Lyon: Jacobus Saçon for Ciriacus Hochperg, 1517.
Price: $30,000.00
A very fine, complete copy, bound in 17th century French blind-ruled calfskin, the spine ruled and tooled in gold with attractive floral ornaments; red morocco label in second compartment, board edges also tooled in gold. With discreet repairs at the head and foot of spine, some signs of wear to...
[Geneva:]: Excudebat Henricus Stephanus, [for Ulrich Fugger], 1566.
Price: $12,000.00
Bound in seventeenth-century limp vellum. A fine copy, profusely annotated, with scattered instances of damp-staining in the lower margin, and a small piece of the blank margin of leaf y2 snipped away; leaves z7 & 8 with a small marginal paper flaws. Printed in Claude Garamond’s Greek type (‘grecs du...
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...
London: Printed by J[ohn] L[egat] for Andrew Hebb, and are to be sold at the signe of the Bell in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1640.
Price: $9,500.00
Bound in 18th c. speckled calf, worn at the corners and extremities, re-backed. In addition to the engraved title, there is a full-paged engraving (with a medallion portrait) of Ovid, and fifteen full-page engravings by Salomon Savery (1594-1665) after drawings by Francis Clein (1582-1658). This copy is EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with the...
Basel: Ex Officina Hervagiana, 1540.
Price: $6,500.00
Bound in contemporary blind-tooled pigskin (lightly soiled, some surface abrasions, discreet repairs to hinges). The binding is stamped with the date 1542 and the initial M. The boards are ruled in compartments, with blind-stamped figurative rolls featuring female personifications of Prudence (holding a mirror) and Justice (with her scales), as...
Cologne: Opera et impensa Ioannis Soteris [Johann Soter], August, 1527.
Price: $5,500.00
Bound in attractive contemporary blind-stamped calfskin over thin wooden boards, with floral tools and rolls of urns. Text possibly re-cased. Somewhat later end-papers. Internally fine. Title page a little dusty, light marginal damp-stain in gathering t, small tear in inner margin of final leaf.The text is printed in italic, with...
Venice: Bonetus Locatellus, per Octavianus Scotus, 9 December, 1491.
Price: $18,000.00
[Bound with]: Statius, Publius Papinius (b. ca. 45-50 – d. ca. 96) Statii Achilleida cum comm. Ioannis Britannici Brescia: per Iacobum Brtitannicum, 21 May 1485 Folio: 29 x 19.6 cm. Two works bound as one. I. [158] lvs. (the last leaf blank). Collation: a-c8, d-e6, f-s8...
Florence: Giunta, 1515.
Price: $6,500.00
A very nice copy in 18th c. vellum with a single blind-ruled fillet and a citron morocco label, gilt; edges of text-block stained red. The text is in very good condition with scattered light foxing, heavier to a few leaves. A few minor stains, wax seal remnant on final leaf...
Paris: Simon Colines, 7 May, 1543.
Price: $4,800.00
A tall copy in contemporary French panelled calf with gilt ornaments on the boards and spine (wear to hinges). Early ownership inscription inked over on pastedown; another -partially legible- inscription reads ‘Anthonii Eutg..[?]’. Later notes on rear pastedown. Title lightly soiled, occ. marginal dampstains. Coline’s iconic “Tempus” device appears on...
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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...
Frankfurt: Peter Braubach, 1544.
Price: $7,500.00
Bound in contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards dated 1546. The boards are blind-ruled in compartments and elaborately tooled with decorative rolls (the Crucifixion, King David -dated 1543, John the Baptist, urns, interlocking sheaves of wheat, and small floral stamps (binding moderately soiled, lacking one clasp, small defects at extremities)...
Florence: Per haeredes Philippi Iuntae, 1526.
Price: $3,800.00
A tall, unsophisticated copy, in its original limp vellum binding (vellum stained, lacking ties, short split to upper hinge). The text is in very good condition with intermittent foxing, heavier in some gatherings.A compendium of ancient geographical texts, including descriptions of the known world by Pomponius Mela, Dionysius Periegetes, and...
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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...
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...
Parma: Octavianus Saladius et Franciscus Ugoletus, 1510.
Price: $10,500.00
Bound in 19th c. ivory vellum, spine gold-tooled and with red Morocco label (small splits at head and tail of joints.) An excellent copy with wide margins. Outer margin of first few lvs. lightly soiled, the last few leaves with a light damp-stain in the outer margin, a few trivial...
Cambridge: ex officina Iohannis Legat, 1598.
Price: $15,000.00
Bound in contemporary vellum, a bit rumpled, lightly soiled, text block loose at front. A very fine, crisp copy. Smudge on leaf C1, ink spot on leaf G2; small, faint dampstain to upper margin in gatherings E and F. Variable light damp-stain to lower, outer corner starting in gathering L....
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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...
London: William Copland, 1553.
Price: $75,000.00
Bound in 18th century diced russia, boards and spine ornately tooled in gold, housed in a modern full dark blue morocco folding case by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Title page printed with an elaborate woodcut compartment (McKerrow & Ferguson 49a), text in black letter, with the inserted leaf in signature X....
London: By Arn. Hatfield, for Bonham and Iohn Norton], 1598.
Price: $16,000.00
[Bound with, as issued:] The End of Nero and Beginning of Galba. Fower Bookes of The Histories of Cornelius Tacitus. The Life of Agricola. The second edition. London: [By Edm. Bollifant, for Bonham and Iohn Norton], 1598 Folio: 30 x 20.7 cm. [8], 271, [1] p. (1st 2 p. blank) Collation: [par.]⁴ A-Y⁶...
Geneva: Excudebat Henricus Stephanus, 1588.
Price: $18,000.00
A fine, tall copy in contemporary blind-ruled vellum, edges of the text block sprinkled red and blue. The text is in very nice condition, lightly toned, with minor blemishes (A FEW small ink stains, sm. burn hole in margin of one leaf, ss2 small rust spot, g3-5 v. light dampstain...
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Venice: Aldus Manutius and Andrea Torresani, January, 1513.
Price: $16,000.00
Bound in 18th c. stiff vellum, possibly a deftly executed early 19th c. remboîtage. Attractive spine labels, gilt. Aldine device on title. A very fine copy, the text crisp and bright, with two bifolia uncut, and a few minor faults: title and second leaf lightly soiled and with small repairs...
Paris: Ex Officina Roberti Stephani, 1538-, 1539.
Price: $10,500.00
Bound in matching 18th c. speckled calfskin bindings, rebacked, the gilding to the spine largely preserved, minor wear, corners bumped. The text is clean and broad-margined, with just the occasional minor dampstain to the upper edge of the upper blank margin. A few 18th c. annotations and underscores. 17th(?) c....
Basel: Henricus Petri, 1530.
Price: $2,800.00
Bound in contemporary alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards, lacking clasps but with the brass catches, with acorn tools and rolls of 3 of the Muses: Terpsichore, Euterpe (signed N.C.), and Calliope (signed M.A.). First title dusty, damp-stain in the first part of the Martial. Intermittent annotations in the margins of...
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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.
London: Printed by Thomas Creede, 1607.
Price: $20,000.00
Bound in an exquisite binding of eighteenth-century mottled calf, highly polished and beautifully tooled in gold along the edges of the boards. The spine is separated into six compartments by the raised sewing supports, each of which, aside from that bearing the citron morocco label, is decorated with attractive floral...
