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Item #3241 Boetius de Consolationae [sic] Philosophiæ. The boke of Boecius, called the comforte...

Boetius de Consolationae [sic] Philosophiæ. The boke of Boecius, called the comforte of philosophye, or wysedome, moche necessary for all men to read and know, wherein suche as be in aduersitie, shall fynde muche consolation and comforte, and suche as be in great worldly prosperitie may knowe the vanitie and frailtie therof, and consequently fynde eternall felycytie. And this boke is in maner of a dialoge or communication betwene two persones, the one is Boecius, and the other is Philosophy, whose disputations and argumentes do playnly declare the diuersitie of th lyfe actiue, that consisteth in worldly, temporall, and transitory thynges, ... Translated out of Latin into the Englyshe toungue by George Coluile, alias Coldewel, to thintent that such as be ignoraunt in the Latin tongue, and can rede Englyshe, maye vnderstande the same. And to the mergentes is added the Latin, accordynge to the boke of the translatour, whiche was a very olde prynte

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...

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Item #3243 Certain most godly, fruitful, and comfortable letters of such true saintes and holy...

Certain most godly, fruitful, and comfortable letters of such true saintes and holy martyrs of God, as in the late bloodye persecution here within this realme, gaue their lyues for the defence of Christes holy gospel: written in the tyme of theyr affliction and cruell imprysonment.

London: By Iohn Day, dwelling ouer Aldersgate, beneath Saint Martines, 1564.

Price: $18,000.00

A very fine copy, clean throughout, bound in early 20th c. brown morocco, gilt. Printed in Black Letter, With a fine, historiated, woodcut title page border populated by swans, youths playing instruments, griffins, and masks. A large woodcut illustration, taken from Foxe’s “Martyrs”, shows six reformers being burned at the...

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Item #4328 The boke named the Gouernour deuised by sir Thomas Elyot knyght. Thomas Elyot, Sir,...

The boke named the Gouernour deuised by sir Thomas Elyot knyght

London: [Printed by Thomas Marsh], 1557.

Price: $18,000.00

A fine, tall, and interesting copy, bound in contemporary English sheep, with patches of wear, and skilful repairs to spine and corners. The contents are crisp and bright, with a slight worm-trail in the lower margin of the opening leaves. The flyleaves are from William Lily’s grammar, “An introduction of...

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Item #4627 De Confessione Amantis. John Gower, 1325?-1408

De Confessione Amantis.

London: In Fletestrete by Thomas Berthelette printer to the kingis grace, 1532.

Price: $48,000.00

Bound in 19th c. russia, boards ruled by a triple filet, gilt. Spine ruled in compartments, author, title and date on spine, gilt. The title is printed within a decorative woodcut border copied from master printer Geoffroy Tory. Text in black letter, double columns. With 16th c. signatures of John...

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Item #4597 Copia originalis littere ad Leonem X de pace et federe per eum et Francorum regem....

Copia originalis littere ad Leonem X de pace et federe per eum et Francorum regem.

[Rome]: [Marcello Silber], after 12th August, 1514.

Price: $16,000.00

Bound in 19th c. green Morocco, a.e.g., gilt turn-ins, spine rubbed. Ex libris R.B.. A fine copy. Early foliation at upper corners of the lvs.A political letter from Henry VIII to Pope Leo X of Rome, written by the King when he was only 23 years of age. The letter...

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Item #4629 The Iliads of Homer prince of poets· Neuer before in any languag (sic!) truely...

The Iliads of Homer prince of poets· Neuer before in any languag (sic!) truely translated. With a co[m]ment vppon some of his chiefe places; donne according to the Greeke by Geo: Chapman

London: Printed [by Richard Field] for Nathaniell Butter, ca. 1612.

Price: $47,500.00

Bound in 17th c. English paneled calf, rebacked (early 20th c.?), minor wear at extremities. A very fine copy. Engraved t.p. lightly soiled and with a few light spots, and a small adhesion scar. The text is crisp and bright with occ. light blemishes; light marginal damp-staining or soling in...

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Item #4896 The legend named in latyn Legēda aurea. that is to saye in englysshe the Golden...

The legend named in latyn Legēda aurea. that is to saye in englysshe the Golden legende ... : which werke hath ben diligētly amended in divers places where as grete nede was.

London: By Wynkyn de Worde, 27 August, 1527.

Price: $110,000.00

An excellent, complete copy bound in late 18th c. russia, gilt, hinges neatly repaired, corners bumped. Illustrated with a full page woodcut on leaf A1 showing an assembly of saints and martyrs, and 85 woodcuts in the text. Wynkyn de Worde’s woodcut printer’s device (incorporating Caxton’s initials) on verso of...

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Item #3113 The Romane historie vvritten by T. Livius of Padua. Also, the Breviaries of L. Florus:...

The Romane historie vvritten by T. Livius of Padua. Also, the Breviaries of L. Florus: with a chronologie to the whole historie: and the Topographie of Rome in old time. Translated out of Latine into English, by Philemon Holland, Doctor in Physicke

London: Adam Islip, 1600.

Price: $20,000.00

This is a very fine copy in contemporary calfskin, ruled in gold, with decorative tools at the corners of the central compartment, and a fine arabesque at the center of the boards, gilt. Rebacked with original spine preserved, small defects. A very fine copy with minor smudges or inkspots (including...

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Item #4544 Letter on vellum signed "Marye the Quene" to Lord Paget, signed at head, titled at...

Letter on vellum signed "Marye the Quene" to Lord Paget, signed at head, titled at head "By the King and Quene".

London: St. James's Palace, 7th June, 1556.

