Various places: Various printers, ca. 1500-, 1502.
Price: $28,000.00
Bound in contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards (catch-plate of the single clasp present but catch missing, hinges cracked, two cords of upper board repaired.) With an original vellum label on the upper board. Flyleaves and pastedowns from a thirteenth century manuscript waste (probably German) of an unidentified biblical commentary...
Nuremberg: Christoph Lochner for Levinus Hulsius, 1599.
Price: $18,500.00
Rebound in the 20th c. using early parchment, with ms. title on spine. Contents in very good condition, complete with all 6 plates and the map. A light stain in the outer margin carefully cleaned, with resulting stiffness to the fore-edge. A few small chips to the margin, outer blank...
Florence: Heirs of Filippo Giunta, 1522.
Price: $6,800.00
A very good copy, re-cased in early vellum; cancelled ownership inscription and purchase note ‘Iste liber est mei Landi de Landis de Eugubio emptu Rome die 27 aprilis 1537…’ to verso of rear free endpaper; ownership inscription to recto and verso of title obscured with early ink strikethrough (Ludovici [?]);...
Rotterdam: F. van Hoogstraeten, 1678.
Price: $12,500.00
A very good, complete copy with all plates. Bound in contemporary Dutch vellum, moderately soiled and a bit warped, corners bumped. Minor blemishes as follows: Etched t.p. lightly soiled, light browning to blank edges of some plates, outer edge of portrait plate with pale damp-stain, light marginal foxing; small spots...
Oxford: Printed by Leon: Lichfield, Printer to the University, for Rob: Young, & Ed: Forrest, 1640.
Price: $15,500.00
An excellent copy bound in attractive contemporary calf, boards ruled in blind and gold, with ornaments at the angles and diamond-shaped cartouche at center; spine tooled with ornaments, gilt. The binding is in fine shape with minor defects to the head and tail of spine, mild wear to hinges and...
London: John Haviland, 1638.
Price: $15,000.00
A COMPLETE COPY with the often-missing engraved frontispiece by William Marshall. Bound in late 19th c. tan morocco, gilt edges and turn-ins. A very good copy, washed and pressed, contents lightly toned, engraved t.p. soiled and with slightly ragged fore-edge, discreet restoration to printed t.p. Leaves X7-8 trimmed close at...
London: Willyam Seres, 1565.
Price: $25,000.00
A copy with numerous points of interest, bound in contemporary English calf (worn, rebacked preserving most of the original spine, wear with loss to the leather at three corners), the boards ruled in blind and with large central blind-stamped lozenge with vegetal motifs. The text, resewn at the time of...
[Lima: no printer, no date], 1757.
Price: $10,500.00
Bound in contemporary limp vellum, lightly soiled, lacking ties. Blurred stamp to free endpaper, private library bookplate on pastedown. A very fine copy on bright paper with just a few trivial blemishes. The folding plate is in fine condition, with a few creases and a closed tear, the printing of...
London: Printed for Henry Herringman, and are to be sold at his shop at the sign of the Anchor, in the lower walk of the New Exchange, 1656.
Price: $15,000.00
A very good, crisp, complete copy of this rare book, bound in contemporary English sheepskin, ruled in blind, rebacked, boards heavily worn. Metal-cut t.p. rule shaved on two sides, portrait leaf with small repair to lower left corner, just entering the blank corner of the plate mark (no loss to...
Venice: a Philippo Pincio Mantuano Impressae, 27 September, 1510.
Price: $7,400.00
A fine copy bound in contemporary wooden boards (corners chipped) with later blind-ruled half-calf calf, with leather straps, catch-plates, and clasps preserved (one clasp defective). A broad-margined, bright copy with minor blemishes: title page lightly stained, light marginal dampstain to outer margin of opening and final gathering, a few pin-prick...
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...
Rome: apud Valerium et Ludovicum fratres Brixienses, 1552.
Price: $4,800.00
Bound in a contemporary vellum binding using a re-purposed manuscript leaf). Printed in an elegant cursive by the Brescian brothers Valerio e Luigi Dorico, fine engravers and printers active in Rome from 1538 to 1559. A very good copy bound in 18th c. vellum, red morocco label, gilt. Title page...
London: Printed [by Augustine Mathewes] for William Lee, at the Turkes Head in Fleete-Streete, next to the Miter and Phaenix, 1627.
Price: $12,000.00
Bound in 17th c. speckled calf, wear to edges, nicely rebacked. Crisp copies, clean overall, with minor blemishes and occasional browning in the second work (see below). These books, while printed eight year apart, are often found bound together. As usual, when bound with the 1619 “Poems”, which includes the...
