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...

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

Price: $24,000.00

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...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

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...

London: Charles Harper, 1676.

Price: $6,500.00

Bound in contemporary sprinkled calf, re-backed in the 20th c., boards ruled in compartments with decorative tools at each corner of the central panel. Slight loss at corners, extremities with signs of wear. The contents are in good condition, with all the maps and plates present. One map with mended...