Rare books from Pazzo Books

Strassburg: Bernhart Jobin, 1590. First Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Very Good Condition. Tobias Stimmer and Christoph Maurer. The first separate German edition (the first was published in 1582 as part of a larger guide to hunting) of Du Fouilloux's classic Renaissance guide to hunting with dogs originally published in 1566 as La Venerie. Later rebinding in an illuminated vellum antiphonal leaf laid into what appears to be the original boards (with some repairs to the corners and with new pastedowns), new endpapers added, blanks not present. Large repair to the title with loss of a bit of text including the date (added in manuscript). A bit of worming in the right margin not touching any text, occasional foxing and a persistent but generally mild dampstain in the gutter of much of the volume. Bound with Clamorgan's popular text on wolf hunting. (6), 92, (2), 20 leaves. 68 in text woodcuts, 52 in the first section signed by Tobias Stimmer and Christoph Maurer. A hugely important and influential… Read More

Venice: Baptista de Tortis, 1497. Early Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Early full stamped pigskin with one clasp missing, a bit of wear at the corners, some discoloration and staining - very sound overall. With the title in red excised and pasted back onto a blank, a few library stamps (NY Bar Association Library), minor worming mostly at the end, printers mark excised from the final index leaf and repaired on the verso, old paper repairs to the margins of the final leaves, obscuring the leaf number on the final leaf, a few stains here and there, but generally clean and a bright, crisp copy overall. Printed in red and black, 270 numbered leaves, 2 binder's blanks at front, 3 at the rear. Printed 1497/8, 15 1/2 x 10 1/3 inches, from 70-82 lines. An attractive copy of Justinian's Infortiatum, the middle section of the Digest, with the gloss by the 13th century scholar Accursius. His glosses occupy a central place in medieval law as they were so copious (almost 100,000… Read More

Paris: Philippe Pigouchet, 1500. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Early (ca. early 17th c.) full red calf elaborately gilt, modest wear at hinges, a few surface marks and scuffs but a lovely binding. 4 old bookplates on endpapers (Syston Park, Howard Pease, John William Pease) old pencil note on endpaper. 1 leaf with long vertical cut in the outer margin, 1 leaf with mended tear. Last leaf cut in lower part and filled out with paper. Some foxing, spotting, and discoloration, mostly to the few few and last few leaves, generally quite clean. Trimmed a little close in the top margin, touching the border. Added section of final leaf says "printed in Paris by Philippe Pigouchet. Quaritch notes". In a custom clamshell box. 116 leaves (incomplete, lacking title, anatomical man and 6 calendar leaves), signed Aa1-8Bb1-10a1-7(lacks one leaf) g1-4b1-8c1-8d1-8e1-8f1-8h1-8i1-8k1-4A1-8B1-8C1-3(lacks C4-8)D1-8. A fine and largely complete example of a printed book of hours on vellum with 17… Read More

Milan: Antonius Zarotus, 1487. Second Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. 19th century red morocco, gilt, hinges and spine rubbed and a little weak, but still generally sound and attractive. Added marbled endpapers and a description of the edition and a note on the binding penned on added blank endpapers. The second edition of Tacitus, much improved by Puteolanus from the first, with the editio princeps of The Life of Agricola. Once thought to have been printed in the 1470s, but now usually pegged as 1487. Likely washed, though gently, except for the first and final leaves (Agricola, leaves 176-187, with a dampstain in the margin, final two leaves darkened). Four small wormtrails in last section (leavs 121-end), two trails in the textblock but generally very unobtrusive. Top edge gilt and trimmed slightly when rebound, leaf numbers penciled lightly and neatly in the inner gutter. Five 6 line and one 2 line initial colored in early or contemporary color, 37 lines set in a fine… Read More

Mexico: Bibliotheca Mexicana, 1767. First Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Near Fine Condition. Contemporary vellum with ties intact, slight wear and staining to binding, marca de fuego to top edge, generally clean and bright internally; a lovely copy. (10), 128pp. Sabin 94355, Palau VII 11 The first edition of the first grammar and dictionary of Huasteca, a northern Mayan language that continues to be spoken by around 200,000 people in San Luis Potosi and Veracruz. Tapia Zenteno also wrote the Nahuatl grammar Arte novissima de lengua mexicana (1753). Size: Quarto (4to). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Language & Linguistics; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 046853.

