Basel: Johann Amerbach, not after, 1495.
Price: $30,000.00
Bound in contemporary Augsburg morocco over wooden boards, lacking clasps, the boards stamped in blind (Kyriss 078, EBDB w000959, Sechsblatt-Blüte). Small losses to the leather at extremities and head and foot of spine, small chip to corner of upper board. A fine, crisp copy with occ. light damp stains in...
Jena: bey Samuel Krebsen, in Verlegung Thomas Matthias Götzen, 1661.
Price: $5,800.00
Modern wrappers. With an added engraved frontispiece, added engraved star map (in the form of a globe gore), four added woodcut plates, and a few woodcut diagrams within text.A rare astronomical work by the astronomer Erhard Weigel, a teacher of Gottfried W. Leibniz. The engraved frontispiece shows a man holding...
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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Strasbourg: Printer of the 1481 Legenda aurea, 22 March, 1482.
Price: $35,000.00
Bound in contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards from the bindery of the Augustinian monastery of St Zeno in Reichenhall (Upper Bavaria, active c. 1475-1528, EDBD w002516). The binding has been rebacked; the metal corner-pieces and perhaps a central boss have been removed. An original vellum label and shelf-mark are...
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...
Basel: L. Lucius, 1554.
Price: $7,500.00
Bound in early 19th c. mottled calf, rubbed and worn at extremities, expertly re-backed by Byzantium. Gold-tooled border to boards, spine gilt and with labels. Internally a very fine copy with a little bit of foxing to scattered leaves. Title a little dusty. Large woodcut portrait of the author on...
Rome: nella stamperia Salomoni, 1789.
Price: $4,500.00
This is a beautiful copy in contemporary red pasteboard with gold floral impressions, and decorative paste-paper pastedowns. The text, printed on thick paper, is in excellent condition. A very fresh copy. The engraved title-page has a vignette of the Quirinale palace in Rome with the lightning conductor installed on its...
London: ex Officina typographica Thom. Cotes. Et venales extant apud Guiliel. Hope, ad insigne Chirothechae, prope regium Excambium, 1634.
Price: $14,000.00
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...
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...
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London: Printed by Adam Islip, for C. Hunt of Excester, 1594.
Price: $14,000.00
Bound in 19th c. calf, rebacked, the boards ruled in gold. This is a fine copy; title a little dusty. Occasional marginal pencil notations in margins.“To Distinguish and discern these natural difference’s of man’s wit, and to apply to each by art that science wherein he may profit, is the...
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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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...
London: printed for Dan. Brown at the Black Swan without Temple-Bar; Tho. Bennet at the Half-Moon, D. Midwinter and Tho. Leigh at the Rose and Crown, and R. Wilkin at the King’s-Head in St. Paul’s Church-yard, 1699.
Price: $6,850.00
Bound in contemporary English paneled calf, rebacked. Very fine condition. Two plates lightly browned, marginal foxing to a few leaves. Illustrated with 9 engraved plates of glass-making furnaces, tools, crucibles, and other apparatus.The core of Blancourt's text is Christopher Merret's annotated Latin edition (1668) of Antonio Neri's "L'Arte Vetraria"(1612). Merret...
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: 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...
London: Printed by William Iones, for Iames Bowler, and are to be sold at the Marigold in Pauls Church-yard, 1636.
Price: $9,500.00
Bound in contemporary blind-ruled calf, nicely rebacked and re-sewn. Light wear to edges. A clean copy, complete with the inserted slips. Small, light ink spot on engraved title. One leaf dusty. Numerous woodcut diagrams and instruments in the text. The engraved instrument bound after the engraved title has the advertisement...
Mainz: Johann Schöffer, 1524.
Price: $15,000.00
Bound in 20th c. green morocco with gilt turn-ins. A fine copy, a.e.g., with a fine woodcut title border, woodcut initials, and occ. contemporary annotations. The title border incorporates Schöffer's coat of arms (see Johnson no. 62 and Pflugk-Harttung no. 52).Ulrich von Hutten's famous work on the treatment of syphilis...
Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 14 October, 1482.
Price: $35,000.00
Illustrated with 47 half-page woodcuts of the constellations and the planets personified. The text of Hyginus was first published in an unillustrated edition in Ferrara in 1475. A very good copy in 18th c. stiff vellum. The initial blank is soiled and stained. Light stains to top of second leaf...
Kempten: Per Rudolphum Dreherr, 1673.
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A fine copy in near-contemporary stiff vellum (small defects to spine.) Internally, this copy is in fine condition with only minor cosmetic blemishes (occasional spots or marginal foxing. Half-title lightly soiled). Overall crisp and bright.The “Phonurgia” is illustrated with an added engraved allegorical title by G. And. Wolfgang after Felix...
Kempten: Per Rudolphum Dreherr, 1673.
Price: $18,000.00
Bound in contemporary pigskin over wooden boards, with intact clasps. An extremely fine copy, bright and crisp throughout with the most minor of faults: engraved t.p. very slightly shaved at outer edge, occ. very light marginal dampstains, a few marginal spots on leaf C4. Truly excellent.The “Phonurgia” is illustrated with...
Amsterdam: Jansson-Waesberg, 1678.
Price: $22,000.00
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...
Padua: Apud Paulum Frambottum, 1634.
Price: $10,000.00
A fine copy in early 19th c. quarter calf and speckled boards, spine ruled in golf, with minor wear. The text is crisp, with only two small blemishes and a few very tiny (barely noticeable) pinprick wormholes. The impressions of the plates are rich and sharp. The engraving on leaf...
Amsterdam: Sumptibus Andreae Frisii, 1665.
Price: $9,500.00
The book is introduced by a fantastic engraved title page populated by monsters. The text is illustrated with 73 half and quarter-page engravings of monsters –deformed humans and animals, as well as fantastic, monstrous hybrids of the both. This is the first edition to include Gerard Blasius’ "Appendix of new...
NAPLES: IGNAZIO RUSSO, 1753.
Price: $3,500.00
Bound in contemporary vellum over boards. Foxing. Complete with the 15 engraved plates.Little is known of the author other than that he wrote another book on navigation in 1750. This work on the sector was translated into Spanish in 1758. By the time this book was published, the design of the...
Milan: Filippo Ghisolfi ad instanza di Giovan Battista Bidelli, 1648.
Price: $6,500.00
Bound in modern cartoncino. A fine copy with good margins of this rare book. Minor blemishes as follows: Small, light stain at upper corner of opening leaves, dampstain in margin of final three leaves (and an inconspicuous, short wormtrail in the blank margin of those same few leaves), occ. light...
