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...
Boston: Printed by [Gamaliel] Rogers and [Daniel] Fowle, for N[athanael]. Procter at the Bible and Dove in Ann-Street, 1744.
Price: $6,800.00
Bound in contemporary American calf, ruled in blind, over thin wooden boards (scuffed and with wear to extremities). Very good internally with a few minor stains, a couple of marginal tears and a longer tear entering the text on leaf F5 (no loss.) Provenance: with the contemporary ownership inscription, “Joseph...
Providence: Printed and sold, wholesale and retail, by John Carter, at the Post-Office, at Shakespeare’s Head, near the State-House, (1786), 1786.
Price: $600.00
Stitched. Soiled and stained.Erroneously attributed by Evans to Benjamin West. The actual calculator appears to be Nathan Daboll. The eclipse predictions are nearly identical with those in The New England almanack and gentlemen and ladies diary for 1787 (New London), calculated by Daboll under the pseudonym of Edmund Freebetter. The astronomical and horological notes...
Bologna: Per Giacomo Monti, 1677.
Price: $25,000.00
An unusually large copy on thick paper, bound in contemporary speckled calfskin over boards, the spine richly tooled in gold (light wear, corners bumped, small tear to the leather at the head of the spine, upper endband missing, lower endband partially loose.) A wide-margined copy, contents in very good condition...
Puebla: Por la viuda de M. de Ortega [Manuela Cerezo], y por su original en la Oficina palafoxiana de dicha ciudad, 1776.
Price: $7,500.00
Bound in later vellum, remains of ties. Text fresh and crisp with two tiny, in-prick wormholes in the lower margin, touching a few letters.Second edition of a catechism with Zapotec and Spanish text printed in double columns. The book's preliminaries are dated in Oaxaca in 1732. Medina discusses an alleged...
Mexico: por Francisco de Rivera Calderon, 1723.
Price: $10,600.00
Bound in original limp vellum, re-cased, endpapers renewed. A nice copy with light scattered stains. Provenance: small collector’s stamp “G” on title. Rare. 7 copies in the U.S. (Penn, William & Mary, A&M, SUNY Albany, Hopkins, Princeton, BYU).Sole edition of this important translation of the Catholic catechism into Nahuatl, which...
Paris: chez Bordelet, libraire, rue S. Jacques, vis-à-vis le Collége de Jésuites, à Saint Ignace, 1754.
Price: $3,500.00
This is an attractive copy in contemporary mottled, spine richly tooled in gold, light wear to head and foot of spine and extremities. The text is in fine condition with a few small marginal stains (lvs. G1-2, N8, O1) and another small stain to the margins in the final two...
Puebla: Por Diego Fernández de Léon, 1684.
Price: $6,500.00
Bound in contemporary vellum with remnants of the original ties (text a little loose at front, vellum of lower cover nibbled at fore-edge.) The text is in fine, crisp condition with just a few light marginal stains and a single, short worm track to leaves G1-2. Marca de fuego (unidentified)...
Mexico: Ex novâ Typographiâ editioni Bibliothecae Mexicanae destinatâ, 1759.
Price: $5,600.00
. Bound in contemporary vellum, defects to vellum of upper board; internally very clean and broad margined with some soiling on A4 verso only. Printed in a large handsome type (mostly sixteenth-century roman), text in Latin and Spanish, pagination includes a copper-engraved frontispiece. In the text there is a fine...
