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Les vies des évesques et papes de Rome, depuis la disper- sion des Disciples de Iesus Christ,...

Les vies des évesques et papes de Rome, depuis la disper- sion des Disciples de Iesus Christ, iusques au temps de Paul quatrieme, qui a present regne tyranniquement en l'Eglise, prinses du grand Catalogue des escrivains d'Angleter- re,... Nouvellement traduites de Latin en François...

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...

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C. Crispi Sallustii De L. Sergii Catilinæ coniuratione, ac Bello Iugurthino historiæ. Eiusdem...

C. Crispi Sallustii De L. Sergii Catilinæ coniuratione, ac Bello Iugurthino historiæ. Eiusdem in M.T. Ciceronem invectiva, M.T. Cic. in C. Crispum Sallustium recriminatio, Porcii Latronis declamatio contra L. Catilinam, fragmenta quædam ex libris historiarum C. Crispi Sallustii.

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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Certain most godly, fruitful, and comfortable letters of such true saintes and holy martyrs of...

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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Tumulus Henrici Secundi Gallorum regis christianiss. per Joach. Bellaium. Idem gallice totidem...

Tumulus Henrici Secundi Gallorum regis christianiss. per Joach. Bellaium. Idem gallice totidem versibus expressum per eumdem. Accessit et ejusdem elegia ad illustriss. principem Carolum card. Lotharingum.

Paris: Frédéric Morel, 1559.

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Bound in 19th c. speckled calf, ruled in gold (hinges rubbed, small loss at head of spine.) A fine copy. Small clean tear to blank margin of plate. Printed in Latin and French. Morel’s printer’s device on the title. Attractive ornamental initials. With the oversized woodcut plate of the fictive...

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Articles to be enquyred in the visitation, in the fyrste yeare of the raygne of our moost drad...

Articles to be enquyred in the visitation, in the fyrste yeare of the raygne of our moost drad soueraygne Lady, Elizabeth by the grace of God, of Englande Fraunce, and Irelande, Quene, defender of the fayth. &c. Anno 1559

London: Imprinted… in Povles Churcheyarde by Richard Iugge and Iohn Cavvood, Printers to the Quenes Maiestie, 1559.

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Bound in 19th c. marbled boards. A fine, wide-margined copy. The title is set within an architectural woodcut border (McKerrow & Ferguson 83) with Cawood’s monogram in the shield. A large woodcut initial (of Arcas and Callisto?) appears on leaf A2.With the signature of the 16th c. book collector Humphrey...

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Iohannes Frobenius lectori. Habes iterum Morias Encomiu[m] / pro castigatissimo castigatius ; una...

Iohannes Frobenius lectori. Habes iterum Morias Encomiu[m] / pro castigatissimo castigatius ; una cu[m] Listrij co[m]mentarijs, [et] alijs complusculis libellis, non minus eruditis q[uam] festiuis ; quorum catalogum proxima mox indicabit pagella (Lvdvs L. Annei Senecæ de morte Claudii Cæsaris. Synesivs Cyrenensis de laudibus Caluitii. Epistola apologetica Ersami Roterodami ad Martinum Dorpium.) Bene uale. [Bound with:] Germania Enee Silvii: in qua candide lector continentur : gravamina germanice nationis : confutatio eorundem cum replicis ; de concilio Constantiensi & Basiliensi ; describuntur hic urbes, civitates, ecclesie, episcopatus, abbacie, principatus & principatus & nobilissime familie Germanorum… De concordatis principum. De officio pape & suis officialibus. De veritate Christiane religionis [Bound with:] Lepida Lactantij Firmiani opera accurate græco adiuncto castigata: Eiusdem Nephytomon: Carmina de Phoenice. & Christi Resurrectione. Io. Chry. de Eucharistia sermo. Lau. Val. sermo. Phil. ad theo. Adhortatio.

Basel: and Strasbourg: and Paris: Io. Froben, and Excusum per Renatu[m] Beck in aedibus zum Thiergarten, and Jean Petit, In vico Sancti Iacobi, 1515 and 1515 and, 1513.

Price: $20,500.00

Bound in contemporary, quarter alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards with working clasps and catches. The pigskin is tooled in blind with repeating vines and floral rolls. The text and binding are beautifully preserved. The contents are fresh and bright, with wide margins and a number of deckled edges. Excellent. The...

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Imperatorum et Caesarum Vitae, cum Imaginibus ad vivam effigiem expressis. Libellus auctus cum...

Imperatorum et Caesarum Vitae, cum Imaginibus ad vivam effigiem expressis. Libellus auctus cum elencho & Iconiis Consulum ab Authore. M.D. XXXIIII.

Strasbourg: Vuolphgangus Caephalaeus, 1534.

Price: $6,500.00

This volume is profusely illustrated with several hundred woodcut images, most of which are by Hans Weiditz. "The medallions of the emperors [and their families] are 268 in number, commencing with Julius Caesar and ending with Frederick III, Maximilian I and his son Philip the Fair, Charles V and Ferdinand...

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Bambergische halszgerichts Ordenung. Johann von LAW. TORTURE. Schwarzenberg, 1463–1528

Bambergische halszgerichts Ordenung.

