Venice: Alessandro Paganini, 21st February, 1514.

Price: $4,500.00

Bound in 19th c. vellum, tooled in blind. A nice copy. Title lightly soiled, some very pale staining, a few early notes in the margins. All edges red. Bound with an unrelated work. A rare edition of this work, first printed in 1474. 2 copies of this 1514 edition located...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

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: Johann Bergmann de Olpe, 1 March, 1498.

Price: $60,000.00

Illustrated with the original woodcuts of the first German edition (1494), of which the majority (73) are often attributed to Albrecht Dürer. Bound in 18th c. blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, soiled, clasps intact, edges minor repairs. A nice, unpressed copy with a small defect to the title woodcut, only...