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Economics
[economics] american economics, 1830s.
Three Titles.
Including:
1) William Gouge’s A Short History of Paper Money and Baking in the United States, Philadelphia: by T.W. Ustick, 1833, first edition, octavo, some underlining and marginal notes, later half leather and marbled paper boards;
2) James Bennett’s American System of Practical Book-Keeping, New York: B. & S. Collins, 1835, sixteenth edition, with large folding engraved illustration bound opposite the title, water stained, contemporary dated inscription to title, original half leather and marbled paper-covered boards;
[and] 3) Francis Wayland’s The Elements of Political Economy, New York: Leavitt, Lord & Co., 1837, first edition, large octavo, a nicely preserved copy bound in publisher’s textured cloth boards, spine faded, contents good, 9 x 5 1/2 in. (3)
Estimate
$300 – $500
[economics] babbage, charles (1791-1871)
On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures.
London: Charles Knight, 1732.
First edition, octavo, regular paper issue; engraved title with profile portrait of Roger Bacon (dampstain to lower margin); bound in full original publisher’s moiré-textured brown cloth boards, rebacked, 6 3/4 x 4 1/4 in.
Babbage, with his invention of the Difference Engine, a mechanical calculator designed to tabulate polynomial functions, is considered the father of modern computing. Babbage’s Engine would be operated by turning a crank, which would turn a series of geared brass number wheels whose increments are dictated by the metric system, thus performing a series of calculations. One full turn of the handle accomplishes one sequence of operations. The principle at work is that of Newton’s method of divided differences. Babbage did not create a working version during his lifetime, but it was successfully constructed with minor alterations by scientists in 1991. The science fiction steampunk genre also owes a debt to Babbage. Had his machine caught on in the early 19th century, one may imagine the Victorians fitted out with a panoply of sophisticated high tech gear and inventions.
Estimate
$500 – $700
[economics] becker, gary stanley (1930-2014)
Five Titles.
1) Human Capital: a Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education, New York & London: Columbia University Press, 1964, first edition, octavo, in publisher’s blue cloth and original dust jacket (some tears, stains to jacket), 9 x 6 in.
2) [with Gilbert R. Ghez], The Allocation of Time and Goods over the Life Cycle, New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, distributed by Columbia University Press, 1975, first edition, octavo, near fine in a near fine dust jacket, 9 x 5 3/4 in.
3) A Treatise on the Family, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981, first edition, octavo, near fine in near fine jacket, 9 1/4 x 6 in.
4) Economic Theory, New York: Knopf, 1971, stated first edition, a textbook in boards with photo images tinted in orange, pen underlining, 9 1/4 x 6 in.
[and] 5) The Journal of Political Economy: Investment in Human Beings, University of Chicago Press, October 1962, Vol. LXX, No. 5, part 2, with a number of essays, including Becker’s, “Investment in Human Capital: A Theoretical Analysis,” in publisher’s printed wraps, sun-faded, signature to front cover, some marginal ink marks, 9 1/2 x 6 3/4 in. (5)
Estimate
$700 – $900
[economics] bentham, jeremy (1748-1832)
Defence of Usury; Shewing the Impolicy of the Present Legal Restraints on the Terms of Pecuniary Bargains.
Philadelphia: Printed for Mathew Carey by Lang & Ustick, 1796.
First American edition, 12mo, single leaf of publisher’s ads after the text, contents very good, bound in full contemporary sheepskin with original red label, rubbed and lightly scuffed, joints cracked, boards attached, 5 7/8 x 3 1/2 in.
ESTC W4815; Evans 30057.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
[economics] bentham, jeremy (1748-1832)
The Book of Fallacies: from Unfinished Papers.
London: Published by John & H.L. Hunt, 1824.
First edition, octavo, 411 pages; bound in full contemporary gilt-ruled calf, gilt-tooled spine with label, joints rubbed, contents with some light spotting, generally good; ex libris international lawyer and advisor to the British delegations on the Reparations Commission established by the Treaty of Versailles Sir John Fischer Williams (1870-1947) with his bookplate on ffep, 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 in.
Bentham targeted political fallacies in this work. His attack on the action of the despot in government is strongly worded. The chapter headings speak for themselves: Vituperative Personalities (ad odium); Hobgoblin Argument, or, ‘No Innovation!’; Official Malefactor’s Screen, ‘Attack us, you attack Government,’; Accusation-scarer’s Device, ‘Infamy must attach somewhere,’ Impostor Terms, Vague Generalities, and Fallacy of Artful Diversion. These are just a sample.
[Together with] Bentham’s Defence of Economy against the Right Hon. George Rose, London: [no printer], 1817, first edition, octavo pamphlet, 284-332 pages, disbound, 8 1/4 x 5 1/4 in.
Estimate
$500 – $700
[economics] burke, edmund (1729-1797)
Eight Late-18th Century Pamphlets.
Including the following octavo titles:
1) Speech of Edmund Burke Esq. on American Taxation, April 19, 1774, London: Dodsley, 1775, second edition;
2) A Plan for the Better Security of the Independence of Parliament, London; Dodsley, 1780;
3) Speech on the Motion Made for Papers Relative to the Directions for Charging the Nabob of Arcot’s Private Debts to Europeans, London: Dodsley, 1785;
4)A Letter from Mr. Burke to a Member of the National Assembly in Answer to Some Objections to his Book on French Affairs, London: Dodsley, 1791;
5) An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs, London: Dodsley, 1791, third edition;
6) Substance of the Speech of the in Answer to Certain Observations on the Report of the Committee of Managers, London: for J. Debrett, 1794;
7) Thoughts and Details on Scarcity, London: for F. & C. Rivington, 1800;
[and] 8) A Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke by George Rous in Reply to his Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs, London: Debrett, [no date]; all disbound, six of the eight in modern paper wrappers, sizes vary. (8)
Estimate
$700 – $900
[economics] burke, edmund (1729-1797)
Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event.
London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1790.
Octavo, Todd’s second edition, first impression, 356 pages, with press figures: page 4: I; page 116: none; page 171: 3; page 354: * or none; bound in full contemporary leather, rebacked, some staining and spotting to contents, 8 3/8 x 5 in.
Todd 53b; ESTC N660.
Estimate
$300 – $500
[economics] burke, edmund (1729-1797)
Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event.
London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1790.
Octavo, stated second edition Todd’s 53e; ESTC T46575; 356 pages.
[Bound with] Thomas Paine’s (1737-1809) Rights of Many, London: Printed for J.S. Jordan, 1791, stated second edition, 171 pages, with half-title; ESTC T5866; bound in contemporary full speckled sheepskin binding, joints cracked, endcaps chipped, contents generally good, with contemporary red morocco label reading “Burke & Paine” on spine, 8 3/8 x 5 in.
Estimate
$600 – $800
[economics] canard, nicolas-françois (c. 1750-1833)
Principes d’Économie Politique.
Paris: Chez Buisson, 1801.
First edition, octavo, with three folding typographical tables; uncut in the original wrappers with original printed spine label, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.
Einaudi 830; Goldsmiths 18122; Kress B.4350; cf. also Theocharis, Early Developments in Mathematical Economics London: Macmillan, 1989.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
[economics] debreu, gérard (1921-2004)
Theory of Value: an Axiomatic Analysis of Economic Equilibrium.
New York: John Wiley & Sons Inc.; London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., [1959].
First edition, in publisher’s blue cloth and original dust jacket, published as Monograph 17 by the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics of Yale University; spine of dust jacket sun-faded, a few short tears, owner’s name in ballpoint pen on ffep, 9 x 5 3/4 in.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
[economics] di gennaro, domenico, duke of cantalupo (1720-1803)
Annona o Sia Piano Economico di Pubblica Sussistenza.
Nizza: Presso la Societa Tipografica, 1785.
Second edition, 12mo, uncut, in original decorative paper wrappers, errata leaf present after last signature, 6 3/4 x 4 1/4 in.
Di Gennaro’s rare work on public subsistence was published while he served on the Supreme Council of Finance for the Kingdom of Naples.
Rare at auction; this edition is the only one in Worldcat, no copies of the first edition traced.
Estimate
$300 – $500
[economics] four mid-20th-century titles.
Including:
1) Elton Mayo’s The Social Problems of an Industrial Civilization, Boston: Harvard University, 1945, octavo, second impression, in publisher’s cloth and original dust jacket.
2) Friedrich A. Hayek’s Individualism and Economic Order, University of Chicago Press, 1948, first edition, octavo, in publisher’s blue cloth.
3) Jan Tinbergen & J.J. Polak’s The Dynamics of Business Cycles, a Study in Economic Fluctuations, University of Chicago Press, 1950, first edition, octavo, bound in publisher’s terra-cotta cloth with original dust jacket.
[and] 4) W.W. Rostow’s The Stages of Economic Growth, Cambridge: at the University Press, 1960, first edition, octavo, very good in publisher’s cloth with original dust jacket. (4)
Estimate
$300 – $500
[economics] french: three 18th century works.
Including:
1) Louis de Beausobre’s Introduction Generale à l’Etude de la Politique, des Finances, et du Commerce, Amsterdam: Schneider, 1765, two octavo volumes bound as one, new edition, bound in full contemporary leather, gilt-tooled spine;
2) Gabriel Bonnot de Mably’s Des Principes des Negociations pour Servir d’Introduction au Droit Public de l’Europe, Amsterdam: Jean Schreuder et Pierre Mortier le Jeune, 1757, octavo, bound in full contemporary leather, gilt-lettered and decorated spine;
[and] 3) Gabriel Bonnot de Mably’s Doutes Proposes aux Philosophes Economistes, sur l’Ordre Naturel et Essential des Societes Politiques, The Hague: Chez Nyon & Veuve Durand, 1768, octavo, bound in full contemporary leather with gilt-tooled spine, sizes vary, all bindings worn. (3)
Estimate
$300 – $500
[economics] friedman, milton (1912-2006)
A Theory of the Consumption Function.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1957, published for the National Bureau of Economic Research, New York, as number 63 in their General Series, first edition, octavo, near fine in publisher’s blue cloth and very clean unclipped dust jacket, 9 x 5 3/4 in.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
[economics] friedman, milton (1912-2006)
Capitalism and Freedom.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, [1962].
First edition, octavo, with no additional publication notes on copyright page, “with the assistance of Rose D. Friedman” on title page, 202 pages, in a very good price-clipped dust jacket priced (some minor surface abrasions fading and short tears to jacket), in publisher’s blue cloth, lettered in gilt; dated signature from 1963 in ballpoint pen to ffep, 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 in.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
[economics] friedman, milton (1912-2006)
Nine Titles.
Including:
1) Income from Independent Professional Practice, with Simon Kuznets, New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1945, publisher’s blue cloth, no jacket;
2) Studies in the Quantity Theory of Money, ed. Friedman, University of Chicago Press, 1956, publisher’s blue cloth, no jacket;
3) the Demand for Money: Some Theoretical and Empirical Results, New York: National Bureau of Economic Research Inc., 1959, Occasional Paper 68, saddle-stapled pamphlet in publisher’s limp paper wrappers;
4) Price Theory: A Provisional Text, Chicago: Aldine Publishing, 1962, first edition, large quarto in printed limp covers;
5) The Balance of Payments: Free versus Fixed Exchange Rates, with Robert V. Roosa, Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1967, publisher’s green cloth, no jacket;
6) Monetary Statistics of the United States, Estimates, Sources, Methods, with Anna Jacobson Schwartz, New York: Columbia University Press, 1970, first edition, in publisher’s cloth and unclipped dust jacket;
7) A Theoretical Framework for Monetary Analysis, New York & London: Columbia University Press, 1971, NBER Occasional Paper 112, in publisher’s blue cloth boards, no jacket;
8) An Economist’s Protest, Glen Ridge, NJ: Thomas Horton & Co., 1972, softcover;
[and] 9) Free to Choose: A Personal Statement, with Rose Friedman, New York & London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980, first edition, in publisher’s binding and very good unclipped dust jacket. (9)
Estimate
$600 – $800
[economics] jevons, william stanley (1835-1882)
Investigations in Currency and Finance.
London: Macmillan & Co., 1884.
First edition, almost completely unopened throughout, many plates, including full-paged and folding, and a very large linen-backed table bound inside the back board as issued; bound in very good publisher’s pebble-textured russet embossed cloth with gilt-tooled spine, slightly crumpled at head of spine, otherwise in excellent condition, contemporary ownership inscription dated 1892 on ffep, bookplate of Hawthorn Farm inside front board, some light foxing to pastedowns and flyleaves, 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 in.
Estimate
$200 – $300
[economics] keynes, john maynard (1883-1946)
A Treatise on Money.
London: Macmillan & Co., 1930.
First edition, two octavo volumes bound in full publisher’s blue cloth, lacking dust jackets; ex library King’s College with two very small overlapping stamps on the copyright page of the first volume indicating ownership & discard, no other library stamps; bookplate of Moses & Mary Finley inside the front board of volume one; 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 in. (2)
Estimate
$400 – $600
[economics] keynes, john maynard (1883-1946)
A Treatise on Probability.
London: Macmillan & Co., 1921.
First edition, octavo, bound in publisher’s full brown cloth, errata slip pasted on page 422, lacking dust jacket, the textblock becoming decased, inner back joint splitting, 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 in.
Estimate
$400 – $600
[economics] keynes, john maynard (1883-1946)
Indian Currency & Finance.
London: Macmillan & Co., 1913.
First edition, octavo, bound in publisher’s deep orange cloth, blind stamp of Higginbotham’s Booksellers in Madras & Bangalore on title page, ownership inscription date 1922 on ffep, binding spotted and bumped, 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 in.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
[economics] keynes, john maynard (1883-1946)
Seven Works.
Including:
1) How to Pay for the War, London: Macmillan & Co., 194;
2) Essays in Persuasion, New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., [1932], in the dust jacket;
3) The Means to Prosperity, London: Macmillan, 1933, publisher’s paper wrappers;
4) Essays in Biography, London: Macmillan, 1933, lacking dust jacket;
5) Two Memoirs, London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1949, in a torn dust jacket;
6) The Economic Journal, No. 222, June 1946, Vol. LVI, with notice of the economist’s death and his article, “The Balance of Payments of the United States”;
[and] 7) Britain’s Industrial Future, being the Report of the Liberal Industrial Inquiry, London: Ernest Benn Ltd., [1928], second impression, publisher’s limp paper. (7)
Estimate
$300 – $500
[economics] keynes, john maynard (1883-1946)
The End of Laissez-Faire.
London: Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1926.
First edition, small octavo, publisher’s faded boards, lacking the dust jacket, 7 1/2 x 5 in.
[Together with] A Short View of Russia, London: Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1925, first edition, small octavo, bound in publisher’s printed soft covers. (2)
Estimate
$600 – $800
[economics] keynes, john maynard (1883-1946)
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1936.
First American edition, octavo, bound in publisher’s blue cloth, spine titled in gilt, lacking the dust jacket, some loss of lettering on spine, slightly rubbed, 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 in.
The economic turmoil of the Great Depression prompted many to question the wisdom of allowing an unregulated free market to self-correct. Keynes suggested that a cash-starved economy would continue to perpetuate the downward slide. His sustained criticism of existing economic theory carried great influence. “I believe myself to be writing a book on economic theory which will largely revolutionize– not I suppose, at once but in the course of the next ten years –the way the world thinks about its economic problems. I can’t expect […] anyone to believe this at the present stage. But for myself I don’t merely hope what I say, in my own mind, I’m quite sure. (see John Cassidy’s “The Demand Doctor,” The New Yorker, 3 October 2011, quoting a letter Keynes wrote to George Bernard Shaw on 1 January 1935, referring to the present work.)
Estimate
$400 – $600
[economics] keynes, john maynard (1883-1946)
Three First Editions.
Including:
1) The Economic Consequences of the Peace, London: Macmillan & Co., 1919;
2) A Revision of the Treaty, Being a Sequel to the Economic Consequences of the Peace, London: Macmillan & Co., 1922;
[and] 3) A Tract on Monetary Reform, London: Macmillan & Co., 1923; all three first editions, octavo, each bound in full publisher’s blue cloth, all lacking dust jackets, bindings rubbed. (3)
Estimate
$500 – $700
[economics] knight, frank hyneman (1885-1972)
Risk, Uncertainty and Profit.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, the Riverside Press, Cambridge, [1921.]
Later issue, without publication date on title; bound in publisher’s full textured brick red cloth, spine slightly sunned, joints and endcaps a bit abraded, 8 x 5 in.
Estimate
$300 – $500
[economics] mably, gabriel bonnot de (1709-1785)
Remarks Concerning the Government and the Laws of the United States of America: In Four Letters Addressed to Mr. Adams.
Dublin: Printed for Messrs. Moncrieffe, Jenkin, Walker, Burton, White, Byrne, Cash, and Henry, 1785.
First Dublin edition, octavo, half-title present, old oval ink stamp abraded from inner margin of title, not affecting text, but causing thinning and two holes in the sheet, ex libris I. Fellows’s Library, with large engraved bookplate inside front board showing a woman reading with “Society in Solitude” below, and a beehive at the top of the plate with the line, “Tolling from every Flower the virtuous sweet,” engraved by Scoles, possibly John Scoles, a New York engraver active in the late 18th century through about 1850; some spotting and toning to contents; bound in full contemporary calf boards, rebacked, 7 3/4 x 4 3/4 in.
ESTC T109656.
Estimate
$500 – $700
[economics] magens, nicolaus (1697 or 1704-1764)
An Essay on Insurances, Explaining the Nature of Various Kinds of Insurance.
London: Printed by H. Haberkorn & sold by W. Baker, 1755.
First English edition, two large quarto volumes, expanded from the original German to more than 1,200 pages; bound in original uniform calf-covered boards, joints cracked, losses to all endcaps, a good candidate for restoration; ex libris William Curtis Noyes, with bookplates; contents generally good, final blanks present in both volumes; 9 3/4 x 7 1/2 in.
Magens was born in Germany, but spent most of his life and career in Great Britain. He lived in Cadiz in the 1720s, trading silver through Veracruz. Beginning in the 1740s, he worked in the insurance industry specializing in the international shipping trade. This work required navigating incredibly complex constellations of national laws, complicated by the vagaries of worldwide trade, currency exchange, ongoing wars, border disputes, piracy, and the dangers of the sea.
Goldsmiths 9045; Kress 5453; Lowndes 1449; ESTC T98888.
Estimate
$600 – $800
[economics] mandeville, bernard (1670-1733)
The Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits.
London: Printed for Edmund Parker, 1723.
Octavo, second edition under this title, woodcut printer’s device to title, bound in contemporary blind-tooled and sprinkled calf, front board detached, ex libris Samuel Kerrich (1696-1762) with his engraved armorial bookplate circa 1734 pasted inside the front board and signature on ffep, 7 3/8 x 4 1/2 in.
“In this work Mandeville represents strongly the increasing tendence to dwell upon those evils of society as a result of over-civilization, and anticipated the teaching of those philosophers who saw no hope of a return to innocence but by returning to the state of nature. Mandeville gave great offense by this work, but was long popular and later critics have pointed out the real acuteness of the writer as well as the vigor of his style, especially remarkable in a foreigner.” (Quoted from T. Thorp, bookseller of Guildford’s catalogue, inserted in this copy.)
Goldsmiths 6178; ESTC T77713.
Estimate
$500 – $700
[economics] marx, karl (1818-1883)
Capital, The Humboldt Library of Science Edition in Parts, Original Wrappers.
New York: Humboldt Publishing, 28 Lafayette Place, Sept. 1 1890; Sept. 15, 1890; Oct. 1, 1890; [and] Oct. 15, 1890.
Four separately printed paperback semi-monthly serials, saddle stitched and in original printed publisher’s paper wrappers, each a double number priced at 30 cents, comprising numbers 135-138, with subscription rates listed as $3.00 per year on all four covers; covers somewhat toned, delicate, but only lightly chipped, some portions of spines have flaked away, some superficial water staining to the outer cover of the fourth part, otherwise well-preserved for a cheaply-produced publication of this era; the same ownership inscription in pen on all four volumes; 9 1/8 x 6 in. (4)
This edition was published without the permission of Appleton, Engels, or the translators. The text itself was edited by Frederick Engels and translated into English by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling based on the third German edition. Although Appleton issued the first American imprint of Marx’s landmark work, the sheets were leftovers from the 1887 London edition with cancelled titles, thus making this pirated Humboldt edition the first printed in the States.
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,000
[economics] mises, ludwig von (1881-1973)
The Theory of Money & Credit.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1934].
First English edition, octavo, bound in publisher’s cloth, no dust jacket, ex library with card pocket pasted inside front board, rubber stamp to title (recto & verso), page 99, and the last leaf of the index, otherwise clean in a slightly worn but not abraded binding, 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 in.
[Together with] von Mises’s Human Action: A Treatise on Economics, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1949, third printing, publisher’s binding (worn), lacking dust jacket. (2)
Estimate
$300 – $500
[economics] necker, jacques (1732-1804)
De L’Administration des Finances de la France.
[Paris: Panckoucke], 1784, three octavo volumes bound in full contemporary sponge-decorated sheepskin with gilt-tooled spines; [together with three other 18th century Necker titles:
1) Du Pouvoir Executif dans Les Grands Etats, [?Paris: no printer], 1792, two octavo volumes bound in uniform contemporary half leather and patterned paper boards;
2) Sur la Legislation et le Commerce des Grains, Paris: Pissot, 1775, octavo;
[and] 3) Of the Importance of Religious Opinions, translated from the French, Boston: Thomas Hall, 1796, 12mo, in full contemporary sheepskin; four titles in seven volumes, sizes vary. (7)
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
[economics] rae, john (1796-1872)
Statement of Some New Principles on the Subject of Political Economy, Exposing the Fallacies of the System of Free Trade.
Boston: Hilliard, Gray, & Co., [J.D. Freeman, printer], 1834.
First edition, octavo, xvi, [1]-414; bound in full contemporary sheepskin with original black spine label, some spotting and foxing to endleaves and contents, one opening where a fern was pressed and approximately four leaves with a slight water stain, contents otherwise good, old bookplate removed from inside front board, diagonal corner of ffep torn away, tacked down inside front board; binding slightly rubbed, 8 3/4 x 5 in.
“Invention is the only power on earth that can be said to create. […] Industry and parsimony increase the capitals of individuals; national wealth cannot be increased but by the aid also of the inventive faculty.” According to Anthony Brew’s chapter on invention in The Economics of John Rae, [United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, 2005], “this [position] makes Rae the first economist to see technical change as the main source of continuing economic growth and, since he saw no limit to the scope for invention, the first to foresee an unlimited potential in future growth.”
Rare at auction; Einaudi 4618; Goldsmiths 28450; Mattioli 2949; Schumpeter, pp. 468-9; Sraffa 4834.
Estimate
$3,000 – $5,000
[economics] samuelson, paul anthony (1915-2009)
Foundations of Economic Analysis.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1947.
First edition, octavo, as published in Harvard Economic Studies as volume LXXX in the series; bound in very good publisher’s burgundy cloth, spine slightly sun-faded, corners slightly bumped, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.
[Together with] Samuelson’s Economics, an Introductory Analysis, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1948, first edition, sixth impression, in publisher’s green cloth, 9 x 6 in. (2)
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
[economics] samuelson, paul anthony (1915-2009)
Foundations of Economic Analysis.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1947.
First edition, octavo, as published in Harvard Economic Studies as volume LXXX in the series; bound in very good publisher’s burgundy cloth, spine slightly sun-faded, corners slightly bumped, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
[economics] smith, adam (1723-1790)
Essays on Philosophical Subjects.
London: Printed for T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies; & Dublin: W. Creech, 1795.
First edition, large quarto, bound in contemporary marbled calf, inexpertly rebacked, new endleaves and pastedowns, first and last two leaves with marginal discoloration from leather turn-ins, 11 1/4 x 8 3/4 in.
Goldsmiths 16128; ESTC T33499.
Estimate
$2,000 – $2,500
[economics] smith, adam (1723-1790)
The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Author’s Presentation Copy.
London: Printed for Strahan & Cadell in the Strand; and Creech & J. Bell & Co. at Edinburgh, 1790.
Two octavo volumes, sixth edition, the last lifetime edition “with considerable additions and corrections”; inscribed on verso of volume one title page, “Alan Maconochie Esquire From The Author,” with signatures of recipient and his son James Allan on ffeps, along with JAM’s bookplates in both volumes; Allan Maconochie, Lord Meadowbank (1748-1816) was a Scottish judge, law professor, and founding member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh; bound in contemporary calf boards, rebacked in a lighter-color tan leather, corners bumped with some damage, 8 1/4 x 5 in. (2)
Alston III 828; Goldsmiths 14580; ESTC T90661.
Estimate
$3,000 – $5,000
[economics] veblen, thorstein (1857-1929)
The Theory of the Leisure Class, and Two Other First Edition Titles.
New York: Macmillan,1899.
First edition, octavo, full original green textured cloth, binding rubbed, somewhat cocked, sewing slightly shaken, small smudge to title, 7 1 /2 x 5 in.
[Together with]:
1) Veblen’s The Theory of Business Enterprise, New York: Scribner’s, 1904, first edition, octavo, publisher’s burgundy cloth, 8 x 5 in.;
[and] 2) the same author’s Absentee Ownership and Business Enterprise in Recent Times: The Case of America, New York: Huebsch, 1923, first edition, octavo, bound in publisher’s full green cloth, 7 1/2 x 5 in. (3)
Examining the history of wealth in the Theory of the Leisure Class, Veblen introduces the concepts of conspicuous leisure and conspicuous consumption for the first time. While working through capitalism’s place in the development of societies and economies, he was also cognizant of the difficult positions women are forced to assume within these structures. Veblen’s views are described as proto-feminist, noting that women of the industrial era were still shackled by what he describes as a “barbarian” status.
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Science & Medicine
[medicine & science] barrett, francis (c. 1770-1802)
The Magus, or Celestial Intelligencer; Being a Complete System of Occult Philosophy.
[London: Printed for Lackington, Allen, & Co., 1801, i.e. 1875.]
Facsimile of the first edition of 1801, large quarto, four parts in one volume; illustrated with author portrait frontispiece, seventeen full-page engravings in black-and-white, and five hand-colored plates, four of which depict frightening faces, including: fallen angels, vessels of wrath, the spirit antichrist, and powers of evil; bound in later half-calf with marbled paper boards, some spotting to first few leaves only, text otherwise very good, 11 1/4 x 8 1/2 in.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
[medicine & science] bauhin, caspar (1560-1624)
Pinax Theatri Botanici; [bound with] Prodromos Theatri Botanici.
Basel: Joannes Regis, 1671.
Second expanded editions of both works, by the same printer, first word in the title of each in Greek characters; large quarto, untrimmed throughout, a few leaves unopened at the top, with deckle edges throughout; the first work with an extensive index; the second work illustrated with more than 100 botanical text woodcuts; bound in half leather with speckled paper boards (worn, some tears to covering material, spine dry and flaking); some browning and foxing; Latin names occasionally added in pencil in a neat hand, two text leaves with marginal tears with the loss of a few letters; 10 1/4 x 7 1/2 in.
PMM 121; Brunet I 707; Pritzel 398 & 509; Alden & Landis 671/6 &671/7; Nissen 104; [all references describing the first editions.]
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
[medicine & science] bell, charles (1774-1842)
Essays on the Anatomy of Expression in Painting.
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme, 1806.
First edition, large quarto, with numerous text illustrations of skulls, faces, and heads of people and animals showing a variety of facial expressions; along with six full-paged plates; bound in contemporary half calf and marbled paper boards, joints cracked, rubbed and worn, corners of textblock bumped, 11 1/2 x 9 in.
Bell was an accomplished Scottish anatomist, surgeon, artist, and military surgeon.
Estimate
$400 – $600
[medicine & science] bidgood, john (1623-1691)
Doctoral Degree, Manuscript Diploma.
Padua, 1648.
Small format handwritten document on parchment consisting of four leaves, (seven inscribed pages) the opening leaf with title within a decorative frame executed in gold, blue, red, and green inks, each text leaf ruled with a decorative penwork border, neat secretarial hand in brown ink with many letters in liquid gold, twenty-seven lines per page, single column, signed at the end by several professors; the degree conferred while the medical college in Padua was administered by physician and professor Franz Ignaz Thiermair (1626-1680), who is named in the text; with two wax seals attached by woven silk cord, each housed in a tin case wrapped in red morocco and tooled in gilt; some chipping to the leather, paper wrappers chipped and folded, some bio-predation (mice?) to lower interior gutter corner, affecting only blank inner margin, 9 x 6 1/2 in.
Dr. Bidgood, whose unfortunate father Humphrey, an apothecary from Exeter, was poisoned by a servant, is described in The Roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London as possessing manners “haughty, morose, and repulsive.” Although his skill, attention to symptoms, and accuracy of diagnosis are praised.
Estimate
$400 – $600
[medicine & science] blair, patrick (d. 1728)
Miscellaneous Observations in the Practise of Physick, Anatomy and Surgery. With New and Curious Remarks in Botany, Adorn’d with Copper Plates.
London: Printed for William Mears, 1718.
First edition, octavo, likely lacking a divisional title in preliminaries, illustrated with two full-page botanical illustrations; the text also includes the first documentation of undoubted pyloric stenosis; bound in contemporary speckled boards ruled in blind, gilt spine, rubbed, front joint somewhat cracking but still attached, 7 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.
In addition to Blair’s contribution to the understanding of pyloric stenosis, he also mounted the bones of an elephant for the Royal Society.
ESTC T62572; rare at auction.
Estimate
$400 – $600
[medicine & science] castaigne, gabriel de (c. 1562-1630)
Le Grand Miracle de Nature Metallique.
Paris: Chez Charles Sevestre, 1615.
[Bound with] Ramon Llull’s (c. 1232-c. 1315) Le Vade Mecum, ou Abregé de l’Art Chimique, Touchant la Transmutation des Metaux, & Vraye Pierre des Philosophes, Paris: Chez Charles Hulpeau, 1627, two small-format octavo titles bound as one, both alchemical in nature; bound in modern half leather, may be lacking interstitial blanks, 6 x 3 3/4 in.
Worldcat lists two copies of the Llull title, in Amsterdam and at the University of Wisconsin; both are rare at auction.
Estimate
$300 – $500
[medicine & science] darwin, charles (1809-1882)
The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
New York: Appleton & Co., 1861.
Fourth American edition, with “New edition, revised and augmented by the author” in italic capitals on the title page; the first three American editions are identical (despite statements on the title pages to the contrary), however, this edition has additional material, for which see below; octavo, bound in publisher’s textured green cloth, some water stains to cover, losses at head and tail; front joint split, contents toned, 7 3/4 x 5 in.
“The fourth [American edition] is considerably altered. It includes a supplement of seven pages at the end of author’s ‘additions and alterations […] received too late to be incorporated in their proper places.’ It also contains the historical sketch, in its earlier and shorter form, as a preface.” (cf. Freeman page 83.)
Freeman 382.
Estimate
$250 – $350
[medicine & science] descartes, rené (1596-1650)
De Homine Figuris.
Leiden: Petrus Leffen & Franciscus Moyardus, 1662.
