8vo 8" - 9" tall; 512 pages; 1677 Antonio Goncalez de Reyes, Madrid. [16], 512, [24] p. Full vellum binding. Vellum covers nearly detached from text block. Vellum soiled and wrinkled. Half title page tatterd and torn . Worming here and there throughout, occasionally somewhat heavy - as in the first 15 or so leaves, but usually minor with some interference in the text. Contents appear complete. Some paper restoration needed and attention also to the binding. Margins trimmed and a little tight. With all faults. Fair only View More...
Woodcuts; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 900 pages; 1591; 1585; 1584 - Officina Plantiniana / Franciscus Raphelengius; Christophorum Plantinum : Christophe Plantin. Antwerp & Leiden. Three Emblem books from the press of Plantin, bound together in one volume. 16mo in 8s. 389; 159; 352 pp. Full vellum binding with yapped edges. All three books collated, complete including blanks. Though all are later printings, in the smaller 16mo format by the Plantin publishing house, they are remarkably well preserved, complete and clean. Some superficial damp lines and halos observed here and there. Woodcuts clean and... View More...
16mo 6" - 7" tall; 280 pages; Reprinting from the 1658 original edition. Small format in period vellum. In 12's. Soundly bound and generallu clean. Prior ownership in Italian (Mario Franco Placocos[? ]) to front endpage and base of title. Period manuscrip to vellum at spine, simply "Francese". Mild worming to the pastedowns and front free endpage. Two or three pin head sized worm holes to the vellum at the rear joint. Flake of vellum missing top edge rear boars. Solid and clean; VG View More...
R. P. Cornelio Cornelii a Lapide E Societate Jesv, Sacrae Scripturae Olim Louanii, Postea Romae Professore; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 314 pages; Antwerp, Jakob Meursius; 1669. Collects and reprints commentaries earlier issued in seperate volumes. This volume paged as one. [4] Bl., 314 S., [22] Bl. Folio 13" tall. Period full vellum; spine in six compartments with five raised bands. Title lettering inked in manuscript to second compartment with inked devices drawn in the 1st and 3rd compartments. Woodcut title page vignette, tailpieces and first letters to each commentary and index. Sp... View More...
frontis; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 191 pages; [no date given] Circa 1896. J M. Dent & Co, Aldine House. Vol I only of the 2 volume work. Bound in full vellum with decorative pictorial borders and title design to cover and spine in gilt. Top edge gilt; other edges untrimmed. This vellum bound edition uniform with other Rhys edited "Lyrical Poets" volumes published by Dent at this time. Prior owner gift inscription to front endpage dated 1896. Illustrated with an engraved Blake frontispiece, with tissue guard. Offset toning to the red and black printed pictorial title page from the tis... View More...
24mo 5" - 6" tall; [14], 149, [21] p. Signatures [A - L]8 ; M2. Final 5 leaves blank. Printer's woodcut device on title page. Full period vellum with hand lettered titling at top of spine. Prior ownership in manuscript to pastedown and fly. Several hand lettered ownership inscriptions on title page margins have been crossed through but remain legible with close inspection. Binding neat; contents complete with just minor toning to pages and a few leaves at rear with superficial nicks and margin tears at edge. Attractive copy of historian and humanist - Puteanus' history of the Barbaria... View More...
4to 11" - 13" tall; 1316 pages; Caspar Fritsch, Leipzig. Handsomely bound in contemporary full vellum with brown morocco title labels to spine. Folding frontis copperplate and 4 folding copperplate engraved plates. Vol I: [10], LVI, 858 p. ; Vol II : [10], p. 859-1316, 159 p.. Mounted to the front pastedown is the armorial bookplate of Thomas Falconer with four lozenges below the shield indicating earlier Falconer lineage; below this is mounted a later bookplate of Joseph M. Gleason. Snugly bound in bright clean vellum with just mild shelf rub to extremities. Almost imperceptible to t... View More...