Price: $50,000.00

Blind-stamped paper seal and address panel on verso "To our right trustie wellbeloved Counsillor Lord Paget de Beaudesert...", docketed on verso: "for thabsentes... Quene marie to my Lorde for process xvi"A remarkable letter, signed by Mary Tudor as Queen, instructing Lord Paget as Keeper of the Privy Seal to send...

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Item #3078 The Historie of the World. Commonly called, the Naturall Historie of C. Plinius...

The Historie of the World. Commonly called, the Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. Translated into English by Philemon Holland Doctor in Physicke. The first [& Second] tome.

London: Impensis G. Bishop, 1601.

Price: $20,000.00

Bound in contemporary English calfskin, ruled in blind, rebacked and recornered in morocco. An excellent, crisp, bright copy with very minor faults: repaired clean tear with no loss, leaf P4. A few signatures with very light marginal dampstains. Occasional rust spots, marginal tears, or marginal natural paper flaws, no loss...

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Item #4974 Certaine select Prayers, gathered out of S. Augustines Meditations, which he calleth...

Certaine select Prayers, gathered out of S. Augustines Meditations, which he calleth his priuate Talke with God. Also his Manuell, or booke of the Contemplation of Christ.

London: Printed by Iohn Daye dwellyng ouer Aldersgate, 1577.

Price: $16,000.00

Bound in early 17th c. English black morocco, tooled in gold in compartments with floral stamps and repeating decorative roll borders (light wear at extremities and hinges, corners lightly bumped, gilding a little faded in places.) The text is in very good condition with scattered light soiling and some cosmetic...

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Item #4531 Three works bound together: I. The Shepheards Calender (1591); II. The Faerie Queene...

Three works bound together: I. The Shepheards Calender (1591); II. The Faerie Queene (1596); III. Colin Clouts Come Home Againe (1595)

London: Various printers (details below). 1591-, 1596.

Price: $85,000.00

Bound in 17th c. calf, the boards gilt-ruled in compartments with ornamental tools at the corners and a large stamp of the Tudor arms at the center of each board (hinges and endcaps restored, corners bumped, later label, lacking ties). Inscriptions: In the Shepheards Calender 1. Contemporary signature of Roger...

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Item #4299 The Annales of Cornelius Tacitus. The Description of Germanie. Publius Cornelius...

The Annales of Cornelius Tacitus. The Description of Germanie.

London: By Arn. Hatfield, for Bonham and Iohn Norton], 1598.

Price: $16,000.00

[Bound with, as issued:] The End of Nero and Beginning of Galba. Fower Bookes of The Histories of Cornelius Tacitus. The Life of Agricola. The second edition. London: [By Edm. Bollifant, for Bonham and Iohn Norton], 1598 Folio: 30 x 20.7 cm. [8], 271, [1] p. (1st 2 p. blank) Collation: [par.]⁴ A-Y⁶...

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Item #4632 Terence in English. Fabulae comici facetissimi et elegantissimi poetæ Terentii omnes...

Terence in English. Fabulae comici facetissimi et elegantissimi poetæ Terentii omnes Anglicæ factae primúmque hac noua forma nunc editæ: opera ac industria R.B. in Axholmiensi insula Lincolnsherij Epvvortheatis

Cambridge: ex officina Iohannis Legat, 1598.

Price: $15,000.00

Bound in contemporary vellum, a bit rumpled, lightly soiled, text block loose at front. A very fine, crisp copy. Smudge on leaf C1, ink spot on leaf G2; small, faint dampstain to upper margin in gatherings E and F. Variable light damp-stain to lower, outer corner starting in gathering L....

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Item #4868 The most excelent worckes of chirurgery, made and set forth by maister Iohn Vigon,...

The most excelent worckes of chirurgery, made and set forth by maister Iohn Vigon, head chirurgien of oure tyme in Italy, traunslated into Englishe. Wherunto is added an exposition of straunge termes and vnknowen symples, belongynge vnto the arte.

London: Imprynted by Edwarde Whytchurch, wyth the Kynges moste graciouse priuelege for seuen yeres. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum, 1550.

Price: $20,000.00

Bound in contemporary blind-ruled and tooled English calfskin over wooden boards, lacking the clasps but with the original catches present. The binding has been rebacked with sheepskin, preserving the original calfskin spine, with some wear and flaking to the sheep at the hinges. A small section of the leather on...

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Item #3122 The Thirteene Bookes of Aeneidos. The first twelve beeing the worke of the diuine...

The Thirteene Bookes of Aeneidos. The first twelve beeing the worke of the diuine poet, Virgil Maro, and the thirteenth, the supplement of Maphæus Vegius. Translated into English verse, to the first third part of the tenth booke, by Thomas Phaer Esquier: and the residue finished, and now newly set forth for the delight of such as are studious in poetrie: By Thomas Twyne, Doctor in Physicke.

London: Printed by Thomas Creede, 1607.

Price: $20,000.00

Bound in an exquisite binding of eighteenth-century mottled calf, highly polished and beautifully tooled in gold along the edges of the boards. The spine is separated into six compartments by the raised sewing supports, each of which, aside from that bearing the citron morocco label, is decorated with attractive floral...

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Item #4535 The xiii. Bukes of Eneados of the Famose Poete Virgill Translatet out of Latyne verses...

The xiii. Bukes of Eneados of the Famose Poete Virgill Translatet out of Latyne verses into Scottish metir.

London: William Copland, 1553.

Price: $75,000.00

Bound in 18th century diced russia, boards and spine ornately tooled in gold, housed in a modern full dark blue morocco folding case by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Title page printed with an elaborate woodcut compartment (McKerrow & Ferguson 49a), text in black letter, with the inserted leaf in signature X....

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