![Item #4503 Florilegium Diversorum Epigrammatum in Septem Libros. [Graece:] Anthologia diaphoron...](https://liberantiquus.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4503.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1675705599)
Venice: In Aedibus Aldi, Mense Novembri, 1503.
Price: $29,000.00
Text in Greek type 4:79, (first part of title, register, and colophon in roman 10:82.) Bound in a contemporary Greek-style binding (see below). A tall copy, contents in very good condition with scattered ink stains (mostly light) and minor marks, dampstain at head of some gatherings and in a few...
![Item #4102 Lettere Della Signora Isabella Andreini Padovana, Comica Gelosa, [et] Academica...](https://liberantiquus.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4102.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1614028506)
Venice: Presso Gio. Battista Combi, 1638.
Price: $4,800.00
Bound in contemporary vellum, stained red, some wear and soiling, remains of green silk ties. A nice copy with a little minor damp-staining, and some worming in three signatures, affecting one to two lines of text but not the sense.The first edition of Isabella Andreini's collection of letters appeared in...
Palermo: nella stamperia di Francesco Valenza, 1774.
Price: $2,600.00
Bound in attractive contemporary patterned pasteboards (corners bumped, minor wear.) The text is in excellent condition. The two folding engravings show the funeral monument and the catafalque. Clean tear (mended, no loss) to first plate. Marginal tear, not affecting image to second plate. The portrait was etched by Giuseppe Garofalo...
![Item #4335 Vitruvius: De architectura; Cleonides: Harmonicum introductorium [Latin]. Tr: Georgius...](https://liberantiquus.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4335-1.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1626643675)
Venice: Simon Bevilaqua, 3 Aug. 1497.
Price: $150,000.00
A fresh copy in late 18th c. stiff vellum, later red morocco spine label, gilt (re-cased, text re-sewn), binding lightly soiled, small chips to edge of label, later endpapers and flyleaves). Minor, very discreet repairs to the inner margin of the first leaf and quire E, some skilful restoration to...
Rome: Chez Bouchard et Gravier Libraires François rüe du Cours près de Saint Marcel, de l'imprimerie de Komarek, 1761.
Price: $16,000.00
Magnificently illustrated with 73 etched and engraved plates comprising 88 half-page and 29 full-page images of ancient Roman architecture and sculpture. These were designed by Barbault (83 engravings), Carlo Nolli (1), and L. Bufalino (1) and engraved by Barbault (56), Domenico Montagù (52), Giuseppe? Bouchard (6), and Freicenet (4). The...
Rome: Chez Bouchard et Gravier Libraires françois rüe du Cours près l’Eglise de S. Marcel, de l'imprimerie de Komarek, 1763.
Price: $22,000.00
This is a very fine, broad-margined copy bound in 19th c. half vellum (worn, small splits at head and foot of spine and another along the spine. The text and plates are in excellent condition with only a few instances of light marginal foxing or the occasional light blemish. One...
Rome: Antonio Lafréry, 1552.
Price: $3,500.00
First state (of three.) A rich impression with wide margins, light marginal foxing and a little light soiling, extreme upper margin a little ragged. Inscribed on the pedestal: “LVPAE ROMVLVM ET REMVM VRBIS CONDITORES LACTANTIS ANTIQVVM AC AENEVM IN CAPITOLIO SIGNVM.” (Ancient bronze image of the she-wolf nursing Romulus and...
Bassano: Si vende in Bassano al Negozio Remondini, ca. 1680.
Price: $4,800.00
Modern binding using 18th-century patterned paper over thin boards. Title and first leaves soiled, title and second leaf with small restoration to blank upper corner; a few minor repairs to the corners of the next two plates. Ink stains to plate number 2 with 3 small corrosion holes. Light creases...
Venice: (Pietro Nicolini da Sabbio for) Federico Torresano, 1548.
Price: $6,800.00
Bound in 17th c. parchment (some soiling, corners bumped.) Woodcut title page border. Full-page woodcut of Saint Catherine on leaf 8 verso. Printer’s device on recto of final leaf. The text is in very good condition with instances of light damp-staining, scattered mild foxing. And occasional soiling A few marginal...
Venice: [apud Paulum Manutium, Aldi filium], 1558.
Price: $5,500.00
With three divisional title pages, all featuring the Aldine dolphin and anchor device. Bound in contemporary blind-tooled pigskin (lightly soiled, corners bumped, small hole in pigskin at head of spine, wear at extremities), signed “A.S.K.” and dated 1562 on the upper board. Title page lightly soiled, intermittent mild foxing, light...
[Rome:]: no printer, no date, ca. 1574-, 1584.
Price: $16,000.00
Bound in 18th c. stiff parchment, title label with gilt lettering. A fine, wide-margined copy with beautiful, rich impressions of the plates. Title lightly soiled and with upper blank margin restored (not affecting the plate.) A few spots in the blank, inner margin of the first plate, far from the...
Florence: Giunti, 1574.
Price: $2,500.00
Title page within an architectural woodcut border containing the Medici coat-of-arms and a small view of Florence. Printer’s device at the colophon. Woodcut portrait of Cosimo de’ Medici on the verso of the title-page. Foxed. Bound in attractive 18th-century colored paper over thin boards. Extremely rare. No copies in North...
Venice: Appresso Il [Giovanni Battista] Ciotti, 1621.
Price: $16,000.00
Bound in 20th c. boards covered with a liturgical manuscript leaf. A fine, crisp copy with a little light marginal soiling; verso of final leaf also lightly soiled. Illustrated with 2 engraved title pages, a full-page portrait of Cosimo II, and 15 full-paged engraved plates. One of the engravings is...