First edition, quarto, woodcut printer’s device to title; illustrated with numerous text engravings and woodcuts and ten full-paged engravings extraneous to collation (the plate of the heart missing one excised flap); bound in full contemporary unsophisticated parchment over boards with yapp edges, laced case construction, errata neatly corrected in a contemporary hand throughout in the margins, and then crossed out on the page of Notae at the end of the text, 8 x 6 1/4 in.
In this, the first published textbook concerned with physiology, Descartes understands the working of the human body as purely mechanistic.
Garrison-Morton 574; Grolier Medicine 31; Norman 627; NLM/Krivatsy 3120; Osler 931; Tchemerzine II, p.798 (describing two variants of the title-page, no priority mentioned); Waller 2376; Wellcome II page 453.
Estimate
$700 – $900
[medicine & science] eobanus hessus, helius (1488-1540)
Saluberrima Bonae Valetudinis.
Frankfurt: Haeredes Christian Egenolph, 1568.
Octavo, 63 leaves; final blank present, bound in modern half parchment with printed waste paper covering the boards, some toning, 6 x 3 1/2 in.
Hessus makes a poetical treatment of diet and principles of health with comprehensive scholia by the physician Pierre Haschaert. His glosses on the poet’s observations pull from classical medicine, clinical practice, and contemporary reports from explorers, including mention of savage man-eaters in the Americans and Russia. Hessus, who had his own struggles with the bottle, includes a chapter on different kinds of drunkenness and hangover remedies. Earlier editions bore the title De Tuenda Bona Valetudine.
Wellcome I, 2046; Adams E-194.
Estimate
$400 – $600
[medicine & science] gillies, sir harold delf (1882-1960) & d.
The Principles and Art of Plastic Surgery.
Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown, & Co., 1957.
Stated first edition, two folio volumes, illustrated throughout, bound in publisher’s half green and gray cloth, spines and front boards with silver stamping, in mylar jackets (worn with tears), 11 x 8 1/4 in. (2)
Estimate
$500 – $700
[medicine & science] gillies, sir harold delf (1882-1960)
Plastic Surgery of the Face Based on Selected Cases of War Injuries of the Face, Including Burns.
Oxford [and] London: Henry Frowde [and] Hodder & Stoughton, 1920.
First edition, folio, illustrated throughout with many photographs of patients and other illustrations; bound in publisher’s dark red textured cloth with title on front board in black and on the spine in gilt, 11 1/2 x 8 3/4 in.
Estimate
$400 – $600
[medicine & science] gockel, eberhard (1636-1703)
Tractatus Polyhistoricus Magico-Medicus Curiosus.
Frankfurt & Leipzig, Johann Martin Hagen, 1717.
Second edition, octavo, bound with three other German medical titles:
1) Johann Samuel Carl’s Medicina Pauperum oder Armen-Apotheck, Büdingen: Regelein, 1719;
2) Carl’s Von der Diaet wor Gesunde und Krancke, Büdingen: Regelein, 1719;
[and] 3) Hans Wentzel Schmidt’s Recht gewisse, bewehrt und approbierte Artzney-Kunst-Stück vor die Menschen, [No place: no printer, no date], woodcut of an alembic distiller to title; all four titles bound together in full contemporary alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards, worming, imprint of first title trimmed at foot with loss, lacking one clasp, binding worn, 6 1/4 x 3 1/2 in.
Estimate
$400 – $600
[medicine & science] kircher, athanasius (1602-1680)
Musurgia Universalis sive Ars Magna Consoni et Dissoni in X. Libros Digesta.
Rome: Heirs of Franciscus Corbelletti, [and] Grignani, 1650.
First edition, two folio volumes; lacking the added engraved title in volume one (supplied in facsimile), lacking the portrait of Leopold, Archduke of Austria, with a plate of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (not the dedicatee) inserted in its stead; additionally lacking two engraved plates: XVII and XXIII; engravings extraneous to the collation present in this copy as follows: in the first volume plates: I-III, a single plate numbered IV/V, VI-X, and XIII; in the second volume: XI/XII (a statue of Orpheus and Cerberus bound after the title), XIV-XVI, XVII-XXI, XXIII (XIV & XX folding; lacking plates XVI and XXII); numerous woodcut text illustrations throughout both volumes, several taking up an entire page; bound in contemporary uniform parchment over boards, edges stained blue, contents generally good, a little light waterstaining, 12 1/2 x 8 3/4 in.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
[medicine & science] kircher, athanasius (1602-1680)
Phonurgia Nova sive Conjugium Mechanico-Physicum Artis & Naturae Parnympha Phonosophia.
Kempten: Rudolphus Dreherr, 1673.
First edition, added engraved title (torn at fore-margin with loss), engraved portrait of dedicatee, engraved vignette to title, lacking half-title and final ?blank, illustrated with two full-paged engravings; bound in modern full calf, some stains to contents, 13 1/2 x 8 in.
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
[medicine & science] kützing, friedrich traugott (1807-1893)
Tabulae Phycologicae.
Nordhausen: Kosten des Verfassers, 1845-1866.
First edition, sixteen octavo volumes bound as eight, illustrated with a total of 1,600 lithographic plates (100 in each part), bound in full uniform period pebbled leather and textured cloth boards, dry, spines sun faded, 8 1/4 x 5 1/4 in., occupying one linear foot of shelf space. (8)
Kützing was a botanist and pharmacist who had a special interest in algae. This impressive work documents 6,000 species of algae.
Pritzel 4912; Nissen 1109; rare at auction.
Estimate
$500 – $750
[medicine & science] lancisi, giovanni maria (1654-1720)
De Motu Cordis et Aneurysmatibus Opus Posthumum.
Rome: Giovanni Maria Salvioni, 1728.
First edition, illustrated with engraved portrait of the author facing the title page, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette; one text engraving, and seven full-page plates bound after the text; errata present, leaf A2 misbound after B2, but present; bound in full contemporary parchment, worn, with some minor stains and worming to interior, 13 1/2 x 9 in.
Lancisi’s posthumously published treatise on the human heart focused on understanding cardiovascular diseases.
Garrison-Morton 2973; Norman 1275; Osler 3152; Wellcome III, p 441.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
[medicine & science] langham, william.
The Garden of Health: Containing the Sundry Rare and Hidden Vertues and Properties of All Kindes of Simples and Plants.
London: Printed by Thomas Harper, 1633.
Second edition, quarto, bound in contemporary boards amateurishly rebacked with later flyleaves added, some discoloration to margins, leaf margins to title and final two leaves reinforced, some margins soft and chipped, 7 1/4 x 5 3/4 in.
STC 15196; ESTC S108241; Wellcome 3658.
Estimate
$600 – $800
[medicine & science] magninus mediolanensis (d. 1368)
Regimen Sanitatis.
Paris: Ulrich Gering, 5 March 1483/84.
Second edition, collation: a-o8, p4 (a1 blank & present); 116 leaves; bound in later parchment over boards, some staining to last few leaves, institutional stamps neatly washed from first and last leaves of the text, some worming to gutter, stain to top blank margin, otherwise a clean copy, 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 in.
In addition to his work as clinical physician, astrologer, and professor, Maino also wrote books in his field of study. In this work, with its familiar title, his aim was to provide practical advice for those who wish to live long and healthy lives. As such, he discusses the physical body, and the effects of nutrition, exercise, bathing, emotions, sex, and other factors upon it. He goes into great detail on food and drink, dedicating chapters to cereals, legumes, fruit, leafy vegetables, root vegetables, mushrooms, truffles, meat, fish, sauces, confections, and drink. For more see Caroline Proctor’s, Perfecting Prevention: The Medical Writings of Maino de Maniere, 2006; https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/handle/10023/3718
Goff M52; H 10484*; Klebs 640.2; Pell Ms 7405 (7342); CIBN M-20; Buffévent 335; Lefèvre 301; Torchet 614; Maignien(Grenoble) 384; Madsen 2583; Sack(Freiburg) 2306; Schullian 293; Bod-inc M-016; Sheppard 6142; Pr 7869; BSB-Ink M-293; GW M19897; ISTC im00052000.
Estimate
$3,000 – $5,000
[medicine & science] mandeville, bernard (1670-1733)
A Treatise of the Hypochondriack and Hysterick diseases, in Three Dialogues.
London: for J. Tonson, 1730.
Second edition, corrected and enlarged, octavo, slight stain to title, contents quite good, bound in contemporary half red morocco with marbled paper boards, ex libris James Martin with armorial bookplate, 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.
ESTC T60407.
Estimate
$250 – $350
[medicine & science] mariani, angelo (1838-1914)
Coca and its Therapeutic Application.
New York: J. N. Jaros [for Mariani], 1890.
First edition in English, illustrated with frontispiece, text illustrations, and a double-page color lithograph of a coca plant printed by Pigelet in Paris, 78 pages; bound in contemporary burgundy cloth stamped in blind with gold lettering on spine and front board; dark brown clay-coated endleaves (inner joints slightly cracked, losses at head and tail), aeg., generally good, with faults noted, 8 3/4 x 6 in.
Mariani’s self-published work serves as an extended sales tool for marketing his Vin Mariani coca wine, a drink that contained cocaine and is seen as the precursor to Coca-Cola.
Worldcat lists no copies of this 1890 edition, nor any other earlier editions in English; rare at auction.
Estimate
$300 – $400
[medicine & science] medical books: two french imprints.
Including:
1) Imbert Delonnes’s Operation de Sarcocele, Paris: Imprimerie de la République, [1797], octavo, full tan mottled calf with gilt-ruled boards.
[and] 2) Alphonse Eugène De Saint-Amand’s Dissertation sur les pertes de sang qui affectent les femmes pendant la grossesse, lors et à la suite de l’accouchement, Paris: Imprimerie de Demonville et Soeurs, 1803, octavo in a contemporary presentation binding, full calf tooled on the front board in large gilt letters, “Offert a L’Amitie,” perhaps for presentation from the author. (2)
Estimate
$250 – $350
[medicine & science] paré, ambroise (1510?-1590)
The Workes of that Famous Chirurgion Ambrose Parey.
London: Printed by Richard Cotes & William Du-Gard, to be sold by John Clarke, 1649.
Second edition, folio, engraved title with a portrait of Paré at the top, flanked by physicians performing trepanning procedures and an apothecary in his workshop, with a skeleton and skinless man on each side of the title, tools of distillation and surgery at the foot of the plate, with the bottom right corner depicting monstrous births, this composition by Thomas Cecil (fl. 1626-1640), signed in the plate; translated from the French by Thomas Johnson, illustrated with text woodcuts throughout; with separate title page for Aggeiologia: or, a Description of the Vessels in the Body of Man, illustrated with three full-paged woodcuts of the circulatory system; other illustrations include animals, monstrous births, anatomical illustrations, portraits, images of surgical instruments, and multi-person procedures (with devices) for performing surgery, setting bones, and so on; this copy trimmed very close with some marginal material slightly cropped, including some headlines, and occasionally touching side notes; the three leaves of large woodcuts illustrating the vascular system folded, the first with losses and clumsy repairs; spots, and stains from spills fairly consistently throughout; in later leather boards, in need of resewing and rebacking, front board completely detached, sewing perished, a good candidate for restoration, 12 x 8 in.
Wing P-349; ESTC R913.
Estimate
$1,000 – $2,000
[medicine & science] pavlov, ivan (1849-1936)
Die Normale Tätigkeit und Allgemeine Konstitution der Großhirnrinde, Signed Presentation Copy.
Leipzig: Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1923.
Large octavo pamphlet offprint from Skandin. Archiv f. Physiol.; ex libris Rijks Universiteit, pharmacological institute, Utrecht, with stamp on front cover; inscription in top right corner, “Vom Verfasser”; with stamp of German pharmacologist and physiologist Rudolf Magnus (1873-1927) on front cover, some minor tears, vertical crease, 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 in.
Estimate
$600 – $800
[medicine & science] pavlov, ivan (1849-1936)
Ein Neues Laboratorium zur Erforschung der Bedingten Reflexe, Author’s Presentation Copy.
Wiesbaden: J.F. Bergmann, 1911.
Large octavo offprint from Ergebnisse der Physiologie; in publisher’s original orange printed wrappers, ex libris Rijks Universiteit, pharmacological institute, Utrecht, with stamp on front cover; inscription in top right corner, “Vom Verfasser”; vertical crease, thumbed; handwritten shelfmark scraped away from front cover just below author’s inscription, 9 3/4 x 6 5/8 in.
Estimate
$600 – $800
[medicine & science] physician’s illustrated notebook.
England, circa 1844.
Quarto format manuscript on wove paper watermarked 1832; consisting of approximately thirty leaves of notes in pen and pencil, the text containing medical preparations and descriptions of illnesses; followed by a section that contains nine fully finished shaded pencil drawings colored in red and blue of anatomical dissections and one other subject, each with sections labeled and explanatory text, viz., 1) two images of a burning flame (candle and spirit lamp) with the sections of the flame labeled; 2) “A View of the Heart nearly in the situation in which it is seen when the chest is opened”; 3) back view of the heart; 4) a dissected torso from shoulders to pelvis with the ribs cut, heart visible, along with the aorta below the diaphragm as it splits into the two iliac arteries; 5) a dissected head illustrating the carotid artery and its connected vessels; 6) a dissected head showing the jaw bone, tongue, neck vertebrae, sinuses, the skull sawn in half, with an inset detail of the arteries; 7) the anterior lobes of the cerebrum with arteries; 8) a full arm with scapula showing muscles and blood vessels with inset detailed renderings of the hand and the arteries separated from the muscles; [and] 9) the lower leg with the tendon of the external oblique muscles from thigh to just below the knee, a second drawing from the knee down, showing muscles and arteries; followed by a page with images of three vertebrae in monochrome without explanatory text, and three pages that contain approximately twenty-five small pencil sketches of cells, magnified cartilage, papilla of the dermis, follicles, nerve ganglions, and other samples seen under a microscope; [with] two other unfinished anatomical pencil sketches; a section of leaves in the center left blank, approximately fifty leaves in all with text and illustrations; one ownership signature on ffep dated Highbury Vale, 1844, the name not discerned; bound in contemporary half leather and marbled paper boards, first leaf pasted down to front board, 8 x 6 1/4 in.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
[medicine & science] pomet pierre, (1658-1699)
A Compleat History of Druggs.
London: Printed for R. Bonwicke et alia, 1712.
First edition in English, quarto, two parts in one volume, both title pages printed in red and black, illustrated with eighty-six full-paged engravings, the majority depicting botanical specimens, other subjects include scenes illustrating the preparation of indigo, sugar cane, and tobacco by enslaved people; two indigenous people in Central America preparing achiote; and about a dozen plates of mammals, fish, reptiles, and other fauna including plates showing whaling, and the production of honey and silk; with final leaf of publisher’s ads; some contemporary notes in an old reddish pencil; bound in early full leather, nicely rebacked, rubbed; ex libris T.G. Wright, M.D., with bookplate, one leaf with blind embossed stamp, 9 x 7 in.
ESTC T113762; Hunt 428; Wellcome IV 411.
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,000
[medicine & science] pseudo-aristotle.
Aristotle’s Last Legacy: Unfolding the Mysteries of Nature in the Generation of Man.
London: Printed for R.G., 1704.
12mo, early, unrecorded edition not in ESTC, and earlier than the earliest recorded copy of this title (1707); frontispiece woodcut portrait of “The Famous Aristotle,” seated in his chamber with book and globe, the grim reaper framed on the wall; front blank present, bound in full contemporary sheepskin, somewhat worn, generally good contemporary condition, 5 3/4 x 3 1/2 in.
ESTC notes that the same content was published beginning in 1690 under the title, Aristotle’s Master-Piece. The authorship is a spurious attribution. Although the text was printed in many editions under both titles, all are rare.
Estimate
$300 – $500
[medicine & science] trutta, giovanni battista (fl. circa 1700)
Novello Giardino della Prattica et Esperienza.
Naples: Nella Stamperia de Bonis, si vende dal Autore, 1707.
Second edition, expanded, quarto in four parts (the first edition was published in 1699 in octavo and three parts);
[bound with] Vero Modo di Curare la Influenza del Sangue Potrido, con lo Humore Colerico, e Morte di piu Cavalli, Naples: [no printer], 1712; [together with] another pamphlet by the same author on health issues of horses dated 1713, not issued with a formal title; [and] a religious allegorical engraving by Suor Isabella Piccini (1644-1734) pasted to the verso of the last text leaf of the first work titled, “Il Far Credenza e Cosa Mala,” depicting a Roman soldier with a sword about to strike a woman he holds by her hair; the first work illustrated with six full-page engravings by Fabiano Miotte and two full-page woodcuts of horse bits; bound in full contemporary limp parchment, worn, signs of use, old inscriptions; library stamps to title, last leaf, and first plate; 8 3/4 x 6 1/4 in.
Trutta’s rare works concern themselves with equine veterinary matters, horse riding, and the care of other domesticated farm animals. Illustrations depict a rider on horseback, the astrological horse, horse bits, and other related subjects of horse anatomy.
First title rare at auction; Worldcat lists one copy of this edition and two copies of the first edition in libraries worldwide; second title not recorded in Worldcat.
Estimate
$500 – $700
Ken Rapoport Collection
Alexander, sir william, earl of stirling (1567-1640)
The Monarchicke Tragedies; Croesus, Darius, The Alexandraean, Julius Caesar. Newly enlarged.
London: Valentine Simmes for Ed. Blount, 1607.
Quarto, expanded edition, consisting of a reissue of the 1604 edition with new general title page, with Darius retaining its original title dated 1604, and the final two plays appearing for the first time, each with its own title; title page of The Alexandrean Tragedie is the cancel with mask ornament; with all four original blanks present, including first preliminary leaf signed A1; bound in full crushed navy morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe for Bernard Quaritch, 7 1/2 x 5 3/4 in.
In addition to promoting the Scottish colonization of Nova Scotia and his connection with the royal family, Alexander was also a celebrated poet and playwright. This particular work is exceedingly rare on the market.
STC 344; ESTC S100090; Greg III page 1010; rare at auction.
Estimate
$10,000 – $15,000
Allott, robert, ed. (fl. circa 1600)
Englands Parnassus: Or, the Choysest Flowers of our Moderne Poets, with their Poeticall Comparisons.
London: Imprinted for N.L.C.B. [Nicholas Ling, Cuthbert Burby] and T.H. [Thomas Hays], 1600.
Octavo, one of several issues dated 1600, the present with editor’s dedicatory sonnet inscribed to Sir Thomas Mounson signed R.A.; woodcut printer’s device to title, lacking first two and final blanks (A1, A2, & Kk8); leaves A6-A8, “A Table of all the speciall matters contained in this Booke,” bound after Kk7; A8, the final leaf of table/errata supplied from a smaller copy; with ink annotations throughout correcting errors and attributing lines to poets and works, later ink notes on front and rear flyleaves; bound in full later calf tooled in gilt with lyre tools, rebacked; paper flaw to leaf E1 (49/50), aeg.; purchased from Seven Gables in June of 1967; 5 7/8 x 3 5/8 in.
“This volume is a compilation of quotations varying in length from a line to nearly a page, generally with source noted though not always accurately, taken from the poetical works of some fifty Elizabethan writers. There are included 91 genuine extracts from Shakespeare’s works, mostly derived from Venus and Adonis and Lucrece but all from plays or poems which had been printed before 1600.” (Pforzheimer)
STC 378; ESTC S100113; Case Poetical Miscellanies 23 (a); Pforzheimer 358 A; Langland to Wither 3; Hayward 38; Arber III 173.
Estimate
$12,000 – $15,000
Allott, robert, ed. (fl. circa 1600)
Wits Theater of the Little World.
Estimate
$6,000 – $8,000
Barahano de soto, luis (1548-1595)
Primera Parte de la Angelica.
Granada: en casa de Hugo de Mena a costa de Joan Diaz, 1586.
First edition, quarto, bound in full contemporary gilt-tooled red morocco, rebacked; title page reinforced, light water stains affecting the first few leaves, the “Advertimientos” that appear at the end of the first nine cantos have been crossed out in ink, but the text is somewhat legible, in the tenth, only four lines are defaced, in the last two, the “Advertiminentos are untouched; 7 1/4 x 5 1/8 in.
This extremely rare work of Barahano de Soto, a continuation of the Orlando Furioso, was published in these twelve cantos and never continued further. The poet was praised by Cervantes.
Rare at auction, the last copy listed was offered in 1933; Palau 23550; Salva 1530; Heredia 2128; three copies in Worldcat; the De Vinne press issued a facsimile edition in 1904.
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Beaumont, francis (1584-1616) & john fletcher
Comedies and Tragedies.
London: Printed for Humphrey Robinson and Humphrey Moseley, 1647.
First collected edition, folio, engraved portrait of Fletcher at the age of forty-nine by Marshall bound opposite the title in second state; the layout and plan of this publication modeled on the Shakespeare Folio; bound in full contemporary spotted English calf boards, neatly rebacked with an attractive period-style red morocco spine label, housed in a custom slipcase, ex libris British landowner and Tory politician Richard Lyster (c. 1691-1766) of Rowton Castle, Shropshire, with engraved armorial bookplate inside front board and Lyster’s signature and price on ffep; a portion of the bottom blank margin and bottom rule trimmed away on leaf Ffff3 restored, 12 1/2 x 8 in.
Wing B-1581; ESTC R22900; Pforzheimer 53.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Boccaccio, giovanni (1313-1375)
[The Decameron.] The Modell of Wit, Mirth, Eloquence, and Conversation.
London: Printed by Isaac Jaggard, for Mathew Lownes, 1625 [1620].
Folio, two parts in one volume: second edition of volume one, first edition of volume two; first volume printed within woodcut compartment (McKerrow & Ferguson 212); second volume with illustrated woodcut title with six large oval frames inspired by the story, both parts illustrated with text woodcuts; lacking initial blank in first volume (A1); bound in full contemporary tan English calf ruled in blind, neatly rebacked retaining the original spine, corners mended, later endleaves, ex libris the following collections, each with bookplate inside front board: Shuttleworth Forcett; Kap Shuttleworth, Cawthorpe Hall; and Stuart W. Jackson; housed in chemise and half-morocco slipcase, 11 1/4 x 7 1/4 in.
I: STC 3173; ESTC S107074; Wither to Prior 250 (describing the first edition); Pforzheimer 72; II: STC 3172; ESTC S106639; Pforzheimer 71.
Estimate
$7,000 – $9,000
Browne, sir thomas (1605-1682)
Pseudodoxia Epidemica: or, Enquiries into Very Many Received Tenets, and Commonly Presumed Truths.
London: Printed by T.H. [Thomas Harper] for Edward Dod, 1646.
First edition, folio, imprimatur bound opposite the title, lacking the final blank Bbb6; bound in full contemporary English calf boards, later spine label, joints cracking, stain to title; the H. Bradley Martin copy, with bookplate, 10 3/4 x 7 in.
Wing B-5159; Keynes 73; Wither to Prior 107; Norman 358; ESTC R1093.
Estimate
$600 – $800
Camõens, luis de (1524?-1580) trans. thomas fanshawe.
The Lusiad, or, Portugals Historicall Poem.
London: Printed [by Thomas Newcombe] for Humphrey Moseley, 1655.
First edition in English, small folio, illustrated with engraved frontispiece bust portrait of the laurel crowned poet winking (portrait leaf inlaid), with additional folding engravings of Prince Henry of Portugal (opposite B1), and Vasco da Gama between G3 & G4, each with edge repairs; bound in full late 19th century tan calf by Kaufman, joints rubbed, boards marked; ex libris British newspaper owner and collector of illuminated manuscripts Henry Yates Thompson (1838-1928) with his bookplate inside front board annotated, “Bought at Lisbon, 1886”; 10 3/4 x 7 in.
Wing C-397; ESTC R18836; Pforzheimer 362; Wither to Prior 349; uncommon at auction.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Cervantes, miguel de (1547-1616)
El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha.
Valencia: Pedro Patricio Mey, 1605.
Third authorized edition, first Valencia edition, octavo, with approbation dated July 18, 1605; catchword on †2 recto “LA” (not AL); first leaf of text numbered “1”; page 192 numbered 162; page 243 numbered 234; woodcut of the knight errant in armor on horseback holding a sword on the title page; bound in modern full reddish brown crushed morocco with blue morocco doublures, spine tooled in gilt, the binding signed by A. Palomino Olalla; paste-decorated edges, leaves washed with slight residual staining, very neat expert pulp fill repairs to the top margins of leaves C2 and C3 (touching a few letters in the headlines), small portions of blank margins of R8 and Dd2 trimmed without loss; the headlines on T1 verso (page 290) & Z7 recto (page 365) very slightly cropped; 5 9/16 x 3 1/2 in.
The first part of Don Quixote was published in Madrid in 1605 and was propelled by popularity into multiple editions and several pirated editions in quick succession. This particular edition was published with Cervantes’s approval.
Brunet I: 1748; Palau 51980; rare at auction.
Estimate
$80,000 – $100,000
Chastellain, georges (c. 1405/1415-1475)
Histoire du Bon Chevalier, Messire Jacques de Lalain, Frere et Compagnon de l’Ordre de la Toison d’Or.
Brussels: chez la Vefue d’Hubert Athoine Velpius, 1634.
First edition, quarto, publisher’s woodcut device to title, delicately wrought copper-plate portrait of Jacques de Lalaing (1421-1453) on following leaf, a true knight-errant whose life story is the subject of Chastellain’s work; lacking blank ?Qq4; repaired tear to signature R; bound in late 17th century speckled calf, very nicely preserved with original gilt label and ruling to spine; slight toning to title, otherwise a very good copy; from the Otto Schäfer collection, sold at Sotheby’s, 1 November 1995; Quaritch collation note at end; 7 1/8 x 5 1/4 in.
Brunet I: 1820; Goldsmith C824; Graesse II: 126; rare at auction.
Estimate
$2,000 – $2,500
Chaucer, geoffrey (c. 1343-1400)
The Woorkes.
[London: Imprinted by Ihon Kyngston, for Ihon Wight, 1561.]
Folio, fifth edition, title page with large woodcut of Chaucer’s arms dominating the page, edited by William Thynne with non-Chaucerian additions by John Stowe; printed in black letter in two columns, divisional titles printed within broad woodcut border showing the genealogy of the Houses of York and Lancaster down to Henry VIII (McKerrow & Ferguson 75); woodcut of a knight on horseback on the first leaf of the Knight’s Tale (B1); bound in full 18th century calf, tooled in gilt, rebacked, aeg., 12 x 8 1/2 in.
This edition of Chaucer’s Works is thought to have been Shakespeare’s source for the story of “Troilus and Cressida.”
STC 5076; ESTC S107207; Langland to Wither 42.
Estimate
$8,000 – $10,000
Colet, claude trans. (fl. 16th century)
L’Histoire Palladienne, Traitant des Gestes & Genereux Faitz d’Armes et d’Amours de Plusieurs Grandz Princes et Seigneurs.
Paris: Estienne Groulleau, 1555.
First edition, listing only Groulleau as vendor, one of four issues to be sold by Jean Dallier, Vincent Sertenas, Jean Longis, and Groulleau himself; folio, illustrated with thirty-nine woodcut text illustrations (including fifteen repeats) that first appeared in Groulleau’s Amadis de Gaule (also translated by Colet); preface by Etienne Jodelle, dedicatory poems by Jodelle, Denisot, and de Magny; bound in full early 19th century tan calf (rebacked) with large gilt arms of John Ker (1740-1804), 3rd Duke of Roxburghe on both boards, sold in the 1812 Roxburghe library sale as lot 6173; gilt corner pieces with crowned initials WSC added circa 1812 for William Spencer Cavendish (1790-1858), 6th Duke of Devonshire; Chatsworth bookplate of William Cavendish (1808-1891), 7th Duke of Devonshire inside front board, 12 3/4 x 8 in.
This work has a purported source in a Spanish romance titled Florando de Inglaterra, which, despite the mention of England in the title, takes place in Europe. And although the tale was never published on the Iberian peninsula, it does contain passages that seem to have reached Cervantes. An English translation by Anthony Munday (1553-1633) from Colet’s French was published in London in 1588.
Brunet I 434 (Dallier issue); rare at auction; Worldcat locates seven copies of all issues and two copies in institutional libraries worldwide of this issue, at the Bodleian & the Beinecke.
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,000
De herberay des essarts, nicolas (died c. 1557)
Le Premier Livre de la Cronique du Tresvaillant & Redouté Dom Flores de Grece.
Paris: [par Estienne Groulleau] pour Jan Longis, 1552.
First edition, folio, woodcut printer’s device to title, both works with text ruled in a red throughout, top corner of title trimmed away, affecting the last three letters of “LIVRE,” repaired and in ink facsimile, title remargined along both vertical margins, illustrated with seventy woodcuts printed from thirty-eight blocks in the text, with final blank;
[Bound with] L’Histoire Aethiopique de Heliodorus, Paris: Pour Estienne Groulleau, 1559; the two bound in full speckled calf, title to spine, headcaps chipped with loss, aeg., 12 1/4 x 7 3/4 in.
Despite the title, de Herberay’s work is an original romance, and not a translation. This work is a continuation of the chivalric adventures of Amadis de Gaul.
I: Mortimer French 272; II: Mortimer French 271.
Estimate
$6,000 – $8,000
Diez, diego et alia.
Relacion muy Verdadera.
Sevilla: Alonso de Coca, [1562].
First edition, folio broadside with four woodcuts on recto and woodcut initials, bound with blanks into a modern binding of mottled paper over boards, ex libris Pascual de Gayangos y Arce (1809-1897), the 19th century bibliographer who catalogued Spanish manuscripts at the British Museum, 11 1/2 x 7 3/4 in.
The text consists of a sworn statement made at Cadiz on 20 October 1562 by Diego Diez, Juan Rodriguez, and Pedro Morcillo to Commissioners of the Board of Trade. The three men were officers on the ship, Our Lady of Light, from whose decks they witnessed a fire that destroyed the island of El Pico in the Azores, the result of a catastrophic volcanic eruption that began in 1562 and continued for two years.
Palau 257180; Medina 187; Alden 562/7; rare, one location listed in Worldcat, at the Dibam Biblioteca Nacional de Chile in Santiago.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Digby, kenelm (1603-1665)
Two Treatises: In the one of which, the Nature of Bodies, in the Other the Nature of Man’s Soule is Looked Into.
London: Printed for John Williams, 1665.
Quarto, fourth edition, portrait of the author bound opposite title (reinforced on verso with Japanese tissue); this issue with the extra preliminary signature signed (*) and containing verses by John Sergeant present in this copy; illustrated with woodcut text diagrams; bound in full contemporary calf with the large gilt-tooled arms of William Douglas (1637-1695) on front and back, gilt fleur-de-lis in each corner of both boards and in each compartment on spine, unspohsticated, printer’s waste used to guard endleaves, 7 1/4 x 5 1/4 in.
Wing D-1451; ESTC R10596.
Estimate
$600 – $800
Dolce, ludovico (1508 or 1510-1568)
Palmerino d’Oliva. Historia del Valorosissimo Cavalliere di Nuovo Tradotto nell’idioma Italiano.