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 478 pages; Tomo 2 only. Full period vellum with gilt bands and volume # tooled in gilt to spine; morocco title label mounted. Snug neat copy; very handsome. Contains the full text for Il Burbero Benefico; Pamela Maritata; La Dama Prudente; il Padre Di Famiglia; il Cavaliere e la Dama. VG+ View More...
Two copperplate engraved illust.; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 245 pages; Hanover, Foerster; 1722. 12mo in 1/2 vellum and handpainted/patterned parchment over boards. LXXXIX, 247 pp (of 252 called for). Missing the terminal three leaves which complete the 2nd appendix. Title page in red and black is the first leaf at front. Lacking front endsheets. Otherwise complete. Mild soiling to title page and light toning to the two engraved plates. In general the pages are clean and neat. Prior ownership in manuscript to the vellum at the top front corner of the cover board. Hand lettered "Latin Boo... View More...
Woodcut plates; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 592 pages; Vol II (Parte Seconda) only, of 2. Stout small 8vo in period 1/4 vellum backed spine and marbled paper covered boards with burgundy morocco title label and gilt ruling to spine. Snugly bound and clean with just some light shelf soiling to sides and spine. [2] - 592, [12] pp. Unpaged index at rear. Illustrated with a good number of copper plate engravins, some bound in on smaller size paper plates. Uncommon, though here only in the 2nd volume of 2 published. VG View More...
Woodcut pictorial title; portrait; head and tail ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 654 pages; 1635 Officina Elzeviriana, Lugduni Batavorum. Tomus Primero (Vol I) only, of 3. Snug and neat in period full cream vellum with title inked in an old hand to spine. Elaborate woodcut title page and a roundel woodcut portrait of Pliny on the verso facing the first page od the Praefatio. [xxiv], 654, [18] pp with tw free blanks at front and rear. Minor short worming track across the last several leaves. Contents very neat and bright. Uncommonly well preserved example in a handsome period vellum VG+ View More...
16mo 6" - 7" tall; 215 pages; [no date given] Circa 1896. J M. Dent & Co, Aldine House. Bound in full vellum with decorative pictorial borders and title design to cover and spine in gilt. Top edge gilt; other edges untrimmed. This vellum bound edition uniform with other Rhys edited "Lyrical Poets" volumes published by Dent at this time. Prior owner gift inscription to front endpage dated 1896. Illustrated with an etched frontis portrait of Sidney, with tissue guard. Offset toning to the pictorial title page from the guard. Expected light toning to page stock. One of the exquis... View More...
Copper plate engravings; maps; woodcuts in text; Folio 13" - 23" tall; Two volumes in one. Folio oversize in contemporary vellum binding with decorative corner and center devices impressed to boards. Double fillet ruling to borders and decorative tooling over the spine compartments. 19 copper plate engravings present of the 24 called for. Includes ten double page copperplates, one folding; two are laid in. One of the double page plates is an outline of Ortelius 1570 World map. Some smaller woodcuts in text. Some minor worming in the gutters of the pastedown and first several leaves. M... View More...
32mo 4" - 5" tall; 448 pages; Londres, Jeffs; 1852. 32mo; 10 cm tall. 448 pp. Paged in 8's with 28 signatures. An unusual example; I have not found any other copies noted with this makeup of pagination and signature delineation. Period 3/4 vellum with marbled paper covered boards. Oval inkstamp of a Firenze bookseller placed on the free front endpage and the half-title page. No mention of edition, nor of any other publisher or printer than Jeffs. Title is hand painted in black to otherwise unlettered vellum spine. This presumably was an early copy smuggled back to France. Binding soun... View More...
[Prince Liechtenstein Copy]; Wood cut frontis; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 305 pages; Small format 16mo in period vellum. Frontis, [14], [8], 305 pp. *7, []4, A-M12, N7. Cream vellum covered boards lightly soiled. A vertical stress to the spine has begun to crack. Small closed split in the vellum along the lower edge of the cover board. Contents clean and neat. Bound with frontis, title and prelims, followed by an unsigned 8 page catlog of works published by Coignard between 1660-1692. Mild yawn in the interior front hinge. Prior ownership of Prince Franz Joseph [?] of Liechtenstein with the P... View More...