Venice: [Per Comin da Trino di Monferrato], 1574.
Price: $15,000.00
Bound in near-contemporary limp vellum, remains of ties, paper label chipped. Contents fine. Light soiling to title, short worm-trail in the inner margin of gatherings F and G, small portion of blank corner of leaf F6 snipped away. Five parts in one volume; Four divisional title pages dated 1573. All...
Florence: Per Gio. Batista Landini, 1634.
Price: $14,500.00
Bound in contemporary parchment (lightly soiled and very slightly wrinkled), tooled in gold with attractive ornaments. Etched portrait on a smaller sheet than the text, tipped in before title page. Text in very good condition with a few light stains. Title lightly soiled and with dampstain at upper, outer corner.Illustrations...
Basel: Apud Ioan. Froben. Mense Xbri. 1520.
Price: $12,000.00
Bound in contemporary reversed-calf (with stains and surface wear). A fine, tall, and fresh copy. Woodcut border by Hans Holbein to title page, additional woodcut borders to second leaf and the opening leaf of the text. Woodcut Froben device on verso of final leaf. Neat contemporary annotations in the margins...
Antwerp: Ex Officina Plantiniana, apud Ioannem Moretum, 1602.
Price: $16,000.00
A very fine, broad-margined copy, bound in contemporary Dutch vellum (lightly soiled, some stains, corners bumped). The contents are in excellent condition, the text bright, the plates in rich impressions. Insignificant defects as follows: small crease to upper corner of t.p, p. 263-272, 304-312 with small stain at head, very...
Frankfurt: Martin Lechler for the heirs of Christian Egenolff, 1572.
Price: $8,500.00
Bound in attractive brocade wrappers, with endpapers from a 15th century vellum manuscript with small initials in gold and colours. Title page printed in red and black (and with two small woodcut monsters and Atlas in modern (i.e. 16th c.) clothing holding a compass and supporting the Earth. Illustrated with...
London: In Fletestrete by Thomas Berthelette printer to the kingis grace, 1532.
Price: $48,000.00
Bound in 19th c. russia, boards ruled by a triple filet, gilt. Spine ruled in compartments, author, title and date on spine, gilt. The title is printed within a decorative woodcut border copied from master printer Geoffroy Tory. Text in black letter, double columns. With 16th c. signatures of John...
[Rome]: [Marcello Silber], after 12th August, 1514.
Price: $16,000.00
Bound in 19th c. green Morocco, a.e.g., gilt turn-ins, spine rubbed. Ex libris R.B.. A fine copy. Early foliation at upper corners of the lvs.A political letter from Henry VIII to Pope Leo X of Rome, written by the King when he was only 23 years of age. The letter...
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London: in aedibus Wina[n]di de Worden, 1521.
Price: $22,000.00
Bound in full red morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, with de Worde's trademark tooled in blind on front board, along with title, author, and imprint date. Title page printed within four-part woodcut compartment with Wynkyn de Worde's (d. 1534?) logo on shields at top and bottom [McKerrow 49 & 50]...
London: Printed [by Richard Field] for Nathaniell Butter, ca. 1612.
Price: $47,500.00
Bound in 17th c. English paneled calf, rebacked (early 20th c.?), minor wear at extremities. A very fine copy. Engraved t.p. lightly soiled and with a few light spots, and a small adhesion scar. The text is crisp and bright with occ. light blemishes; light marginal damp-staining or soling in...
The Hague: Adrian Vlacq, 1659.
Price: $125,000.00
[Bound with:] De circuli magnitudine inventa. Accedunt eiusdem problematum quorundam illustrium constructiones. Leiden: Elzevir, 1654 Quarto: II. (8), 71, (1) p. Collation: *4, A-I4 FIRST EDITION of Huygens' landmark work on Saturn bound with the FIRST EDITION of Huygens’ work on the quadrature of the...
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Strasbourg: Johann Knobloch, 1516.
Price: $10,500.00
[Bound with]: Erasmus, Desiderius (1466?-1536) De duplici copia, verborum ac rerum commentarij duo. Ab authore ipso diligentissime recogniti & emaculati, atque in plerisque locis aucti. ... ; Item Epistola Erasmi Roterodami ad Iacobum Vuimphelingium Selestatinum. Strasbourg: Mathias Schürer, October 1516 [And]: Hutten, Ulrich von...
[Bamberg: Georg Erlinger], 1523.
Price: $4,500.00
An excellent, clean copy with broad margins. Bound in modern speckled boards. With a fine woodcut title page border.As with many aspects of Church ritual and practice, Luther perceived the liturgy to have been corrupted and in need of serious reform. “Three great and serious misuses have entered into divine...