Venice: Michele Tramezino, 1547.
Second edition in Italian, octavo, translated from the Spanish by Mambrino Roseo (1500-1580); woodcut printer’s device to title, text in italic letter throughout; inked titles to spine and front cover; ownership signature to title page; bound in tidy contemporary limp parchment, contemporary edge-gilding, a nice example, 6 x 4 in.
Rare at auction and in general; no copies in Worldcat; Palau 210485.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
Donne, john (1572-1631)
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Severall Steps in my Sicknes.
London: Printed [by Augustine Mathewes] for Thomas Jones, 1627.
Third edition, 12mo, initial blank A1 present; ex libris Gilbert Burnett, with stamp on verso of title, signature of Margaret Stanhope dated 1677 on ffep; bound in full contemporary faded red (or pink) velvet (worn, nap almost completely gone), metal corner pieces, bosses, and clasps removed; original gilt edges, a large clean copy printed on a thin paper stock with some blank margins fragile and with some breaks in the paper that most likely occurred when the book was originally printed, contents very good, 5 1/2 x 3 1/4 in.
STC 7035a; Keynes 38; ESTC S114971.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Donne, john (1572-1631)
Poems, with Elegies on the Author’s Death.
London: Printed by M.F. [Miles Flesher] for John Marriot, 1633.
First edition, quarto, without preliminary leaves 2A2, “The Printer to the Understanders,” sometimes missing, apparently a later addition (see ESTC S121864); Nn1 without headline; lacking first and last blanks; unwashed, bound in full contemporary English calf, ruled in blind and expertly rebacked, title page dusty, with some faint discoloration, minor gutter worming, generally very good, having escaped washing, trimming, and pressing in the 19th century; 7 1/4 x 5 1/4 in.
STC 7045; ESTC S121864; Pforzheimer 296; Keynes 78.
Estimate
$12,000 – $18,000
Drayton, michael (1563-1631)
The Battaile of Agincourt.
London: Printed [by Augustine Mathewes] for William Lee, 1627.
First edition, small folio, lacking portrait and final blank (Ee4), ex libris poet and miniature painter Thomas Flatman (1635-1688) with his ownership signature on title and final leaf of text along with a small bust length portrait in ink on last leaf verso; bound in period boards, neatly rebacked; ex libris Edward Hailstone (1818-1890) with his large red morocco armorial bookplate tooled in gilt inside front board; fault to one text leaf printed over a paper flaw/crease, 10 1/8 x 6 in.
STC 7190; ESTC S121619; Pforzheimer 301; Langland to Wither 85.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
Drayton, michael (1563-1631)
The Muses Elizium, Lately Discovered by a New Way Over Parnassus.
London: Printed by Thomas Harper for John Waterson, 1630.
First edition, quarto, Drayton’s last published work; small blank corner of title restored, title dusty, final leaves a bit shorter and dust-soiled, a few other text leaves with corner paper repairs; lacking A1 (first blank), bound in full brown morocco tooled in gilt, ex libris Warwick Castle with two bookplates, 7 1/4 x 5 1/2 in.
STC 7210; ESTC S109889; Pforzheimer 304; Langland to Wither 71.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Du verdier, gilbert saulnier (1598-1686)
The Love and Armes of the Greeke Princes. Or, the Romant of Romants.
London: Printed by Thomas Harper for Thomas Walkley, 1640.
First edition in English, small folio, translated by Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke (1584-1650), with his woodcut arms on each of the three title pages; bound in antique half sheepskin with marbled paper boards, worn; ex libris Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, with his Bibliotheca Lindesiana bookplate paste inside the front board, some minor faults to text leaves, including tears to blank margins, spotting, and older inscriptions, lacking two blanks, 10 3/4 x 7 in.
STC 21775; ESTC S116707.
Estimate
$600 – $800
Elyot, sir thomas (1490?-1546)
The Image of Governaunce Compiled of the Actes and Sentences Notable of the Most Noble Emperour Alexander Severus.
London: Thomas Berthelet, 1549.
Third edition, small octavo, title printed within architectural woodcut border, text in black letter; bound in full contemporary dark brown English calf with large blind-tooled lozenges on each board, pastedowns are recycled musical manuscript leaves on parchment in red, blue, and black; rebacked, lacking ties, corners repaired; extensive contemporary English manuscript notes throughout (an imperfect attempt at washing them away in the first two signatures only), final blank completely covered with marginalia (comprising a biography of Alexander Severus); with a Quaritch collation note (“collated & complete”) in pencil on last leaf; 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.
In Writing Under Tyranny: English Literature and the Henrician Reformation, Greg Walker writes that, The Image of Governance, “far from being a straightforward life of an ideal emperor, is actually a complex, bitter, and at times savagely satirical rumination on princely power and its perversions, probably prompted at least in part by the fall of Elyot’s patron and friend Thomas Cromwell. Many of the details highlighted in the text seem designed to comment upon contemporary events and Henry’s slide into tyranny in the course of the 1530s.”
STC 7666; ESTC S111496.
Estimate
$3,000 – $5,000
Ercilla y zúñiga, alonso de (1533-1594)
Primera, Segunda, y Tercera Partes de la Araucana.
Madrid: en casa de Pedro Madrigal, 1590.
First collected edition, title pages to second and third parts dated 1589; octavo, woodcut portrait of the author on §§4 verso, interstitial blank Bb4 present; signature Ddd with nine leaves, an unsigned unnumbered page inserted between Ddd2 & Ddd3, correcting a printer’s omission; woodcut devices to all three title pages; a nicely preserved example in full contemporary limp parchment, lacking ties, small wormhole to inner back gutter coming through the binding and entering the last three leaves; ex libris William Charles de Meuron, Earl Fitzwilliam, with armorial bookplate inside front cover, older library shelf numbers in ink on ffep and inside front pastedown, 6 x 4 in.
Ercilla y Zúñiga was a soldier, epic poet, and nobleman who served Spain in South America in their assaults on the Indigenous Mapuche in Chile, a people referred to as Araucanians in this period. The hero of his poem is Caupolicán, war leader or Toqui whose death Ercilla witnessed firsthand, recounting the grisly scene in this work. According to the poet, Caupolicán was captured alive and sentenced to death by impalement. Once on the platform raised above the spike, he kicked the executioner onto the ground and threw himself onto the spike on 5 February 1558.
Rare at auction; Palau 80418; Worldcat records six copies worldwide.
Estimate
$10,000 – $15,000
Fletcher, phineas (1582-1650)
The Purple Island, or the Isle of Man.
Cambridge: by the Printers to the University, 1633.
First edition, quarto, regular paper copy, title page printed in red and black, all three blanks present; bound in contemporary speckled calf boards, rebacked, gilt-tooled spine, ex libris Frederic Robert Halsey, E. Hubert Litchfield, and John Drinkwater with all three bookplates pasted inside the front board; sold at Sotheby’s November 15, 1977 as part of the David Borowitz library, and previously at the same venue on December 4, 1951; housed in a buckram chemise and slipcase, 7 1/4 x 5 1/2 in.
The Purple Island was Fletcher’s chief work, “an elaborate allegorical description of the human body, with anatomical notes” (Osler). “The work covers three large areas of Man: the external, physical anatomy; the internal, moral-mental-spiritual anatomy; and the war of virtues and vices. The Purple Island is easily one of the most unusual poems in English” (DLB).
STC 11082; ESTC S102332; Pforzheimer 376 Hayward 67; Krivatsy 4121; Osler 4810; Westwood & Satchell, page 95.
Estimate
$300 – $500
Gil polo, gaspar (1540?-1591)
Primera Parte de la Diana Enamorada.
[?Valencia: No Printer], 1566.
Second edition, very rare, octavo, 140 [i.e. 136] numbered leaves; woodcut printer’s device with illustration to title, divided into five books (chapters), each illustrated at its start with a text woodcut, woodcut on verso of final leaf (some woodcuts repeated); with license to print issued by the Inquisition in Valencia, Spain dated September 24, 1653 on verso of title (as described in Palau); bound in contemporary limp parchment, some minor toning and spotting to contents, 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.
“[La Diana Enamorada] is one of the most agreeable of Spanish pastorals; interesting in incident, written in fluent prose, and embellished with melodious poems, it was constantly reprinted, was imitated by Cervantes in the Canto de Caliope, and was translated into English, French, German and Latin. The English version of Bartholomew Young, published in 1598 but current in manuscript fifteen years earlier, is said to have suggested the Felismena episode in the Two Gentlemen of Verona.” (EB 1911)
Not in Adams; not in Worldcat; no copies at auction; Palau 102074.
Estimate
$6,000 – $8,000
Gower, john (1325?-1408)
De Confessione Amantis.
London: Thomas Berthelette, 1554.
Folio, third edition, title page printed within woodcut compartment (McKerrow & Ferguson 26); text printed in gothic letter double columns throughout; complete, including the final blank Ii6; bound in full contemporary dark brown calf with a large central tool in blind on front and back boards, worn, losses to head and tail, endbands still present, worming to boards, unsophisticated, no repairs; sewn on alum-tawed supports, front bifolium of binder’s endleaves guarded with blank parchment slip, back endleaves not present, parchment guard still in place but clearly bound after the conjugate final blank; a few later marginal notes at the end, some unobtrusive minor worming, a small straight hole in the bottom margin about halfway through the text; an exceptionally clean and well-preserved survival, housed in a modern custom clamshell box; Latin inscription referring to the text in a 17th century hand on the verso of the title; 11 3/8 x 7 1/2 in.
STC 12144; Pforzheimer 422; Langland to Wither 116; this copy purchased from Seven Gables in 1973.
Estimate
$8,000 – $12,000
Guevara, antonio de, (d. 1545?)
The Golden Boke of Marcus Aurelius Emperour and Eloquent Oratour.
[London: Thomas Bertelet, 1542.]
Quarto, unauthorized English translation by John Bourchier, 1st Baron Berners (d. 1474), title page toned and mounted; bound in full dark green straight-grain morocco with Pickering & Chatto emblem in gilt at foot of spine; aeg, the table is bound at the end, final leaf with large woodcut and final blank present, signature Ss supplied from a shorter copy with top margins very neatly extended to the proper height; colophon leaf also supplied, the margin at the foot extended; leaves are dusty, 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.
STC 12439; ESTC S122992 listing three copies in American libraries: Folger, Huntington, & Newberry.
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,000
Hakluyt, richard (1552?-1616)
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation Made by Sea or Over-land.
London: George Bishop, Ralph Newberie, and Robert Barker, 1599-1600.
Three parts in two folio volumes, without the map, the account of the victory over Cadiz suppressed in this copy and replaced with the 1720 reprint of the text; second part of volume II misbound after the end of volume III, page 607 with fifty-two lines of text, no tailpiece on page 620; ex libris Charles W.G. Howard from the Dundas gift with armorial bookplates in both volumes, bound in full uniform diced russia gilt, skillfully rebacked, marbled endleaves, 11 3/8 x 7 1/8 in.
STC 12626A; ESTC S106753.
Estimate
$6,000 – $8,000
Homer. trans george chapman
The Whole Works of Homer; Prince of Poetts in his Iliads, and Odysses. Translated according to the Greeke.
London: printed [by Richard Field, William Jaggard, and Thomas Harper] for Nathaniell Butter, [1634?].
Folio, general engraved title, full-page engraving dedicated to Henry Prince of Wales, engraved title to the Odyssey, and to the Batrachomyomachia all present in this copy, including three original blanks; this copy without the portrait of Chapman and the two unsigned leaves of sonnets added to the Iliad; no typographical title to the Odyssey; a later state of STC 13624, which in turn was a reissue of STC 13634 and 13637, according to ESTC, “In this state the reissue of The Iliads is replaced by a reprinting by Thomas Harper; recto headlines of the Iliad have ‘HOMER’S’ in italics. Harper also printed a cancel letterpress title page for The Odyssey with imprint ‘London, printed for Nathaniel Butter’; and a cancel Aa5 beginning ‘Poet’ (no period; cancellandum has ‘Poet.’). Many copies have some preliminaries retained from STC 13624.” Confusing, to say the least; bound in full dark green olive morocco tooled ornately in gilt by Bedford, washed and pressed, housed in a custom morocco slipcase by Mounteney, the binding very nicely preserved, aeg.; ffep inscribed by Henry Gibbs, St. Dunstan’s, 1860; ownership bookplates of Aldenham House and Chicago book collector Harold Greenhill (1893-1968) pasted inside the front board, 11 x 7 1/4 in.
Pforzheimer 169 note; Langland to Wither 35-37; STC 13624.5; ESTC S119225.
Estimate
$10,000 – $15,000
Huon de bordeaux.
Les Gestes et Faictz Merveilleux du Noble Huon de Bordeaux.
Paris: Jean Bonfons, [no date, 1543-1568].
Quarto, title page in very good two-color facsimile on recto, text in black in facsimile on verso; illustrated with fourteen text woodcuts (including repeats), title woodcut depicting the arrival of the King of France; washed and trimmed closely, large woodcut printer’s device to verso of final leaf; bound in full modern calf, blind-tooled in a period style binding, 7 3/8 x 5 in.
“Thought to be based on Huon d’Auvergne —a hypothetical earlier version that told a much grimmer other-world story— Huon de Bordeaux marks the transition from the epic chanson de geste, based on national history, to the roman d’aventure, or romance. Huon de Bordeaux had a great vogue in England through a prose translation by John Bouchier, Lord Berners, that was printed c. 1534 by Wynkyn de Worde. This was used as a source book by Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, and John Keats.
Rare at auction, this copy sold in these rooms in 1985; Worldcat locates three copies worldwide, none in American libraries; Brunet III 382.
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,000
Jonson, ben (1573?-1637)
The Works.
London: Printed by Thomas Hodgkin, for Herringman et al., 1692.
Folio, first collected edition, engraved frontispiece portrait of Jonson bound opposite the title; bound in full contemporary calf, rebacked; ex libris Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1672–1739), with his engraved armorial bookplate dated 1712 pasted on the verso of the title; engraved bookplate of Earl Fitzwilliam inside front board, back board becoming detached, 14 1/4 x 9 in.
Wing J-1006; Pforzheimer 561; Woodward & McManaway 667; ESTC R15282.
Estimate
$700 – $900
Lancelot du lac.
Le Premier Volume de Lancelot du Lac Nouvelleme[n]t Imprimé à Paris.
Paris: Jehan Petit, 1533.
Folio, three parts in one volume, sixth edition, title page with large woodcut initial L, gothic type, main title page and two divisional titles printed within Petit’s woodcut architectural border, text in two columns, large woodcut on A4 verso; bound in full dark blue morocco by Charles Lewis, a student of Roger Payne, likely pre-1836 (cf. Dibdin’s Bibliographical Decameron, 1817, vol. II pages 520-523) elaborately tooled in gilt and blind over both boards and spine with gilt arms of Edward Vernon Utterson (1777-1856) on both boards; signature of Sir William Tite (1798-1873) on ffep; bookplate of Bibliotheque Am. Berton inside front board; marbled endleaves, aeg.; leaves washed, leaving modest residual staining; bottom margin of bb6 repaired with the loss of parts of two letters; small hole in dd2, affecting a few letters; lower margin of D6 repaired; closed tears in bottom margins M1 & M2 without loss, repaired tear into the text on RR1 with no loss; lacking interstitial blank between parts I and II dd4; 11 3/4 x 7 3/4 in.
Estimate
$15,000 – $20,000
Lobeira, joâo de (c. 1233-1285)
The Fifth Book of the Most Pleasant and Delectable History of Amadis de Gaule.
London: printed by T.J. [Thomas Johnson] for Andrew Kembe, 1664.
First edition, quarto, title page printed within a type ornament border; contents washed, bound in full red morocco gilt by Bedford, ex libris James P.R. Lyell (1871-1948), with his gilt-tooled morocco bookplate inside the front board, aeg., nicely preserved, some deckle edges still intact, 7 x 5 1/4 in.
The fifth book of Amadis de Gaul follows the adventures of Amadis’s son Esplandián. He visits a mysterious island inhabited by griffons and fierce female warriors, and replete with riches called California. This popular tale entered the Spanish imagination to such an extent that when explorers to the Americas asked the local population about the existence of such a place, rumors indicated that it might actually be real. The rocky barren peninsula that earned the name, first believed to be an island, had neither a race of women fighters who fed their victims to griffons, nor swords made of solid gold, but we do call it California. (cf. https://amadisofgaul.blogspot.com/2009/07/california-according-to-garci-rodriguez.html)
Wing L-2731; ESTC R12437.
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,000
Lorris, guillaume de (c. 1200-1240) & jean de meun (1240-1305)
Cy est le Rommant de la Roze.
Paris: On les vend en la grant salle du palais au premier pillier en la bouticque de Galliot du Pré, libraire iure de l’universite, 1531.
Third edition of Clément Marot’s (1496-1544) text, this issue bearing only du Pré’s name on title, and woodcut device on final leaf, illustrated with a large woodcut at the head of the prologue and fifty-nine smaller text woodcuts, printed in lettres batardes type throughout, in two columns, title page printed within woodcut border, text on title page printed in red and black; bound in later green parchment over boards with tanned leather corners, cloth ties, title very slightly cropped at foot, small hole in S3, light stain in inner margin throughout, binding neatly rebacked, 10 3/4 x 7 1/4 in.
A tale begun by de Lorris, continued by de Meun, freely adapted by Marot, and then wrought again by Chaucer into his enduring tale, The Roman de la Rose was something of a medieval and renaissance crowd sourced project. It is the timeless story of the lover’s quest, and tells its tale in sensual verse with thinly veiled sexual language. Gaston Paris described the work as “an encyclopedia in disorder.” Its popularity is without question, with approximately 300 medieval manuscript versions, and seven incunabula editions; it was always a favorite for readers, especially when illustrated.
Brunet III 1175 & Supplement I 892; Fairfax Murray French 330; Adams L-1519.
Estimate
$7,000 – $10,000
Lyly, john (1554?-1606)
Euphues and his England.
London: for Gabriel Cawood, 1588.
Quarto, rare early edition, title page printed within a border of type ornaments; preliminary signature ¶ of four leaves provided in modern facsimile, nicely done on appropriate paper; bound in an attractive binding of calf, period-style, tastefully ruled in blind; marginal corner losses to Ll3 restored, with approximately fifteen words on each side supplied in facsimile, 7 1/4 x 5 1/2 in.
STC 17074; ESTC S103573 listing three U.S. copies, including the present: Bond I page 103; 16th century editions are very rare at auction.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Marvell, andrew (1621-1678) et alia.
Sammelband of Seven Collections of Poems, 1689.
Quarto volume including the following seven titles:
1) A Collection of Poems on the Affairs of State;
2) The Second Part of the Collection of the Poems on Affairs of State;
3) The Third Part of the Collection;
4) A Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Songs, Catches &c. Against Popery;
5) A Second Collection;
6) A Third Collection;
[and] 7) The Fourth (and Last) Collection; all London: [no printer], 1689; contents very good, all works uncut throughout, bound in full crushed dark red morocco by Riviere; an important collection of poetical miscellanies that form a group but are very seldom found intact, especially in this condition, 9 x 7 in.
I: Wing C-5176A; ESTC R202112; II: Wing S-2302; Pforzheimer 670; ESTC R10478; III: Wing T-913; Pforzheimer 670; ESTC R22081; IV: Wing C-5206; ESTC R224341; V: Wing S-2266; ESTC R7993; VI: Wing T-902; ESTC R26292; VII: Wing F-1684; ESTC R24041; see also Hazlitt I, 335; Hoe Catalogue V (1905) 333; Case 188 (first three parts) & 189 (second group four parts).
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Meliadus de leonnoys.
Du present volume sont contenus les nobles faicts d’armes du vaillant roy Meliadus de Leonnoys: ensemble plusieurs nobles proesses de Chevalerie faictes tant par le roy Artus, Galaad.
Paris: Denys Janot, [20 March 1532.]
Second edition, folio, title page printed within Janot’s elaborate historiated woodcut border, large 4 x 4 1/2 in. woodcut of the author at his desk on the first leaf of the Prologue [fleuron 2 recto]; very large printer’s device with two stoats [ermines] with Janot’s slogans, “partout amour, amour partout, tout par amour, en tout bien,” emblazoned over four on cartouches surrounding the composition; 17th century marginal inscriptions in French here and there; text in gothic letter double columns throughout; bound in full dark green morocco with large gilt arms of John Ker, Duke of Roxburgh (1740-1804) on both boards; signed by Thomas Jolley; ex libris Baron Leopold Double with two gilt-tooled ownership labels, aeg.; some imperfect washing of inscribed margins, other slight stains in the text, 11 1/4 x 7 3/4 in.
This French romance was first called Palamedes, and springs from the Lancelot-Holy Grail cycle and the chivalric tale of Tristan & Iseult. In our story, we are a generation before King Arthur, with Uther Pendragon still in the throne, and Tristan and Arthur mere children. Meliadus of the title is the main character, and his many knightly exploits include participation (with a young Arthur) in a war against the Saxons, an abduction of the Queen of Scotland, and his own capture.
Brunet III 1589: Fairfax Murray French 369; rare at auction.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Milton, john (1608-1674)
A Defence of the People of England […] in Answer to Salmasius’s Defence of the King.
[London or Amsterdam? no printer,] 1692.
First edition in English, octavo, translated from the Latin, Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio by Joseph Washington, in reply to Claude Saumaise’s Defensio Regia pro Carolo I, with two original blanks, bound in full 19th century sponge-decorated calf by Blunson & Co., gilt tooled spine, tiny wormholes in some outer margins, repair to blank margin of R4, slight staining, aeg, 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.
Grolier Wither to Prior 590; Pforzheimer 726; Wing M-2104; Shawcross Milton 359; Coleridge’s Milton Collection 55.
Estimate
$300 – $500
Milton, john (1608-1674)
Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books.
London: printed by S. Simmons, 1678.
Third edition, octavo, engraved portrait of Milton by Dolle after Faithorne bound opposite the title, contemporary ownership inscription to title; bound in full contemporary speckled calf, original red morocco label to spine, neatly restored, page edges marbled, retaining one of two final blanks (F7), lacking blank leaf F8, ex libris Tom Bell with bookplate, 6 3/4 x 4 1/4 in.
Wing M-2145; Shawcross 325; Pforzheimer 719.
Estimate
$700 – $900
Milton, john (1608-1674)
Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio.
London: Du Gardianis, 1651.
Quarto, first edition, third issue, with the Commonwealth’s arms in a square engraved vignette on title, errata of thirteen lines follows title, a neat copy in full contemporary calf over boards with blind-tooled ornament within an oval featuring Maltese crosses on both boards, contemporary red spine label, 7 /18 x 5 1/4 in.
Shawcross 100; Wing M-2166; ESTC R32430.
Estimate
$400 – $600
Milton, john (1608-1674)
The History of Britain, that Part Especially Now Call’d England.
London: Printed by J.M. [John Macock] for James Allestry, 1670.
First edition, quarto, Faithorne portrait of the author bound opposite the title, bound in full contemporary English tan calf ruled in blind with red spine label, unrestored, back joint starting, a nice survival, 7 3/4 x 6 in.
Wing M-2119; ESTC R13663; Pforzheimer 710; Shawcross 306; Wither to Prior 609.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
Montaigne, michel de (1533-1592)
Essayes Written in French […] Done into English, according to the last French edition, by John Florio.
London: by Bradwood for Blount & Barret, 1613.
Second English edition, small folio, woodcut headpieces on main and divisional title, full page engraved portrait of Montaigne by William Hole bound opposite title, bound in full contemporary calf; spine ruled in gilt compartments with original label and gilt armorial stamp on a second label with the Northumberland crest, perhaps bound for Henry Percy, 9th Early Northumberland (1564-1632); headcap chipped with loss of endband, binding rubbed, with losses of leather to corner tips, minor loss along board edges in a few places, final blank present, 11 1/4 x 7 1/2 in.
STC 18042; ESTC S111840.
Estimate
$2,000 – $2,500
Montemayor, jorge de (1520?-1561)
Diana of George of Montemayor.
London: Printed by Edmund Bollifant, Impensis G.B. [George Bishop], 1598.
First edition, folio, title page printed within elaborate woodcut compartment with bull’s head at the foot, bound in full modern calf, 11 1/4 x 7 1/2 in.
An early romance originally written in Portuguese, The Seven Books of Diana was first published in its original language in 1559. It popularized the theme of shepherd and shepherdess romances and was followed by many imitators. Shakespeare is thought to have been a reader, as the plot involving Proteus, Julia, and Silvia from Two Gentlemen of Verona was borrowed from “Felismena’s Tale” in Diana. This particular edition includes translations of the second part of Diana by Alonso Pérez, and of Gaspar Gil Polo’s Diana Enamorata, all by Bartholomew Yong (1560-1621?).
STC 18044; ESTC S122233.
Estimate
$8,000 – $12,000
Muntaner, ramon (1265-1336)
Chronica, o Descripcio des Fets, e Hazanyes del Inclyt Rey Don Jaume Primer Rey Darago.
Valencia: en Casa de la Viuda de Joan Mey Flandro, 1558.
First edition, folio, large woodcut armorial device to title, final leaf blank but for a different large printer’s woodcut device present, large historiated woodcut initials used throughout, printed in roman letter, single column throughout, a few marginal wormholes, occasional spotting and browning, a few marginal manuscript notes in brown ink; bound in full slightly later limp parchment, likely mid-17th century; lacking alum-tawed ties, housed in a custom cloth phase box, 10 3/8 x 7 1/2 in.
Catalan chronicler Muntaner was personally acquainted with the Kings of the Houses of Aragon, Mallorca, and Sicily. Meeting Jaume I as a child inspired his own career as an Almogavar mercenary. As a writer, his style is that of a direct oral interlocutor with firsthand experience of his own tales. This work was an inspiration to Cervantes as well, who read the Valencian Tirant lo Blanch, a work drawn mainly from Muntaner, with great enthusiasm. These medieval chivalric works are based on and inspired by historic events, but simultaneously mark an essential phase in the development of the western novel by way of Cervantes.
Estimate
$6,000 – $8,000
Nuñez de toledo, hernán (1475-1553)
Refranes o Proverbios en Romance.
Madrid: por Juan de la Cuesta, a costa de Miguel Martinez, 1618/1619.
Quarto, with divisional title dated 1618 for Juan de Mal Lara’s (1524-1571) La Filosofia Vulgar, published by Don Quixote printer Juan de la Cuesta, with the same woodcut printer’s mark featuring a falcon used on both title pages; bound in full contemporary limp parchment, some neat underlining in red and blue pencil, a large copy with deckle edges, final blank present (Ddd8); 8 1/4 x 5 3.4 in.
Palau 197518; Salva 2112; Heredia 2763.
Estimate
$700 – $900
Oña, pedro de (1570-1643)
Arauco Domado. Compuesto por el Licenciado Pedro de Oña, Natural de Lose Infantes de Engol en Chile.
Madrid: por Juan de la Cuesta, vendese en casa de Francisco Lopez, 1605.
Second edition (first European edition), the first edition was printed in Lima in 1596, octavo, leaf X2 (page 162) supplied from another copy, four leaves in signature Dd printed on one side only as issued, no gaps in the text; bound in later full red sheepskin, spine tooled in gilt, gilt rules to boards, some minor spotting to contents, trimmed at the angle at the foot; ex libris José M. Rodriguez’s Bibliotheca Chizigonana, with his bookplate, 5 1/2 x 3 3/4 in.
Oña, a Chilean-born poet and historian here publishes the first “great poem” written in South America by a native poet. He takes as his subject the history of the Araucanian wars, wherein the Spanish attacked the Araucanian Indians of Chile. “A work of the greatest rarity, […] it opens with the departure of Mendoz for Chile, and concludes with the great naval combat of Callas between Beltram de Castro and the English Admiral Hawkins.” (Sabin)
Sabin 57301; Medina BHC 27; Palau 201617; HSA page 392; Salva 830; very rare at auction.
Estimate
$6,000 – $8,000
Oudin, césar (c. 1560-1625)
Refranes o Proverbios Españoles Traduzidos en Lengua Francesa. Proverbes Espagnols Traduites en François.
Lyons: Chez Pierre Rignaud, 1614.
12mo, fourth edition, two parts in one volume, printer’s woodcut device on general title; bound in full 19th century brown morocco blind stamped with William Stirling Maxwell’s monogram, his bookplate pasted inside the front board, along with that of Alan Lubbock, with the Keir Proverb Collection plate pasted inside the back board; 5 1/4 x 3 in.
Oudin translated Cervantes’s La Galatea and part one of Don Quixote from Spanish to French. In this proverb collection the entries are arranged alphabetically. The second part contains Cartas en Refranes by Blasco de Garay.
Paulau 207295; Goldsmith O189.
Estimate
$300 – $500
Peacham, henry (1576?-1643?)
The Compleat Gentleman, Much Inlarged.
London: E. Tyler for Richard Thrale, 1661.
Third edition, quarto, with additional engraved title signed by Delaram and dated 1626 in the plate, armorial text woodcuts; bound in contemporary boards rebacked, corners repaired, with engraved ex libris presentation engraving from Francis Cockayne Gust to his nephew Lord Brownlow dated 1791, the text engraved on a decorative urn; Artingworth stencil and armorial stencil with initials, all inside front board, 6 3/4 x 5 1/4 in.
Samuel Johnson utilized the heraldry portion newly added to this edition of Peacham’s text for all definitions of that discipline in his Dictionary.
Wing P-943; ESTC R203169.
Estimate
$300 – $500
Plato; walter charleton (1619-1707) trans.
His Apology of Socrates and Phaedo.
London: By T.R. [Thomas Radcliffe] & N.T. [Nathaniel Thompson] for James Magnes and Richard Bentley, 1675.
First English edition of the Apology and Phaedo, translated from the Greek; engraved frontispiece entitled Socrates Triumphans depicting the philosopher accepting the cup of hemlock, engraved by R. White and bound opposite the title; typographical title printed in red and black; bound in contemporary boards, neatly rebacked and recornered with new endleaves and pastedowns, 6 3/4 x 4 1/4 in.
Wing P-2405; ESTC R12767.
Estimate
$2,000 – $2,500
Pseudo-augustine.
Certaine Select Prayers Gathered out of S. Augustines Meditations […] Also his Manuell.
London: John Daye, 1577.
Octavo, two title pages and every page printed within woodcut compartment or type ornament frames throughout; many woodcuts in the memento mori tradition, depicting skulls and skeletons, compartments in the illustrations filled by the printer with a variety of messages, such as: “Remember death,” “As grasse I passe,” “We perishe all,” “As we be, so shal ye,” and so on; bound in contemporary English gilt-tooled calfskin, featuring a large central tool surrounded by a field of textured dots and four large corner-pieces on both boards, gilt ruling; edges gauffered in a knot motif; very neatly rebacked, lacking ties, new endleaves; ex libris W.R. Jeudwine, with bookplates, 5 1/2 x 3 3/4 in.
STC 926; ESTC S100360.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
Pseudo-cervantes; trans. richard codrington.
The Troublesome and Hard Adventures in Love. Lively Setting forth, the Feavers, the Dangers, and the Jealousies of Lovers.
