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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 #4211 Bambergische halszgerichts Ordenung. Johann von LAW. TORTURE. Schwarzenberg,...

Bambergische halszgerichts Ordenung.

Mainz: Johann Schöffer, 2 April (“Uff Mitfasten”), 1508.

Price: $26,000.00

Bound in fine blue morocco by the Belgian binder Charles De Samblanx (1855-1943), boards richly tooled in gold, framed by three fillets and stippling. With a large central ornament and further ornaments at the corners. Fine red morocco doublures, also richly tooled in gold. Spine ruled and tooled in gold...

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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 #2987 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: $16,000.00

This is a fine copy in its original binding of contemporary mottled calf, age-worn, with skillful repairs to the hinges and extremities. The contents are in excellent condition with wide margins and only some light marginal damp-staining towards the end of the volume. A woodcut portrait of Queen Elizabeth is...

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Item #4600 Libro primo de la conquista del Peru & provincia del Cuzco de le Indie Occidentali....

Libro primo de la conquista del Peru & provincia del Cuzco de le Indie Occidentali.

Venice: Stephano da Sabbio, March, 1535.

Price: $30,000.00

Bound in fine 20th-century dark green long grained morocco, boards framed by an ornamental roll, gilt. Gilt spine and turn-ins. A very good copy, edges sprinkled blue. Small, discreet repair to blank upper margin of t.p. and lower blank corner of 2nd leaf; small stain at upper corner of 4th...

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Item #4610 Pomponius Mela. Iulius Solinus. Itinerarium Antonini Aug. Vibius Sequester. P. Victor...

Pomponius Mela. Iulius Solinus. Itinerarium Antonini Aug. Vibius Sequester. P. Victor De Regionibus Urbis Romae. Dionysius Afer de Situ Orbis Prisciano interprete. Iter[u]m castigatus & cum Graeco exe[m]plari collatus.

Florence: Per haeredes Philippi Iuntae, 1526.

Price: $3,800.00

A tall, unsophisticated copy, in its original limp vellum binding (vellum stained, lacking ties, short split to upper hinge). The text is in very good condition with intermittent foxing, heavier in some gatherings.A compendium of ancient geographical texts, including descriptions of the known world by Pomponius Mela, Dionysius Periegetes, and...

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Item #3916 A Relation of Three Embassies from His Sacred Majestie Charles II to the Great Duke of...

A Relation of Three Embassies from His Sacred Majestie Charles II to the Great Duke of Muscovie, the King of Sweden, and the King of Denmark. Performed by the Earle of Carlisle in the Years 1663 and 1664. Written by an Attendant.

London: printed for John Starkey, 1669.

Price: $4,850.00

Bound in contemporary polished calf, rebacked preserving original spine, corners bumped, light wear. Complete with the two engraved portraits of Charles Howard, First Earl of Carlisle (1628–1685) and Tzar Aleksey Mikhaylovich (1629-1676), just shaved at fore-edge. Title a little dusty, clean tear to margin of Z1 (not entering the text)...

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Item #4732 Duodecim Caesares, ex Erasmi recognitione. Suetonius, ca. 70 - after 122, Gaius...

Duodecim Caesares, ex Erasmi recognitione.

Paris: Simon Colines, 7 May, 1543.

Price: $4,800.00

A tall copy in contemporary French panelled calf with gilt ornaments on the boards and spine (wear to hinges). Early ownership inscription inked over on pastedown; another -partially legible- inscription reads ‘Anthonii Eutg..[?]’. Later notes on rear pastedown. Title lightly soiled, occ. marginal dampstains. Coline’s iconic “Tempus” device appears on...

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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 #1936 Thoukudidou tou olorou peri tou Peloponnesiakou polemou biblia okto (Graece)....

Thoukudidou tou olorou peri tou Peloponnesiakou polemou biblia okto (Graece). THVCYDIDIS De Bello Peloponesiaco Libri VIII. Iidem Latinè, ex interpretatione Laurentii Vallæ, ab Henrico Stephano recognita. Secunda Editio.

Geneva: Excudebat Henricus Stephanus, 1588.

Price: $9,500.00

Bound in contemporary calf, rebacked. The boards are framed by a single gold fillet. Central, wreath-like cartouches, also gilt, are stamped at the centers of both boards. The text is in very good condition, with good margins. There is, however, a bit of worming affecting the text in the first...

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Item #4174 Thoukudidou tou olorou peri tou Peloponnesiakou polemou biblia okto (Graece)....

Thoukudidou tou olorou peri tou Peloponnesiakou polemou biblia okto (Graece). THVCYDIDIS De Bello Peloponesiaco Libri VIII. Iidem Latinè, ex interpretatione Laurentii Vallæ, ab Henrico Stephano recognita. Secunda Editio.

Geneva: Excudebat Henricus Stephanus, 1588.

Price: $18,000.00

A fine, tall copy in contemporary blind-ruled vellum, edges of the text block sprinkled red and blue. The text is in very nice condition, lightly toned, with minor blemishes (A FEW small ink stains, sm. burn hole in margin of one leaf, ss2 small rust spot, g3-5 v. light dampstain...

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