Reggio Emilia: Franciscus de Mazalibus, 1499. Fifth Edition. Hardcover (rebound in leather). Very Good Condition. Attractively rebound in modern full calf in an antique style, added endpapers, front blank with old notes. Slight soiling here and there, heavier to title page and a few others, marginal notes and marks throughout in an early hand, a few just slightly trimmed when rebound, a few marginal repairs on final leaf, fine woodcut initials throughout. 244 leaves. Goff S350, is00350000 The fifth and final incunable edition of the major classical works of agriculture and rural life. First published by Jenson in 1472 - this edition follows the Dionysius Bertochus printing of 1496. An enormously influential work that covers bee keeping, wine making, farming, olives, cattle, food recipe for cakes, preserving ham, etc, and, in Cato, a host of rural wisdom, customs and superstitions (cf. before drinking eat cabbage with vinegar and you can drink as much as you like and never get drunk). Simon… Read More

Reggio Emilia: Dionysius Bertochus, 1496. Fourth Edition. Hardcover (rebound in leather). Very Good Condition. Later but old full vellum, penned title to spine, 272 leaves, 3 wormholes through text and others in the margin, touching letters all the way through but not affecting sense, generally. Widening out for around 20 leaves in the center where sense is affected. Light dampstain to lower margin, two leaves with corner loss, not coming near text. Scattered mostly minor soiling and discoloration - overall an attractive copy despite the faults. Goff S349, is00349000The fourth incunable edition of the major classical works of agriculture and rural life. First published by Jenson in 1472 - this edition follows the Dionysius Bertochus printing of 1496. An enormously influential work that covers bee keeping, wine making, farming, olives, cattle, food recipe for cakes, preserving ham, etc, and, in Cato, a host of rural wisdom, customs and superstitions (cf. before drinking eat cabbage with vinegar and… Read More

Williamsburg: William Hunter, 1752. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Rebacked and front board recovered in leather, rear board retained. Title chipped at edges and rumpled and with top margin missing but not touching text, light dampstain in right margin early on, old tape mark in gutter in table of contents, a few pages inexpertly opened just touching marginal notes in spots, browning and foxing more or less uniformly throughout, contemporary marginalia and underlining to table of contents, scattered other minor flaws but very good overall. (2), vi, 455, (1)pp. Errata at end, pages 207, 277 and 367 mispaginated 205, 267 and 357. Lacking the list of subscribers that seems to have rarely been bound in. ESTC W7023, Evans 6941, Sabin 100388 The first major work from William Hunter's press - he had become the official printer for Virginia the previous year. He was a friend of Benjamin Franklin with whom he split the postmaster general job for the colonies. Size: Folio.… Read More

Angelopoli (Puebla): Typis Seminarii Palafoxiani, 1770. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. José de Nava. Contemporary full calf, wear at edges, surface scrapes to leather, old paper spine label and private library label to spine, paste paper endpapers, stamp from library of Rev. L. Kenzel and a printed in Germany stamp to verso of title. SLight browning to page edges, some offsetting and acidification from the ink used in the musical notation and engravings; generally a bright, fresh copy internally. (8), [1]-137; [Frontispiece], [1]-198 (pages 133-135 incorrectly numbered 233-235) pp. Sabin 49459, Palau V195. A high point of Mexican printing. Finely printed in Puebla with 3 very fine engravings by de Nava. The Mozarabic rites were used by the Visigothic and Mozarabic Christians of medieval Spain until replaced in the the 11th century. They were reauthorized for use in Toledo in the 15th century where they continue, in some form, to be used. Size: Folio. Illustrator:… Read More

Paris: Henri Estienne, Paulus Stephanus, 1557. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Three volumes bound as five in a very idiosyncratic manner. the 33 plays (7 of Aeschylus from the 1557 edition, 7 by Sophocles from the 1603 and 19 by Euripides from 1602) are broken up and bound in volumes 2-5 with interleaved blanks. There is no obvious order to the plays, with the three authors intermingled in each volume. The first volume is the title pages, prefatory material and notes. All three books collate as complete, early notes and underlining through all the volumes and additions in manuscript in a few spots where the plays broke up inconveniently, modest foxing, generally quite clean. Hinges cracked, one cord loose on volume 1, modest wear to bindings, lacking one lettering piece, but a lovely set overall with fine gold tooling, marbled endpapers. Provenance: Camden bookplates inside each volume. Brunet A78, Adams A265, Graesse I 29. Euripides: 1 [[12], 747, [1], 846 [i.e.… Read More