London: Printed by B. Alsop, 1652 [i.e. 1651].
First edition, quarto, authorship falsely attributed to Cervantes on the title, variously attributed to Mateo Aleman, Alonso Fernandez de Avellaneda, Gaspar Gil Polo, and perhaps most persuasively to Jorge de Montemayor, the author of Diana; printed in black letter, the first leaf blank but for an ‘A’ within a type ornament border present; bound in modern full dark brown crushed morocco, light rubbing, minor contemporary annotations, slight worming, some small tears and paper repairs, aeg., ex libris Charles Viscount Bruce of Ampthill (1682-1747), with his engraved armorial bookplate dated 1712 on verso of title, 7 x 5 in.
Wing C-1781; ESTC R3681 showing six U.S. copies; Thomas E.647 [1]; Grolier Wither to Prior 184; cf. Dale B.J. Randall’s “The Troublesome and Hard Adventures in Love:” An English Addition to the Bibliography of “Diana,” in The Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 1961, pages 154-158; rare at auction.
Estimate
$3,000 – $4,000
Ramírez pagán, diego (c. 1524-after 1564)
Floresta de Varia Poesia.
Valencia: Joa. Navarro, 1562.
First edition, octavo, illustrated with text woodcuts; title with the arms of the Prince of Melito, full-page woodcut portrait of the author; bound in full 19th century red morocco with exquisitely delicate gilt decoration by Menard, aeg., housed in a custom folding box, some faint spotting, contents washed, 5 1/2 x 3 3/4 in.
The Floresta de Varia Poesia is one of the rarest works of Renaissance Castilian poetry. The work of other poets is also represented in this compendium of mystical verse, including a female poet using the name, La Marfira, and another poem by Isabel de Vega.
Palau 247148; Gallardo 3573; Salva 339; Heredia 1655; not in Elena Paz Rios, Repertorio de Grabados Españoles; not in Heber; not in Brunet; one copy listed in Worldcat at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France; no copies in the auction record.
Estimate
$8,000 – $12,000
Rojas, fernando de (d. 1541)
The Spanish Bawd, Represented in Celestina, or the Tragicke-Comedy of Alisto and Melibea.
London: Printed by J.B. [John Beale] and are to be sold by Robert Allot, 1631.
First edition in English, woodcut device to title, bound in full contemporary speckled English calf, ruled in blind, rebacked, printer’s waste guards at front and back; ex libris Samuel Bradshaw with armorial bookplate; ticket that reads: Broughton; book label of James Stevens Cox, 10 3/4 x 7 in.
STC 4911; ESTC S107195; Palau 51213.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Romancero General, en Que Contiene Todos los Romances que andan Impressos. Aora Nuevemente Añadido y Enmendado.
Madrid: Juan de la Cuesta, 1604.
First collected edition (third overall), containing thirteen parts, large quarto, title page with woodcut printer’s device, printed by de la Cuesta one year before the first edition of Don Quixote; text in two columns within printed rules; bound in full gilt-tooled red morocco by Ginesta with minute gilt signature on front board; the binding custom made for Louise Charlotte Marie Isabelle de Bourbon, Princess des Deux-Siciles (1804-1844), with onlaid and tooled initials “C-M” on front board and “B” on the back, all surmounted by gilt crowns, aeg.; blue watered silk taffeta pastedowns and flyleaves, leather inner joints, elaborately gilt inner dentelles; stain to title, browning to contents, a few marginal notes, 7 3/4 x 5 1/4 in.
This compilation of contemporary poems includes ballads, romantic sonnets, and verses inspired by great deeds of historical figures, El Cid, Spanish royalty, and great battles. The work of Lope de Vega, Luis de Góngora, and others is included. The final part contains mention of Mexico by Gabriel Lobo Lasso de la Vega (1555-1615).
Palau 276981; Perez Pastor (Madrid) 891; Alden & Landis 604/69; rare at auction.
Estimate
$10,000 – $15,000
Sammelband of chivalric chap-books.
Three Illustrated French Titles Bound as One.
Including:
1) Jehan Bagnyon’s La Conqueste du Grand Roy Charlemaigne des Espagnes, avec les Faicts Gestes des Douze Pairs de France, et du Grand Fierabras […] & Les Douze Pers de France.
2) Oger le Dannois Duc de Dannemarche qui fut l’un des Douze Pers de France.;
[and] 3) Les Quatre Fils Aymon, Duc Dordonne.
Rouen: Chez Loys Costé, [no date, c. 1610-1620].
Three titles bound together, illustrated with woodcuts throughout all three works, sometimes on title pages, many repeated; bound in full contemporary parchment, 7 1/4 x 5 1/2 in.
All three titles are rare; it is likely that they were in the press simultaneously as each has a one-word title at the foot of the first leaf of each signature. All have old stab-sewing punctures indicating that they were circulating in pamphlet form before being sewn properly into the present binding. Costé must have passed away sometime around 1620 as the imprint begins referring to his widow at about this time.
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,000
Sammelband of five century french comedies, 1638-1642.
Including a Work Inspired by Cervantes.
Quarto volume containing 1) Antoine Mareschal ‘s Le Veritable Capitan Matamore, ou le Fanfaron, Paris: Toussainct Quinet, 1640;
2) Mareschal’s Le Railleur, our la Satyre du Temps Comedie, Paris: Quinet, 1638, lacking two text leaves and final blank;
3) Guyon Guérin de Bouscal’s (1613-1657) Dom Quixote de la Manche, Comedie, Paris: Quinet, 1639, with copperplate engraved vignette of Quixote and Sancho Panza on horseback [Ashbee #5], reduced from the 1620 Shelton title page engraving, first edition, rare;
4) Mareschal’s Le Galimatias du Sieur Deroziers Beaulieu, Tragi-Comedie, Paris: Quinet, 1639;
[and] 5) Mareschal’s Le Mavzolée, Tragicomedie, Paris: Quinet, 1642; all bound in later half leather with paste-paper decorated boards; ex libris Thomas Earl of Hadinton with his engraved armorial bookplate on verso of the first title; some tears, thin paper; the Quixote title complete and nicely preserved; some minor gutter worming to final title; 8 3/4 x 6 1/2 in.
Guerin’s Quixote is very rare in this edition, no copies at auction; Worldcat lists only a microfilm at the Bibliotheque Nationale, this edition otherwise untraceable; cf. Barbier I 1112; cf. Rius II 673; cf. Palau 109691; cf. Foulche-Delbosc Bib. Hispanique 231 [all referring to the 1640 edition only]; all Mareschal titles of this era are also rare on the market.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Shakespeare, william (1564-1616)
Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Originall Copies. The Second Impression.
London: Printed by Tho. Cotes for Robert Allot, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Blacke Beare in Pauls Church-yard, 1632.
Shakespeare’s Second Folio, the second of nine imprint variants (for more see W.B. Todd, “The Issues and States of the Second Folio and Milton’s Epitaph,” in Studies in Bibliography, V [1952-3] pages 81-108); the colophon reads, “Printed at London by Thomas Cotes, for John Smethwick, William Aspley, Richard Hawkins, Richard Meighen, and Robert Allot, 1632.”; the text compiled and edited by John Heminges (1566-1630) and Henry Condell (1576-1627), both actors and former colleagues of the Bard from the King’s Men; with large engraved portrait by Martin Droeshout (1601-c. 1650); bound in full 19th century crushed red morocco beautifully tooled in gilt by Loric, gilt-tooled spine and boards, inner gilt dentelles, all edges marbled and gilt; A1 (To the Reader) blank lower margin restored; A2 (title) top margin restored with top of ‘RES’ in at the end of the author’s name in neat facsimile, blank lower margin restored; A3 top margin restored, tops of a few letters on verso provided in facsimile; A4, A5, A6, *1 restoration of top blank margins; A3, A4, & *1 shorter at foremargin, likely supplied; Q1 blank lower corner restored; tt1 lower inner corner restored, touching rules; ddd4 blank top and inner margins restored; purchased from L.C. Harper 7 November 1968; 12 3/4 x 8 3/4 in.
STC 22274a; Greg III pages 1113-1115 this copy adhering to Greg’s * variant; Pforzheimer 906.
Estimate
$100,000 – $150,000
Shakespeare, william (1564-1616)
Poems.
London: by Tho. Cotes to be sold by John Benson, 1640.
First edition, incomplete, lacking four leaves: portrait, title, To the Reader, and second title (i.e. [portrait], *1, *2, and A1); small octavo, last leaf mounted, some contemporary annotations, line numbering; shaved close, touching line ends at some fore-margins; bound in later calf, ex libris Joseph Haslewood, with his gilt-tooled armorial bookplate inside the front board and a note in his hand in ink on binder’s ffep, “See British Bibliographer Vol. I p. 171. as to the precise contents of a perfect copy”; binding scuffed, becoming decased; stains and spotting to contents, 5 1/8 x 3 3/8 in.
Estimate
$12,000 – $18,000
Sherburne, sir edward (1618-1702) trans.
Salmacis, Lyrian & Sylvia, Forsaken Lydia, the Rape of Helen, a Comment thereon with Several other Poems and Translations.
London: Printed by W. Hunt for Thomas Dring, 1651.
First edition, octavo, engraved frontispiece in four compartments facing title, contemporary ownership inscription of L. Aston on typographical title; bound in full contemporary sheepskin with minimal and expert spine repairs, contents unwashed and nicely preserved excepting a little light toning, 6 3/8 x 4 in.
Wing S-3223; ESTC R203560.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Sidney, sir philip (1554-1586)
The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia.
London: Imprinted [by George Eld and Humphrey Lownes] for Matthew Lownes, 1605.
Fourth London edition, small folio, title page printed within elaborate woodcut compartment, lacking initial blank ¶1, fore-edge of title trimmed into woodcut, small piece of blank lower margin of R6 lacking without loss, bottom corner of Z5 lacking with loss of several letters, small marginal tears in several leaves, bound in 18th century half calf with marbled paper-covered boards, rebacked, ex libris Hearsey Keith Ziegler, with armorial bookplate, later endleaves, 10 3/4 x 6 1/2 in.
STC 22543a; ESTC S117386; Langland to Wither 216.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
Sidney, sir philip (1554-1586)
The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia.
London: Imprinted, by H.L. [Humphrey Lownes] for Mathew Lownes, 1613.
Fifth London edition, expanded from the 1605 edition, title within woodcut compartment, with the unpaginated leaf between pages 482 & 483 present in this copy; bound in contemporary full calf, rebacked with gilt spine, joints cracked, corners and board edges worn, 10 1/2 x 7 in.
STC 2544a & 22544a.3 (Supplement); ESTC S102208.
Estimate
$700 – $900
Spenser, edmund (1552?-1559)
Sammelband of Three Works: 1591-1596.
Quarto volume including the following titles:
1) The Shepheards Calender, London: Printed by John Windet for John Harrison the younger, 1591, with Harrison’s location listed on the title as, “at the signe of the Anger,” corrected at colophon; title page printed within woodcut compartment border (McKerrow & Ferguson 198), illustrated with twelve text woodcuts (title with marginal restorations, preliminary leaves other than title supplied from a smaller copy and extended at foot of margin);
2) The Faerie Queene, [First and Second Parts] London: [by Richard Field] for William Ponsonbie, 1596, second edition of first part, first edition of second part; signature Z in part II supplied from a smaller copy;
[and] 3)Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, London: Ponsonbie, 1595, title with woodcut device printed within type ornament border, first edition with “worthylie” on C1recto, line 24; including six poems written in honor Sir Philip Sidney, “Astrophel,” and two pieces attributed to the dedicatee, Sir Walter Raleigh; “Astrophel” section with type ornament borders at the top and bottom of each page; a light waterstain affecting the title and first two signatures of this large copy, with deckle edges showing at the foot throughout; light marginal staining; the work bound in full contemporary tan English calf tooled in gilt compartments with the Tudor arms at the center of both boards, spine with heavy raised bands, lacking original ties; inscription in Latin on first title “To the library of Lord John Bond given as a gift by M[onsieur] Bloncq [i.e., Blanc] A.D. 1627,” signature of Lady Carew dated 27 June 1669; unidentified armorial stamp in red on title verso; Januarie leaf signed by Roger Collings; sold by Sir John Carew Pole, 12th Baronet (1902-1993) at Christie’s 30 June 1971 lot 7 to Pickering and Chatto for Seven Gables, the leaves missing at the time of this transaction supplied subsequently; hinges and endcaps restored; title to Shepheards Calender fragmentary along gutter margin restored and strengthened on verso; new endleaves; with Antony House bookplate inside front board, 7 3/4 x 5 1/4 in.
SC: STC 23092; ESTC S111267; Langland to Wither 229; Johnson 4; FQ: STC 23082; ESTC S117748; Langland to Wither 233; Pforzheimer 970; Johnson 11; CC: STC 23077; ESTC S111281; Langland to Wither 236; Pforzheimer 967; Johnson 16.
Estimate
$16,000 – $24,000
Spenser, edmund (1552?-1599)
Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie.
London: Imprinted for William Ponsonbie, 1591.
First edition, title page printed within woodcut border, McKerrow & Ferguson 117; divisional titles for several sections, lacking the final blank; title expertly (nearly undetectably) remargined; bound in full modern green morocco gilt by Riviere, aeg., housed in half-morocco slipcase; bookplate of Charles Lilburn, the Lilburn/Gollanez/Rosenbach Co. copy [catalog 45 item # 690]; 7 x 5 in.
STC 23078; ESTC S111266; Langland to Wither 235; Hayward 23; Johnson 14; Pforzheimer 968.
Estimate
$10,000 – $12,000
Spenser, edmund (1552?-1599)
Fowre Hymnes.
London: Printed [by Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, 1596.
First edition of the titular work with the second edition of Daphnaïda to follow, as issued, with separate title page dated 1596, with continuous collation; first title page supplied from a smaller copy with a photo-facsimile title as well; woodcut device on title, McKerrow 222; bound in full modern crushed red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe; this copy sold with title lacking at Christie’s 3 June 1958 lot 96 disbound with facsimile title; smaller title supplied by Seven Gables and subsequently bound in the 1970s as seen now; some headlines just barely skimmed by the binder’s plough, 7 1/8 x 5 in.
STC 23086; ESTC S111278; Langland to Wither 238, Johnson 17; Pforzheimer 974.
Estimate
$7,000 – $9,000
Spenser, edmund (1552?-1599)
The Faerie Queen: the Shepheards Calendar: Together with the Other Works of England’s Arch-Poët, Edm. Spenser: Collected into One Volume, and Carefully Corrected.
London: Printed by H.L. for Mathew Lownes, 1611.
First collected edition, small folio, with a reissue of the 1609 Faerie Queene with a cancel title page dated 1611 serving as the collective title for these works, printed within woodcut pictorial frame, McKerrow & Ferguson 212; title page to the second part of the Faerie Queene (page 187) dated 1612, colophon to this section dated “16012” as described in Pforzheimer 973; B3r stanza 1 begins “Yoúg knight,” R3 recto catchword is “And”; title page to Mother Hubberd’s Tale dated 1613; lacking canceled leaves A1, Q5, & Q6; original blank F4 present; bound in full period style speckled calfskin tooled in gilt by Bedford, a few small rust holes in text leaves repaired, 10 3/4 x 7 in.
STC 23083.3; Pforzheimer 973.
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Taylor, john (1580-1653)
All the Workes of John Taylor, the Water Poet Being Sixty and three in Number. Collected into One Volume by the Author.
London: Printed by I.B. [John Beale, Elizabeth Allde, Bernard Alsop, and Thomas Fawcet] for James Boler, 1630.
First collected edition, folio, engraved title signed T. Cockson, illustrated with twenty-five text woodcut portraits of English monarchs; bound in full olive morocco by Riviere with gilt decoration, washed and pressed, fore-edge cut close, occasionally touching the text with slight loss; engraved title and Mmm5 remargined, aeg., 10 3/4 x 7 in.
STC 23725; Pforzheimer 1006; Wither to Prior 862; ESTC S117734.
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Vega carpio, lope de (1562-1635)
La Hermosura de Angelica, Con Otras Diversas Rimas [La Dragontea].
Madrid: Por Juan de la Cuesta, 1605.
Octavo, armorial woodcut device to title, woodcut portrait of the author on ¶8 verso, repeated after the divisional title to the second part on Ii2 verso; 376 leaves, neatly washed, bound in full smooth green calf gilt-tooled spine, with the Biblioteca de Salvá device on both boards, edges stained red, ex libris Ricardo Heredia, with his bookplate pasted inside the front board; two ownership stamps of Raymond Caizergues on flyleaves; marbled paper endleaves; 5 3/4 x 3 1/2 in.
A laudatory sonnet by Miguel Cervantes in fourteen lines is printed on Hh7 verso, preceding La Dragontea.
Rius 387; Salva 1688; Heredia 6417; rare at auction.
Estimate
$3,000 – $5,000
Vega carpio, lope de (1562-1635)
Pastores de Belen, Prosas, y Versos Divinos.
Madrid: por Joan de la Cuesta, 1612.
First edition, octavo, one of two Spanish editions printed in 1612, the other printed in Lleida by Manescal (both imprints with the same page count); woodcut on title, title printed in red and black, lacking woodcut portrait (†8 final leaf of the preliminaries); Tt8 final blank present; bound in contemporary limp parchment, becoming detached from textblock, some staining to contents, 5 3/4 x 3 3/4 in.
Rare at auction; Palau 356369; Not in Salva or Heredia; cf. Cristóbal Pérez Pastor’s Bibliografía Madrileña ó Descripción de las Obras Impresas en Madrid, Madrid: Tipografía de los Huérfanos, 1891, no. 1204, page 240ff.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
Vezilla [vecilla] castellanos, pedro de la (fl. circa 1586)
Primera y Segunda Parte de el Leon de España.
Salamanca: Juan Fernandez, 1586.
First and only edition of this history of the city of León, famous in literature as it is one of the books featured by Cervantes in the library of Don Quixote, woodcut on title featuring a rampant crowned lion within a shield-shaped border, signature removed from head of title with loss of the leaf in the top blank margin (repaired), bound in modern nicely-executed parchment binding, final leaf blank & present, 5 3/4 x 3 1/2 in.
“Called away by this noise and uproar [the priest and the barber] went no further with the scrutinizing of those books that remained; and so it is believed that La Carolea and the Léon of Spain went to the fire unseen and unheard, along with The Deeds of the Emperor as set down by Don Luis de Avial, for these must undoubtedly have been among the works that were left, and possibly if the priest had seen them he would not have passed so severe a sentence upon them.” (Don Quixote, Part I, chapter 7, trans. Putnam)
Rare at auction; Worldcat locates four copies; Salva 1052; Heredia 2127; Palau 354372; Not in Adams.
Estimate
$2,500 – $3,500
Virgil (70-19 bce)
The Whole xii Bookes of the Aeneidos of Virgill.
London: by Wyllyam How for Abraham Veale, 1573.
First complete edition, quarto; verse translations by Thomas Phaer (c. 1510-1560) & Thomas Twyne (c.1500-1581), title page printed within a frame of type ornaments; bound in later full textured navy morocco tooled ornately in gilt, aeg., the Hoe-Chew-Rosenbach copy, with gilt morocco book tickets of Robert Hoe and Beverly Chew; printed in black letter, single column throughout, washed, contents very good, 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.
“Phaer’s translation is in fourteen-syllable rhyming ballad metre, is often spirited, and fairly faithful. Although Gawin Douglas was the earliest translator of Virgil in Great Britain (1553), and the Earl of Surrey’s translation of two books appeared in 1557, Phaer was the first Englishman to attempt a translation of the whole work. His achievement was long gratefully remembered.” (DNB)
STC 24801; ESTC S119243 showing nine U.S. copies; Pforzheimer 1028; very rare at auction.
Estimate
$7,000 – $9,000
Virgil trans. gawin douglas (1474?-1522)
The xiii. Bukes of Eneados of the Famose Poete Virgill Translatet out of Latyne verses into Scottish metir.
London: William Copland, 1553.
First edition, quarto, title page printed within elaborate woodcut compartment, text in black letter, with the inserted leaf in signature X and the leaf with “Ane exclamacion against detractouris” (Bb7) present; lacking the final blank; small hole in i8 and t4, each with a slight loss of text; blank corners torn from M8 and g1, outer margin of the title slightly stained and the inner margin with some holes (abrasions), some marginal dampstains at end; bound in very good full 18th century diced russia, boards and spine ornately tooled in gilt; marginal notes to title; final leaf with an unrecorded poem in working draft of fourteen lines that begins, “The night doth reast the bonds […]”; all defects listed are slight, overall a very pleasing copy; ex libris Sir Thomas Phillipps, sold at auction 26 November 1974; sold again as part of the collection of the Garden Ltd., in 1989; housed in a modern full dark blue morocco folding case by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, 8 3/4 x 6 1/2 in.
Bishop Douglas, a poet in his own right, is best remembered for this, his magnum opus, the first rendering of Virgil’s Aeneid from Latin into any Anglic language. In fact, his is the first full translation of any major poem from antiquity into a modern Germanic language. He completed the task in 1513, and added his own original verse prologues to each of the thirteen books. He also included the extra verse contributed to Virgil’s original twelve by Mapheus Vegius in the 15th century.
STC 24797; Pforzheimer 1027; ESTC S119190; Langland to Wither 61.
Estimate
$15,000 – $20,000
Waller, edmund (1606-1687)
Poems, &c.
London: Printed by T.W. [Thomas Warren] for Humphrey Mosley, 1645.
First edition, second issue, with cancel title page and added quire I first issued as the Workes, [Wing W-495]; octavo, bound in full contemporary speckled sheepskin with gold-ruled boards, spine quite dry with segments chipped away, joints cracking, boards still attached, sewing compromised, 6 1/2 x 4 in.
Wing W-511; ESTC R34707; Grolier 918; Hayward 79.
Estimate
$300 – $500
Whittington, robert (fl. circa 1560)
[De Syllabarum Quantitate] Secunda Grammatic[a]e Pars de Syllabaru[m] Quantitate.
London: in aedibus Wina[n]di de Worden, 1521.
Quarto, title page printed within four-part woodcut compartment with Wynkyn de Worde’s (d. 1534?) logo on shields at top and bottom [McKerrow 49 & 50], text in a combination of black letter and roman characters; bound in full red morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, with de Worde’s trademark tooled in blind on front board, along with title, author, and imprint date; ex libris Clara & Irwin Strasburger, with their book label, 7 1/4 x 5 1/8 in.
Whittington was an Oxford grammarian who studied at Magdalen College likely under John Stanbridge (1463-1510). He described Sir Thomas More as “a man for all seasons” in his work entitled Vulgaria. His many cheap quarto works on grammar were both useful to and popular with students. His works were printed by Wynkyn de Worde, Richard Pynson, and Peter Treveris.
STC 25515; ESTC S105323 listing two American copies at U. of Illinois and Williams College; 16th century imprints of Whittington’s works are rare at auction.
Estimate
$6,000 – $8,000
Wither, george (1588-1667)
Britain’s Remembrancer: Containing a Narration of the Plague Lately Past.
London: Imprinted for Great Britaine to be sold by John Grismond, 1628.
First edition, 12mo with additional engraved title page and, “The meaning of the title page,” bound opposite; several leaves with paper defects mostly marginal affecting catchwords, etc.; engraved title remargined; bound in full contemporary calf ruled in blind, rebacked, new spine label and endleaves; 5 1/2 x 3 1/8 in.
STC 25899; ESTC S121916; Wither to Prior 1036; Pforzheimer 1079.
Estimate
$300 – $500
Wither, george (1588-1667)
Juvenilia. A Collection of Those Poemes.
London: Printed [by Thomas Snodham] for John Budge, 1622.
First edition, octavo, engraved title with contemporary hand-coloring, lacking blanks A1 & A8; signature A, leaves B1 & B2, divisional title to Prince Henrie, and Qq6 supplied with smaller leaves; sections Abuses Stript and Whipt; Prince Henries Obsequies; A Satyre; Epithalamia; The Shepheards Hunting; and Fidelia each with separate divisional titles, collation continuous; side notes in Epithalamia cropped with loss; a few faults to text leaves, light staining, some words rubbed out by an aggressive commentator; bound in full 19th century straight-grain brown textured leather, slightly rubbed, aeg., 6 x 4 in.
STC 25911; ESTC S120366; Wither to Prior 1032; Pforzheimer 1083 note; rare at auction.
Estimate
$600 – $800
Wither, george (1588-1667)
The Great Assises Holden in Parnassus by Apollo and his Assessours.
London: Printed by Richard Cotes for Edward Husbands, 1645.
First edition, quarto, title page printed within a frame of type ornaments (slightly dusty), text leaves uncut throughout, lacking final blank; bound in full crushed green morocco ornately gilt-tooled by Riviere and Sons, and housed in a buckram chemise, ex libris John L. Clawson and E.M. Cox with bookplates, and dated signature of C.H. Larkin dated 1930, purchased in the Clawson sale in 1926 for $500; some lines and small notes in multi-color ink by a reader looking to reveal from textual evidence proof that Francis Bacon was the author, 8 x 6 in.
Wing W-3160; ESTC R212378 (showing nine U.S. copies); Thomas E.269 [11]; rare at auction.
In this satirical work attributed to Wither (with scholarly doubt), a legal case has been put before the court. Bacon is the Chancellor of Parnassus, Sidney is the High Constable, Edmund Spenser the Clerk of Assizes. Jurors include Wither, Davenant, Drayton, Beaumont, Fletcher, Shakespeare, and other noted writers of the day. The “Malefactours” are a list of London newspapers.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Wycherley, william (1640-1716)
Miscellany Poems: as Satyrs, Epistles, Love-Verses, Songs, Sonnets, &c.
London: Printed for C. Brome, J. Taylor, and B. Tooke, 1704.
First edition, large paper copy, with the frontispiece mezzotint portrait of the poet at the age of twenty-eight engraved by John Smith (1652-1743) after Sir Peter Lely’s (1618-1680) painted portrait, with the slip reading, “The End” pasted over the original, “The End of the First Volume,” as no second volume was published; ex libris James Stanley, 10th Earl of Derby (1664-1736) with his large engraved armorial bookplate dated 1702 pasted on verso of the title; bound in full contemporary paneled calf, rebacked, corners repaired, later endleaves and flyleaves, a very clean and well-preserved copy, 13 3/4 x 8 1/2 in.
Foxon W573; Pforzheimer 1101; ESTC T144864; Wither to Prior 1085; Hayward 138.
Estimate
$4,000 – $6,000
Travel
[travel] andrews, captain mottram (1807-1888)
A Series of Views in Turkey and the Crimea, from the Embarcation at Gallipoli to the Fall of Sebastopol.
London: Published by Thomas McLean, 1 September 1856.
First edition, folio, illustrated with tinted lithographic title page with a vignette of soldiers in the trenches, and seventeen additional illustrations [fifteen full-page, two folding] after Andrews’s original drawings; bound in publisher’s half red morocco with elaborate gilt-stamped title to front board, disbound, adhesive binding structure failed, more than half of the leaves detached; some bumped corners to plates, a few foxed; 21 1/2 x 14 1/4 in.
Abbey Travel 238.
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
[travel] beverley, robert (1667-1722)
Histoire de la Virginie.
Amsterdam: Thomas Lombrail, 1707.
Second edition in French (translated from the English and published in the same year as the first French-language Paris edition) 12mo, title page printed in red and black, illustrated with engraved frontispiece featuring the arms of the Commonwealth, fourteen full-page engravings of Native Americans, and one folding typographical table;
[Bound with] Voyage de Guillaume Dampier, avec le Voyage de Lionel Wafer, Amsterdam: Marret, 1705, title page printed in red and black, illustrated with eighteen folding engravings including maps, plants, birds, fish, and Native American Indians; the two bound in full contemporary mottled calf with gilt-tooled spine, rubbed, slight crack at top of front joint, otherwise sound, some light waterstaining, 6 x 3 3/4 in.
Estimate
$400 – $600
[travel] british naval cruisers, ship’s logs.
Illustrated Manuscripts on Paper, 1897-1900.
Two folio format account books made by Waterlow & Sons Ltd., London, 1894; 1896, used at later dates, regarding the ships HMS Prince George; Powerful; Grafton; Magnificent; and Nautilus; with extensive notes of the movements of the ships, including the Powerful’s journeys for service on the China Station, including a visit to Yokohama, Japan in July of 1898; with very detailed plans of ships on fabric (all folding) tipped in, and numerous pen-and-ink drawings (many finished with watercolor) done on watercolor paper including incredibly detailed maps and careful renderings of parts of the various ships; the logs seemingly prepared by Midshipman Ralph Eliot; bound in worn half leather contents very good, 12 1/4 x 8 in. (2)
In addition to the illustrations, the text includes many references to American vessels, Admiral Dewey, and other events in the Bay of Manila as they unfolded during the fall of 1898.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
[travel] castellan, antoine laurent (1772-1838)
Moeurs, Usages, Costumes des Othomans, et Abrégé de leur Histoire.
Paris: Nepveu, 1812.
First edition, six 12mo volumes, illustrated throughout; bound in uniform contemporary speckled calf, spines gilt with two red labels on each (some spines becoming detached), 5 1/4 x 3 in. (6)
Estimate
$500 – $700
[travel] chandler, richard (1738-1810)
Travels in Greece: Or an Account of a Tour Made at the Expense of the Society of the Dilettanti.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, sold by Dodsley et al., 1776.
First edition, quarto, illustrated with two folding and five full-page maps, bound in modern half leather with marbled paper boards, contents generally good, 10 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.
ESTC T63359.
Estimate
$700 – $900
[travel] cherry, william stamps (1869-1927)
Africa, Elephant Hunting, the Ivory Trade: an Archive of Letters and Documents, circa 1899-1902.
Consisting of approximately sixty-five leaves including letters, hotel receipts, and documents related to Cherry’s activities in Africa at the end of the 19th century; notably a rather extraordinary letter in Cherry’s hand from January of 1900 addressed to “Monsieur le Commandant de Rafai,” regarding his own safety as he “had quite a quarrel with the chief this morning,” stating, “I don’t know whether I am safe or not. But if anything does happen, Heasyamma chief of the Breeas and his sub chiefs will be alone responsible and if your government ever has a chance, you can avenge the treachery with ten good men.” Adding, “I could drive out the whole population west of the M’Bally River,” and noting that the letter should not to be delivered unless Cherry himself fails to return to retrieve it.
Several receipts for the sale of ivory and correspondence regarding same with the Société Anonyme pour le Commerce Colonial in Antwerp, one from 1 October 1900 regarding a shipment received for 250 elephant tusks weighing 2,900 kilograms; some letters regarding publication of Cherry’s writings; official letters from various colonial government entities of the Belgian Congo; a long letter home from May 1900 in which Cherry writes, “to hunt the elephant as I have hunted him for my existence depended on my success. And I have had in my possession seven tons of ivory in that length of time. […] and I have lived with the natives like a native and with their means. Authorities have said it was not possible to live. I have made it practical and I believe even beneficial, and the natives I think I can furnish a treatise that will show up the African in a new light that will give homogeneity to the natives all over Africa, and a basis on which to work out the anthropological questions which are as yet unsolved.”;
A large hand-drawn map; a photograph of two African men; an extraordinary treaty by which two people described as King Manda and King MZita, chiefs of Chimbuko sell their property to the Association Internationale du Congo on 13 July 1884; among other material housed in a three-ring binder and a print sleeve.
