London (Londini): Typis J. Flesher, 1650. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. (6),418,(2),72,(12)pp. Contemporary full vellum; manuscript title; later (but still early) leather lettering pieces, gilt. One leaf with a chart of the Saxon alphabet. Also contains Somner's annotated version of Lipsius' glossary: "Guilielmi Somneri, Cantuariensis, ad verba vetera germanica, a v...... More
Paris: Impresis Societatis Typographicae Librorum Officij Ecclesiastici, 1635. Hardcover. Large 8vo. a-e8, i4, A-2E8, a-h8 [40], 440, [122] pp. Engraved vignette on title page, Printed in black and red throughout with occasional specimens of four-line Gregorian chant (black notes on red staves). Each month starts with woodcut initials, the individual..... More
Argentorati (Strassburg): Iosias Rihelius, 1561. First edition. Hardcover. Foliated. 232 (of 301) ff. Woodcut historiated initials. 275 woodcuts of plants. Contents: Valerii Cordi Simesusi, in Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei de Medica Materia, lib. V; Historia Plantarum, lib. IV; Conradus Gesnerus (Konrad Gesner) Caspari Collino Pharmocopoeo; Silva Observationum uariarum, Valerii Cordi; Val..... More
London: J. M. for Rich. Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St Pauls Church-yard, 1681. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. (28),291,(1)pp. 19th cent. full calf by Hering of Regent Street. marbled endpapers and edges. Author's name from Wing; sometimes erroneously attributed to David Craufurd. Bound without portrait or errata..... More
Cologne: Apud Maternum Cholinum, 1564. First Latin edition. Hardcover. Folio. (xx),205pp. Printer's device on title; woodcut initials. First Latin edition translated by John Grodecius. The dedicatory matter is followed by a Life of St Cyril, a discussion of his works and an index. Early 19th century marbled paper boards, later..... More
In the Savoy: T.N. for Henry Harringman, 1678. Hardcover. The Second impression whereunto is added a Table. 4to. 734pp. followed by the Table (15pp.) Bound to style in quarter calf; spine in six compartments with raised bands, red leather lettering label, gilt. marbled paper sides, vellum tips. Fine copy. ESTC..... More
Paris: Daniel Horthemels, 1688. Hardcover. 12mo. (14),251,(13)pp. First French edition, preceded by an edition in Leyden the previous year and followed in Paris by an expanded edition the same year. Engraved vignette on the title page, and a woodcut of an examination in progress on page 1; six engraved plates..... More
Walpole, Newhampsire: David Carlisle, Jun. 1796. Hardcover. 12mo. iv, 5-132pp. Contemporary full leather. Lacks front free endpaper, and a small piece from the top corner of the title page; leather mended at some time at the base of the spine; general wear and scuffing; else a very good copy. Silas..... More
London: Benj. Took, 1635 (i.e., 1685). First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. (ii),406pp. Contemporary full calf. Spine in 5 compartments with raised bands, boards ruled in blind with blind tooling at the corners; edges stained red. The title page reads MDCXXXV, but has been altered in ink to show the correct imprint..... More
ca. 1550. Leaf. Twenty 8vo leaves, printed both sides, from an undetermined edition of Sallust's account of the Catiline Conspiracy with the rest of the leaves devoted to the Nubian Prince. 8 leaves elate to Lugurthinum, one seems to be form the Preface and the rest are on the Catiline..... More
London: Printed by J.M. for Walter Kettilby, 1674. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. (xvi),552pp. Contemporary full leather. Rebacked to style with the spine in matching calf, five compartments with raised bands, red leather lettering label, gilt. Wear to edges, some scuffing, else a very good copy. Imprimatur on leaf A1v: "Imprimatur..... More
Venice (Venetiis): Apud Iuntas (Giunta), 1542. Hardcover. Small 8vo. (8),365,(1)pp. Fine printer's device to title and full page device to last page. Woodcut initials. Original limp vellum binding with the use of 15th Century manuscript for binding. With the commentary of the French physician Martin Akakia (1500-1551). Vellum lightly soiled..... More