Venice: (M. Tramezzino), 1570. First Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Good Condition. Later but old half vellum over marbled boards, a touch of worming to vellum at edges. Rebound early on with Il Trinciante and with a few leaves moved and missing. With the frontis portrait before the title and the plates moved to the end of the volume, lacking leaf A1, 17 (of 27) plates and the folding plate of knifes and forks in Il Trinciante (but with the plate of tongs, fork and birds on B2). scattered light foxing and browning, old note to title, degradation to edges of final Il Trinciante leaf. Plates with some finger soiling, tiny tears in the margins, light foxing. (4),368 (of 369),(7) lvs; (4), 44 leaves. The 10 present plates depict: table, ladder, broom etc; dairy kitchen; 15 cooking pots; conclave chamber items (2 plates; different vessels and hot vessels; "bell" kitchen; litter, incense burner etc; 2 plates of traveling kitchen accessories. Vicaire 77 , Cagle 1182, Oberle 75 (the 1605 ed.), Bitting 419… Read More

Venice: M. Tramezzino, 1570. First Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Very Good Condition. Later full vellum. Slightly sprung, slight edgewear and toning to vellum. Red morocco lettering piece. Scattered mostly light foxing, a few small marginal marks and tiny tears, title a little rumpled, some of the plates with blank verso pasted back to back; generally a bright, clean copy. Bound: (5), frontispiece, 1-334, (1), 27 plates, 335-436, (8) leaves Vicaire 77 , Cagle 1182, Oberle 75 (the 1605 ed.), Bitting 419. (note: there are a few different paginations for 1570 editions and priority is not quite clear) A complete copy of the first edition or early edition. There was another edition of 369 leaves printed without colophon in 1570 that is sometimes given priority, but Deborah Krohn (in Food and Knowledge in Renaissance Italy, Bartolomeo Scappi's Paper Kitchens: Ashgate, 2015) argues persuasively for this as the true first. Size: 4to (quarto). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category:… Read More

Paris: [par Estienne Groulleau] pour Jan Longis, 1552. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Early full calf, worn at corners and spine ends, edges gilt, one signature in latter section bound out of order, title with paper repair along one edge and part of the V and the RE in Livre added back in manuscript. a few minor marginal dampstains, a few bits of soiling, ink stains in margins. small dampstain in upper margin late in first volume. old signature on title of second volume. Final text leaf with repair on outer margin. Ruled in red throughout. One engraving (repeated) signed with Geoffroy of Tory's Lorraine Cross. Bound with L'Histoire Aethiopique de Heliodorus published by Groulleau in 1559. 70 woodcuts from 38 blocks. (8), CLXV leaves; blank; (4), 123, (1) leaves. (gathering P in Heliodorus out of order) The latter is the second printing of the first translation by Jacques Amyot (first was 1549), both scarce. After the sensation of Amadis de Gaule (which Herberay… Read More

Naples: Azriel ben Joseph Ashkenazi Gunzenhauser, 1491. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Good Condition. A 179 leaf (of 480) leaf fragment of the five books of Avicenna's Canon of Medicine printed in Hebrew in 1491 (possibly into 1492). The copy is made up from leaves from at least two different copies, one trimmed xloser than the other. Modest dampstains at the top edges, scattered minor worming, foxing, early marginalia and manicules throughout, some trimmed slightly. More extensive dampstains and wormtrails along with some paper repairs to wormtrails on some of the smaller leaves including some loss of text. All of the missing leaves provided in facsimile. 142 of the leaves are in succession with a few small groupings elsewhere. Bound up in modern full blind tooled leather with marbled endpapers with a chemise and slipcase. The first and only Hebrew edition of Avicenna's monumentally influential medical treatise which was a central text from it's creation at the beginning of the 11th… Read More

Paris: Antoine Vérard or Pierre Levet, 1488. First Edition. Hardcover (rebound in leather). Very Good Condition. The first Parisian edition rebound in 19th century full leather. First published in 1479 and written around 1370. Scattered minor finger marks, first page worn and repaired on verso, first few pages modestly browned and stained, last leaves with minor staining; quite clean otherwise. Attractively rubricated copy lacking the 12 and 6 leaf indexes preceding the two parts, but otherwise complete. 208 (of 220) leaves; 86 (of 94) leaves. Light pencil notations figuring out the idiosyncratic date on the final leaf by colophon (which reads mil,cccc,iiii v v.et huit.) Printed in two columns of 38 lines, ca. 11" x 7.5" One of the most important of the coutumier, and the last great example of the form, La somme rurale details the customs and use of French law as it was imposed in the late middle ages. It merges Roman, customary, and feudal law and was cited by Montesquieu and well into the 18th… Read More