Cherry was the author of an autobiography entitled, They Called Me ‘Demba Creecy’. (For more see: https://williamstampscherry.com/)
Estimate
$600 – $800
[travel] davidson, george (1825-1911)
Coast Pilot of Alaska (First Part). [Together with] Coast of California, Oregon, & Washington Territory.
Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1869.
Two large octavo volumes, each illustrated and bound in original cloth, Alaska volume with eight lithographic plates (six full-page, two folding); West coast volume illustrated with thirty-two plates (twenty-nine full-page, three folding); careful annotations throughout the Alaska volume with insider corrections of textual errors throughout the text; bindings rubbed, each 10 1/2 x 6 3/4 in. (2)
Estimate
$400 – $600
[travel] dibdin, charles (1745-1814)
Observations on a Tour through almost the Whole of England and a Considerable Part of Scotland.
London: by Goulding & Walker, printed by Wodfall, [1801-1802].
First edition, large quarto, two parts in one volume, illustrated with forty full-page aquatint views in ovals; 20 smaller vignettes printed on full sheets, one engraved handwritten playbill; a folding typographical table; and a folding engraved map (short tear), contents generally good with a little occasional spotting; bound in full contemporary navy blue straight-grain morocco tooled in gilt, joints rubbed, a trifle bumped; aeg., 10 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.
Estimate
$400 – $600
[travel] fraser, matthew william (d. 1929)
Archive of Documents Regarding his Medical Work in Africa.
Including approximately 400 documents circa 1898-1927, the majority are receipts for supplies, clothing, scientific instruments, drugs and medicines, in London and in Africa; financial papers; official accreditations, documents, and eleven letters of reference; a letter from 1910 confirming his appointment as Medical Officer in the West African Medical Staff; a signed certificate from Glasgow University; a small instrument kit in a leather case; all housed in a tin document box.
Estimate
$1,000 – $2,000
[travel] jesuit missionaries.
Lettres Edifiantes et Curieuses Ecrites des Missions Etrangeres par quelques Missionnaires de la Compagnie de Jesus.
Paris: Le Clerc 1705 & 1715.
Two 12mo volumes, volumes XI and V; volume XI illustrated with a folding engraved map of the Philippines and east to the Marianas; volume V illustrated with Father Kino’s engraved folding map of California, showing the full extent of the Sea of Cortés, and the Baja Peninsula’s connection to the mainland, with contemporary hand-color in red and blue; each volume bound in full contemporary speckled calf with gilt spine, joints cracking, not a matched set, 6 1/4 x 3 1/2 in. (2)
Volume V contains the first printed French translation of Francisco Maria Picolo’s scarce 1702 pamphlet, “Informe del Estado de la Nueva Christiandad de California” (pages 248-287), described by Wagner as “the first printed account of California […] to obtain any circulation.” Informative reports on missionary work and indigenous people in India, China, Mexico, the Philippines, and elsewhere are included, along with a report on Jesuit activities in the Great Lakes region near Lake Michigan by Father Marest.
European Americana 705/101; Sabin 40697; Wagner Southwest 74a.
Estimate
$600 – $800
[travel] le cointe de laveau, georges (b. 1783)
Guide du Voyageur a Moscou.
Moscow: L’Imprimerie d’Auguste Semen, 1824.
First edition, octavo, illustrated with eight full-paged engravings (including frontispiece), and three folding typographical tables, text in French with some phrases in Russian, half-title present, bound in contemporary half calf with marbled paper boards, 8 1/2 x 5 in.
French native Laveau was secretary to the Moscow Imperial Society of Naturalists. He returned to France in the 1830s.
Estimate
$150 – $250
[travel] macerata, cassiano de (1708-1791)
Memorie Istoriche delle Virtu’, Viaggi, e Fatiche del P. Giuseppe Maria de’ Bernini da Gargnano.
Verona: Moroni, 1767.
First & only edition, quarto, folding frontispiece portrait of Bernini baptizing Tibetan people; bound in full contemporary limp Italian paper binding, a crisp and nicely preserved copy with deep type impressions; sewing somewhat shaken; plate reinforced with a small paper repair on verso, 8 x 5 1/2 in.
Both biographer and his subject served as missionaries in India and Tibet in the 18th century. Giuseppe Maria Bernini (1709-1761) was a physician and missionary in the Capuchin order. In addition to his fluency in European languages, he could also speak Hindustani and Sanskrit and wrote a Hindustani-Italian dictionary.
Worldcat lists two copies in American libraries, both lacking the frontispiece plate; rare at auction.
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
[travel] miller, edward william (1898-1969)
Extensive Archive, Shanghai, 1935-1939.
Comprising six three-ring binders containing mainly detailed family correspondence written while Miller was stationed in Shanghai as a representative of the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly & Company;
[together with] an extensive typed biography of Miller;
correspondence from Eli Lilly & Co. regarding his employment;
[and] a bound volume of Oriental Affairs, a monthly review edited by H.G.W. Woodhead published in Shanghai, comprising the September-December, 1937 issues, titled Shanghai In Torment; the letters written by hand and typewritten, contents are a mix of family, business and international news during the period when the Japanese were taking over Shanghai.
Estimate
$500 – $750
[travel] ogilby, john (1600-1676)
The Traveller’s Guide: or a Most Exact Description of the Roads of England.
London: Printed for W.B. [William Bray] and sold by Churchill et alia, [1712].
Octavo, second edition, illustrated with one folding engraved map, with a divisional title page to the section of tables dated 1712 (collation continuous, pagination restarts); a nicely-preserved copy in full speckled and blind-tooled English calf, unsophisticated and intact, 8 x 4 3/4 in.
ESTC T134021.
Estimate
$300 – $400
[travel] perry, charles (1698-1780)
A View of the Levant: Particularly of Constantinople, Syria, Egypt, and Greece.
London: Printed for T. Woodward, C. Davis, & J. Shuckburgh, 1743.
First edition, folio, page 9/10 printed upside down, illustrated with thirty-three numbered plates (some folding), with plates thirty-one and thirty-two bound in the text as directed by the binder’s instructions at the end, an attractive copy in full contemporary speckled calf, worn, joints cracked, ex libris Sir Joseph [Radcliffe] Pickford Esquire (1744-1819), with his armorial engraved bookplate pasted inside front board, 14 1/8 x 9 in.
ESTC T152605.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
[travel] pinto, fernão mendes (1509-1583)
Les Voyages Advantureux de Fernand Mendez Pinto. Fidellement Traduits de Portugais en François.
Paris: Chez Arnould Cotinet & Jean Roger, 1645.
Second French edition, translated from the Portuguese by Bernard Figuier, quarto, some browning to contents, a few wormtrails repaired in lower margins of several leaves; bound in full contemporary speckled French sheepskin tooled with large gilt arms on front board, title tooled to spine, slightly rubbed but unsophisticated and nicely preserved, 8 3/4 x 6 1/4 in.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
[travel] sandys, george (1578-1644)
A Relation of a Journey Begun An: Dom: 1610.
London: Printed for Andrew Crooke, 1637.
Small folio, fourth edition, engraved title by Francis Delaram, illustrated with numerous text engravings, one folding plate, and a large double-page engraved map; bound in full modern leather, ex libris Eric Fisher [and] Sir Roger Twisden, Baronet, with bookplates; two tears amateurishly repaired, one rather large (see page 39/40); fore-edge margin of engraved title frail and chipped; 11 1/8 x 7 1/4 in.
STC 21730; ESTC S116686.
Estimate
$300 – $500
[travel] smith, charles hamilton (1776-1859)
Collection of Fifteen Watercolor Drawings of Ancient Egyptian Ruins.
Folio format wove paper sheets, many with J. Whatman Turkey Mill watermarks dated in the 1830s and 1840s; subjects concentrate on upper Egypt, with views of the pyramids, the sphinx, Thebes, Karnak, and Luxor, all titled and initialed by the artist; each individually matted, removed from a bound volume, 15 3/4 x 12 3/4 in. each (15)
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,000
[travel] vanel, claude (fl. circa 1680)
Abregé Nouveau de l’Histoire Generale des Turcs.
Paris: Chez Osmont [by Pierre le Mercier], 1689.
Four 12mo volumes illustrated with twenty-eight engraved portraits of Sultans of the Ottoman Empire; the set bound in full contemporary uniform speckled calf with gilt-tooled spines, bindings worn, headcaps chipped with some loss, structurally sound; some spotting and toning to contents, 6 x 3 1/2 in. (4)
Estimate
$400 – $600
[travel] wheler, sir george (1650-1723)
A Journey into Greece.
London: Printed for William Cademan, Robert Kettlewell, & Awnsham Churchill, 1682.
First edition, folio, illustrated with numerous text engravings and woodcuts, four full-page engravings of coins, three small added engravings and a large folding map (tears), some occasional tears and limited browning to text leaves; bound in full speckled English calfskin, rubbed with wear, but without repair and structurally sound, 12 x 7 3/4 in.
Wing W-1607; ESTC R9388.
Estimate
$600 – $800
Early Printed Books & Manuscripts
Aemilius, georg (1517-1569)
Evangelia quae Consueto More Dominicis & aliis Festis Diebus in Ecclesias Leguntur.
Cologne: [Walter Fabricius] ad intersignium Monocerotis, 1566.
Small octavo, illustrated throughout with small text woodcuts, bound in full contemporary blind-tooled sheepskin over wooden boards, in rough shape, marginal water stains to inner margins, worsening near the end, a good candidate for restoration, 5 7/8 x 3 3/4 in.
This short popular work was edited by a student of Melanchthon and Lutheran theologian. It was meant for the instruction of children.
Not in Adams.
Estimate
$250 – $350
Aesop (c. 620-564 bce)
Fables with his Life in English, French & Latin.
London: Printed by William Godbid for Francis Barlow, to be sold by Ann Seile, 1666.
Folio, small paper issue, illustrated with engraved title and 109 of 110 etched vignettes by Francis Barlow (c. 1626-1704), lacking portrait and six text leaves: H1, F1, Q1, Q2, Z2 (with illustration to Fable 35), and Ppp2; bound in contemporary boards, back board detached, front board repaired with Japanese tissue, later endleaves and pastedowns, with 19th century armorial Lloyd family bookplate pasted inside the front board, 12 12 1/4 x 7 3/4 in.
Wing A-696; ESTC R21542.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Alamanni, luigi (1495-1556)
La Coltivatione.
Paris: Ruberto Stephano, 1546.
First edition, large octavo, the only Estienne work printed in Italian and entirely in the Stephanus large italic type; the work dedicated to Catherine de Medici (as the Dauphine); bound in full contemporary Italian parchment over stiff boards, two spine labels; some ink inscriptions to title (some imperfectly washed out), 7 7/8 x 5 1/4 in.
Adams A-409; Renouard Estienne 68:22; Schreiber 88.
Estimate
$400 – $600
Alcyonius, petrus [pietro alcioni] (1487-1527)
Medices Legaturs de Exsilio.
[Venice: In Aedibus Aldi et Andreae Asulani, 1522.]
First edition, octavo, Aldine device on title and verso of last leaf, text printed in italic type, single column throughout, the two blank leaves present in this copy; contemporary neat inked marginal annotations imperfectly washed, still legible, a large copy, with some foxing, bound in modern half parchment, ex libris Albert A. Howard with his book label with initials pasted inside the back board 7 3/4 x 5 in.
Alcyonius’s text is an inventive theoretical dialogue on the subject of exile set between 1494 and 1512, and conducted by Giovanni and Giulio de’ Medici (both of whom later served as Pope.) During the period in question, the two had been exiled from Florence.
Ahmanson-Murphy 215; Adams A-633; Renouard page 95 (8).
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
Alonso usatigui barcena y rodriguez de los rios.
Spanish Patent of Nobility and Grant of Arms.
Madrid, 5 December 1722.
Folio-format manuscript on laid paper, 24 leaves, illuminated with a full-page painted coat of arms facing an orange silk guard, text in secretarial hand, brown ink throughout, large headline in red and brown with some modest ornamentation, each page within a ruled border; 22-lines per page; bound in full contemporary parchment over thin boards, lacking silk ties, nine-line manuscript title on front board; with official signs, stamps, and signatures on the last few leaves; ex libris Señores Moctezuma Biblioteca y Archivo, with stamp on ffep, 12 x 8 1/4 in.
Estimate
$600 – $800
Alunno, francesco (1485-1556)
Le Ricchezze della Lingua Volgare [sopra il Boccaccio & Dante].
Venice: In Casa de Figliuoli di Aldo, 1543.
First edition, folio, woodcut Aldine device printed within a decorative frame incorporating four grotesque faces reminiscent of the green man motif, the first appearance of the anchor device within a border, text printed in a mix of italic and roman type, in two columns; bound in later half tanned pigskin and parchment-covered boards, a few instances of water staining in the text, generally fresh; 11 3/4 x 8 in.
This work is an alphabetical compendium of elegant Italian phrases culled from the works of Boccaccio and Dante.
Renouard 127: 2.
Estimate
$300 – $500
Ambrose, jerome, & augustine.
De Virginitate Opuscula Sanctorum Doctorum.
Rome: Apud Paulum Manutium, Aldi F., 1562.
Quarto, woodcut printer’s device to title; bound in 17th century polished calf, gilt-tooled spine, rubbed, missing one of two labels, contents with some mottled staining to title and following few preliminary leaves; 17th century engraved printer’s device used as a possible bookplate inside front board, a few early ownership inscriptions, lacking final ?blank FF4; 8 1/4 x 6 in.
Ahmanson Murphy 678; Renouard 186 no. 7; Adams A-950.
Estimate
$300 – $500
Ames, joseph (1689-1759)
Typographical Antiquities: Being an Historical Account of Printing in England: with some Memoirs of our Antient Printers.
London: Printed by W. Faden & sold by J. Robinson, 1749.
First edition, quarto, title page printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece incorporating printer’s marks of early English printer’s bound opposite the title, full-page engraved dedication, illustrated with six full-page engravings and numerous text woodcuts, showing printer’s devices and many portraits of individual printers; ex libris William Tyler of Petworth, with his book label pasted inside the front board, neatly rebacked, 10 1/4 x 7 3/4 in.
ESTC T142956.
Estimate
$300 – $500
Antoninus florentinus (1389-1459)
Summa Theologica, [Parts I-II].
Strasbourg: Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger, 1496.
Folio, two parts bound together; I: 173 of 174 leaves (lacking the first leaf); II: 225 of 226 leaves (lacking the final blank); printed in gothic types in two columns throughout, initials added by hand in red and blue, some large woodcut initials also in use; bound in full contemporary tanned leather over wooden boards, decorated with blind stamps including roses, smaller flower tools, and a distinctive tool featuring Saint Catherine, this grouping of tools also used on a Venetian imprint of Boniface’s Decretals from 1496 held at the University Library in Augsburg and a 1498 Cologne Missal at Darmstadt; lacking hardware, rebacked and repaired, new pastedowns and endleaves, some worming, 12 1/4 x 8 1/2 in.
ISTC ia00878000; Goff A-878; BMC I 109; BSB-Ink A-601; GW 2192. Binding tools: s019461 (Saint Catherine) through s019467 (for more see the EBDB Einbanddatenbank: https://www.hist-einband.de/koddetails.html?entityID=k007939)
Estimate
$3,000 – $5,000
Armenian manuscript, 17th century.
Duodecimo-format manuscript on laid paper in an upright script, written in black and red ink throughout, nineteen lines per page, 206 leaves; with red initials and chapter headings; additionally embellished with more than a dozen decorative chapter headings that include larger initials (sometimes incorporating images of fish), and large ornaments in the side margins, all accomplished in a burgundy liquid ink, the shapes mostly geometric, floral, or leaf-motif, many with knotwork details; text written within vertical red rules: double on the fore-edge and single on the gutter margins; consisting of eighteen signatures in twelves, each signed with an initial letter on the first and last leaves; lacking leaves in the first signature, as only two are present, likely of twelve; other quires are all in twelve’s, without signs of any leaves missing; final leaf is integral and blank; some minute contemporary annotations; bound in full contemporary blind-tooled dark brown morocco over wooden boards in the Armenian style, with V-shaped notches at the sewing stations, boards cut flush to the page size, chevron plaited endbands in red and white worked onto the board edges; lacking clasps and the leather flap that once covered the pages at the fore-edge, with remnants present inside the back board; deep blue fabric pastedowns present; numerous narrow blind lines scored vertically along spine; some joint cracking, but structurally intact and unsophisticated; the front board decorated with a complicated intertwining knotwork design within a circle with serpentine borders above and below all carefully picked out with minute hand-tooled individual dots; the back board with a similar four-sided border panel and four blind tools in the inner compartment; 4 1/8 x 3 in.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
Augurelli, giovanni aurelio (1441-1524)
[Iamblicus Liber I-II; Sermonum Liber I-II; Carminum Liber I-II].
Venice: In Aedibus Aldi, 1505.
First edition, octavo, with a2 blank but for signature mark, q7 blank, and final leaf with Aldine device all present in this copy; internally very good, bound in modern full calfskin tooled in blind with gilt lettering on spine; aeg., 6 1/4 x 3 3/4 in.
Adams A-2152; Renouard Alde 49.2; Ahmanson-Murphy 89.
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,000
Ayala, pedro lópez de (1332-1407)
Coronica del Serenissimo Rey Don Pedro, Hijo del Rey Don Alonso de Castilla.
[Pamplona: por Pedro Porallis, 1591.]
Folio, lacking title page and two following leaves, both supplied in pen facsimile; text printed in two columns, 222 numbered pages followed by 12 unnumbered table of contents leaves; bottom half of final leaf torn away and repaired; woodcut initials throughout, large text woodblock of a mounted knight used twice in the text; contemporary marginalia in different hands sporadically throughout; bound in limp parchment with ties, ink title to spine; foot of spine chewed with loss of endcap and endband, (dog?), 11 x 8 in.
Palau 140778; Adams L-1476.
Estimate
$300 – $500
Bacon, francis (1561-1626)
Sylva Sylvarum: or, a Natural Historie in Ten Centuries.
London: Printed by John Haviland for William Lee, to be sold by John Williams, 1635.
Small folio, added engraved title and full-page author portrait frontispiece present, typographical general title, and divisional title for New Atlantis; bound in contemporary full reversed leather with gilt stamp of a burning brazier (a lattice-patterned vertical grate with flames escaping at the top and a log below) on front board, a family emblem of Edward Phelipps (1613-1679), with a later ownership inscription of a William Phelipps on ffep; ex libris Grolierite John Camp Williams (1859-1929) with his gilt-tooled morocco book label pasted inside the front board; extensive contemporary marginal notes in several sections; the binding amateurishly rebacked, some worming to inner gutter and some blank margins along the bottom edge, 11 x 7 1/4 in.
Several sections of the text are heavily annotated by a contemporary reader with interest in a number of topics, mostly related to food. Evidence of marginalia shows that the annotator made it through the whole text, writing in English and Latin, and correcting typographical errors along the way. The largest section of notes explains the process of clarifying alcoholic beverages with egg whites, and occupies the bottom blank margin of thirteen pages.
STC 1172; ESTC S106936; Gibson 174.
Estimate
$500 – $750
Bacon, francis (1561-1626)
The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh.
London: Printed for W. Stansby for Matthew Lownes & William Barret, 1622.
First edition (one of two variants with the same publication year, in this copy page 3 line 12 has “Souldiers”; some of the errata have been corrected, others have not), engraving frontispiece portrait of the subject of the work by John Payne bound opposite the title, which is printed within an elaborate woodcut printer’s border (McKerrow & Ferguson 224), bound in contemporary English calf, ruled blind, rebacked, with title, author, and dated tooled in gilt on spine, without the initial blank, 11 1/2 x 7 in.
STC 1159 [may include sheets from 1160]; ESTC S1406; Gibson 116a; Pforzheimer 32 [describing the variant].
Estimate
$600 – $800
Baldini, bernardino (1515-1600)
Two Titles in Two Octavo Volumes.
Libellus de Bello a Christianis cum Ottomanicis Gesto, Milan: Paulum Gottardum Pontium, 1571;
[Together with] Liber de Bello Ottomanicorum apud Manes Gesto, Milan: Paulum Gottardum Pontium, 1572; each bound separately in uniform modern half parchment and old printed waste-covered boards, 6 3/4 x 4 3/4 in. (2)
Estimate
$300 – $400
Bembo, pietro (1470-1547)
Prose di Monsignor Bembo.
Venice: Francesco Marcolini, 1538.
Quarto, xylographic title, text in italic type, woodcut printer’s device to verso of last leaf, bound in later full parchment over boards, 8 x 5 3/4 in.
Bembo’s rules for prose composition pay studied attention to the sounds of words and their harmonious use. It influenced other writers and composers of secular madrigal music in Italy in the 16th century.
Adams B-571.
Estimate
$300 – $500
Benacci, vittorio (1571-1629) guido reni, illus. (1575-1642)
Descrittione de gli Apparati Fatti in Bologna per la Venuta di N. S. Papa Clemente VIII con gli Disegni de gli Archi, Statue e Pitture.
[Bologna: per Vittori Benacci], 1599.
Second edition, quarto, lacking signature C, comprising four leaves with illustrations, engraved vignette to title, illustrated with five full-paged etchings, large woodcut printer’s device to verso of last leaf; bound in later sheepskin, some marginal notes, some illustrations slightly cropped, 8 3/4 x 6 1/4 in.
This uncommon festival book was produced to celebrate Pope Clement VIII’s visit to Bologna in 1598. The images are of arches designed by Reni for the occasion.
Brunet I 768 (first edition); Mortimer Italian 50.
Estimate
$300 – $500
Berni, francesco (1497/98-1535)
Tutte le Opere del Bernia in Terza Rima, Nuovamente con Somma Diligentia Stampate.
[Venice: no printer], 1540.
Octavo, with poetic contributions by Berni, Francesco Maria Molza, Benedetto Varchi, Giovanni Mauro, Giovanni Della Casa, Giovanni Francesco Bini, and Lodovico Dolce; lacking R5 (page 133) the last leaf of the second section (?blank); text in a single column in italic type throughout, rebound in modern full leather, with extensive modern notes on flyleaves taken by an Italian reader with an interest in erotica; 5 3/4 x 3 3/4 in.
Adams B-753; rare at auction.
Estimate
$300 – $500
Bible in english with fore-edge painting.
The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament and the New.
Oxford: Printed by Thomas Baskett, printer to the University, 1755.
Octavo, engraved general title, typographical title to New Testament, [with] The Psalms of David in Metre, lacking title, imprint from colophon, Edinburgh: Printed by Thomas Lumisden & Co., 1755 (damage to inner top corner last few signatures); bound in full dark green calf, tooled in gilt, aeg, with two paintings along the fore-edge, both in the same direction, depicting Romney Lock near Windsor and Radcot on Thames; 8 x 5 in.
Bible: Darlow & Moule 1111; ESTC T90364, locating two copies in North America; Edinburgh Psalms: ESTC T171359, locating no copies in North America.
Estimate
$400 – $600
Bible in hebrew, ed. elias hutter (c. 1553-1609)
Bibliorum Hebraicorum. Pars Prima [-Quarta].
Hamburg: Saxo, 1587-1588.
Large folio volume, three parts in one volume with divisional title pages; lacking the first general title page, woodcut compartment from the second part used in place of the general title with the inner section containing the text of the divisional title trimmed out, this section mounted on a blank sheet at the beginning of the second part; lacking text leaf KKk6 [page 1131/1132]; this copy with singlets added to signatures Xx6 and LLl4; paper repairs to several preliminary leaves following the first title; third and fourth parts with title pages printed within woodcut compartment present and intact; some paper repairs in the text occasionally affecting a word or two, the majority strictly marginal; bound in later sheepskin, with intensive peeling and losses to covering material; 14 1/2 x 9 1/4 in.
The Hebrew typeface used throughout was designed to aid understanding and reading the language. Root letters are printed with solid strokes, inflectional letters are in an outline typeface, with radical letters appearing in superscript.
Vinograd Hamburg 4; Darlow & Moule 5108; Adams B-1235.
Estimate
$3,000 – $5,000
Bible, english selections, miniature.
Biblia. Or a Practical Summary of ye Old and New Testaments.
London: R. Wilkin, 1727 [dated altered in ink to 1728].
First English edition of a “Thumb Bible,” 64mo, one of two issues described by ESTC, this one without a period at the end of the title, illustrated throughout with engraved title pages and sixteen tiny engraved plates; bound in full contemporary gold-tooled black morocco, aeg., in a very good state of preservation, contents very good, 1 x 1 1/2 in.
Admoeit, Thumb Bibles B16; see both ESTC N64949 & T67305; Opie L 25.
Estimate
$400 – $600
Bible, hebrew and latin, trans. sebastian munster (1488-1552)
Mikdash Ha-Shem; Hebraica Biblia.
Basel: Michael Isingrinus & Henricus Petri, 1546.
First edition, two thick folio volumes, beautiful large display Hebrew wood type on title page and chapter pages, printed in two columns throughout, in Hebrew (vocalized) and Latin; lacking final ?blank Ttt6; bound in full near-contemporary uniform German limp parchment bindings, edges stained blue, some areas of concentrated contemporary manuscript marginalia; major ink stain on leaf Nn5 (page 705) in the first volume which has chemically burned the page with loss, two smaller stains with similar loss to Qq3 & Qq4 (pages 738 & 739);13 1/8 x 8 in. (2)
Vinograd, Basel 74; Darlow & Moule 5090; Prijs 73.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Bible, new testament, english, douai.
The New Testament of Jesus Christ Faithfully Translated into English.
Antwerp: Daniel Vervliet, 1600.
Second edition, quarto, title page printed within type ornament border (torn with loss at the head, not affecting the text, repaired on verso), bound in older boards, rebacked, boards quite worn, some staining to first and last few leaves, 8 x 6 in.
This Roman Catholic translation of the New Testament was done by Gregory Martin (c. 1542-1582), with assistance from other priests at the English College set up in Douai, France by Catholics fleeing the religious persecution of the British crown.
STC 2898; ESTC S102510; Darlow & Moule 258.
Estimate
$2,000 – $2,500
Bible, new testament, french, with rare illustrated calendar.
Calendrier Historial, & Lunaire.
Lyon: Antoine Vincent, 1566.
[Bound with] Le Nouveau Testament, lacking the title page, Lyon: for Antoine Vincent & Symphorien Barbier, 1564; 16mo volume, the calendar illustrated with small woodcuts in the Book of Hours tradition, one for each month, illustrating the seasonal tasks associated with the time of year; first extant leaf of NT with some repaired flaws, ex libris with release from Howell Bible Collection at the Pacific School of Religion; bound in full 19th century calf, tooled in gilt, aeg., 4 5/8 x 2 3/4 in.
Van Eys part II, 118; the Calendrier Historial is rare.
Estimate
$400 – $600
Boissard, jean jacques (1528-1602)
Icones Illustrium et Clarorum Vivorum Quorum Praecipue Opera Literae Humaniores & Pura Religio, Restauratae Sunt.
Geneva: Sumptibus Petri Chouët, 1673.
Quarto, title page printed within woodcut frame, content includes title; index; divisional titles; and eighty-three full page woodcut portraits, no text, bound in full parchment over boards, ex libris Sir George Shuckburgh, with his armorial bookplate inside front board, 8 1/4 x 6 1/2 in.
Portrait subjects include important Reformation theologians, European scholars, royalty, and others.
Worldcat locates only one copy of this title; rare at auction.
Estimate
$400 – $600
Bona, giovanni (1609-1674)
De Divina Psalmodia.
Paris: Billaine, 1672.
Large quarto, large engraving of Bona’s arms on title, neat inscription, “Cartusia Ittingensis” on title, and one small stamp of the Dominicans of Poitiers, bookplate of Abbaye Sant-Martin Ligugé inside front board, one other instance of the stamp on a text leaf; added singlet containing an advertising list of other theological titles printed by Billaine available for sale, long list of author’s cited printed before the text, blank leaf XXx4 present between last leaf of text and the index; bound in full calf over wooden boards, lacking one clasp, some worming confined mostly to the boards, in good contemporary condition, 8 3/4 x 6 1/4 in.
Estimate
$300 – $500
Bookbinding, gilt armorial, 1770s.
Louis Claude de Saint-Martin’s (1743-1803) Des Erreurs et de la Verité.
Edimbourg [i.e. Lyon?]: [no printer], 1775.
First edition, large octavo, bound in contemporary ornately tooled rococo-style gilt compartments on both boards and spine, red morocco emblazoned with the arms of the Andrade family, according to a description from the 1970s; in a very good state of preservation, all edges gilt, sold at Parke Bernet in 1977 as lot 109 in sale 4040, the library of Margaret Ralston Gest, with the original saleroom bookmark, 7 1/2 x 5 in.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
Bordini, giovanni francesco (1536-1609)
De Rebus Praeclare Gestis a Sixto V. Pon. Max.
Rome: Ex officini Jacob Tornerius [by Francesco Zanetti], 1588.
First edition, quarto, engraved title, illustrated with fifteen full-page engravings (in addition to the title); ink stain to title, some marginal worming and water stains, in later boards, front board detached, 9 1/4 x 6 3/4 in.
The verses in this illustrated volume offer tribute to Pope Sixtus V’s (1521-1590) various architectural contributions to the city of Rome, along with other highlights of his pontificate. Although he only served as the head of the church for five years, he adopted an ambitious rebuilding project that required the destruction of antiquities and was funded by levying onerous taxes on the population. His plan saw the completion of the dome of St. Peter’s; the Loggia of Sixtus in the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano; the chapel of the Praesepe in Santa Maria Maggiore; the erection of four obelisks (including the one in Saint Peter’s Square); the opening of six new streets; and more.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Bovelles, charles de [aka carolus bovillus] (1479-1567)
Geometricum Opus, Duobus Libris Comprehensum.
Paris: Michael Vascosan, 1557.
First Latin edition, octavo, illustrated with numerous text diagrams and bound in contemporary parchment over boards, first signature with water stain to bottom outside corner, some browning to contents, generally good, 6 1/8 x 3 3/4 in.
Adams B-2619; rare at auction.
Estimate
$600 – $800
Boye, frederik (1715-1759)
Nogle faa udvalgte og med Blod besprengte Blomster, opsamlede under Jesu Kors.
Copenhagen: Niels Hansen Møllers Enke, 1759.
Oblong 16mo, double title page printed over a two-page spread in black and red, text in Danish throughout, bound in full contemporary black sharkskin or shagreen dated 1760 in gilt on the back cover with the owner’s initials tooled on the front, ex libris Billie & Stanley Marcus, sold as part of their collection of miniature books at Christie’s in 1987, 2 1/4 in. high x 3 3/4 in. long.
Estimate
$250 – $350
Brunfels, otto (1488-1534)
Precationes Biblicae Sanctoru[m] Patrum, Illustrium Viroru[m] et Mulierum untruisq[uae] Testamenti.
