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Antonius de Vercelli. Sermones quadragesimales de XII mirabilibus Christianae fidei. Illustrated with 2 multi-colored initials. The beginning of the text nicely printed in red, text in gothic type, in two columns, 51 lines to a page. 8vo. Contemporary hard vellum binding, remounted. Venetiis, Johannes et Gregorius de Gregorii de Forlivio, February 16, 1492. First Incunabula Edition. Antonius de Vercelli… Read more about this item

Joseph Von Paltz. Coelifodina Absconditos. Scripurae Thesauros Pandens . . . Bound with Supplementum coelifodinae . . . Two volumes bound in one. Text in Latin. Illustrated with 2 full-page woodcut title pages and 2 woodcut printer's device. Thick 4to. Bound in early 16th-century blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards (without the original clasps and metal bosses). Printed in Leipzig by… Read more about this item

A JESUIT CORRECTS EULER'S THEORY OF LUNAR ATMOSPHERE Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich. De Lunae Atmosphaera Dissertatio. Text in Latin. Illustrated with fold-out engraved plate comprising numerous geometric diagrams bound at the end; large woodcut device on title-page; woodcut baroque decorative head-piece and woodcut initial on page III. Errata on verso of last leaf. Slim 4to. Original Italian flexible carta rustica, later backed… Read more about this item

Johannes Dryander. Annulorum trium diversi generis instrumentorum. Illustrated with large woodcut of an armillary sphere on title-page and the divisional title to Regiomontanus; verso of title-page with a large woodcut of "Dryander's astronomical rings" suspended from a hand in the clouds; numerous woodcut illustrations and diagrams in text; woodcut printer's device on pi4v and verso of final leaf; several large historiated… Read more about this item

FIRST EDITION OF PEUCER'S TREATISE ON INTERNAL MEDICINE 16mo. Bound in full mid-17th century vellum. Francofortti, Typis Nicolai Hoffmanni, Sumptibus Ioannis Bernerri, 1614. First Edition. Also included is Peucer's treatise on fever, "Tractatus de Febriburus" together with Gabriele Fontano's "Tetras Gravissimorum Capitis Affectuum" ["Four Very Grave Maladies Affecting the Head"], Printed at Lyons by Barbier in 1647. Caspar Peucer was a… Read more about this item

Translated by Wilhelm Xylander; Edited by Thomas Munckerus. Illustrated with additional engraved title page by C. Decker; woodcut initials. 12mo. Greek and Latin texts on facing pages. Contemporary semi-limp vellum; gilt borders with acorn corner tools and Upsilon centerpiece to each board; title inked on spine. Amstelodami (Amsterdam): apud Janssonio-Waesbergios 1676. (Willems 1894; Hoffmann I 193; Spoelder 527 (Delft I)).… Read more about this item

8vo. London: Excudebat Robertus Barkerus. 1609. Second Printing. This copy exhibits the reading 'agi-' at the end of line 11 on B2r indicative of the form with some of the errata corrected, and 3E2 blank, rather than bearing errata. Lancelot Andrewes was an English clergyman and scholar, who held high positions in the Church of England during the… Read more about this item

One of the finest works of illustration ever published, marking the transition from Rococo to the Neo-Classical Era of European art. Illustrated with 139 full-page plates by Boucher, Eisen, Gravelot, Monnet, Moreau, and others. Plus engraved title, 3 pages of dedications, 4 fleurons on title pages, 30 engraved vignettes and 1 full-page cul-de-lampe by Choffard and Monnet closing Volume 4. Engraved… Read more about this item

ILLUSTRATED WITH 66 POCHOIR WOODCUTS The Fables of Aesop. Printed from the Veronese Edition of MCCCCLXXIX in Latin Verses and Italian Version by Accio Zucco, with the Woodcuts Newly Engraved and Coloured After a Copy in The British Museum. (With) The First Three Books of Caxton's Aesop containing the Fables Illustrated in the Verona Aesopus of MCCCCLXXIX. Epilogue by Giovanni Mardersteig. Illustrated… Read more about this item

