Leiden: Joannes Maire, 1631.

Price: $5,500.00

A very nice copy in contemporary limp vellum. Light marginal dampstain to outer margin of first gathering, marginal worm-trail in blank lower margin of gatherings Q and R discreetly repaired. Occasional light toning, a few stray marks. Leaf B1 canceled as always. With a fine engraved frontispiece by Gerard Muntinck...

Paris: Pierre Vidoue, for Gilles de Gourmont, 1528.

Price: $12,500.00

An exceptional, broad-margined copy, with a few deckled edges, bound in contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, with clasps intact. A near-spotless copy, the title with light finger-soiling at upper corner, a few light marginal spots in 2 gatherings at end.) With tiny, neat interlinear annotations in four comedies: Each...

Oxford: Joseph Barnes, 1599.

Price: $25,000.00

Bound in modern calf, gilt. With a typographic ornament on the title, woodcut initials, head-and tail-pieces. A tall copy with good margins, title lightly soiled and with small restoration in the blank gutter, last leaf also lightly soiled and with a similar repair to the blank corner. Some early annotations...

London: Printed by Thomas Harper, and are to be sold by Godfrey Emondson, and Thomas Alchorne, 1631.

Price: $11,500.00

Bound in 19th c. quarter morocco and marbled papers over boards (rubbing to joints and extremities), spine tooled in gold. Contents in good condition, cut close with shaving to a number of headlines and some signature marks but not affecting the text itself. Faint dampstain to t.p. and second leaf...

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...

Basel: Gebrüden von Mechel, 1796, i.e., 1842.

Price: $3,900.00

A rare edition, and a very fine copy, of the “Basel” Dance of Death. Despite the date of 1796 indicated on the title, this edition was printed in 1842. The new date appears at the end of the new publisher’s introduction. Bound in 19th c. boards patterned with gold stars...

London: Printed by M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, and are to be sold at his shop in St Dunstans Church-yard in Fleet-street, 1639.

Price: $16,500.00

A very desirable copy, bound in its original binding of sprinkled calf, ruled in blind, with a discreet repair to the front joint and foot of the spine. The text is in fine condition and is complete with the portrait of Donne –now rarely encountered- by William Marshall, apparently after...

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...

Paris: Jodocus Badius Ascensius, 1524.

Price: $12,500.00

Bound in contemporary limp vellum, lightly soiled. The contents are in very good condition with a few pencil annotations and light soiling to the title page. With Badius' device of his print shop, the “Praelum Ascensianum” showing printers working a press, on the title page. With large, attractive crible initials...

Bologna: per gli heredi del Dozza, [1655]-, 1656.

Price: $35,000.00

Two volumes bound in matching contemporary vellum, lightly soiled. Internally, a fine, broad-margined set with the usual variable light paper toning associated with this edition and scattered light foxing. Minor faults as follows: a paper repair to the blank margin of one leaf and two short marginal tears, far from...

Mainz: Peter Schoeffer, 10 September, 1474.

Price: $45,000.00

A fine copy, in an impressive binding, of the first edition, printed by Gutenberg’s apprentice, Peter Schoeffer. Bound in contemporary Bamberg blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards [Kyriss 006, EBDB w000078, Bamberg Minoritenkloster], with flyleaves from vellum manuscript antiphonal, brass catch-plates with sphinxes, straps and clasps intact. Wormholes to both boards...

London: in Flete Streete By Thomas Povvell, 1556.

Price: $52,000.00

Bound in fine in 19th-century red morocco tooled in a cottage style, richly gilt, with red silk doublures. This is a fine, clean, and complete copy of a book rarely encountered in such condition. A small section of the upper part of the title page has been restored in pen...

Mainz: Johann Schöffer, 1524.

Price: $15,000.00

Bound in 20th c. green morocco with gilt turn-ins. A fine copy, a.e.g., with a fine woodcut title border, woodcut initials, and occ. contemporary annotations. The title border incorporates Schöffer's coat of arms (see Johnson no. 62 and Pflugk-Harttung no. 52).Ulrich von Hutten's famous work on the treatment of syphilis...