![Item #4751 Il Puttino, altramente detto il cavaliero errante [with:] Trattato dell' Inventione et...](https://liberantiquus.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4751.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1694183165)
Naples: Giovanni Domenico Montanaro, 1634.
Price: $9,000.00
Bound in contemporary limp vellum, moderately soiled. Internally very good copies: I. (‘Il Puttino’): Free end-paper a little ragged, upper blank margin of first few leaves slightly nibbled, mild foxing, gatherings G-I lightly browned, occasional small stains. II. (‘Inventione’): Small dark stain in upper blank margin throughout, not affecting the...
Venice: Per Giovan Battista et Melchior Sessa fratelli, 1558.
Price: $8,500.00
A nice, unsophisticated copy in contemporary limp vellum. Title dusty, a few light marginal stains, marginal paper flaw (not affecting text) to leaf *4, short worm-trail in lower margin of five gatherings (Q-S, V-X), touching a single letter in the bottom line of text on some lvs., damp-stain to 4...
Florence: Per Gio. Batista Landini, 1634.
Price: $14,500.00
Bound in contemporary parchment (upper cover soiled and with light staining, small defects to parchment at foot of spine), tooled in gold with attractive ornaments. A fine copy with sharp impressions of the etchings. The text with minor blemishes as follows: light marginal foxing, a few small spots, marginal soiling...
Florence: nella Stamperia di S.A.R. Per li Tartini, e Franchi, 1725.
Price: $3,200.00
Bound in contemporary stiff vellum, edges of text-block sprinkled red. A very fine copy, printed on thick paper. The large, folding plate of the catafalque (51 x 35 cm.) is also in fine condition.An account of the funeral ceremonies for Cosimo III de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 30...
Turin: Gio. Battista Chais, 1737.
Price: $15,000.00
Bound in contemporary marbled boards, worn and soiled, rebacked in later sheep. An unusually nice copy internally, with just the slightest toning to some plates, a few spots, clean tear to center of one plate at fold (no loss), and light finger-soiling in the margins. Magnificent engraved ornamental frontispiece by...
Florence: Appresso Bartolomeo Sermartelli e frateli, 1608.
Price: $4,400.00
Bound in early 20th c. quarter red Morocco and marbled boards (small repairs to head and foot of spine). A fine copy with scattered mild spotting. Complete with the folding plate of the banquet (signed “Mattheus Greuter excudit”.) Two lines have been erased from the plate, as is the case...
Venice: Giovann’ Antonio e Pietro fratelli de Nicolini da Sabio, 1546.
Price: $4,900.00
Bound in 18th-century stiff parchment with a gilt lettering piece on the spine. A fine, clean copy with just some occ. light foxing, a marginal stain on a few leaves, and a small worm hole to the last two leaves slightly affecting the headline. Last leaf backed (and with light...
Venice: Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari e fratelli, 1554.
Price: $3,600.00
Contemporary limp vellum, colored edges, some light marginal foxing, v. light stain on p. 80. A very nice copy with the 18th-c. engraved bookplate of Felice Durando Count of Villa (1729-1791), famous for his erudition and his famous library. With the printer's device on the title page and at the...
Rome: Matteo Gregorio de Rossi, 1692.
Price: $5,800.00
An excellent, bright copy with the image in very sharp impression. Light soiling to the blank margins, far from the plate mark.A splendid view of Ponte and Castel Sant’ Angelo with the Girandola. The print shows Ponte Sant'Angelo in Rome, decorated with sculptures of the angels designed by...
![Item #4502 ΟΜΗΡΟΥ ΙΛΙΑΣ HOMERI ILIAS [and:] ΟΔΥΣΣΕΙΑ....](https://liberantiquus.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4502.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1662048933)
Venice: In aedibus Aldi et Andreae Asulani Soceri, April, 1524.
Price: $18,000.00
A married set, bound in matching leather bindings (late 18th- early 19th c.), boards ruled in gold, spines tooled with attractive floral ornaments, red labels with “Homerus” tooled in Roman, and green labels with the Greek titles (“ΙΛΙΑΣ “, “ΟΔΥΣΣΕΙΑ”). The Aldine anchor and dolphin device is tooled on the...
![Item #3392 ΟΜΗΡΟΥ ΙΛΙΑΣ HOMERI ILIAS [and:] ΟΔΥΣΣΕΙΑ....](https://liberantiquus.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3392.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1610225550)
Venice: In aedibus Aldi et Andreae Asulani Soceri, April, 1524.
Price: $24,500.00
Two octavo volumes bound in 19th c. blue calf, gilt. With the Aldine anchor and dolphin device (A6) on the title page and the verso of the final leaf in each volume. Fine copies. A few marginal wormholes.This edition reprints Aldus’ letter to Girolamo Aleandro from the first Aldine edition.
![Item #4654 [Ἐρωτήματα (Grammatica Graeca)] and associated texts. Constantine Lascaris](https://liberantiquus.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4654.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1678388534)
Venice: apud Aldum, mense octobri, 1512.
Price: $20,000.00
A truly fine copy. Bound in 16th c. German blind-stamped pigskin over beveled wooden boards with the original clasps preserved (one clasp with small defect, minor wear to extremities, lightly soiled, small abrasions, rear board peppered with tiny wormholes.) A fine, crisp copy with bright leaves; contemporary manuscript headlines and...
