vice (personified as women) flanking his bed, beneath which can be...

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Fragmenta aurea. A collection of all the incomparable peeces, written by Sir John Suckling. And...

Fragmenta aurea. A collection of all the incomparable peeces, written by Sir John Suckling. And published by a friend to perpetuate his memory. Printed by his owne copies

London: Printed [by Ruth Raworth and Thomas Walkley] for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his shop, at the signe of the Princes Armes in St Pauls Churchyard, 1646.

Price: $4,500.00

A very fine, crisp copy in contemporary blind-ruled calf with minor wear to the head of the spine and the very bottom of the hinge.The engraved frontispiece portrait (A1v) is signed: “W. Marshall fecit.” With separate title pages for “Poems &c.”, “Letters to Divers Eminent Personages” and “An Account of...

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ΣΟΦΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ ΑΙ ΕΠΤΑ ΤΡΑΓΟΙΔΙΑΙ. [Works in Greek] Tragoediae Septem. Una...

ΣΟΦΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ ΑΙ ΕΠΤΑ ΤΡΑΓΟΙΔΙΑΙ. [Works in Greek] Tragoediae Septem. Una cum omnibus Graecis scholiis, & cum Latinis Ioach. Camerarij. Annotationes Henrici Stephani in Sophoclem & Euripidem, seorsum excusae, simul prodeunt.

Geneva: Henri Estienne, 1568.

Price: $3,500.00

This copy is bound in full 19th-century red morocco, the boards gold-ruled with large, central compartments. The spine is a bit faded and the joints and extremities are worn but the binding is otherwise nicely preserved. The contents are in very good condition with occasional light dampstaining and occasional mild...

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ΣΟΦΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ ΑΙ ΕΠΤΑ ΤΡΑΓΟΙΔΙΑΙ. [Works in Greek] Tragoediae Septem. Una...

ΣΟΦΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ ΑΙ ΕΠΤΑ ΤΡΑΓΟΙΔΙΑΙ. [Works in Greek] Tragoediae Septem. Una cum omnibus Graecis scholiis, & cum Latinis Ioach. Camerarij. Annotationes Henrici Stephani in Sophoclem & Euripidem, seorsum excusae, simul prodeunt.

Geneva: Henri Estienne, 1568.

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FIRST ESTIENNE EDITION. Bound in contemporary English calfskin, ruled in blind and with a small arabesque at the center of each board and fleurs-de-lis at the angles of the central compartments. There is wear to the boards and minor restoration to the upper hinge, as well as a small leather...

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ΣΟΦΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ ΑΙ ΕΠΤΑ ΤΡΑΓΟΙΔΙΑΙ. [Works in Greek] Tragoediae Septem. Una...

ΣΟΦΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ ΑΙ ΕΠΤΑ ΤΡΑΓΟΙΔΙΑΙ. [Works in Greek] Tragoediae Septem. Una cum omnibus Graecis scholiis, & cum Latinis Ioach. Camerarij. Annotationes Henrici Stephani in Sophoclem & Euripidem, seorsum excusae, simul prodeunt.

Geneva: Henri Estienne, 1568.

Price: $14,000.00

Bound in contemporary German tanned calfskin over beveled wooden boards, signed “I.M.” and dated “1577, with brass catch-plates (lacking clasps) and corner guards. The binding is elaborately tooled in compartments with numerous fine and unusual tools. The outermost compartment has two rows of interlocking sheaves of wheat. The double central...

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Colin Clouts come home againe. By Ed. Spencer. Edmund Spenser, ca

Colin Clouts come home againe. By Ed. Spencer.

London: printed by Thomas Creede for VVilliam Ponsonbie, 1595.

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A wonderful copy bound in fine early 20th c. burgundy morocco by Riviere & Sons. Very nice internally, the last leaf carefully washed. With a woodcut printer’s device (McKerrow 299) and decorative border to the title page, and numerous head- and tailpieces throughout. A lovely copy of the first edition...

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Colin Clouts come home againe. By Ed. Spencer. Edmund Spenser, ca

Colin Clouts come home againe. By Ed. Spencer.

London: printed by Thomas Creede for VVilliam Ponsonbie, 1595.

Price: $27,500.00

An attractive copy in early 20th c. calf. Very nice internally, the last leaf with 16th c. verses in Latin and English on the verso of the final leaf. With a woodcut printer’s device (McKerrow 299) and decorative border to the title page, and numerous head- and tailpieces throughout. A....

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Complaints. Containing sundrie small poemes of the worlds vanitie. VVhereof the next page maketh...

Complaints. Containing sundrie small poemes of the worlds vanitie. VVhereof the next page maketh mention. By Ed. Sp.

London: Imprinted by Thomas Orwin for VVilliam Ponsonbie, dwelling in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the Bishops head, 1591.

Price: $35,000.00

Bound in fine early 20th c. green morocco with gilt turn-ins and the words “Complaints – Edmund Spenser – 1591” tooled in gold on the front board. The same neatly tooled on the spine. A nice copy, never washed or pressed, with wide outer margins. The edge of the title...

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Title in Greek and Latin] Θεοκριτου Εἰδυλλια, τουτεστι μικρα...

[Title in Greek and Latin] Θεοκριτου Εἰδυλλια, τουτεστι μικρα ποιηματα ἑξ και τριακοντα. Eidyllia, toutesti mikra poiemata hex kai triakonta... Idyllia, hoc est parva poemata XXXVI. Eiusdem epigrammata xix... Bipennis & Ala. [Bound with:] [Title in Greek and Latin] Σχολια παλαια εἰς τα Θεοκριτου εἰδυλλια… Scholia Palaia eis ta Theokritou eidyllia... Commentaria vetera in Theocriti eglogas… Venice: Giovanni de Farri e fratelli, 1543 [Bound with:] Theocriti Syracusani Opera latine a Ioanne Trimanino ad uerbum diligentissime expressa…[Venice: Giovanni Antonio Nicolini da Sabio sumptu M. de Sessa], 1539

Florence: Benedetto Giunta, 1540.

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First two works (Theocritus’ poems and the Scholia) printed in Greek throughout. Third work (Theocritus’s poems, translated) in Latin throughout. Each book with printer’s woodcut devices on title and final printed leaf. In the first volume, two of the shape poems, the “Axe” and “Wings” are set within woodcut frames...

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