Category: Early Printing

Image for Biblia Sacra, Ad optima quaeque veteris, & vulgate translationis exeplaria summa diligentia, pariq; fide castigata. Cum Hebraicorum, Caldaorum & Graecorum nominu interpretatione.

Biblia Sacra, Ad optima quaeque veteris, & vulgate translationis exeplaria summa diligentia, pariq; fide castigata. Cum Hebraicorum, Caldaorum & Graecorum nominu interpretatione.

Price: $2,000.00

Publisher: Lyon, Apud Guliel : 1567

Seller ID: 002001

Condition: Very Good

8vo. [16], 1176 pp. Followed by long unpaginated glossary and index. With many woodcut illustrations throughout, varying sizes, with sometimes nearly full page to small vignettes, and often two or more illustrations on a page. Modern vellum that with Gothic lettering on spine, is compatible with the 16th century text. Text block is tight. Some soiling near front in lower corner and scattered soiling beyond, but for age toning, the text is quite clean. The woodcuts are of varying sharpness, but that is a function of their printing.
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Image for Das Grosse Leben Christi, oder Ausfuhrliche/Andachtige/Bewegliche und ganz vollkommene Beschreibung des Allerheiligsten Lebens und bittern Lendens Unsers Herrn Jesu Christi, und seiner Glorwurdigsten Liebsten Mutter Maria, usw. [Zusammen mit] Nutzlicher Dusatz zu dem Leben Christi, von denen Vier letzen Dingen: Nemlich von dem Tod, Gericht, Holl, und Himmelreich.

Das Grosse Leben Christi, oder Ausfuhrliche/Andachtige/Bewegliche und ganz vollkommene Beschreibung des Allerheiligsten Lebens und bittern Lendens Unsers Herrn Jesu Christi, und seiner Glorwurdigsten Liebsten Mutter Maria, usw. [Zusammen mit] Nutzlicher Dusatz zu dem Leben Christi, von denen Vier letzen Dingen: Nemlich von dem Tod, Gericht, Holl, und Himmelreich.

Price: $1,000.00

Publisher: Mainz and Frankfurt, Johann Hoffners : 1746

Seller ID: 001326

Binding: Full Calf

Condition: Good

740, 216 pp. With 77 copper plate engravings and a portion (about 25 percent) of a map of Jerusalem, showing the walls of the ancient city, Pilate's palace, the Garden of Gethsemane, etc. Two books bound together. The book is printed in a variety of differing type fonts which differentiate such things as the prayers for feast days from the narrative of Christ's life and lives of those in his circle. Full Brown calf with raised bands at spine and remnants of straps and clasps over real wooden boards. Boards professionally repaired. Leather heavily scuffed and rubbed, with considerable dry...
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Image for Il Decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccacci, Cittadin Fiorentino, Di nuovo restampato, e riscontrato in Firenze con testi antichi, & alla sua vera lezione ridotto dal Cavalier Lionardo Salviati

Il Decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccacci, Cittadin Fiorentino, Di nuovo restampato, e riscontrato in Firenze con testi antichi, & alla sua vera lezione ridotto dal Cavalier Lionardo Salviati

Price: $2,500.00

Publisher: Venezia, Giunti di Firenze : August, 1582

Seller ID: 005473

Binding: Vellum

Condition: Fine

A beautiful 16th Century edition of Boccaccio's classic, with letter devices ornamenting the beginning of each tale. 8vo. 21 by 15.5 cm. [28], 585, [43] pp. A few very minor instances of soiling. Otherwise, astonishingly clean. More modern vellum that is sympathetic, appealing and clean.
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Psalterium Davidicum Graecolatinum

Price: $1,250.00

Publisher: Antwerp, Ioan. Steelsii : 1543

Seller ID: 006172

Binding: Full Calf

Condition: Good

16mo. 113 by 75 mm. Paginated partially in ink, with about 330 leaves. Psalms rendered in both Greek and Latin. Held only by Aberdeen, Luzern and SSB (Bayerisches Staatsbibliothek), according to OCLC First Search, although there were other contemporaneous versions of the same. Condition: calf of binding scuffed somewhat heavily in places, with extremities, joints and edges rubbed. Minor wormholing in early leaves -- no effect on readability.
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[Fore-edge Painting] Biblia Sacra Sive Testamentum Vetus ab im Tremellio et Fr. Junio ex Hebraeo Latine redditum et Testamentum Novum a Theod. Beza e Graeco in Latinum versum

