London: Hugh Newman, 1681.

Price: $6,800.00

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, rebacked, with repairs to hinges and corners but preserving the original spine and labels; short split along leather where lower board...

Verona: Apud Angelum Tamum, 1622.

Price: $40,000.00

With a printed half-title: “Musaeum Calceolarianum Veronense”, a fine, historiated, engraved title page, and a folding engraving showing the interior of Calzolari’s museum. The text is illustrated with 43 engravings of animals, plants, minerals, and ethnographic objects. There is also a profusion of woodcut initials throughout the text. The plates...