Venice: Giovanni Tacuino de Tridino, 21 May, 1516.
Price: $8,500.00
Bound in contemporary quarter calf and wooden boards (lacking clasps, spine discreetly repaired, scattered pinprick wormholes, corners a little worn). A fine copy overall, still in its original binding, with some sporadic damp-stains and a few instances of minor worming, as follows: Opening gatherings with marginal damp-stains (a darker one...
Paris, s.n., 1652.
Price: $12,000.00
Contemporary vellum over stiff boards, four green ties.Bound with: LEPAUTRE, Antoine. 1621-1679. [Desseins de plusieurs plans d'eglises, pallais et chasteaux]. Paris, s.n. before 1652. Large folio. Forty-nine leaves with fifty-two unnumbered etched plates. Bound with: PERELLE, Gabriel. 1603-1677. [Views of the ruins of Rome and environs]. Paris, P. Mariette...
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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 l’Eglise de S. Marcel, de l'imprimerie de Komarek, 1763.
Price: $18,000.00
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: Tommaso Barlacchi, 1550.
Price: $2,800.00
A fine, even impression with light surface soiling, a very faint trace of a vertical crease, and several very discreet paper repairs. Re-margined, almost imperceptibly, on one side, just shaving the plate mark. Signed and dated in the plate by the publisher: “THOMA BARLACHI EXCVDEBAT M.D.L”. Watermark: crossbow and circle.Tommaso...
[Rome:]: Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, after, 1638.
Price: $3,800.00
Lettered title across top, extensive description throughout. At right dedication to Cardinal Barberini and lower right 'Romae Superior licentia Anno 1635.' At left, beneath the cartouche: “La presente Pianta ridotta nella forma che al presente si ritrova con le Quattro Capelle fatte dalla Sat m. di Urbano VIII disegata. da...
Venice: Heirs of Aldus, 1554.
Price: $16,000.00
An attractive, unsophisticated (i.e. with no interventions) copy in its original limp vellum binding (binding soiling, a bit rumpled, and with nicks to vellum on the spine). The text overall is in very nice condition with broad margins, very genuine, with some marginal damp-staining to scattered leaves - more pronounced...
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...
Rome: Antonio Lafreri, 1550.
Price: $3,750.00
First state. With Lafreri’s excudit: “Ant. LafrerI FormIs Romae MDL” at lower right. Watermark “Crossbow with arrow in a circle” similar to Briquet 759. A very good impression, with light surface wear and light marginal soiling. Three early stamps on the verso, two of them from the Kupferstichkabinet Berlin (Lugt...
Rome: Apud Iacobum Mazochium Roman[a]e Achademiae bibliopo., 15 November, 1517.
Price: $11,500.00
Bound in early 20th c. brown morocco (wear at extremities, small abrasion on spine), gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers. Internally a nice copy, lightly washed, bound a bit tight, light soiling to title, verso of final leaf a little dusty. Illustrated with 204 medallion portraits (white on black) within elaborate architectural...
Verona: Apud Angelum Tamum, 1622.
Price: $40,000.00
With a printed half-title: “Musaeum Calceolarianum Veronense”, a fine, historiated, engraved title page, and a folding engraving showing the interior of Calzolari’s museum. The text is illustrated with 43 engravings of animals, plants, minerals, and ethnographic objects. There is also a profusion of woodcut initials throughout the text. The plates...
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Parma: Expensis & labore Francisci Mazalis, 1505.
Price: $28,000.00
Bound in twentieth-century stiff vellum. A broad-margined copy, some leaves gently washed, contemporary annotations to some leaves, occ. use of light colored wash to the woodcuts, insignificant mild soiling. Illustrated with 59 woodcuts. This is the only book known under Mazali's imprint at Parma (he was established at Reggio Emilia...
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Rome: Marcello and Eucharius Silber, alias Franck, ca. 1509-, 1527.
Price: $26,000.00
SIX SEPARATE WORKS BOUND AS ONE. Bound in early 20th c. olive morocco (rubbed, spine lightly sunned). Very good copies internally with a few small marginal tears, light damp-staining to margins of several leaves, a little more extensive on the final three leaves but still very pale. Illustrated with 11...
Rome: Presso Lazzarini, 1792.
Price: $8,400.00
Printed on blue paper. In contemporary mottled calf, the spine and boards tooled in gold. A very fine copy of the very rare first catalogue of the Museo Pio-Clementino - founded by Pope Clement XIV in 1771 and greatly expanded his successor by Pius VI-, written for the use of...