Price: $1,000.00

Publisher: Amsterdam, Johannes Jacob Schipper : 1669

Seller ID: 003281

Binding: Full Calf

Condition: Very Good

Fore-edge painting of a tritych with the Madonna and infant Jesus at the center. 12mo. 15.5 by 10 cm. The contemporary calf is somewhat dry and crackled on the spine, with wear elsewhere, but still attractive. Small edge cut-out to a blank prelim page. Light scattered soiling but generally clean bible. The painting is discernible when the book is closed, although not nearly as sharp as when the pages are fanned.
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Image for Orlando Furioso, Con Cinque Canti d'un Nouvo Libro, & Altre Stanze del Medesimo nuovamente Aggiunti, Con Belle Allegorie: & nel fine, una Breve esposizione de gli oscuri vocabuli: Con la Tavola di tutto quello che nell'opera si contiene

Orlando Furioso, Con Cinque Canti d'un Nouvo Libro, & Altre Stanze del Medesimo nuovamente Aggiunti, Con Belle Allegorie: & nel fine, una Breve esposizione de gli oscuri vocabuli: Con la Tavola di tutto quello che nell'opera si contiene

By: Ariosto, Ludovico

Price: $1,750.00

Publisher: Lyons, Bastiano di Bartholomeo Honorati : 1556

Seller ID: 001310

Binding: Full Calf

Condition: Very Good Plus

511, [40] pp. 8vo, 17 by 11 cm, 6.5 by 4 inches. With woodcut illustrations for each canto above the "Argomento". 52 woodcuts in text, plus title illustration, plus a few header/footers, and ornamented letter at beginning of each canto. Also Exposition by Ludovico Dolce and useful table, or index. Brunet I 433. Light dampstaining to early pages (hardly distinguishable from general age toning, which is moderate in this copy). Small inkstain on title page corner, and some occasional minor spotting elsewhere. Some wear to calf boards, with minor chipping along edges. Rebacked sympathetic...
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I Quattro Primi Libri di Architettura di Petro Cataneo Senese

By: Cataneo, Pietro

Price: $4,500.00

Publisher: Vinegia (Venice), Aldus. In casa de' figliuoli di Aldo : 1554

Seller ID: 006336

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Very Good

Folio, 34.5 by 24 cm. [116] pp. (2 unnumbered leaves, including title, 54 numbered leaves, 2 unnumbered leaves.) Title vignette with Aldus anchor emblem. Repeated on last page. 42 woodcut illustrations, seven of which are full page, in addition to 53 woodcut letter devices, each with a small vignette illustration. Condition: later brown morocco rubbed heavily in corners, less so, along joints, and slight starting upper front joint. Title and next two leaves with expert paper repair in upper corner, with in one case, addressing a closed tear --these repairs are comparatively inconspicuo...
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Image for Filli di Sciro, Favola Pastorale Detto L'Aggiunto. Accademico Intrepido. Da essa Accademia dedicata al Serenissima Signor, Don Francesco Maria Feltrio Dalla Rovere Duca VI. D'Urbino.

Filli di Sciro, Favola Pastorale Detto L'Aggiunto. Accademico Intrepido. Da essa Accademia dedicata al Serenissima Signor, Don Francesco Maria Feltrio Dalla Rovere Duca VI. D'Urbino.

By: Conte Guidubaldo De'Bonarelli. Figure da Sebastien LeClerc

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Amsterdam; Paris, D. Elsevier; Thomas Jolly : 1678

Seller ID: 001927

Condition: Very Good Plus

24mo. (10 by 6 cm.) 168 pp. With seven woodcuts, including the half-title. First published in 1607, this play is in the tradition of Tasso's "Aminta" or Guarini's "Il Pastor Fido". Aminta is, in fact, the name of a character within the play. Brunet I 1088. Leaves are age toned, with a light dampstain affecting a few leaves in the corner. Otherwise tight and clean. Modern red full morocco with marbled endpapers.
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Het Voorhof der Ziele

By: De Hooghe, Romein, illustrator. Hoogstraeten, Frans Van

Price: $1,750.00

Publisher: Rotterdam, Fransois van Hoogstraeten : 1668

Seller ID: 001938

Binding: Full Vellum

Condition: Very Good

4to. 18.5 by 14 cm. [16], 199, [9] pp. With title and 60 additional high Baroque copper engravings, slightly over half-page in size, by de Hooghe. Landwehr 325. Each emblem with a Dutch caption and either Latin or Spanish (one in Italian) caption as well, followed by Dutch verse. The title might be translated as "Fore-court of Souls". This was the first book illustrated by de Hooghe. Contemporary or near contemporary vellum. Large tornado shaped stain on rear board top to bottom. A few more modest stains elsewhere on binding, and some light soiling. Occasional stains within....
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Idea de un Principe Politico Christiano Reresentada en cien empresas