Strasbourg: apud Johannes Schott, 1528.
First edition, octavo, title page printed in red and black with illustrated woodcut border attributed to Hans Weiditz (1495-1537), showing King Hezekiah in his sickbed being ministered to by Isaiah; each text page (excluding preliminaries) printed within woodcut borders attributed to Weiditz that display a variety of inventive and well-executed themes depicting cherubs hunting and at play; arms & armory; and a variety of natural history subjects, including beetles, rabbits, birds, wild boar, bear, deer, dogs, peacocks, unicorns, and others; one woodcut border openly critical of the Roman Catholic church, showing a hooded fox is selling a Papal Indulgence (displayed as a sign) to geese, with a strongbox behind him; lacking final leaf with printer’s mark and the following blank; gutter folds reinforced with strong light brown paper throughout, in a later binding; a good candidate for restoration, 5 5/8 x 3 3/4 in.
Rare at auction; not in Adams.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Budineus, simon [aka szymon budny, trans. (1530-1600)
Ispravnik za Erei Ispovidnici i za Pokornih.
Rome: Typis Sac. Congr. de Propag. Fide, 1635.
Octavo, a Croatian-language translation of the Latin devotional handbook, Breve Directorium ad Confessarii ac Confitentis Munus Recte Obeundmen, woodcut device on title, crucifixion woodcut on verso of title, printed in Croatian throughout, bound in modern half parchment with decorative paste-paper boards, partially unopened, final two blanks present, 6 3/8 x 4 in.
Rare at auction.
Estimate
$300 – $500
Burton, robert (1577-1640)
The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it is.
Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short for Henry Cripps, 1624.
Second edition, first folio edition, bound in full contemporary speckled English calf, front board detached, newer gilt-tooled title to spine, large portion of pastedown torn away, lacking vertical half of front flyleaf, old signature crossed out on title, some scattered marginalia, 11 3/4 x 7 1/4 in.
STC 4160; ESTC S122247; Heirs of Hippocrates 406; Garrison-Morton Norman 4818:1; Osler 4621.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Caesar, julius (100-44 bce) trans. william duncan (1717-1760)
The Commentaries of Caesar, Translated into English. To which is prefixed a Discourse Concerning the Roman Art of War.
London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper in the Strand, and R. Dodsley, 1753.
First edition of Duncan’s translation, large folio; illustrated with engraved frontispiece of a bust of Caesar and a set of eighty-four additional plates, stunning for their informative and artistic nature, most are folding, including six folding maps, fifty-five folding battle scenes and other illustrations, and twenty-three plates mainly showing examples of people of various ethnic groups, some folding plates with minor straight breaks along their folding sections, a clean, crisp copy with a full set of plates; bound in later half leather and pebbled cloth-covered boards, ex libris Emma Kenderdine Mitchell with bookplate and Donna P. Cole with signature, both inside front board, 17 x 10 in.
Estimate
$5,000 – $7,000
Calepino, ambrogio [ambrosius calepinus] (c. 1440-1510)
Dictionarium Octo Linguarum.
Basel: Sebastian Henricpetrus, 1584.
Large folio volume, the eight languages in question are: Latin, Hebrew, Greek, French, Italian, German, Flemish, and Spanish; text in two columns throughout, 1,467 numbered pages; followed by a second section with a separate title page: Conrad Gesner’s Onomasticon Propriorum Nominum, woodcut printer’s device to verso of last leaf; bound in full German alum-tawed and blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, with a heraldic coat of arms on both boards, the binding rubbed, surface material abraded on the covers, lacking three brass corner-pieces and clasps, structurally sound; early ownership and library inscriptions to title and front pastedown, 13 3/4 x 8 3/4 in.
Estimate
$300 – $500
Carmelite breviary.
Manuscript on Parchment.
Italy, first quarter 15th century.
Small format manuscript on parchment, consisting of forty-one gatherings, mostly in quires of ten leaves [approximately 400 leaves]; first and last two signatures with seven leaves each (lacking presumed blank conjugates), without obvious signs of missing text; quire 38 with five leaves; all other quires with an even numbers of leaves [4, 8, or 10] and seemingly complete, based on the positioning of catchwords, rule of Gregory, and evidence of sewing thread at the center of the gathering.
The first six leaves contain a calendar of Carmelite use; text in two columns throughout, in a neat gothic hand, written in dark brown ink with some passages in red; capital strokes and two-line initials throughout decorated with pen tracery; catchwords at the foot of the verso of the last leaf of each quire throughout, centered at the foot of the page; one six-line gilt initial on a blue and green ground with gilt-decorated marginal floral extensions on folio 28, with the main incipit; thirty-three lines per page.
The Breviary bound in full 19th century crushed brown morocco tooled in gilt, with all edges gilt, by E. Neidrée; front board becoming detached, ffep detached; housed in a custom leather box in the style of a jewelry box, 20th century; ex libris Jules Janin (1804-1874), with his gilt label on ffep, sold at the 11 June 1850 Paris auction as lot 14, “Rituel a l’usage des Carmes petit in 8v MS. du 15 siècle sur vélin”; signed by Philadelphia collector and Methodist Episcopal Bishop Thomas Benjamin Neely (1841-1925) on ffep; 4 x 6 in.
In The Turnbull Library Record, May 1971, vol. 4 no. 1, Christopher de Hamel describes a Carmelite Book of Hours held in New Zealand. (A copy of this publication is included in the sale of this lot.) Calendrical evidence gleaned from de Hamel’s article aids in confirmation of the Carmelite attribution and date. At the opening of the text [folio 28 recto] the order is explicitly named.
“A Carmelite friar owned very few books. Soon after joining the Order he was given a book allowance which, at the end of his novitiate, he was to spend on his basic text, a Breviary. This book contained a fuller version of the Book of Hours. If there was any money left over from the purchase of his Breviary it might be spent on other books. A mendicant friar would not have been able to possess many books. The books he did own were his for life and could not be sold, given away, or pledged, and they were recoverable on his death by the convent where he said his first Mass. From here they could be redistributed again but only to those friars who would respect the gift and keep it within their Orders.” (see de Hamel’s article cited above.)
Estimate
$8,000 – $12,000
Cassianus, johannes (c. 360-435)
Collationes Patrum.
Lyon: Philip Tinghus, 1574.
Octavo, woodcut printer’s device to title, bound in full 17th century mottled sheepskin, gilt tooled spine, inscription of a Dominican order at foot of title in brown ink, 6 3/4 x 4 in.
Adams C-863.
Estimate
$300 – $400
Cassiodorus, flavius magnus aurelius (c. 485-585 ce)
Historia Tripertita.
Lyon: Jacob Giunta, 1534.
Large octavo, title page printed in red and black within an architectural woodcut border, text in gothic letter, two columns throughout, woodcut initials, bound in modern half parchment with printed paper-covered boards, 7 x 5 in.
Not in Adams.
Estimate
$300 – $500
Castellion, sebastien, trans.; sixt birck ed.
Sibyllinorum Oraculorum Libri VIII.
Basel: Joannes Oporinus, 1555.
Octavo, text printed on facing pages in Greek and Latin, bound in modern half parchment and printed paper boards, 5 3/4 x 3 1/2 in.
Not in Adams.
Estimate
$250 – $350
Caviceo, jacopo (1443-1511)
Dialogue Treselegant Intitule le Peregrin.
Paris: by Nicolas Couteau for Galliot du Pré, [25 May 1527].
First edition in French, small folio, illustrated with three very large (nearly full-page) woodcut illustrations; text printed in gothic letter, attractive set of woodcut initials used throughout; bound in full 19th century calf by Koehler; the final leaf, blank but for printer’s woodcut device, lacking and provided in facsimile, 9 1/2 x 6 3/4 in.
Caviceo’s romance was first published in Italian in 1508 and was very popular. The tale of Peregrino and his love Genevera follows the now classic “star-crossed” motif, long before Shakespeare explored the theme. “Caviceo tells their tale with brio in a delightful array of narrative modes, including amatory epistles, philosophical digressions that anticipate later Renaissance dialogues in love treatises, autobiographical references, seemingly realistic courtroom dramas, and outlandish tales. After Peregrino endures many trials, including abduction by pirates, dangerous trips to the Orient and to Hell, almost insurmountable obstacles erected by Genevera’s family, and wild intrigues of all kinds, the bumbling protagonist finally unites in marriage with his beloved.” (Quoted from Sherry Roush’s Speaking Spirits: Ventriloquizing the Dead in Renaissance Italy, University of Toronto Press, 2015, page 118 ff.)
Brunet I, 1701-1702; not in Adams or Mortimer French; Worldcat shows three copies in American libraries; rare at auction.
Estimate
$3,000 – $5,000
Cervantes, miguel (1547-1616)
The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha.
London: Printed for J. & R. Tonson, 1742.
First edition of the Jervas translation, in two large quarto volumes, illustrated with engravings by Gerard Vandergucht (1696/97-1776) after the original work of John Vanderbank (1694-1739) with sixty-nine engravings (including the sixty-eight numbered plates accompanying the story, and the unnumbered portrait); this copy with the supplement to the translator’s preface (signature *b); contents very good; bound in full contemporary speckled calf, boards tooled in gilt, neatly rebacked, with older armorial bookplates in both volumes, 11 x 8 3/4 in. (2)
ESTC T59882.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
Chemnitz, martin; timotheus kirchner; & nikolaus selnecker.
Histori dess Sacramentstreits/ Darinnen klärlich außgeführet wirdt.
No Place [Germany]: No Printer, 1591.
Quarto, title page printed in red and black, 736 pages, text in black letter, bound in full contemporary parchment over boards, front board and spine panel detached, loss to head of spine, some toning to contents, 7 1/2 x 5 3/4 in.
Estimate
$600 – $800
Chrysostom, john (c. 347-407)
De Virginitate Liber.
Rome: Paulus Manutius, Aldi F., 1562.
Quarto, Aldine woodcut device to title; bound in full contemporary limp parchment, contemporary signature to title, lacking ties, a little light worming, flyleaves weak, sewing supports lacking along spine, the spine consolidated with glue, housed in a custom clamshell box covered in red cloth; the contents nicely preserved, b4 blank & present, final few lower corners dog-eared; 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.
Adams C-1559; Ahmanson-Murphy 674; Renouard Alde 186.
Estimate
$500 – $700
Comes, natalis (1520-1582)
De Venatione, Libri IIII.
Venice: Aldi Filii, 1551.
First edition, octavo, large woodcut printer’s device on title and final leaf; bound in full crushed dark blue morocco gilt (becoming decased), text in single column italic type throughout, 5 3/4 x 4 in.
Comes’s (sometimes called Natale Conte) popular poem about hunting includes descriptions of the desirable qualities to seek out in dogs, horses, and the hunter himself.
Adams C-2431; Ahmanson-Murphy 405; rare at auction.
Estimate
$500 – $700
Coronelli, vicenzo maria (1650-1718)
Description Geographique et Historique de la Morée Reconquise par les Venitiens, du Royaume de Negrepont.
Paris: Claude Barbin, 1686.
First edition in French, octavo, two parts in one with divisional title, half-titles present, illustrated with fifty-four double-page engravings that include maps, views, and fortifications, and two larger folding views (fifty-six plates in all); bound in contemporary leather boards, worn, with crowned initial V in gilt on front board, rebacked, ex libris Jacques-Marie Jerome, Michau de Montaran (1702-1782) with his armorial engraved bookplate pasted inside the front board; some tears, folds, and dustiness affecting approximately five leaves near the end of the text, binding rebacked and re-cornered but dry and chipping; 7 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.
Although best remembered for his construction of fabulous globes for Louis XIV and the Duke of Parma, in this work Coronelli recounts the story of the Morean War. Also known as the Sixth Ottoman-Venetian War, part of the Great Turkish War, it took place between 1684 and 1699 and was fought in southern Greece.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Curione, celio secondo (1503-1569)
Pasquillorum Tomi Duo.
Eleutheropoli [i.e. Basel: Johannes Oporinus], 1544.
First edition, octavo, two parts in one volume; bound in full early-19th century straight-grained red morocco signed “Rel. P. Bozérian Jeune,” on the gilt-tooled and lettered spine, with gilt edges, and gilt rolled tools on the boards and inner gilt dentelles; two initials hand-colored in red and blue with metallic ink, likely done by a reader, a few contemporary marginal notes, including a longer inscription on final leaf, “Oenigma de Collogino, Epigraphium Tilonis Ditmarri, civis Goslariani,” some spotting to first few signatures; lacking final blank; ex libris Mexborough, with armorial bookplate inside front board, 5 1/4 x 3 1/2 in.
The text contains contributions by Ulrich von Hutten and Erasmus.
Adams P-390; Brunet IV 410.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
Cyllenius, dominicus.
Ad Emanuelem Philibertum […] De Vetere & Recentiore Scientia Militari.
Venice: Francesco Portonari, 1559.
First edition, folio, large printer’s woodcut emblem to title, historiated initials in text, printed in roman letter; bound in modern half parchment with marbled paper boards, some marginal staining, losses to blank margins to several leaves at the end of the work, 11 1/4 x 7 3/4 in.
Adams C-3143.
Estimate
$300 – $400
Decorative bindings, two 18th century sets.
Including: Charles Ferrare Dutot’s Reflexions Politiques sur les Finances et le Commerce, The Hague: Vaillant & Nicolas Prevost, 1754, two 12mo volumes in full contemporary sponge-decorated calf, nicely gilt spines.
[Together with] Marianne Agnes de Falques’s L’Histoire de Madam de la Marquise de Pompadour, London [Holland?]: aux Dépens de S. Hooper, 1759, three octavo volumes, bound in uniform contemporary half calf with speckled paper-covered boards, spines tooled and lettered in gilt. (5)
Estimate
$300 – $400
Dibdin, thomas frognall (1776-1847)
Bibliomania, or Book Madness.
London: Printed for the Author by J. McCreery, sold by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, 1811.
Second edition, octavo, two volumes bound as one, full-page woodcut showing a jumble of books with a quote from Navis Stultifera bound as frontispiece, engraved vignette of the Bodleian Library to title; illustrated throughout; ex library with Hampton Library stamp to title and scattered text leaves; bound in 19th century half calf with marbled paper boards, lettering to spine, some spotting to contents, 8 1/4 x 5 1/4 in.
Jackson 18; Windle & Pippin A11c.
Estimate
$150 – $250
Diodorus siculus; justinian; florus; festus; & trogus.
Student’s Sammelband, Two Early-16th Century Titles Bound Together.
Including the following:
I: Diodorus’s De Antiquorum Gestis Fabulosis Libri VI, [Paris]: Venduntur in Vico Sancti Jacobi sub Leone Argenteo [printed by Claude Chevallon and François Regnault for] Jean Petit, [no date, circa 1516], translated into Latin by Poggio Bracciolini, and edited by Gilles de Maizières, with Petit’s woodcut printer’s mark (Renouard 890) on title page, some other variants list “sub signo Lilii Aurei” on title, with index.
II: Historia ex Trogo Pompeio Quattuor & Triginta Epithomatis Collecta. Lucii Flori Epithomata Quattuor q[uam] cultissima in dece[m] Titi Liui. decadas. Sexti Ruffi consularis viri ad valentianum Augustum de Historia Romana opus dignissimum, [Paris]: E. & G. De Marnef, [no date circa 1515], with De Marnef’s woodcut printer’s device to title; bound in contemporary or near-contemporary full English boards, ruled in blind and gilt with corner tools and large central medallions tooled in gilt (different center tools on front and back boards, corners are the same), rebacked, retaining the original spine, later pastedowns and endleaves, old ink title on fore-edge visible through dark edge coloring; institutional embossed stamps to a few pages, early ink shelf number to title, water stain from washing away a previous owner’s name, sold in the Sunderland Library sale in 1882 as lot 3934, 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.
Both works rare at auction and in institutional libraries.
Estimate
$600 – $800
Doni, anton francesco (1513-1574)
La Zucca, divisa in Cinque Libre: Il Ramo; I Fiori; Le Foglie; I Frutti; & Il Seme.
Venice: Appresso Fran. Rampazetto, ad instantia di Gio. Battista & Marchio Sessa Fratelli, [1565].
Octavo, lifetime edition with emendations made after the first two parts were originally published in 1551 & 1552, including his work on painting (Pitture), first included in the Padua imprint of 1564, with Doni’s notes on contemporary painters; illustrated with large woodcut portrait of the author on *8; bound in full 19th century parchment over boards, tooled in gilt, slight water stain and spotting to contents, 6 x 4 in.
Estimate
$300 – $400
Early printed book leaves, eleven examples.
Including two large-folio format incunabula leaves printed in gothic type in two columns with capital strokes in blue and red; Bible leaves in German, English & Latin; one leaf from the 1576 edition of Foxe’s Book of Martyrs; and other leaves from 16th century Italian imprints; sizes vary from octavo to folio. (11)
Estimate
$400 – $600
Embroidered binding, portugal.
Diario Ecclesiastico para o Reino de Portugal.
Lisbon: Impressam Regia, 1815.
16mo, illustrated with folding hand-colored copper-plate engraved map of Portugal, bound in full contemporary ivory-colored silk, embroidered with gold thread and sequins in a three-lobed frame (one on each board) decorated with floral motifs, the front cover with the coat of arms of Portugal, the back showing a goatherd and two goats, spine similarly embroidered in gold with sequins, all edges gilt and gauffered, nicely preserved with minor discoloration and the loss of a few sequins that make up the borders; housed in a contemporary case covered in red morocco tooled in gilt, the interior covered in a patterned decorative paper; cream-colored silk endleaves, early calligraphic owner’s signature to ffep, slipcase slightly rubbed, 4 1/8 x 2 1/2 in. overall.
Estimate
$1,200 – $1,800
Erasmus (1466-1536)
Opus de Conscribendis Epistolis.
Paris: Simon de Colines, 1536.
Octavo, title page printed within printer’s woodcut compartment incorporating his shield and initials with a rabbit on each side, lacking final two blank leaves [z7 & z8]; [bound with] Christoph Hegendorff’s (1500-1540) Methodus Conscribendi Epistolas, Paris: Wechel, 1538, one or two marginal notes meticulously scraped from the very surface of the page; nine blank leaves inserted between the two works, of which five are covered with contemporary notes in Latin containing additional epistles, back endleaves similarly covered; pale lilac-colored ink wash to parts of titles and woodcut printer’s devices, likely contemporary, done by a reader; bound in attractive full calf, neatly tooled in blind, with contemporary paper spine label, spine with five raised bands, endcaps and endbands intact, fore-edge title in ink, some minor cracking to joints, generally very good; dated 19th century ownership inscription to first title, 6 3/4 x 4 1/8 in.
Erasmus: Adams E-559; Hegendorff: not in Adams; rare at auction.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Estienne, henri, ed. (1528 or 1531-1598)
Conciones sive Orationes ex Graecis Latinisque Historicis Excerptae.
Estimate
$400 – $600
Eusebius of caesarea (275-339 ce);
Historia Ecclesiastica.
[Lyon: Benedictus Bonnyn sumptibus J & F Giunta & soc.,] 1533.
Large octavo, edited by the French theologian Geoffroy Boussard (1439-1522), title printed in red and black within a woodcut architectural border, some notations to title; verso of final leaf with printer’s woodcut device, printed in gothic type in two columns throughout, numerous criblé initials; bound in modern half parchment with paper-covered boards, 7 x 4 3/4 in.
Not in Adams.
Estimate
$300 – $500
Euthymius the great (377-473)
Orthodoxae Fidei Dogmatica Panoplia.
Lyon: Apud Sebastianum Bartolomaei Honorati [excudebat Jacobus Faure], 1556.
Octavo, woodcut printer’s device to title; verso of title covered with twenty-three lines in contemporary manuscript regarding the author’s biography (the ink has etched through the title, leaving it in a delicate state); bound in contemporary blind-decorated sheepskin boards crudely rebacked with parchment, becoming decased, title page greatly weakened by the inscription on the verso, tissue-like and attached to front board, a few marginal notes in the same hand, including four lines on the verso of the last leaf, 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.
Rare at auction.
Estimate
$300 – $500
Fine bindings, four titles in five volumes.
Italy, 18th Century.
Including the following works:
I: Aurelius Prudentius Clemens’s Opera Omnia, Parma: ex Typographaeo [Bodoni], 1788, two large quarto volumes bound in full contemporary straight-grained citron morocco spines, boards, inner dentelles, and edges all gilt, pale blue silk endleaves and bookmarks, rubbed but very nicely preserved.
II: Massillon’s Petit Carême, Paris: Didot, 1789, for the education of the Dauphin, large quarto, bound in full contemporary red morocco, beautifully tooled in gilt on spine and boards, inner gilt dentelles, aeg., ex libris Brian Stillwell, an old catalogue description pasted inside the front board attributes the binding to Capé.
III: Mingarelli’s Aegyptiorum Codicum Reliquiae Venetiis, Bononiae [Venice]: Typis Laelii a Vulpe, 1785, large quarto volume bound in full contemporary red morocco ornately tooled in gilt over spine and boards, gilt & gauffered edges, some worming to spine, binding functional and intact, slightly rubbed, foxing to contents.
[and] IV: Berquin’s Idylle, Paris: circa 1775, part two only of two; engraved throughout; finely bound in full olive morocco gilt-tooled with elegant festoons decorated a ropework frame crowned with a pendant laurel crown, joints rubbed. (5)
Estimate
$1,000 – $2,000
Flinspach, cunmann (1527-1571)
Genealogiae Christi et Omnium Populorum Tabulae: Hoc Est, de Arcano Dei Consilio Nascendi Messiae ex Semine Abrahae & Davidis.
Basel: Joannes Oporinus, 1567.
First and only edition, folio, large printer’s woodcut device depicting Arion standing on a dolphin playing his kithara; with preliminary blank [alpha4] present in this copy, bound in modern half parchment with musical manuscript waste leaves covering both boards, 12 1/8 x 8 in.
The text is printed with dozens of typographical tables showing the genealogy of Christ.
Adams F-592; rare at auction.
Estimate
$300 – $500
Gellius, aulus (c. 125- post-180 ce)
Noctium Atticarum Libri Undeviginti.
[Venice: in Aedibus Aldi et Andreae Soceri, 1515.
Only Aldine edition, octavo, woodcut Aldine device on title and final leaf, first state of colophon page with “duerniorem”; bound in full later parchment over boards, 6 1/2 x 4 in.
Ahmanson-Murphy 138; Renouard page 73 no. 9.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
Gerard, john (1545-1612)
The Herball or General Historie of Plantes.
London: Printed by Adam Islip, Joice Norton, and Richard Whitakers, 1636.
Folio, third edition overall, the second edition with revisions by Thomas Johnson; the text derived from earlier herbals by Dodoens and Cruydeboeck; engraved architectural general title with a portrait of Gerard at the foot by John Payne (Io: Payne sculps:); with the engraved portrait of the author by William Rogers (active 1584-1604) at the age of fifty-three in 1598 tacked to the ffep opposite the title page; lacking the first and last blank leaves; illustrated with more than 2,500 botanical text woodcuts; bound in full contemporary calf boards ruled in blind, rebacked and recornered, later endleaves and pastedowns; contents with some offsetting, a few paper flaws, 13 3/4 x 9 in.
STC 11752; ESTC S122175.
Estimate
$3,000 – $5,000
Giuntini, francesco (1523-1590)
Commentaria in Sphaeram Ioannis de Sacro Bosco.
Lyon: Filippo Tinghi, 1578.
Octavo, woodcut portrait of the author on the title page, bound in limp parchment, woodcut diagrams in the text, ex libris John Camp Williams and Olin Lane Merriam with bookplates, break across spine corresponding with the position of a raised sewing support, 7 x 4 1/4 in.
Houzeau & Lancaster 2628; Riccardi I, 609; Thorndike VI, 43-44.
Estimate
$300 – $500
Glanvill, joseph (1636-1680)
Plus Ultra: or, the Progress and Advancement of Knowledge Since the Days of Aristotle.
London: Printed for James Collins, 1668.
First edition, octavo, with imprimatur leaf bound opposite the title, lacking the final leaf of advertisements, bound in full modern marbled paper-covered boards, red morocco spine label; spotting to text leaves, first twenty leaves with professional Japanese tissue reinforcement to upper blank margins, one opening where the facing pages were formerly lightly stuck together, with loss of some letters when they separated (pages 34 & 35), 6 3/4 x 4 1/4 in.
Wing G-820; ESTC R14223.
Estimate
$500 – $700
Glanvill, joseph (1636-1680)
Scepsis Scientifica: or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; in an Essay of the Vanity of Dogmatizing.
London: Printed by E. Cotes for Henry Eversden, 1665.
First edition of an expanded version of Glanvill’s 1661 treatise on skepticism, The Vanity of Dogmatizing, published in response to a 1663 rebuttal of the original work by the Catholic priest and Aristotelian philosopher Thomas White; quarto, bound in modern buckram, title page with marginal paper reinforcement on verso; lacking the longitudinal half-title, engraved coat of arms of the Royal Society printed at the head of the dedication; this copy does not include the section titled Scirei Tuum Nihil Est, originally issued with the Scepsis, 7 3/4 x 6 in.
Wing G-827; ESTC R13862.
Estimate
$300 – $400
Grant of arms, benjamin baker tathwell.
England, 14 July 1804; in the Original Case.
Rolled manuscript parchment document with the Tathwell arms and three other hand-painted coats of arms, granted by Isaac Heard, Garter King of Arms and George Harrison, Clarenceux; with cipher of George II and two seals of the heralds in japanned gilt skippets, ribbons present but seals detached; all housed in a custom sheepskin-covered case, tooled in gilt and lined with Dutch brocade paper, fitted with clasps, the top nearly detached, with a second document that contains genealogical information regarding the family, the recipient’s original last name was Baker, he and his children took his wife Sophia-Eliza’s last name; the document 22 x 19 1/2 in.; the box 22 1/2 x 5 in.
Estimate
$300 – $500
Grazzini, antonio francesco (1503-1584)
Comedie.
Venice: Bernardo Giunta & Fratelli, 1582.
First collected edition, octavo, containing six plays: La Gelosia, La Spiritata, La Strega, La Sibilla, La Pinzochera, and I Parentadi; printer’s woodcut device to general title, each of the five plays with its own divisional title, separately paginated and signed; bound in 18th century parchment over boards, 6 x 3 3/4 in.
Adams G-1074.
Estimate
$300 – $500
Gualteruzzi, carlo, editor (1500-1577)
Libro di Novelle et di Bel Parlar Gentile.
Florence: Giunta, 1572.
Quarto, updated edition of this collection first published in 1525, including four new tales not included in the first edition, printer’s woodcut device to title; bound in full dark green morocco by Capé, tooled in gilt, aeg., preliminary blank ***8 present in this copy; final leaf with very large Giunta woodcut device to verso; 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 in.
This collection of tales, Medieval, Tuscan, and Provençal in origin, are brief and elegant, striking a stylistic chord in their expression and approach.
Gamba 687; Adams G-1358.
Estimate
$400 – $600
Hédelin, françois, abbot of aubignac (1604-1676)
The Whole Art of the Stage.
London: Printed for the author and sold by William Cadman, 1684.
First English edition, quarto, A translation of La Pratique du Théatre; bound in modern full sprinkled brown calf tooled in period style, title reinforced on verso, 8 3/4 x 6 1/2 in.
Wing A-4185; ESTC R16044.
Estimate
$500 – $700
Hephaestion alexandrinus.
Encheiridion peri metron kai poiematon. Eis to auto scholia. [Graece]
Paris: Adrianum Turnebum, Typis Regiis, 1553.
Large quarto, printer’s woodcut device to title, printed in Greek throughout, printer Adrien Turnèbe was a classical scholar and became the official French Royal Printer for Greek texts following Robert Estienne; bound in full 18th century calf, boards ruled in gilt, joints cracking, with some notes in Greek dated 1653 inserted, a large copy, with deckle edges, slight marginal water stain, minor marginal worming, 8 3/4 x 6 3/4 in.
Adams H-287; Brunet III 104.
Estimate
$400 – $600
Herne, samuel (fl. circa 1677)
Domus Carthusiana: or an Account of the Most Noble Foundation of the Charter-House near Smithfield in London.
London: Printed by T.R. [Thomas Roycroft] for Richard Marriott & Henry Brome, 1677.
First edition, octavo, illustrated with three full-page engravings: portrait frontispiece of Thomas Sutton by F.H. Van Houe; full-length portrait of a Carthusian monk; and an image of the monks at prayer in the Charterhouse; bound in full contemporary English calfskin, marbled edges, ex libris Rolle, with armorial bookplate pasted inside front board, contemporary ownership inscription to ffep, 7 x 4 1/4 in.
Wing H-1578; ESTC R10688.
Estimate
$100 – $200
Herzl, theodor (1860-1904)
Der Judenstaat.
Vienna: Breitenstein, 1896.
Second edition, octavo, in card-stock boards with paper spine, title dusty, a little tear inside the gutter from an errant sewing thread, 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 in.
Herzl was an Austro-Hungarian Jewish journalist and activist who came up with the idea of a Jewish state in Palestine. Although he did not live to see the establishment of the Israeli state, he describes the need to establish such a Jewish homeland in the present work. This second edition was published in the same year as the first.
Estimate
$500 – $700
Holy roman emperors.
Sammelband of Three Works Related to their Election and Coronation, 1612.
Including the following quarto titles: Gulden Bulla Keyser Caroli deß Vierdten, Im Iahr 1356, Frankfurt am Main: Durch Erasmum Kempffern, in Verlegung Wilhelm Hoffmanns, 1612;
Georg Sabinus’s Erudita et Elegans Descriptio Electionis et Coronationis Caroli V. Imperatoris, [Speyer]: Kembachiuw, 1612;
Wahl und Crönungs Handlung, Das ist, Warhafftige Beschreibung, welcher gestalt, Frankfurt: Wilhelm Hoffmann, 1612, title page printed in red and black, date on title altered with contemporary publisher’s hand stamp, changing 1610 to 1612 by adding ‘II’ in roman numerals; illustrated with nine text illustrations and three folding plates; the three titles bound together in full contemporary parchment over boards, yapp edges, lacking fabric ties, lacking one of two fore-edge parchment markers between works; original front fly leaf pasted down inside front board, some works with browned pages, 7 1/2 x 5 3/4 in.
The last work, with illustrations, recalls the epic celebration launched in 1563 in honor Maximilian II’s (1527-1576) coronation as King of Hungary in today’s Bratislava. The previous year saw him honored as King of Bohemia in Prague and King of the Holy Roman Empire in Frankfurt. Illustrated festivities include the royal promenade into the city, the preparation of the feast with some sort of ungodly giant bovine figure studded with other meat animals and fowl turned on a rotisserie, and a fireworks display.
Estimate
$400 – $600
Homer & hesiod.
Matronis et Aliorum Parodiae.
Estimate
$400 – $600
Horace (65-8 bce)
In Q. Horatium Flaccum, Dionysii Lambini Commentarius Locupletissimus. Sexta et Postrema Editio Emendatissima.
Geneva: Samuel Crispin, 1605.