London: G. M. for Andrew Crooke, 1641. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. (vi), 46pp. Bound to style in full calf; red leather lettering piece, gilt; the boards tooled in blind. Title page remargined (no loss) else a fine copy. With the statement at the foot of the title page: "Published by..... More
Ingolstadii: Typis Edegianis, 1658. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. (2-1/2 by 4 inches). (16),267,(5). Later (18th cent?) quarter leather. Spine in six compartments with raised bands; gilt titles and leaf designs. Marbled paper boards and endpapers.Engraved title as well as a typeset title page. Tiny bit of marginal dampstain and..... More
London: T. Cotes for William Cooke, 1638. First edition in English. Hardcover. 12mo. (134),327pp. Engraved frontispiece of Gildas by William Marshall. First edition in English, translated from the Latin by Thomas Habington. Early handwritten notes on the front blanks. Bookplate. Nicely bound in full brown morocco, spine in six compartments..... More
London: Printed for Timothy Garthwait, 1664. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. (4),108;113-320pp. Title page printed in red and black. Bound to style in quarter leather; red leather lettering label, gilt; marbled paper boards. Imprimatur on leaf [A]2v: Imprimatur, Geo: Stradling, S.T.P. Rev. in Christo Patr. Dom. Gilb. Episc. Lond. à Sac..... More
Lugd. Bat. (Leiden): Franciscum Hackium, 1648. Early Edition. Hardcover. Small, thick 8vo. (xvi),644,xl pp. Engraved title page. Bound to style in quarter maroon morocco; spine ruled in simple gilt lines; brown lettering label, gilt. 'Cum veteris Scholiastae, & Variorum Commentariis Accurante Cornelio Schrevelio'. Nice edition of Juvenal and Flaccus. The..... More
Amstelodami: Henricum Wetstenium, 1692. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. (16),384,(12),(8),397,(17) pp. Nine engraved plates. Contemporary vellum binding, leather lettering label, gilt. Title page printed in red and black, and with engraved vignette. Six of the engravings are full page plates, and three are double page (though two of the singles are..... More
Paris: 1688. Early Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. (3 x 5'). Sixth printing of this classic. (iv), 3-108pp. Later binding of stiff boards covered in marbled paper. Full page engraved frontispiece followed by the title, list of actors and the text. A reimpression of the Elzevir first edition of 1671. A very..... More
London: Printed for John Garfield, 1657. First edition in English. Hardcover. "Rendred into English by a person of quality, and dedicated to the author of that well-known treatise call'd Advice to a son." 12mo. (22), 89. 61pp. Contemporary full leather, tooled simply in blind. The dialogue of Polygamy is..... More
London: Richard Sare, 1696. Hardcover. 8vo. (8),344pp. Full contemporary calf, the spine in five compartments with raised bands, the boards with light blind tooling on the borders. Bound without spine title. Branded ownership initials on the text block edges (WT?) Lacks front free endpaper, last 60pp have light stain on..... More
New York: The Grolier Club, 1901. Limited edition. Hardcover. Also 21052, but no prospectus. Small 4to. xviii, (2), (150), 2pp. Introduction signed: R.H. (i.e. Robert Hoe). "One of three hundred and twenty-five copies on Whatman paper, and three copies on vellum." This copy on Whatman paper. Bound in full leather..... More
London: Henry Hills for J. Edwin, 1679. First complete edition. Near fine. Folio. (xii),339,(i),16,(8),2,10-11,9-11,14-258,369-391,(i)pp. Early full calf Cambridge-style binding, rebacked in the 19th century with the spine in 7 compartments, intricately gilt; leather label, gilt. Engraved frontispiece. Each work has its own title page, and, for the first three, begins..... More
London: Printed by M. Flesher for Henry Mortlock, 1685. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. (ii),lxxiii,(ix),364pp. Bound to style in full calf. Spine in six compartments with raised bands; red leather lettering label, gil. Title page strengthened at the outer margin; light soil; some old ink names on the t.p. else a...... More
Paris: Guillaume le Rouge for Antoine Verard, 1488-1489. Broadside. Large leaf, 11 by 16 inches, finely printed on laid paper with a watermark of a cross, a tower and a trefoil clearly seen in the margin between the two columns of print. This leaf printed in black with spaces for..... More