By: de Saavedra Faxardo, Don Diego (1584-1648)

Price: $1,450.00

Publisher: Amsterdam, Ioh. Ianssonium Iuniorem : 1659

Seller ID: 002169

Binding: Vellum

Condition: Very Good

12mo., 14 by 8 cm. [24, ]835 pp., with 103 emblems plus title illustration sharply and minutely etched, and including title. This is more than title suggests. Text proper has in actuality 101 symbols and thus emblems, plus there is an additional emblem in the prelims and one at the end of the work. This is a Latin translation of the Spanish original. The contemporary vellum has some soiling, especially where creased on the spine, but still attractive and a bright patina survives. A light dampstaining affects some leaves. Overall the leaves are Pages 793/4 have an archival repair of a s...
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Il Pastor Fido, Tragicommedia Pastorale: Ora in questa nuova impressione di bellissime figure in rame ornato

By: Guarini, Battista

Price: $600.00

Publisher: Amsterdam, Appresso Lodovico Elzevier : 1640

Seller ID: 001244

Binding: Vellum

Condition: Very Good Plus

48mo - over 3 - 4" tall. 285 pp. Engraved title page + 3 additional full page engraved plates, with names of characters written underneath figures. Early miniature illustrated book version of Guarini's 1590 pastoral masterpiece, which is also one of the cornerstones of the Italian canon. The book measures 3.5 by 2 inches, or 8.5 by 5 cm. Printing possibly by Willem Blaeu of Elzevier. Final pages have worm hole, which diminishes to pinhole sized loss on text pages in two-thirds of leaves in lower margin. On a few leaves loss of a few letters but text remains readable. Other than this...
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Kempis Dell'Imitatione di Cristo Parigi

By: Kempis, Thomas

Price: $675.00

Publisher: Venice, Sivende

Seller ID: 003083

Binding: Full Calf

Condition: Very Good

N.d., circa 1690. 426, [6] pp. 16mo. 11 by 6 cm. With 115 woodcuts, one for each chapter, woodcut title page, tail pieces and other decorative ornaments. Scarce Venetian imprint of classic work of theology. No copies of this version located on OCLC FirstSearch. Wear to calf, with rubbing on edges. Leather is still attractive. Scattered soiling.
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Lucien, De La Traduction de N. Perrot, Sr. D'Ablancourt. Avec des Remarques sur la Traduction. Nouvelle Edition revue & corrigee (Two volumes)

By: Lucien. N. Perrot.

Price: $375.00

Publisher: Amsterdam, Chez Pierre Mortier Libraire : 1709

Seller ID: 001894

Condition: Very Good

12mo. 16 by 10 cm. [16], 485, [11], [4], 530, [18] pp. With fourteen copper engraved plates, seven of which are folding, based on the illustrations by Dutch Baroque master Romeyn van der Hooghe. Brunet III 1211. Lucian of Samosata (125 - 180 A.D.) was an Assyrian satirist who wrote exclusively in Greek. Herein are contained, in French, his best-known works: "L'Histoire Veritable", "Dialogues des Morts", "Dialogues des Dieux". Clean and tight. Light wear to the binding.
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Les Oeuvres Morales & Meslees de Plutarque. Translatees du Grec en François par Messire Jacques Amyot (Seven Volumes)

By: Plutarch [Plutarque]. Translated by Jacques Amyot

Price: $7,500.00

Publisher: Michel de Vascosan : 1572

Seller ID: 007060

Binding: Full Calf

Condition: Very Good

Beautiful early calf binding, probably eighteenth century. Folio. This copy was in the library of Chateau de Vertcoeur, which was bought by Yvonne de Gaulle, wife of Charles de Gaulle, to house mentally retarded young woman, in honor of their own daughter, Anne, who had had down's syndrome.
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Funerali Antichi di diversi Popli, et Nationi; Forma, Ordine, et Pompa di sepolture di

