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1556046281Basel: Henrichum Petri 1556. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition. 18th century pastepaper boards spine and edges degraded light dampstains to first few and final pages old library stamp to title and first page some worming in the gutter - generally quite clean otherwise and with front rear and internal blanks present. 16 196 4. Printer's mark at rear.<br/><br/>First published in 1553 an early original work by the polymath physician often compared to Erasmus. Scarce rare in commerce. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 046281. Henrichum Petri hardcover
1582045463Geneva: Jacob Stoer 1582. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Full contemporary rolled calf over wooden boards. Calf dry and degraded missing in spots wood worn at the edges with some loss. Remains of clasps; binding still quite sound. Light age toning to pages scattered creases and minor flaws generally very clean internally. Attractively printed with historiated initials head and tail pieces and a vignette portrait of Livy. 14 623 29 leaves. Adams 1355 Graesse IV 234.<br /> <br /> The first French edition of the complete Livy and a monumental work of Renaissance scholarship. It was also printed in an octavo edition by Stoer in 3 volumes also 1582 and reprinted in folio by Chouet in 1607. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 045463. Jacob Stoer hardcover
1580032567Antverpiae Antwerp: Ex officina Christophori Plantini Architypographi Regii 1580 An extremely scarce original copy in soft cover vellum binding printed and published by Christopher Plantin and with his printer's device on the title page. This work is a contemporary account of events in the Netherlands during the period of armed rebellion against the rule of Philip II of Spain and its subsequent repression. The activities of Mathias Holy Roman Emperor who was invited to be Governor of the Netherlands in 1577 in promoting a Catholic revival have been said to be contributory to the Thirty Years War. The work was edited by Aggaeus Van Albada an extremely able who was principal speaker for the Netherlands at the peace talks that followed the rebellion. Christopher Plantin whose major printing house was in Antwerp suffered personally in the conflict - only saving his business from destruction by paying ransoms to the Spanish soldiers. This copy is in a full vellum soft binding. The boards appear contemporary with the remains of ties at the back. The spine is newer and possibly applied with glue - the book is quite tight to open particularly at the beginning. The binding is a little grubby but sound. Newer blanks have been added at the beginning and end and are a little dog-eared. Contents: title page with printer's device and a couple of ink letters; summa privilegii 1p; text with decorative initial capitals pp 1-338; ad lectorum 339-340; quotation 1p; printer's note 1p; blank; typographus lectori with superscriptio pp 345-351. Given the age of this book the contents are in good clean condition. There is a light stain in the bottom margin that extends upwards into the text which is persistent throughout but which worsens at the end of the book. Pages are lightly toned. A very small piece of the paper surface from a marginal note has detached at p328 and been deposited on p329 but the original text is still visible. Ex officina Christophori Plantini Architypographi Regii paperback
1553045324Lyon: Guillaume Rouille 1553. First Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Very Good Condition. Contemporary vellum darkened worn at corners old inscription to front blank dampstain to upper right corner early on and lower margin towards the end modest browning and foxing crease to center of last 30 pages. 2 volumes in one each page with medallion portraits and a brief biography of celebrated figures from Adam to Henry II. viii 172 4pp; 247 8pp. Graesse V 458 Adams P2161 Bib. Lyon. IX 205.<br /> <br /> Rouille was an important Lyonese printer who invented the 16mo pocket format. He apprenticed in Venice and came to Lyon in 1543 to set up his press. This collection of portraits was published simultaneously in Latin French and Italian Spanish 5 years later and was hugely successful prompting decades of imitations.<br /> <br /> Provenance:Giacamo DeToma bookplate 1884 inscription of Felice Guidi Size: Quarto 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: History; Biography & Autobiography. Inventory No: 045324. Guillaume Rouille hardcover
1544000238Paris: Rob. Stephani 1544. Hardcover. See Description. First and only Estienne edition. 8vo. pp. 208 32. Title page with Estienne device Renouard Typographiques #294. Latin text printed in italic. The title page shows some mild spotting; a faint monogram is also written in an old hand on either side of the printers device. Interior pages are clean and crisp. Bound in early 19th century straight grained red morocco with spots of rubbing to the extremities. The outer joints are professionally strengthened. The upper corner tip to the front cover is neatly patched. All edges are gilt. The inside front cover contains the heraldic book plate and the monogrammed ticket of English book collector Sir John Hayford Thorold 1773-1831 See De Ricci "English Collectors " plate VIII also pp. 159-160. An additional heraldic plate from another owner is located on the marbled fly-leaf. Contents include the extant historical works of the Roman statesman and author Caius Crispus Sallustius 86-35 b.c.e 1. "De conjuratione Catilinae" On the Catiline Conspiracy describes events surrounding Lucius Sergius Catilinas attempts between 65 and 62 b.c.e. to forcefully take over the Roman government 2. "De bello Jugurthino"On the Jugurthine War narrates the war of succession in Numidia 111-104 b.c.e. where Roman forces sought to intervene in the power struggle between King Jugurtha and his brother Adherbal. 3 Fragments of other historical writings. This edition of Sallustius was printed by Robert Estienne the French printer-scholar best known for fine typography and quality editions of the classics. Renouard Estienne p. 60; Adams S-155; Schweiger III p. 873; Graesse VI p. 238. <br/> <br/> Rob. Stephani hardcover