Quarto, title page printed within elaborate architectural woodcut compartment on first title; divisional title for second part; the text edited by Denys Lambine with notes by Henri Estienne; text in roman letter, two columns throughout, some browning and toning to contents; bound in an attractive 17th century prize binding with inscription dated 1626 on ffep; gold-tooled brown morocco, with central and border decoration, gilt-decorated flat spine, lacking cloth ties, rubbed, mended at head and tail, 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 in.
Estimate
$300 – $500
Horace with 17th century harvard provenance.
Poemata.
Geneva: Petrus Albertus, 1629.
12mo, lacking leaves at the end, not collated, disbound, lacking both boards, signed twice on ffep by Thomas Mighill (1639-1689) and dated 1659; according to the Harvard College Steward’s account books, Mighill was charged for “commons, sizinges, gallery rome, and tuition,” and was graduated in 1663, taking a second degree in 1666; several other early Harvard signatures on the title and free endleaves include Solomon Williams [A.B. 1719 or 1742] and Isaac Bayley [A.B. 1681]; 5 1/4 x 3 1/4 in.
See Sibley’s Harvard Graduates; and Arthur Norton’s “Harvard Text-Books and Reference Books of the 17th Century,” published in The Colonial Society of Massachusetts’s Transactions, Volume 28: April, 1933, https://www.colonialsociety.org/node/582.
Estimate
$300 – $400
Huttich, johannes (1480-1544) and simon grynaeus (1493-1541)
Novus Orbis Regionum Insularum Veteribus Incognitarum.
Basel: Johannes Hervagen, 1532.
Folio, printer’s woodcut device to title and verso of colophon leaf, illustrated with two text woodcuts; lacking the folding map; 16th-century alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards, catches and clasps present, later endleaves and pastedowns, 12 x 8 in.
Adams W-215.
Estimate
$2,000 – $2,500
Italian drama & music, eleven pamphlets, 18th century.
All are short small-format imprints, many from regional presses, each bound limp paper wrappers (marbled, patterned, paste paper, one in fabric), including:
1) Tito nelle Gallie, as it was performed at a fall festival in Crema, Italy in 1788, Crema: Antonio Ronna, [n.d.], not in Worldcat; [bound with] Lucrezia Romana; [and] La Morte di Danao, also performed at Crema;
2) Le Pazzie di Orlando, as it was performed in Bologna in the spring of 1773, Bologna: Sassi, [n.d.];
3) La Scuffiara ossia La Modista, Pavia: Galezaai, [n.d.];
4) Pirro, as it was performed at the Teatro di San Giacomo in Corfu at carnival in 1796, Venice: [no printer], 1795 (portion trimmed from title and patched);
5) La Molinara, ossia L’Amor Contrastato, as it was performed in October of 1791, Alexandria: Vimercati, [n.d.];
6) Le Gelosie Villane, as it was performed in the fall of 1777, Pavia: Presso il Porro, [n.d.];
7) La Serva Bizzarra, as it was performed in Cremona in the carnival of 1792, Cremona: Feraboli, [n.d.];
8) Piramo e Tisbe, Venice: Curti, 1792;
9) Praeclarissimo Catinensi Pontifici Conrado Deodato, De Moncada Sacerdotis Sancti Amanthiae Carmen, Catania: Reggio, 1773;
10) Aloysius Triumphans, Palermo: Amato, 1733;
[and] 11) Spartaco Dramma, as performed in Lucca in 1793, Lucca: Rocchi, 1793. (11)
Estimate
$300 – $500
Italian manuscript on paper, 1748.
Folio format manuscript on laid paper, with added engraved illustration depicting the three Marys mourning Christ by de Horatio dated 1768 bound before the text, written in brown ink throughout on 269 numbered leaves, written by the scribe Domenico Capece Zurolo in June 1748, likely theological in nature, text written in one column only, approximately eighteen lines per page, in a consistent hand, some passages crossed out, contents generally good; bound in full contemporary parchment over boards, some worming, with the book ticket of John Howell of San Francisco pasted inside the back board, 11 x 7 1/2 in.
Estimate
$300 – $500
Italian religious feasts, four 17th century pamphlets.
Including the following four separately bound small format publications:
1) Breve Descrittione della Gran Machina Funesta Fabricata dentro la Basilica di S. Pietro, Rome: Paolo Moneta, 1667;
2) Compita Relatione delle Cerimonie Fatte dentro, e fuori del Conclave nell’Elettione del Sommo Pontefice Innocecentio XI; Rome: Moneta, 1676;
3) Relatione delle Cerimonie Celebrate nella Basilica di S. Pietro, Rome: Stamperia del Dragondelli, 1669;
[and] 4) Esattissima Relazione degli Adornamenti della Basilica Vaticana, e delle Cerimonie Fatte in detta Chiesa, Rome: Buagni, 1690; all bound in the same style, modern half parchment with antique Greek printed pages printed in black and red, sizes vary, quarto & octavo. (4)
Estimate
$250 – $350
Jansenist sammelband.
France, mid-17th Century.
Including the following ten quarto-format short works:
I: François Annat’s Rabat-Ioye des Iansenistes ou Observations Necessaires sur ce qu’on dit estre arrivé au Port Royal, au sujet de la Sainte Espine;
II: Sébastien-Joseph Du Cambout de Pontchâteau’s Response à un Escrit Publié sur le Sujet des Miracles;
III: Advis de Messieurs les Curez de Paris;
IV: Cardinal de Retz’s Remonstrance du Clergé de France, Paris: Chez Antoine Vitré, 1656;
V: Charles Drelincourt’s Lettre d’un Habitant de Paris à un de ses Amis de la Campagne;
VI: Jean Gerson’s Sermon […] Prononcé dan l’Eglise de Paris;
VII: Blaise Pascal’s Lettres Provincials I-XIV;
VIII: Response à la Quatorizème Lettre; Response d’un Theologien aux Propositions Extraites des Lettres;
IX: Preservatifs contre le Jansenisme;
X: Très-Humble Remonstrance Faite par les Religieux; all publications without mention of imprint are presumed to be Paris: no printer, circa 1656; bound in full contemporary sheepskin, speckled panels, rubbed, ex libris General Lyautey, with bookplate, some minor defects, generally nicely preserved, 9 x 6 1/4 in.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
Joachim of fiore (c. 1135-1202)
Eximii Profundissimique […] Scriptum Super Hieremiam Prophetam.
Vince: Lazarus de Soardis, 12 June 1516.
Quarto, woodcut portrait of the author lost in thought at his desk on title, text in gothic letter in two columns throughout, woodcut printer’s device on colophon, bound in gold-tooled parchment over boards, repaired, 8 1/4 x 6 in.
Theologian and scholar of spirituality, Bernard McGinn, describes Joachim of Fiore as “the most important apocalyptic thinker of the whole medieval period.” (see: Apocalypticism Explained, Apocalypse! episode on PBS’s Frontline; https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/apocalypse/explanation/joachim.html)
Not in Adams; rare at auction.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
John mauropus, metropolitan of euchaita (fl. 11th century)
Versus Iambici.
Eton: In Collegio Regali, excudebat [M. Bradwood for] Ioannes Norton, in Gr[a]ecis, &c. regius typographus, 1610.
First edition, quarto, one of the first two books printed in Greek in Eton (both 1610); edited by Mathew Bust (1544-1613) ex libris Petrus Bonifantius, with his ownership inscription to title; woodcut printer’s device to title; bound in modern half burgundy morocco with matching cloth-covered boards, neatly titled in gilt on the spine, some toning and spotting to contents, L2 final blank present in this copy, 8 3/4 x 6 1/4 in.
STC 14622; ESTC S103427 listing six U.S. copies; rare at auction.
Estimate
$700 – $900
Juan de santa maria, fray (1551-1622)
Christian Policie: or, The Christian Common-Wealth.
London: Printed by Thomas Harper for Richard Collins, 1632.
Quarto, one of three issues of the first edition dated 1632, with cancel title page; English translation by James Mabbe of the Spanish original, República y Policía Christiana, originally published in 1615; lacking initial blank; bound in full new gilt-tooled calf, some leaves with delicate fore-margins, some internal toning and offsetting, 8 3/8 x 6 1/4 in.
Rare at auction; STC 14831; ESTC S107911; ESTC lists eleven American institutions holding all of the 1632 issues; this issue present in four U.S. libraries.
Estimate
$600 – $800
Justinian i (482-565 ce)
Institutionum Fl. Justiniani Caesaris Libri IIII.
Paris: Robert Estienne, 1534.
Octavo, woodcut printer’s device to title, possibly lacking leaves after the colophon (T5); ownership inscription to title along with a few neat marginal notes throughout; bound in an attractive contemporary or near-contemporary full tan calfskin binding with a single central gilt tool at the center of each board, some wear and damage, back joint amateurishly repaired with glue, a good candidate for restoration, contents good, 6 3/4 x 4 1/4 in.
Not in Schreiber; Adams J-622.
Estimate
$300 – $400
Justinus [aka justin], marcus junianus (2nd century)
Ex Trogo Pompeio Historia.
Basel: Michael Isengrin, 1539.
Quarto, woodcut printer’s device to title, illustrated with five full-page woodcut maps, text edited by Simon Grynaeus (1493-1541), ex libris institutional library with rubber stamp on page edges; marginalia in different hands, some in English, rebound in modern full leather, period style, leaves y2 & y3 misbound in signature z; limited worming affecting the bottom margin of several text leaves; paper repair to verso of title, contents generally good, 7 1/4 x 5 1/4 in.
Adams J-729.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
Khunrath, heinrich (1560-1605)
Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae Solius Verae, Christiano-Kabalisticum, Divino-Magicum, nec non Physico-Chymicum.
Magdeburg: Levin Brauns, 1608/1609.
Folio, illustrated with engraved portrait of the author; nine double-page plates; two double-page typographical tables; and one full-page plate depicting a bespectacled owl; one typographical title page present; bound in old parchment over boards with repairs and later endleaves, a reimboitage; some occasional browning to contents, 12 1/4 x 8 in.
Khunrath’s alchemical treatise was first published in 1595, and is “one of the most important books in the whole literature of theosophical alchemy and the occult sciences.” (Duveen). The present copy is one of two editions with the Magdeburg imprint produced by Levin Brauns and dated 1608.
Caillet 5747; DSB VII, 355-56; Duveen, page 319 (original edition); VD17 3:671762Q (this edition).
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
La harpe, jean françois de (1739-1803)
Compendio della Storia Generale de’ Viaggi Opera.
Venice: Vincenzio Formaleoni, 1783-1784.
Four large octavo volumes: 19, 22, 23, & 25; illustrated with ten folding hand-colored engraved maps by Bellon of the Americas, including Peru, Mexico, Central America, New England, New York, Pennsylvania, the Chesapeake Bay, Georgia & the Carolinas, the Acadian Peninsula, Hudson’s Bay, and more; along with one full and one folding engraved illustrations, the set bound in original limp paper bindings with deckle edges throughout, very nicely preserved, 8 x 5 1/2 in. (4)
Estimate
$600 – $800
Le roux, philibert-joseph (d. circa 1735)
Histoire du Pere La Chaize, Jesuite & Confesseur du Roi Louis XIV.
Cologne: Pierre Marteau, 1694.
Second French edition, 12mo, title page printed in red and black, bound in full teal crushed morocco, from the library (and presumably bound for) Léon Gruel (1840-1923) with this designation, along with a central gilt emblem, tooled in gilt on the front board, aeg., nicely preserved, 5 1/8 x 2 1/2 in.
Le Roux was forced to flee from France to Belgium after publishing this biography critical of François de la Chaise (1624-1709). As promised on the title, “L’on verra les intrigues secretes qu’il a eu à la Cour de France & dans toutes les Cours de l’Europe pour l’avancement des grands desseins du Roi son maître.”
Estimate
$300 – $500
Lipsius, justus (1547-1606)
De Cruce Libri Tres Ad Sacram Profanámque Historiam Utiles. Unà cum Notis.
Antwerp: ex officina Plantiniana, apud Viduam & Joannem Moretum, 1594.
First edition, quarto, engraved device to title page, illustrated with twenty-two text engravings illustrating in the main people being crucified in a variety of ways, large printer’s woodcut device to final leaf, verso of ffep with contemporary manuscript inscription, some verses titled, “Elogia Crucis,” with thoughts on the cross from Tertullian, Augustine, Ephrem the Syrian, and Prudentius; bound in contemporary parchment over boards, staining to top outside corner of four leaves; 9 1/4 x 6 1/2 in.
Adams L-777.
Estimate
$300 – $500
Manufacture lyonnaise de matières colorantes.
La Teinture du Coton.
Lyon: for the Manufacture Lyonnaise de Matières Colorantes, 1902 & 1904.
Two octavo volumes (including the first supplement), both volumes with dozens of colored fabric samples, bound in contemporary textured cloth, trade school library label to title of first volume, corners bumped, 9 3/4 x 6 1/2 in. (2)
Estimate
$400 – $600
Manuscript on paper, germany, 1725, mostly blank.
Large quarto format manuscript on laid paper, the first 1/2 inch of leaves inscribed with various mathematical problems, the following 2 inches of the volume containing blank leaves only; bound in a dated binding of full contemporary parchment over stiff boards, stained a medium tan color, and ornately tooled in gilt, with the initials J.F.B. and the date 1725 on the front board; spine also ornately gilt, all edges gilt, endleaves dusty, otherwise very nicely preserved, 8 x 6 1/4 in.
Estimate
$600 – $800
Medieval manuscript leaf.
Gospel of John Incipit with Illumination.
France, 14th century.
Folio-format parchment leaf inscribed in brown ink, two columns, ruled in ink, text written within the rules, forty lines per page, headlines in red and blue, capitals stroked in red; illuminated with a twelve-line full-length portrait of John holding a book and wearing a long red tunic with a gray cloak, in an arched space supported by columns painted in blue with a brick-work background, his halo and the floor under his feet highlighted in gold leaf, along with some dots in the marginal work, with extended line decoration that terminates in a long-billed bird at the foot of the column, and a dragon-like creature with a man’s head at the top; the verso with delicate vertical red and blue designs parallel to the left column terminating in pen tracery; the leaf housed in a modern archival double-sided mat, the leaf 13 x 9 in.; 20 1/2 x 16 in. overall.
Estimate
$700 – $900
Medieval manuscript leaf.
The Bohun Family Bible.
England [?East Anglia], circa 1350.
Oversized folio-format single parchment leaf, taken from an original four-volume set perhaps commissioned by Edward III’s eldest son, called the Black Prince (1330-1376), and associated with the house of the Carmelite Order supported by him in Chester; written in two columns in brown ink with one large two-line gilt initial on recto with leafy extensions in the margin between the columns, chapter number and headlines in red and black, later leaf number 97 in ink, upper right corner; this leaf from the end of Ecclesiasticus chapter XXX, and the beginning of chapter XXXI; the initial V begins the section, “Vigilia honestatis tabefaciet carnes, et cogitatus illius auferet somnum,” “Watching for riches consumeth the flesh, and the thought thereof driveth away sleep”; 18 x 12 1/8 in.
The leaf-by-leaf dispersal of the Bohun Bible began as early as the 17th century; ultimately, the Bible was dismembered by Myers & Co. on Bond Street in London, who sold individual leaves beginning in 1927. [cf. Christopher de Hamel, ‘The Bohun Bible Leaves,’ Script & Print 32:1 (2008): 49-63; and Lucy Freeman Sandler, Illuminators and Patrons in Fourteenth-Century England: The Psalter and Hours of Humphrey de Bohun and the Manuscripts of the Bohun Family. Toronto, 2014.]
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Medieval manuscript leaves.
Four Examples in Three Frames.
Four small-format parchment leaves from Books of Hours in Latin, two are likely Flemish, one identified as English, text in brown ink, line numbers vary, initials done in red and blue, two framed together, two framed separately; double-glazed with metal edges. (3)
Estimate
$300 – $500
Medieval manuscript leaves with illumination, two examples.
Two parchment leaves:
I: from the Book of Psalms, containing psalms 106-117 [the first and last with partial text]; England or France, 13th century, recto with a nine-line illuminated initial showing two saints in conversation with a bird-like figure dropping down from above between them, on a pink ground, within a lapis lazuli frame, with liquid gilt accents and extended line decoration, text in two columns, in brown ink with initials in red and blue, faded marginal annotations, 8 1/4 x 6 in.;
II: from the New Testament, containing the Second Epistle of Peter, with elaborate gilt-decorated marginal and inter-column floral illumination on both sides, with a three-line gilt initial on the recto, and a larger four-line gilt initial K on a raised gold-leafed ground, painted in green, pink, red, gold, and blue with white tracery, 10 3/4 x 8 in. (2)
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
Melanchthon, philip (1497-1560)
De Legibus Oratio.
Paris: Robert Estienne, 1534.
Octavo, woodcut printer’s device to title, lacking final blank, contents good, early inscription on title, one or two stray marginal notes; bound in modern half parchment and boards covered in printed leaves, 6 3/4 x 4 1/2 in.
Schreiber 49; Renouard 40: 3.
“Very rare collection which shows Melanchthon in two of his most important roles: educator and Greek scholar. In the De Gradibus he describes the successive stages of a classical education; also included are his Praefatio to the speeches of Aeschines and Demosthenes, and his translation from the Greek of Xenophon’s speech of Critias against Theramenes.” (Schreiber)
Estimate
$300 – $500
Melgarejo y salafranca, josé.
Consideraciones sobre la Iglesia en sus Relaciones con la Sociedad.
Madrid: Zacarias Soler, 1851.
First edition, large quarto, illustrated with author portrait bound opposite the dedication page, bound in full burgundy morocco with the arms of Francesco de Assisi de Bourbon in gilt on both boards by Bilboa, with book ticket pasted inside the front board, blue moiré endleaves, aeg.; ex libris Maria Christina, Queen of Spain (1858-1929), with her engraved armorial bookplate pasted inside the front board, spine sunned, binding somewhat rubbed, 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 in.
Palau 350495.
Estimate
$400 – $600
Menasseh ben israel (1604-1657)
Libri Quator de Immortalitate Animae.
Amsterdam: Apud autoris filium, Samuel Ben Israel Abrabanel Sueiro, 1651.
First edition, quarto, with added engraved title in Hebrew, other than the preliminary leaves, which are in Latin, the balance of the work is printed in Hebrew; without a signature 9, but without evidence of its former presence or removal; lacking the portrait; bound in full contemporary parchment, 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.
Estimate
$400 – $600
Mexía de fernangil, diego (1565?-1634)
Del Parnaso Antartico, de Obras Amatorias.
Seville: Alonso Rodriguez Gamarra, 1608.
First and only edition of the only part ever published, quarto, large woodcut device of the Academia Antártica on the title page; lacking five preliminary leaves [i.e., license to print, table of contents, dedication, and some laudatory sonnets], title page, “El Autor a Sus Amigos,” “Vida de Ovidio,” and text leaves present; top margins of leaves in first signature wormed (most reinforced with paper, sometimes covering the running head); bound in later half blue morocco with textured blue cloth boards, some water staining to contents, text leaves crisp, unwashed; one blank corner torn away, side notes trimmed slightly on leaves 265 & 266; ex libris Joaquin de Arteaga-Lazcano (1870-1947), with bookplate, 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.
A group of intellectuals based in Lima, Peru formed the Academia Antártica in the late-16th century. In this particular work, Mexía has rendered Ovid’s Heroides from Latin into Spanish, a labor performed during a 900-mile overland journey to Mexico City.
Sabin 48231; European Americana 608/127; Palau 167401; rare at auction.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Miniature books: one in a silver case.
Five 20th Century Examples.
Including: Four copies of De La Rue’s Improved Condensed Diary and Engagement Book, “Finger Shape,” the first, for 1902, housed in a hallmarked openwork silver filigree case decorated with eight cherubs amid stylized leaves and flowers, identical to one offered at Christie’s in 2000 and attributed to William Comyns, Birmingham; the other three in full leather publisher’s bindings with matching gilt-tooled cases, 1906, 1909, and 1914, each 3 x 1 in.; [and] The Book of Common Prayer, Oxford: University Press; London: Henry Frowde, [n.d.], 64mo, in an ivorine binding with raised metal emblem on front board, 2 1/4 x 1 3/4 in. (5)
See The Irene Winterstein Collection of Important Miniature Books, sale 8693, lot 155.
Estimate
$250 – $350
Miniature london almanacks in fancy bindings.
Seven Examples, 1777-1812.
Including copies of the London Almanack printed for the Company of Stationers for the years 1777, 1778, 1787, 1789, 1793, 1794, & 1812; each engraved throughout, printed on one side of the paper only and assembled accordion-style; all with tax stamps to titles; three bound in full gilt-tooled red morocco decorated with navy blue and white onlays (two of the three in matching slipcases); two bound in full gilt-decorated red morocco with matching slipcases; the example from 1812 bound in full white leather with gilt decorations featuring a center oval onlay in green morocco and matching case; the 1777 example in a paper-covered fabric binding with a hand-painted hunting scene featuring a man with a rifle aimed at the sky on the front board, with his hunting dog below a flying pheasant on the back cover, each approximately 2 1/2 x 1 1/2 in. (7)
According to ESTC, each of the 18th century examples is rare, showing no more than three institutional holdings in the U.S.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Mocenigo, andrea (1471-1542)
Bellum Cameracense.
[Venice: per Bernardinum Venetum de Vitalibus, 1525].
First edition, octavo, text in italic type, title soiled, some spotting to contents; bound in 17th century speckled calf with gilt ruling and spine, worn, joints worn thin, some institutional blind stamps to some leaves, 5 3/4 x 3 1/2 in.
Mocenigo’s work tells the history of a series of Italian battles fought between 1508 and 1516 called the War of the League of Cambrai, an anti-Venetian alliance that drew from other states in Europe and resulted in a Franco-Venetian victory formalized by the Treaties of Noyon and Brussels.
Adams M-1518; Alden 525/11 (for reference to Hispaniola on q8 verso).
Estimate
$300 – $500
Montefiore, moses (1784-1885)
Five Pamphlets, 1840-1872.
Including: A Prayer Offered by the Jewish Community for Sir Moses Montefiore, London: Wertheimer & Co., 1840;
Order of Service to be Observed on Monday, the 15th Adar, 5601, London: by the Direction of the Gentlemen of the Mahamad, 1841;
Order of Service on the Occasion of the Laying of the Foundation Stone of a New Synagogue for the Spanish & Portuguese Jews, London: at the “Jewish Chronicle” Office, 1860;
Special Service to Take Place in the Synagogue of Spanish & Portuguese Jews, London: by Direction of the Wardens, 1867;
[and] Prayer Offered up in the Spanish and Portuguese Jews’ Synagogues of England for the Success of Montefiore’s Journey to Russia, London: Wertheimer, Lea, & Co., 1872; all octavo, some with publisher’s wraps. (5)
Estimate
$600 – $800
More, hannah (1745-1833) et alia.
Cheap Repository Tracts, Nineteen Titles in the First-day Tracts; and the Hazard/Marshall Series.
Bath: Hazard et alia, 1785-1796.
Including the following titles bound in a single volume: 1) Sorrowful Sam; 2) The Beggarly Boy; 3) Wonderful Escape from Shipwreck; 4) Daniel in the Den of Lions; 5) The Lancashire Collier Girl; 6) The Two Soldiers; 7)The Happy Waterman; 8) The Harvest Home; 9) Life of William Baker; 10) Babay: A True Story of a Good Negro Woman; 11) Husbandry Moraliz’d; 12) The Two Shoemakers; 13) The Shepherd of Salisbury-Plain, part 1; 14) Noah’s Flood; 15) On the Religious Advantages of the Present Inhabitants of Great Britain; 16) History of the plague in London in 1665; 17) Hints to all Ranks of People on the Occasion of the Present Scarcity; 18) The History of Tom White, the Postillion; [and] 19) The Way to Plenty; or, the Second Part of Tom White; all 12mo format, woodcut illustrations throughout, these inexpensive chapbooks were printed roughly and survive roughly, and this collection is no exception, occasionally trimmed close at fore-edges; some leaves are toned, some tears from use, and other features of condition commensurate with production and juvenile abuse; even so these copies have not been trimmed excessively, deckle edges in evidence throughout; bound in 19th century quarter blue morocco with marbled paper boards, stamp from 1940 on ffep, 6 1/4 x 3 1/2 in.
Spinney 45; 25; 22; 28; 23; 21; 31; 38; 13; 2; 12; 20; 19; 36; 24; 9; 32; 10; [and] 37. See also: Spinney, G. H. (1938). “Cheap Repository Tracts: Hazard and Marshall Edition”. The Library. London: The Bibliographical Society. 4th series, Vol. 20 (3): 295–340. [and] Stoker, David (2017). “The later years of the Cheap Repository”. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America. New York: Bibliographical Society of America. 111 (3): 317–344.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Mori, ascanio pipino de (1533-1591)
Prima Parte Delle Novelle.
Mantua: Osanna, 1585.
First edition, quarto, despite the ambition of the title, only one part was published; woodcut printer’s device to title; professionally rebound in full calf ruled in gilt with gilt ornamentation to spine, 7 3/4 x 5 3/4 in.
Gamba 135; not in Adams.
Estimate
$700 – $900
Napoleon bonaparte (1769-1821) & pope pius vii (1742-1823)
Bref d’Excommunication des Auteurs, Exécuteurs et Fauteurs de l’Usurpation de Rome, et des États Appartenant au Saint Siége.
[?London: Vogel & Schulze, 1805].
Octavo pamphlet identical to the copy held at the Bibliotheque Nationale except for the absence of the colophon imprint on the verso of the last leaf; disbound, other than small holes along the gutter, very nicely preserved, untrimmed, with deckle edges, 9 x 6 in.
In this brief document, the Papal See excommunicates Napoleon because of his army’s 1809 invasion of Vatican. On this occasion, the Pope himself was kidnapped and subsequently held against his will until 1814.
Estimate
$500 – $700
Offredus, apollinaris (fl. 15th century)
[Expositio in Primum] Sup[er] Posteriora [Aristotelis].
Venice: Luc’Antonio Giunta, 1520.
Folio, text edited by Johannes Romberch (c. 1480-1532), printed in gothic letter, two columns throughout, large woodcut printer’s device on colophon leaf, woodcut initials, some marginal notations; lacking final ?blank; three leaves with tears in upper margin neatly repaired with Japanese tissue; bound in modern half parchment with musical manuscript binding waste covering the boards; 12 1/8 x 8 1/2 in.
Not in Adams.
Estimate
$400 – $600
Ovid (43 bce-17 ce)
Les Metamorphoses; Le Jugement de Paris; XV. Discours sur les Metamorphoses; [and] Epistres.
Rouen: Chez Jean Berthelin, 1651.
Thick octavo, three parts with divisional titles, collation continuous, Metamorphoses illustrated with added engraved title, portrait of the author, and fifteen full-page engravings; Judgement of Paris illustrated with one full-page engraving; bound in full contemporary speckled calf with gilt-tooled spine, joint crudely repaired with a brown glue and a patch of leather, lacking final ?blank, 6 1/2 x 4 in.
Estimate
$300 – $500
Papal broadsides, italy, seven examples, 1583-1606.
The Holy Inquisition and other Content.
Including:
1) Editti Generali per l’Ufficio della Santa Inq[uistione] nelle Citta di Piacenza, Parma, Crema, et sue Diocesi, Piacenza: Bazzachi & Conti, 1583;
2) Editto Generale del Santo Uffitio di Pavia, et sua Diocesi, 17 March 1593;
3) Noi Frate Archangel Calbetti de Recanti dell’Ordine de Predicatori Maestro di Sacra Theologia, Modena: Gadalini, 1601;
4) a variant of the same;
5) Bando Sopra l’Abbondanza, Rome: Stampatori Camerali, 1601, with three woodcuts at the top, one printed in red and black;
6) Editio del S. Officio noi Cesare Speciano per la Dio Gratia, Cremona 10 June 1606;
[and] 7) Noi Fra Paula da Garessio Maestro di Sacra Theologia, Bologna: Benacci, 1606; various sizes, several with woodcuts, all with deckle edges and nicely preserved, some professional paper repairs, some with manuscript dockets on versos, all with old folds. (7)
Estimate
$300 – $500
Pascal, blaise (1623-1662)
Les Provinciales [I-XVIII]; [bound with] Pierre Nicole’s (1625-1695) L’Heresie Imaginaire [Lettres I-IV & VI-XIII].
[Paris: Pierre de la Vallée, 1656-1657] and [Paris?: 24 January 1664-15 January 1666].
Quarto, all parts bound together in full contemporary French marbled calf, gilt tooled spine, gilt-ruled boards, rubbed, endcaps chipped with loss, joints cracking, some loss of leather to corners, marbled endleaves, ex libris Bibliotheque Bastide with bookplate, L’Heresie Imaginaire without a fifth letter, some browning to contents due to paper quality, faint corner water stain, 9 x 6 3/4 in.
Estimate
$1,800 – $2,200
Pascal, blaise (1623-1662)
Les Provinciales.
[Paris: Pierre de la Vallée, 1656-1657.]
Uncut and untrimmed sheets consisting of the eighteen Lettres Provinciales, including the Response to the first two letters; the 17th letter in eight pages; without the eight-page Refutation to the 12th letter, the second letter dated 29 February 1656; the 18th letter reprinted, “sur la copie imprimée à Cologne le 24 Mars 1657; each letter consisting of a single uncut sheet meant to be bound up as four leaves; never bound or trimmed, some stains and tears, 10 1/2 x 8 in.
[Together with] trimmed disbound copies of letters 12, 15, 16, and 17.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Paulus venetus [nicoletti] (1369-1429)
Super Libris Posteriorum cum Tabula [Expositio in Libros Posteriorum Aristotelis].
Venice: Mandato & Expensis Luc’Antonio Giunta, 16 March 1521.
Folio, 115 numbered leaves (lacking final leaf, likely blank), printed in gothic letter, two columns throughout, illustrated with metalcut text diagrams of geometrical shapes; figural woodcut initials with cherubs, colophon with large printer’s woodcut device, contemporary notes throughout; bound in modern half parchment with repurposed musical manuscript leaves covering both boards, 12 1/4 x 8 1/2 in.
Venetus was an Augustinian philosopher in the tradition of Duns Scotus, the Scholastics, and nominalists. This is his commentary on Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics.
Not in Adams; rare at auction.
Estimate
$700 – $900
Persian manuscript leaf with painted miniature.
Safavid Dynasty Court Scene.
Single paper leaf with text on verso and a large illuminated miniature painting on the recto depicting a complicated architectural setting with a wealthy couple seated at the center, handing alms to the poor at left and right, while an audience watches musicians and dancers in the foreground, painted in a full spectrum of colors; some worming to the leaf, ruled in red, matted with a plexi-glass backing, 17 3/4 x 10 in.
Estimate
$400 – $600
Persian manuscript leaf with painted miniature.
Safavid Dynasty Court Scene.
Single paper leaf with text on verso and a large illuminated miniature painting on the recto depicting a scene in a walled courtyard, with horses, a man dipping his hand in a pool, another reading, a traveler with a large sack, a rug hanging on a clothes line outside the gates, with stylized trees, clouds, and rocky outcrops in the background; painted in a full spectrum of colors; some worming to the leaf, ruled in red, matted with a plexi-glass backing, 17 3/4 x 10 in.