8vo. 19th- century ½-vellum. Venice: (Damianus de Mediolano, de Gorgonzola) 16 Nov. 1493. (ISTC No.: ig00602500; H 8207; GW 11804). Guido de Monte Rochen's Manipulus curatorum is considered the most important of the medieval pastoral manuals. (It was not made obsolete until the Council of Trent in 1566.) It is especially important as a key example of the intersection… Read more about this item

The original Greek text of Demosthenes with the Greek scholia of Ulpinus, and the commentary of Erasmus and Budaeus bound-in. 18th century ½-calf-backed marbled boards, spine rebacked. Folio. Johannes Herwagen, Basel 1532. Second Edition of Demosthenes in the original Greek, and First Edition of the commentary of Erasmus and Budaeus. Marbled papers on front cover torn in 3 spots; small… Read more about this item

Title printed within an elaborate woodcut historiated border; 6 woodcuts in text at the opening of each Satire; plus woodcut white-on-black decorated and historiated initials of various sizes, including a 17-line initial 'S' on A4v. Text in roman letter, surrounded by commentary printed in smaller roman and occasional Greek type. Text in Latin (commentaries with many passages in Greek). Folio.… Read more about this item

Small 8vo. Bound in contemporary vellum. Printed by Jean Antoine Huguetan, Lyons 1638. (Colophon at end dated 1627; printing privilege dated 1626.) Second Edition of this comprehensive treatise on geomancy. Illustrated with numerous diagrams, schematic woodcuts and tables in text, as well as 10 plates, 1 of which is an engraved single-page plate, while the other 9 are fold-out woodcut diagrams… Read more about this item

Hardcover. Fine. Illustrated with 108 copper engraved plates, historiated initials and figurative tail pieces. 4to. Contemporary half-vellum-backed marbled paper-covered boards, gilt letters on spine; title in red and black with engraved vignette, Florence, Typ. Bernardi Paperini 1729. First Edition of this major work by the father of modern mycology. Micheli was one of the most prominent botanists of… Read more about this item

1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Illustrated with a frontispiece engraving of a comet by F. H. Fritsch; 4 folding diagrams at rear; plus Ornamental vignettes with fantasy motifs. 4to. Contemporary leather binding, spine with 5 raised bands; gilt-lettered red morocco label and gilt designs. Berolini Sumtibus Ambrosii Haude . . . (Berlini 1744). First Edition. (Brunet: II, col.… Read more about this item

Hardcover. Fine. Folio. Bound in original boards. Parma 1791. First Edition. One of 25 copies on papier verge of an edition of 128. Paper worn on spine; interior clean and bright. A Fine Copy. Scarce.

Hardcover. Very Good. Illustrated with 12 full-page hand-colored engravings illustrating 24 species of amaranthus. Folio. Modern ¼-leather-backed marbled boards. Turici (Zurich): impensis Ziegleri et fil, 1790. First Edition. The only edition of a specialist botanical work on the species of amaranthus by Carolo Willdenow, director of the Berlin Botanical Garden. The engravings are designed and engraved by R.J. Schellenberg. Willdenow… Read more about this item

The oldest surviving geographical text written in Latin. Pomponius Mela is considered an accurate sum of the European geographical knowledge before the discovery of the New World. De orbis situ libri tres dates from the first century A.D, and was first printed in 1471. Mela's descriptions of Africa were used by the Portuguese sailors navigating the waters of the Atlantic for the… Read more about this item

Hardcover. Fine. Illustrated with woodcut printers mark on title and sectorial titles, 3 engraved head-pieces, 3 engraved initials, 1 full-page engraving of a theatre and another engraved illustration in text (all by A. Visentini, though only one signed); 3 series of woodcuts numbered 1-33, 1-3 and 1-21; plus 6 full-page woodcuts. Folio. Original limp boards. Padua, typis Seminarii, apud… Read more about this item

Hardcover. Fine. Tractat[us] de meditatio[n]e cordis Joh[ann]is Gerson. Illustrated with 4 xylographic foliated initials, the first colored. 8vo. Bound in 19th century vellum. Impressum Venetijs arte [et] impensis Bernardini de benalijs, 1488. Early Edition. Hain, 9095; Goff, I-17; Bodleian Lib. 15th cent., T-105; BM 15th cent., V, p. 372 (IA.22318). The Imitatio Christi, or Imitation of Christ is often… Read more about this item