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

Price: $37,500.00

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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The Romane historie vvritten by T. Livius of Padua. Also, the Breviaries of L. Florus: with a...

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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The Romane historie vvritten by T. Livius of Padua. Also, the Breviaries of L. Florus: with a...

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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De Maria Scotorum Regina, totaque eius contra Regem coniuratione, foedo cum Bothuelio adulterio,...

De Maria Scotorum Regina, totaque eius contra Regem coniuratione, foedo cum Bothuelio adulterio, nefaria in maritum crudelitate & rabie, horrendo insuper & deterrimo eiusdem parricidio: plena, & tragica planè historia.

N.p. but London: John Day, no date but, 1571.

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Bound in near-contemporary English or possibly Scottish sheep, covers bordered with a single gilt and double blind rule, gilt thistle ornament on the boards, spine double gilt ruled in compartments. Title with small typographical ornament, woodcut initials, authors name mss. in contemporary hand on title, price ‘4s’ above, ‘Dupplin Castle’...

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A mirour for magistrates: being a true chronicle historie of the vntimely falles of such...

A mirour for magistrates: being a true chronicle historie of the vntimely falles of such vnfortunate princes and men of note, as haue happened since the first entrance of Brute into this iland, vntill this our latter age. Newly enlarged with a last part, called A winter nights vision, being an addition of such tragedies, especially famous, as are exempted in the former historie, with a poem annexed, called Englands Eliza.

London: Imprinted by Felix Kyngston, 1610.

Price: $25,000.00

A fine copy, bound in 17th c. calf, rebacked, with only minor cosmetic blemishes.This edition collects all three earlier parts of “Mirrour for Magistrates” and adds “A Winter Nights Vision” and “Englands Eliza,” written by Richard Niccols. “Shakespeare was familiar with it and used the story of Queen Cordelia for...

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Relation des missions du Paraguai, traduite de l'italien de M. Muratori. Lodovico Antonio...

Relation des missions du Paraguai, traduite de l'italien de M. Muratori

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...

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A Relation of Three Embassies from His Sacred Majestie Charles II to the Great Duke of Muscovie,...

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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Opera, quae extant omnia: A Iusto Lipsio emendata et Scholiis illustrata. Editio Tertia, atque ab...

Opera, quae extant omnia: A Iusto Lipsio emendata et Scholiis illustrata. Editio Tertia, atque ab ultima Lipsii manu.

Antwerp: ex officina Plantiniana apud viduam et filios J. Moreti, 1632.

Price: $5,500.00

A very fine copy bound in contemporary Dutch vellum, ruled in blind and with a large, blind-stamped arabesque at the center of each board. This edition is illustrated with an elaborate engraved title page by Theodore Galle, re-worked to include a new portrait of Seneca after Peter Paul Rubens. The...

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The Annales of Cornelius Tacitus. The Description of Germanie. Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Sir...

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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Thoukudidou tou olorou peri tou Peloponnesiakou polemou biblia okto (Graece). THVCYDIDIS De Bello...

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: $7,500.00

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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Thoukudidou tou olorou peri tou Peloponnesiakou polemou biblia okto (Graece). THVCYDIDIS De Bello...

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: $12,000.00

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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Eight Books of the Peloponnesian Warre. Written by Thvcydides the sonne of Olorvs. Interpreted...

Eight Books of the Peloponnesian Warre. Written by Thvcydides the sonne of Olorvs. Interpreted with Faith and Diligence Immediately out of the Greeke By Thomas Hobbes. Secretary to the late Earle of Deuonshire.

London: Charles Harper, 1676.

Price: $9,500.00

Illustrated with the famous engraved title page showing Archidamos, Perikles and the author with vignette views of Sparta, Athens and a small map of Greece; and five engraved maps and views by Thomas Cecill entitled: "The Mappe of Ancient Greece", "Plataea", "Sphoicteria", "Antient Sicele According to the Description of Philip...

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In lavdem matrimonii oratio, habita in sponsalibvs Mariae potentissimi regis Angliae Henrici...

In lavdem matrimonii oratio, habita in sponsalibvs Mariae potentissimi regis Angliae Henrici Octavo filiae, et Francisci christianissimi Francorvm regis primogeniti.

Basel: Johann Froben, February, 1519.

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Bound in 20th c. blue morocco by Rolando Gozzi of Modena, gilt arabesque at the center of the boards. Contents a little browned, discreet restoration, not affecting the border, to top blank margin of title. Woodcut title border to first leaf by Hans Holbein the younger (see foot of this...

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Holsome and catholyke doctryne concernynge the seuen Sacramentes of Chrystes Church, expedient to...

Holsome and catholyke doctryne concernynge the seuen Sacramentes of Chrystes Church, expedient to be knowen of al men, sette forth in maner of shorte sermons to bee made to the people, by the reuerende father in God, Thomas bishoppe of Lincolne. anno. 1558. Mense Februarij.

London: in ædibus Roberti Caly, typographi, [really J. Kingston, Feb. 1558.

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Bound in 19th-century three-quarter red morocco and marbled boards, with wear to the joints and extremities. Printed in black letter and with a few woodcut initials. This copy is in very good condition with a few minor faults: The lower fore-corners of the first three leaves have been snipped away...

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