Estimate
$400 – $600
Petrarch, francesco (1304-1374)
Il Petrarcha con la Spositione di M. Giovanni Andrea Gesualdo. I Trionfi del Petrarca, con la spositione di M. Giovanni Andrea Gesualdo da Traetto.
Two parts in one volume, large quarto, each with its own separate title page printed within a woodcut border incorporating busts of Petrarch and Laura; illustrated with six vignettes, edited with commentary by Giovanni Andrea Gesualdo; the I Trionfi section bound first in this copy; bound in full 17th century French speckled calf with gilt-tooled spine, worn with losses to endcaps, boards still attached; contents with minor faults, both title pages slightly cropped; armorial bookplate of the Bibliotheque de Rosny inside front board (torn with loss), 8 x 6 in.
Adams P-820.
Estimate
$500 – $700
Plinius secundus, gaius [pliny the elder] (23/24-79 ce)
The Historie of the World.
London: Printed by Adam Islip, 1601.
First edition in English, folio, translated by Philemon Holland, two parts in one volume, each with its own title page, first word of the title (both parts) is xylographic, large woodcut printer’s device to title; lacking text leaf 163/164 [P4] (loosely inserted in two-page photocopy facsimile); bound in later boards, amateurishly rebacked in brown leather; blank corner margins torn with loss affecting four pages in part one, and dozens of pages in part two, affecting some catchwords and words at the foot of the page; bottom corner of page 33 in part two torn away and repaired on blank verso with paper patches adhered with sealing wax, marginal tears to three pages (part two) similarly repaired; lacking first and last blanks; a few stray ink inscriptions, some marginal pencil notes; 12 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.
STC 20029; ESTC S115918.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
Praeceptorium perutile in quo Decem Sermonibus.
Leipzig: Martin Landsberg, [about 1492-96].
Quarto, 41 of 42 leaves, lacking final blank; printed in gothic type throughout, dampstaining along top margin, final eight leaves with loss to inner margin (repaired) with loss to text, title page stained, slight worming; woodcut printer’s device to verso of final leaf; [bound with] Das Buch von den Neun Felsen von dem Strassburger Burger Rulman Merswin,1352 Leipzig: Hirzel, 1859; 19th century half cloth binding with marbled paper boards, 7 1/2 x 5 in.
ip00951500; Hain 13316; GW(Nachtr) 287; Polain(B) 4109; Sajó-Soltész 2827; IBP 4567; Madsen 3366; Günt(L) 1467; Voull(B) 1350; Juntke 353; Borm 2217; BSB-Ink P-730; GW M35205
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Puteo, paris de [paride del pozzo] (1411-1493)
Tractatus Insignis de Reintegratione Feudorum Definibus.
Naples: Petrus de Dominicus & Joannes Dominicus de Gallis, 1544.
Folio, title page printed in red and black within a four-piece architectural woodcut border, text in roman letter, double column throughout, register on final leaf, some waterstaining to contents, a few instances of marginal notations, a small hole torn in leaf 41 with loss to one initial and words on four lines of text on the verso; bound in later full parchment over boards, 11 1/2 x 8 in.
Not in Adams; Rare at auction.
Estimate
$300 – $500
Recipe book, italian manuscript on paper, 1850s.
Octavo-format manuscript on lined wove paper, consisting of approximately 133 numbered pages from one side, and a selection of menus occupying ten leaves titled, Pranzi Scelti Fatti da Fra[te] Zamparini Domenicano, or Selected Lunches Made by Dominican Friar Zamparini; the longer section with the names Enrico Conti & Bongini Natale and the date 1852 on the first leaf; bound in contemporary half parchment with marbled paper boards, 5 x 3 3/4 in.
Recipes in this compendium include sweet and savory dishes, zabaglione, pasta, frittata, fried potatoes and more. The Dominican menus all consist of at least eight courses and record the date on which they were served. Most only mention the month and day, however, one is dated 1843.
Estimate
$400 – $600
Recipes & medical preparations.
English Manuscript, circa 1780.
Tall and narrow account book, folio manuscript on laid paper, titled on front board, “Mrs. Gifford’s Receipt Book,” the book itself likely made and first used circa 1715, by an Ann Sayer; the majority of the entries date from the 1770s-‘80s, in a variety of hands, some leaves removed, consisting of approximately fifty inscribed pages, and more than 100 left blank; cures for coughs, scurvy, consumption, and “bugs,” are listed, along with food and drink, including rice pudding, orange pudding, “whipt syllabubs extraordinary,” “good iced cake,” seed cake, pickled herring, black pudding, “walnut catchup,” “bloomange,” ginger wine, pickled onions, raisin wine, raspberry jam, yellow flummery, a plum cake recipe dated 1773, pickled gherkins, India pickles, mock turtle soup, and more, many recipes attributed to their female creators; bound in parchment over boards, covering material becoming detached, boards delaminating, 15 x 6 in.
Estimate
$500 – $700
Reinzer, franz (1661-1708)
Meteorologia Philosophico-Politica, in Duodecim Dissertationes per Quaestiones Meteorologicas et Conclusiones Politicas Divisa, Appositisque.
Augsburg: Jeremias Wolf, 1698.
Second edition, added engraved title, illustrated with seventy-seven text engravings after Wolfgang-Joseph Kadoriza (1697-1730) by Johanna Sybilla Kraus (1650-1717), and Andreas Matthäus Wolfgang (1660-1736); first signature with some heavy worming to inner gutter; one word excised from a text leaf; large section of marginalia covered with blank paper, the same leaf with later gummed glassine paper repair across the page, lacking final ?blank, Qq2; bound in 18th century half parchment with speckled paper boards, worn, first signature detached, contemporary inscriptions to title, 12 x 7 1/2 in.
“While it was generally agreed upon that the erudition of Jesuit scholars enhanced the prestige of the Order, it became increasingly difficult for members of the Order to publish secular works during the 17th century, not least because prohibited opinions were codified in 1651. Censorship and self-censorship led to an absence of specialized treatise and gave rise to a vast production of reference books such as textbooks and compendia written by Jesuits. Hence, Reinzer’s Meterologica is apparently such a mixture of different genres because the author resorted to an emblem book as camouflage for a specialized treatise on meteorology. […] Reinzer’s publication was well informed with regard to astronomy and natural philosophy on the whole.” (c.f. Emblems and the Natural World, ed. Karl A.E. Enekel & Paul J. Smith, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2017.)
Estimate
$300 – $500
Roman breviary, text manuscript on paper.
Rome: Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore [Liberian Basilica], late-17th century.
Folio format Latin manuscript on laid paper, 188 numbered pages, written in a neat Roman hand in two columns, brown and red ink throughout, listing prayers for the feast days beginning with November 28th and ending with November 26th, with a calendar and additional prayers; created expressly for clergy at the Liberian Basilica in Rome; bound in contemporary half leather with patterned paper boards, 16 x 10 3/4 in.
Saint Mary Maggiore is a Major Papal Basilica, the largest Catholic Marian Church in Rome, and one of the Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
Ruinetti, tomaso (fl. circa 1619)
Idea de Buon Scittore.
[Rome: Christoforo Blanco, 1619.]
Oblong folio, engraved throughout, 39 of 43 leaves, (lacking four leaves: the title page, memorial leaf, and leaves 19 & 38); portrait is present, bound in modern half parchment with printed waste paper-covered boards, 13 3/4 x 9 1/2 in.
Ruinetti was a master calligrapher based in Rome. He was able to transition from fancy penwork to accomplished copperplate engraving, creating precise and beautiful alphabets, fine looping geometric flourishes, and fanciful figures of cherubs, birds, and animals.
Marzoli 21; Whalley, The Art of Calligraphy, 185.
Estimate
$400 – $600
Sammelband in quarto: seven 17th century theological titles.
Including:
1) James Windet’s Minah Belulah [Hebrew] sive Stromateus Epistolikos. [Greek] De Vitâ Functorum Statu: ex Hebræorum atque Græcorum Comparatis Sententiis Concinnatus, London: T. Royroft for Hen. Thomasono, 1663, first edition;
2) Michael Walther’s Par Dissertationum Theologicarum de Immortalitate Animae Rationalis, Wittemberg: Hartmann, 1657;
3) Caspar Schoppe’s (1576-1649) Herrn Christoffen von Ungersdorff Erinnerung/ von der Calvinisten Art und Feindseligkeit/ gegen dem Römischen Reich, [No Place: No Printer], 1617;
4) Iudicium Synodi Nationalis Reformatarum Ecclesiarum Belgicarum, Heidelberg: [No Printer], 1619;
5) Hermann Conring’s Glossa Ordinaria ad Litteras Circulares Alexandri Papae Septimi, [No Place: No Printer], 1655;
6) Salomon Glass’s Eines Christlichen, hochgelährten, und um die Gemeine Gottes wolverdiensten Lehrers der ungeänderten Augsburgischen Confession, [No Place: No Printer], 1662;
[and] 7) Johannes Crocius’s Justa Defensio Christiane et Sincerae Responsionis, Kassel: Typis Salomonis Schadewitz; impensis Sebaldi Köhlers, 1652; all bound together in full contemporary German parchment, 7 1/2 x 6 in.
Estimate
$500 – $700
Sammelband, sixteen english imprints, 1671-1695.
Single folio volume including the following titles:
1) The Tryals of Robert Charnock, Edward King, and Thomas Keyes, London: for Samuel Heyrick, 1696;
2) The Arraignment, Tryal and Condemnation of Sir John Friend, Knight, for High Treason, London: Heyrick, 1696;
3) The Arraignment, Tryal and Condemnation of Sir William Parkins, London: Heyrick, 1696;
4) The Arraignment, Tryal, and Condemnation of Ambrose Rookwood, London: Heyrick, 1696;
5) The Arraignments, Tryals and Condemnations of charles Cranburne & Robert Lowick, London: Heyrick, 1696;
6) The Arraignment, Confession, and Condemnation of Alexander Knightley, London: Heyrick, 1696; 7) The Arraignment, Tryal, and Condemnation of Peter Cooke, Gent. for High-Treason, London: Benjamin Tooke, 1696;
8) An Antidote against the Infection of the Jacobites, by a Minister of the Church of England, [London: by J.D. for Jonathan Robinson, 1696.];
9) [James II] His Majesties Gracious Declaration to all His Loving Subjects for Liberty of Conscience, [London: by Charles Bill, Henry Hills, & Thomas Newcomb, 1687];
10) John Dauncey’s A Moderate Expedient for Preventing of Popery, [London? circa 1680];
11) Thomas Hoy’s Agathocles, the Sicilian Usurper, lacking title, 1683;
12) John Oldmixon’s An Epithalamium on the Nuptials of Michael Terrell, Esq; (of Barbadoes) with Cornelia Walrond, London: [no printer], 1691, two leaves, not in ESTC;
12) A Poem on the Coronation of King William and Queen Mary, London: Randal Taylor, 1689;
13) Joseph Rawson & Robert Smith’s Poems on the Lamented Death of Her Most Excellent Majesty, Queen Mary, London: for Thomas Bennet, 1695;
14) William Walsh’s A Funeral Elegy upon the Death of the Queen, London: for Jacob Tonson, 1695;
15) John Playford’s Psalms & Hymns in Solemn Musick, London: by Godbid for Playford, 1671, with “A Hymn on the Divine Use of Musick” facing title (torn at the bottom with loss to text below the last stanza), large engraved vignette of David and his harp to surrounded by a frame made of musical bars on title page;
[and] 16) Henry Savile’s Advice to a Painter, [London: no printer, 1679].; The collection bound in full contemporary calf, back board lacking, sewing compromised, spine and front board badly damaged; containing a contemporary manuscript table of contents; ex libris Josiah Franklin Davenport (b. 1727), and his son Franklin Davenport (1755-1832), with dated signatures of both, 12 1/2 x 7 3/4 in.
Estimate
$800 – $1,200
Savonarola, girolamo (1452-1498)
Confessionale pro Instructione Confesso[rum].
Venice: Francis de Bindo, 1524.
Small octavo, woodcut of the author at work on title page, text in gothic type, single column throughout, damage to blank area of title somewhat crudely repaired, trimmed a bit off-square, final leaf with some thinning of the page, slight marginal losses; bound in boards covered with patterned paper, 5 3/8 x 4 in.
Adams S-469.
Estimate
$700 – $900
Savonarola, girolamo (1452-1498)
D. Ioannis Epistolam & Sacr[a]e Scriptur[a]e Verba Igniti Eloquii Sermones.
Venice: Stagnino, 1536.
Octavo, title page with woodcut printer’s device, printed in gothic type throughout, bound in full dark brown morocco, gilt-lettered spine, inner gilt dentelles, aeg., 5 3/4 x 3 3/4 in.
Adams S-506.
Estimate
$400 – $600
Savonarola, girolamo (1452-1498)
Dialogus, cui titulus solatium itineris mei. Nunc primum impressus.
Venice: Giovanni Patavino & Venturino de Ruffinelli, 1535.
First edition, 16mo, lacking final blank, printed neatly in roman type, woodcut printer’s device to title, a diminutive volume, bound in full later parchment, 4 1/8 x 2 3/4 in.
Rare at auction; Worldcat locates ten copies worldwide; not in Adams.
Estimate
$600 – $800
Schiappalaria, stefano ambrogio (d. 1578)
La Vita di C. Julio Cesare.
Antwerp: Andreas Bax, 1578.
First edition, large quarto, large woodcut design to title, text woodcuts, full-page woodcut with a design for a triumphal arch for Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, lacking HH6 blank, a leaf between the last leaf of text and the first leaf of the table; bound in modern half parchment with old musical manuscript leaf-covered boards; spotting and water stains to contents, 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.
Adams S-663; rare at auction.
Estimate
$300 – $500
Schlosser, johann georg (1739-1799)
Dissertatio Inauguralis Iuridica De Officio Tutorum Et Curatorum Circa Lites Pupillorum Et Minorum.
Altdorf: J. G. Meyer, 1762.
First edition, quarto, disbound, with the Bibliothek der Mecklenburgischen Ritter- und Landschaft of Rostock, Germany on verso of title, 8 1/4 6 3/4 in.
In this work Schlosser, most famous for being married to Goethe’s sister, writes as a lawyer on the subject of legal disputes regarding the guardians and trustees of minors and orphans.
Rare at auction.
Estimate
$200 – $300
Schwarzenberg, johann von (1463-1528)
Bambergische Peinliche Halsgerichtsordnung.
Bamberg: Johann Wagner, 1580.
Small folio, lacking title page and one preliminary blank; illustrated throughout with striking and large 16th century woodcuts, some attributed to Wolf Traut; contents defective, with stains, tears, and well-intentioned modern use of adhesive tape (now dry and yellowed), full parchment binding stained orange, in need of restoration; strong type impressions throughout, some leaves detached, 11 3/4 x 8 in.
The Bambergensis Constitutio Criminalis, compiled by Schwarzenberg, was first printed by Hans Pfeil in Bamberg, 1507, under the title, Bambergische Halszgerichts-Ordnung. (cf. Panzer, Annalen, 586; LC #51-6191.) This is a work concerned with criminal law and procedure, including capital punishment and torture. Although some woodcuts are pious in content, others show domestic scenes, court settings, instruments of torture, and their use.
Estimate
$400 – $600
Shakespeare, william (1564-1616)
Henry V; Extracted from the Second Folio.
London: Cotes, 1632.
Folio, consisting of pages 69-96, beginning with the epilogue of the previous play, Henry IV, Part II, which includes the famously short description of Falstaff’s fate, “Falstaffe shall dye of a sweat, unlesse already he bee kill’d with your hard Opinions”; followed by the actor’s name; the prologue begins on page 69, and continuous through page 96, which contains the first part of Henry VI, 30 pages in total; disbound, some spotting and staining, housed in a water-damaged mid-20th century red buckram folder, 12 3/4 x 9 in.
Estimate
$3,000 – $5,000
Shakespeare, william (1564-1616)
The Merry Wives of Windsor; Extracted from the Second Folio.
London: Cotes, 1632.
Folio, consisting of pages 39 through 60, beginning with the first act and scene, and ending with the fifth scene of the fifth act; 22 pages in total; some marginal browning and worming; disbound, some spotting and staining, housed in a water-damaged mid-20th century red buckram folder, ex libris Scarritt Adams with his bookplate; 12 3/4 x 9 in.
Estimate
$3,000 – $5,000
Silver bookbinding, germany, 17th century.
Christliches Gesangbuch.
Strasbourg: Reinhold Dulssecker, 1696.
12mo unmarked engraved filigree bookbinding over black velvet on wooden boards with central rounded medallions on front and back boards, floral form engraved endcaps at head and tail, with intricate cut-out designs on both boards and spine panel, clasps and catches present, all edges gilt; slightly tarnished, some residue of polish in recessed areas; multi-color paste-paper endleaves, 4 1/4 x 2 1/8 in.
Estimate
$3,000 – $5,000
Sirven affair: two pamphlets.
Including Pierre-Firmin de Lacroix’s Mémoire pour le Sieur Pierre-Paul Sirven, Toulouse: Joseph Dalles, 1770; [and] under the same imprint, Décision de la Faculté de Médecine de Montpellier sur un rapport fait par autorité, & sous les yeux de la justice, d’un cadavre du sexe féminin retiré d’un puids où il avoit séjourné pendant quelques jours, both large octavo and disbound, 7 1/2 x 5 in.
Jean-Paul (sometimes recorded as Pierre-Paul) Sirven’s daughter Elisabeth disappeared from her home in Castres, France in March of 1760. Her family was distressed to find that she had been taken without their consent to a Catholic convent in an attempt to turn her away from the Protestant faith. She suffered from a neurological disorder and was returned to her family, but subsequently disappeared again only to be found dead at the bottom of a well in 1762. Her father was charged with murder and sentenced to be burned alive. Her mother was sentenced to death by hanging. The family fled after the sentence, eventually garnering the interest and support of Voltaire, who helped get the entire family pardoned. These pamphlets were published after Sirven surrendered himself to the authorities in 1769, and before he was pardoned in Toulouse in 1771. Voltaire commented, “It only took two hours to sentence a virtuous family to death and it took us nine years to give them justice.” (cf. Farenc Jacques, Sirven, d’après Camille Rabaud, Archives du Musée, 1858, Musée du Protestantisme du Haut-Languedoc; https://museeprotestant.org/en/notice/the-sirven-affair/)
Rare at auction; Worldcat showing one copy at the University library in Toulouse containing these two pamphlets bound with three other works related to the Sirven Affair.
Estimate
$300 – $500
Skarga, piotr (1536-1612)
Vpominanie do Ewanyelikow, y do Wszystkich Spolem Nie Kátholikow.
Krakow: J.M. y Koscielney Lazarzowey, 1592.
First edition, quarto, woodcut printer’s device to title, gothic letter, contemporary marginal notes, limp paste-paper wrappers; some discoloration to final few leaves, dog-eared corners, 7 1/2 x 6 in.
This polemical tract written in vernacular Polish by the Jesuit and Counter-Reformation hagiographer concerns itself with the 1591 Catholic desecration of the Lutheran Church of St. John in Krakow. As an apologist for others of his faith, Skarga [sometimes Poweski] minimizes the attack, and blames the victims, looking instead to the desecration of Catholic churches in Lithuania by Protestants.
Rare at auction; Worldcat locates copies only at Polish libraries.
Estimate
$400 – $600
Smith, adam (1723-1790)
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Dublin: Printed for Mssrs. Whitestone, Chamberlaine, et al., 1776.
First Dublin edition, three octavo volumes, half-title present in first volume, stains to contents, including water stains and some gray mildew spotting to pages of the first volume; water and mildew stains to volume three; the set bound in uniform contemporary full calf bindings, damaged, most boards detached, 8 1/2 x 5 in. (3)
ESTC T140556.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Speed, john (1552-1629)
The Historie of Great Britaine under the Conquests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes, and Normans.
London: Printed by John Dawson for George Humble, 1632.
Two folio volumes, third edition (according to ESTC a variant of the second edition of 1631); lacking the portrait; illustrated with woodcut illustrations throughout including ancient coins, ancient Britons (both wild and “more civill”), royal family trees, seals, and other images; bound in later diced russia, amateurishly rebacked; ex libris John Hulse, with his signature dated 1675 on the title page, along with the price he paid for the book and two mottoes in Latin; from the Troy Public Library, with some stamps and book labels; title page mounted, top margin trimmed away with loss of top rule; stain affecting the foot of the inner gutter in several few signatures in the first volume; 13 1/2 x 8 1/4 in. (2)
STC 23049; ESTC S997.
Estimate
$400 – $600
Strabo (64/63 bce-c. 25 ce) ed. isaac causabon (1559-1614)
Strabonis Rerum Geographicarum Libri XVII. Isaacus Casaubonis Recensuit.
Geneva: Eustathius Vignon, 1587.
Folio, title page printed within a large ornate woodcut compartment, lacking the Mercator world map, two parts in one volume with divisional title in the same compartment for the second part, with Causabon’s commentary; text printed in two columns in Latin and Greek; bound in full contemporary mottled sheepskin, worn and rubbed, 13 3/4 x 8 3/4 in.
Estimate
$350 – $450
Strozzi, tito vespasiano (1424-1505) ercole strozzi (1473-1505)
Poetae Pater et Filius.
Paris: Simone de Colines, 1530.
Octavo, woodcut printer’s device to title (Tempus II); with the dedication to Lucrezia Borgia written by Aldus Manutius, additional epitaph to the Strozzi’s by the publisher, verses numbered in a neat hand (ms. numbering slightly cropped), final leaf L4 blank & present; bound in full early-19th century full diced russia signed, “Rel. P. Bozérian jeune,” at the foot of the spine, bound by François Bozérian, called the young because his older brother Jean-Claude was also an accomplished Parisian binder of the Napoleonic era, aeg., borders, inner dentelles, and spine tooled and lettered in gilt, marbled paper endleaves; ex libris Albert A. Howard, with his book label, 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.
Schreiber Colines 68; Renouard pages 166-167; Adams S-1957.
Estimate
$300 – $500
Swedish psalms in fancy “jeweled” binding.
Den Swenska Psalm-Boken.
Stockholm: 1811.
12mo format, bound in full contemporary black velvet with four large corner-pieces on each board and matching clasps (signed with the initials NLK); central filigree oval decorations incorporating nineteen red stones most likely made of glass or paste and cut in pyramid shapes and surrounded by repoussé hearts, the central panel with the initials NDS on the front, and CCP on the back board, aeg.; joints repaired with cloth tape, nap on the velvet worn away; the binding housed in a custom chemise and slipcase covered in orange morocco, 6 x 3 1/4 in.
Estimate
$300 – $500
Synesius of cyrene, bishop of ptolemais (c. 373-c. 414 ce)
Sammelband of Works in Greek,1586.
Including the following octavo titles:
I: Synesius’s: Ymnoi Deka, or Ten Hymns;
II: Liber de Insomniis;
[and] III: Johannes Chrysostomus’s Conciunculae perquam Elegantes Sex de Fato & Providentia Dei, all three titles with the same imprint, Paris: Federicum Morellum, 1586; each printed in Grecs du Roi types throughout; bound in full 18th century green sheepskin tooled in gilt, aeg., ex libris Henry Harden L.L.B., with his engraved armorial bookplate printed in red ink pasted inside the front board, 7 x 4 1/4 in.
Chrysostom title: Adams C-1546.
Estimate
$600 – $800
Tani, nicolò (fl. circa 1550)
Avertimenti sopra Regole Toscane, con la Formatione de Verbi, & Variation delle Voci.
Venice: Jovita Rapirio, [1550].
First edition, octavo, large woodcut on title depicting a full standing image of Prudence, text in italic type, some historiated woodcut initials, bound in later blind-ruled calf, ex libris Louis Thompson Rowe (1855-1927) with bookplate, 5 3/4 x 3 3/4 in.
Playwright Tani’s short work on the Tuscan dialect was influenced by Bembo and is rare at auction.
Biblioteca dell’Eloquenza Italiana di Monsignore Giusto Arcivescovo d’Ancira, Parma: Fratelli Gozzi, 1803.
Estimate
$300 – $500
Tatius, achilles (2nd century)
Erotikon Achilleos Tatiou Sive de Clitophontis & Leucippes Amoribus.
Leiden: Franciscus Hegerus, 1640.
First edition translated & edited by Claude Saumaise (1588-1653), 12mo, text in parallel Latin and Greek, engraved title, bound in full 18th century straight-grained red morocco, ruled in gilt, titled on spine, aeg., marbled endleaves, 5 x 2 1/2 in.
The Adventures of Leucippe and Clitophon is Tatius’s only surviving work. It is one of five extant Ancient Greek romances and is notable for its erotic content, discussions of the nature of love itself, and violence.
Estimate
$150 – $250
Taufbrief: engraved baptismal certificate or godparent’s letter
Christliche Erinnerung.
Waldenburg: Gottfried Hoffmann, [1771.]
Single square half-sheet printed typographically on one side with hand-colored engraved illustrations on the verso, fulfilled by hand with the name of the godparent inscribed on 4 January 1771; the sheet meant to be folded in thirds the long way, and then two additional folds bringing the ends to meet in the center, with engravings arranged to the correct orientation for this pattern of folding, with old folds, wear, remnants of sealing wax; five composite devotional images hand-colored in blue, red, yellow, green, and orange; 6 3/4 x 5 1/2 in. unfolded.
Rare, the Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek in Weimar has two examples similar in format, date, printer; each is unique, as is the present example.
“It was customary in Germany for godparents to send their godchildren painted, handwritten, or printed good luck wishes on the occasion of their baptisms. These folded paper objects often contained small coins, and served as both a certificate of blessing and as religious instruction for young children: illustrated with scenes related to the meaning of baptism, they were preserved for the child’s edification when he or she reached an appropriate age. In the 18th century printers developed a gamut of formats for these delightful paper-toy documents, which are now understandably rare.” (cf. Taufenpatenbrief or Godparent’s letter, 1781, published by the Graphic Arts Collection at the Firestone Library at Princeton: https://graphicarts.princeton.edu/2017/02/02/taufenpatenbrief-or-godparents-letter-1781/)
Estimate
$300 – $400
The French Convert.
London: Printed for A. Bettesworth & C. Hitch, 1736.
12mo, ninth edition, lacking initial blank A1 and text leaf E3; the anonymous text sometimes attributed to Daniel Defoe or John Macgowan, introductory letter signed A. d’Auborn; bound in contemporary boards without covering material; technically not in ESTC, although likely ESTC T89431, with identical imprint and page count, also labelled “Ninth Edition” on title, this imprint catalogued as printed in 1746 most likely in error; 5 3/4 x 3 1/2 in.
All early editions, 1696-1746 rare in institutional holdings & at auction.
Estimate
$300 – $500
Thucydides (c. 460-400 bce)
De Bello Peloponnensium Atheniensiumque Libri VIII. Bound for Jean Grolier.
Cologne: Eucharius Cervicornus, 1527.
Folio, title page printed within elaborate woodcut compartment adorned with numerous sculptural figures, with Cleopatra at the base; with Grolier’s inscription on the colophon leaf, somewhat effaced, “Jo. Grolierii Lugdunens et amicorum”; several inscriptions on title inked out; bound in full contemporary tan calf by Etienne Roffet, with blind ruled compartments, a gilt arabesque outer border with fleur-de-lis at each corner, the central compartment decorated with a multi-tool cartouche constructed of a series of gouges, with a flaming pyre and dancing flames at the top and bottom of the compartment, tooling on the back board identical, all edges gilt; lacking original cloth ties, fly-leaves, and final blank; very neatly mended at the joints and corners; ex libris Lucien Goldschmidt; accompanied by a 1971 letter from Howard Nixon to Goldschmidt attributing this binding to Roffet; in addition to a typed letter signed by Jacques Guignard in 1967 in his capacity as Chief Conservator of the Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal in Paris, affirming the same attribution; housed in a custom black morocco folding case, some limited areas of light dampstaining to inner margins, generally fresh, 12 x 7 3/4 in.
Jean Grolier de Servières (c. 1489-1565) was a bibliophile extraordinaire whose name is synonymous with fine printing, bookbinding, love of scholarship and sharing these arts with friends. Books in which Grolier identifies as, “Lugdunensis,” from Lyon, are from the earliest phase of his collecting. Modern scholarship has surmised that he owned at least 500 books, but his generous lending to friends meant that some books were never returned, resulting in early dispersals into other collections. Etienne Roffet, son of master bookbinder Pierre Roffet, continued his father’s work, serving as the first official royal bookbinder for François I in 1539.
Adams T-670.
Estimate
$30,000 – $50,000
Vermeren, michiel frans (d. 1755)
De Listige Onstantvastigheyt des Weirelts.
Brussels: Jacob vande Velde, [1745].
Folio, title page printed in red and black, text in Flemish throughout, engraved printer’s device to title, illustrated with several engraved vignettes and eight (of nine?) full-page emblematic/allegorical images; [and] the same author’s Den Theater des Bedroghs, Brussels: Vande Velde, [1745], half-title, separate title page with engraved allegorical vignette that involves, among other curious figures, a cherub spanking a young faun; illustrated with eight full-paged etchings and more than ten charming vignettes depicting scenes of hunting & trapping; beekeeping; mermaids tempting sailors; a person tossing a cat into a fire; ice skating; and a phoenix rising from a volcano; contemporary sheepskin, generally well-preserved, with some toning to leaves, contemporary ownership inscription to title; 14 1/2 x 9 in.
These fascinating allegorical images, presented like Old Dutch masters, provide a plethora of cautionary tales, depicted with vivid imagery. A lady sits by an open window, making lace, while an older woman thrusts a chicken at her. An innocent young women gives her hand to a palm-reader cloaked in shadow. Someone is peeping as a nude figure climbs into bed. An adult blows soap bubbles to demonstrate to a watching child the ephemeral and delicate nature of human existence.
Estimate
$300 – $500
Virgil (70-19 bce) trans. john dryden (1631-1700)
The Works of Virgil: Containing his Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis.
London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1698.
Folio, second edition, title page printed in red and black, illustrated with engraved frontispiece and 101 full-paged engraved illustrations; bound in 18th century gilt-decorated tan calf, rubbed, armorial bookplate pasted inside front board with crest and the motto, “Prodesse Quam Conspici,” William Fox of Statham Lodge, Cheshire, with shelf number and signature on ffep, 12 1/2 x 8 in.
Wing V-617; ESTC R35230.
Estimate
$600 – $800
Wagenseil, johann christoph (1633-1705)
Tela Ignea Satanae, sive Arcani et Horribiles Judæorum Adversus Christum, Deum, et Christianam Religionem Libri.
Altdorf: Schönnerstadt für Hoffmann und Zunner, 1681.
First edition, very thick quarto, engraved frontispiece portrait of the author bound opposite the title; title printed in red and black; bound in contemporary Dutch parchment over boards tooled in blind, recently rebacked in parchment; ex libris Crozer Theological Seminary with bookplate and stamps; portrait with marginal reinforcements, some browning to contents lacking final ?blank; 8 x 6 in.