London: Iames Roberts for Nicholas Ling, 1599.
Price: $14,000.00
Bound in 19th-century dark burgundy morocco, the boards framed by a blind-tooled row of foliage and two gilt fillets, spine gilded. With the signature of John Couchman dated 1699 on Hh1r. The text is in fine condition aside from some minor cosmetic faults to the first two leaves and trimming...
London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, and sold by John Wilkie, at their Hall Ludgate-Street, 1782.
Price: $2,800.00
Bound in attractive, contemporary red morocco, gilt, with ornamental metal bosses and the original metal stylus. Marbled endpapers. With additional blank leaves and 2 waxed leaves for use with the stylus. First signature printed in red and black.John Goldsmith began publishing almanacs in the 1660. His name continued to be...
Macerata: Heirs of Agostino Grisei, 1653.
Price: $15,000.00
Bound in 17th c. limp sheepskin parchment. With a large woodcut Jesuit device on the title page, woodcut initial, and a factotum built up from fleurons. There is a neatly written contemporary inscription of a Roman Jesuit library on the title page; some leaves foxed or lightly browned; there is...
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Frankfurt: Apud Ioannem Wechelum, impensis Theodori de Bry, 1592 but ? 1597.
Price: $38,000.00
With de Bry’s name in the compartment on the engraved title to the first part, the leaf with the seven coats of arms with the blank spaces filled in by the six virtues bound as leaf a3, the engraving of Adam and Eve is on p. [144], and the corrected...
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Venice: Presso Gio. Battista Combi, 1638.
Price: $4,800.00
Bound in contemporary vellum, stained red, some wear and soiling, remains of green silk ties. A nice copy with a little minor damp-staining, and some worming in three signatures, affecting one to two lines of text but not the sense.The first edition of Isabella Andreini's collection of letters appeared in...
Augsburg: Andreas Pfeffel, 1740.
Price: $26,000.00
Bound in contemporary German quarter vellum with label (“Kupferbuch”). The binding has minor wear and there is evidence that these 5 suites of plates were once bound with another work. This is a fine, complete copy with only very minor cosmetic blemishes: some light dust soiling to the folds of...
Antwerp, Nuremberg, and elsewhere: various printers, 1557-, 1604.
Price: $45,000.00
Bound in 17th c. stiff vellum (boards soiled, small defects to the corners and hinges.) The contents are in overall excellent condition with only minor flaws (a few damp-stains -mainly mild and almost always outside of the plate-, occ. light soiling, a handful of plates with light wash to give...
London: Printed by Iohn Daye, dwelling ouer Aldersgate, ca. 1570.
Price: $45,000.00
Truly excellent copies, all three texts clean and very fresh, with just a small, very light ink mark on the second title page. With John Day's woodcut printer's device at the end of the Schoolmaster. "Toxophilus" with fine woodcut title with grotesque caryatids. The binding is original limp vellum with...
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...
Wittenberg: Georg Rhau, 1542, 1556.
Price: $7,500.00
Bound in contemporary alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards, one clasp defective, binding soiled and mildly worn and with small defects. The boards are ruled and tooled in blind, signed and dated “IPN 1556”. The contents are in excellent, crisp condition (one leaf working loose, marginal tear in margin of leaf...
London: Printed by G. Eld and M. Flesher, 1620.
Price: $8,500.00
Bound in contemporary English calf, rebacked and with repairs at the corner. Boards scuffed. Internally a fine, crisp copy with a discreet repair to the blank upper margin of the title page, some blemishes to the same leaf, and very slight cosmetic blemishes as follows: F3 and Z3 with small...
Mainz: [Peter Schoeffer, ca. [1469], 1460.
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]...
Geneva: Conrad Badius, 1561.
Price: $7,500.00
Title page within a woodcut border with the printer's device at the center. A fine, fresh copy in contemporary limp vellum with overlapping edges, manuscript title on the spine and lower edge, remnants of ties, light stain on the back panel, inked-out ownership's entry dated 1606 on the title page...
Venice: Borgominieri, 1569.
Price: $16,500.00
Illustrated with c. 220 woodcut illustrations in text, 22 of which are full-page. Some of these woodcuts are taken from Barbaro’s own edition of Vitruvius (1567), Serlio, and Dürer. Four isssues are known. This is the issue with both the title page and colophon dated 1569 and Borgominieri’s device on...
Rome: Chez Bouchard et Gravier Libraires François rüe du Cours près de Saint Marcel, de l'imprimerie de Komarek, 1761.
Price: $16,000.00
Magnificently illustrated with 73 etched and engraved plates comprising 88 half-page and 29 full-page images of ancient Roman architecture and sculpture. These were designed by Barbault (83 engravings), Carlo Nolli (1), and L. Bufalino (1) and engraved by Barbault (56), Domenico Montagù (52), Giuseppe? Bouchard (6), and Freicenet (4). The...
Rome: Chez Bouchard et Gravier Libraires françois rüe du Cours près l’Eglise de S. Marcel, de l'imprimerie de Komarek, 1763.
Price: $22,000.00
This is a very fine, broad-margined copy bound in 19th c. half vellum (worn, small splits at head and foot of spine and another along the spine. The text and plates are in excellent condition with only a few instances of light marginal foxing or the occasional light blemish. One...
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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...
Rome: the author, ca. 1760.
Price: $45,000.00
Bound in contemporary stiff parchment over boards, with patterned paste-paper for the pastedowns. The binding and contents are beautifully preserved and very fresh. Provenance: From the private collection of Thomas Vroom (bookplate), deaccessioned 2019.A remarkable, unpublished manuscript treatise by Domenico Bianconi, an architect and scenographer who worked in the style...
Lyon: Sébastien Gryphe, 1551.
Price: $8,000.00
Bound in a beautiful near-contemporary strapwork binding with a few tiny defects. The text is in very good condition with light soiling and light occasional stains. Gauphered edges, gilt. Text ruled in red, Gryphius’ device on the title.The extant works of Sallust, the "Bellum Iugurthinum", "Bellum Catilinarium" (and associated texts)...
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London: In Paules churche yarde at the sygne of the holy Ghost, by Ihon Cawoode, prynter to the Kynge and Quenes Maiesties, 1556.
Price: $30,000.00
Bound in contemporary English calfskin, rebacked in the 19th c., a few patches to the leather of the boards. Text in very good condition with occasional browning, darker in signatures I and K. Light dampstain to signatures T, Z, Bb, and Ff. Text in Latin and English in two columns...
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...
London: by Thomas Este, 1598.
Price: $12,500.00
An unusually fine, unsophisticated copy, with broad margins and the occasional deckled edge, stab-stitched and bound in a contemporary stiff vellum wrapper (small section of upper cover gnawed. By happy accident, the vellum wrapper has come loose, allowing unimpeded inspection of the sewing structure. Very light marginal foxing to fore-edge...
London: Printed by R. Bishop, for R[ichard]. B[est]. or his assignes, 1640.
Price: $9,500.00
With the engraved frontispiece by William Marshall with the variant text: “London. Printed for R. Best and are to bee sould at his shop neare Graies Inn gatte in Houlbourne.” An unusually tall copy of Brathwaite’s famous satire on the perils of marriage, nagging wives, and the limitless lust of...
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....