By: Porcacchi, Thomaso

Price: $4,000.00

Publisher: Venetia, Appresso Gli Heredi di Simon Galignani : 1591

Seller ID: 002925

Binding: Vellum

Condition: Very Good

WIth contemporary hand-coloring of all illustrations, including the title page, and decorative devices, of a book seldom found with color. 4to. 30 by 20.5 cm. [6], 95 pp. Each of the 23 chapters features a hand-colored illustration of the particular funeral rite. These measure 9 by 15 cm, oblong. Plus coloring of the rinceaux bands at the chapter heads, the letter devices at the beginning of chapter texts, and foot decorations at the close of the chapters, plus a more elaborate statuary decoration at the close of the book. Besides the beauty of the hand-coloring, the color greatly aids ...
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Image for Thurnier Buch. Von Anfang, Ursachen, ursprung, und herkommen, der Thurnier im heyligen Romischen Reich Tetuscher Nation, Wie viel offentlicher Landthurnier, von Keyser Heinrich dem ersten dieses Namens an, biss auff den jetztregierden Keyser Maximilian den andern, unseren Allergnadigsten Herrn, und in welchen Stetten die alle gehalten, Auch durch welche Fursten, Graffen, Herrn, Ritter, und vom Adel, dieselben jeder zeyt besucht worden. Alles jetzunder von neuwem zusammen getragen, mit schonen neuwen Figuren, sonderlich auch der Adelischen Wappen, auffs schonest zugericht, und allen adels-Personen der hochberuhmtesten Teutscher Nation, hohes und nidern Stands, zu ehren und sonderm wolgefallen an tag gegeben, dergleichen nie gesehen worden.

Thurnier Buch. Von Anfang, Ursachen, ursprung, und herkommen, der Thurnier im heyligen Romischen Reich Tetuscher Nation, Wie viel offentlicher Landthurnier, von Keyser Heinrich dem ersten dieses Namens an, biss auff den jetztregierden Keyser Maximilian den andern, unseren Allergnadigsten Herrn, und in welchen Stetten die alle gehalten, Auch durch welche Fursten, Graffen, Herrn, Ritter, und vom Adel, dieselben jeder zeyt besucht worden. Alles jetzunder von neuwem zusammen getragen, mit schonen neuwen Figuren, sonderlich auch der Adelischen Wappen, auffs schonest zugericht, und allen adels-Personen der hochberuhmtesten Teutscher Nation, hohes und nidern Stands, zu ehren und sonderm wolgefallen an tag gegeben, dergleichen nie gesehen worden.

By: Ruxner, Georg

Price: $10,000.00

Publisher: Frankfurt am Mayn, [Georg Raben, with Sigmund Feyrabends und Simon Huters] : 1566

Seller ID: 001394

Binding: Pigskin

Condition: Very Good

Small folio, 34 by 21 cm, 13 by 8 inches. [6], ccxliii, [3], [4], lxxxi. Early coloring sets this copy apart. Abundant woodcuts attributed to Josse Amman and Feyerabend. Brunet IV 1471. The illustrations depict, of course, jousting tournaments, but also banquets, music-making, courtship and festivities that went along with the tournaments and military marches and activity that were the real impetus for the tournament and its particular culture. In addition many of the decorative devices and many coat-of-arms are colored. This is an early history of tournaments, and surely the most compr...
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Image for Vorsteliicke Warande der Dieren. De Helden Godes des Ouwden Verbonds. De Heerlyckheyd van Salomon. Hierusalem Verwoest. De Vernieuwde Gulden Winckel der Kunstlievende Nederlands. (Five works bound in one)

Vorsteliicke Warande der Dieren. De Helden Godes des Ouwden Verbonds. De Heerlyckheyd van Salomon. Hierusalem Verwoest. De Vernieuwde Gulden Winckel der Kunstlievende Nederlands. (Five works bound in one)

By: Van den Vondel, Joost. Emblems by Marcus Gheeraerts, G. de Jode, etc.

Price: $4,500.00

Publisher: Amsterdam, D. Pietersz : 1617-1622

Seller ID: 001946

Binding: Full Calf

Condition: Very Good

Vorsteliicke Warande with 125 half-page copper engraved emblem plates; De Helden Godes, with vignette title and 38 copper engraved biblical emblems; De Wiernieuwde Gulden Winckel with vignette title and 73 half-page copper engraved biblical emblems. The two other works with vignett title and letterpieces. Emblems of Vorteliicke Warande especially charming, with most portraying animals with anthropomorphic brio. Landwehr 886, 877. This set has bookplate from Landwehr and was his personal copy. Calf spine dry and rough. Joints dry, rubbed and cracked. Interior is tight and attractive.
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Category: Early Printing