1598090168No place stated 1598. Vellum. pp. 623. 4to. Vellum. Hand-lettered spine. Engraved title page. Double page map showing the Low Countries. 22 engraved portraits some trimmed a bit at the foredge as noted on WorldCat. Portion of text block shows a tide mark across one corner. Complete. Binding sound. Latin. USTC 663028. unknown
1543013477Paris. Parisiis.: Apud Simonem Colinaeum 1543. First Edition . Quarter Calf. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 1543 First Edition. Size Octavo 16mo 6.5" x 4.25" Collation; Title 7 preliminary leaves of Epistles the Texts Folios numbered 1-244 signatures 8 ai to zviii then Ai to Hiiii Later binding of tan quarter calf with gilt titles bands and vignettes to the spine new endpapers pages edges waxed yellow. Condition very good the covers are rubbed at corners and edges hinges cracked calf chipped at hinges new endpapers. The book is complete 1 preliminary ff misbound title dust marked strengthened at outer margin with 2 small old signatures to blank areas blank part of last ff with repaired tear second half of book close cropped at head with some loss to running titles. Other than this the pages are very clean throughout no toning or foxing though there are some very old neat ms notes in the margins to a number of pages. "First ed. of the expanded version of Jean de Gagny's commentaries of the Epistles 1538 here with the addition of his commentary on the Apocalypse including the text" Schreiber. Each Commentary includes the full Bible Text. Contains De Gagny's Commentary on and the full text of the Epistles the Book of Jude and the Book of Revelation. Bible Text is printed in Roman in larger type; main text in smaller Roman type; lemmata in gothic; citations in Greek. Ref. Renouard 375. Schreiber 201. Adams B-1851. BN Paris 1. Not in STCFrench BL London Machiels. <br/> <br/> Apud Simonem Colinaeum unknown
1551046883Florence: Laurentius Torrentini 1551. Early Edition. Hardcover Quarter Leather. Very Good Condition. Attractively rebound in leather backed marbled boards new endpapers. Quite clean internally scattered minor foxing last page with a small closed tear title and last with some soiling bright otherwise on fine thick paper. 8 204 index. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Inventory No: 046883. Laurentius Torrentini hardcover
1600046554Coloniae Vbiorum Cologne: Cholini 1600. Later Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Very Good Condition. Contemporary full pigskin soiled and stained but sound. A few private library marks old names crossed out on title signatures to front blank modest browning to text block with scattered minor wear and worming to margins mispgination neatly corrected;generally quite clean overall with in text portraits throughout. 8 532 16 83pp blanks intact. <br/><br/>Platina's history of the popes first printed in 1479. He was also the author of the first printed cookbook a collection of recipes from Martino di Como 1475. His description of events in the Vitis Pontificum around the 1456 appearance of Halley's comet during the reign of Pope Callixtus III gave rise to the persistent tale that the comet was excommunicated. Size: Quarto 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Religion & Theology. Inventory No: 046554. Cholini hardcover
1588046064Paris: Lucas Breyel 1588. Early Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Good Condition. Full contemporary calf heavily worn hinges cracked front board nearly detached and held by one cord rear by two rear bottom corner degraded and broken. Old names inked out on title light toning to title and early pages very clean internally otherwise. With lovely early papier dominoté endpapers and pastedowns stamped "paris chez les associé" with a hard to read number - lacking original blanks with these bound in relatively early on. 4 571 4 leaves.<br /> <br /> The second edition of Belleforest's 1572 work collecting military harangues - the exhortations of commanders given to the troops before a battle. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: History; Military & Warfare. Inventory No: 046064. Lucas Breyel hardcover
159028681Venetiis: Damianum Zenarium. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1590. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Leather. Contemporary full calf binding spine in five compartments separated by raised bands blind-stamped tooling in each compartment blind-stamped borders decoration and religious medallions on each cover metal closure clasps. "Catechism by the Decree of the Sacred Council of Trent by Order of Pius V. Pontifex Maximus. Published Now first in chapters separated into sections variously fortified by the opinions and authorities of the Fathers. Two indexes added the first of which teaches by what means those things which are given in this work can be adapted to the Sunday Gospels and to some other Feasts". Very old library label in one compartment former owners' signatures on fep and title page Jacob Manghofer otherwise unmarked spine and covers rubbed hinges strong text block tight and square; one clasp missing the other still operating well. VERY GOOD. . 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. xxx-Index 704 49-Index pp . Damianum Zenarium hardcover
158206611070110Francoforti ad Moenum Frankfurt 1582. Early Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Title: De arte bibendi libri tres autore Vincentio Obsopoeo Germano. Quibus adiunximus De arte iocandi libros quatuor Matthaei Delij Hamburgiensis cum luculenta in eosdem praefatione ; D. Sebastiani Hamaxurgi apud fontes salutares frumentatoris hexastichon. The Art of Drinking and the Art of Joking. Leather blind-printed covers with linen covering only on spline covers are well-rubbed with worn corners. There are splits on the front and rear hinges at both the head and base of the spine cut red blocks. Sound internal binding with brown end-papers with bookplate Samuel Bradshaw on inside front cover. Red and black title-page is damaged on lower leading edge and corner is well-rubbed leading to the loss of small areas of text and has been re-backed. Initial pages before the Praefatio are a little darkened and there is a sort tear and crease in the upper corner of the margin of the first page of the Paraefatio pages are otherwise clean and free from tears but there is some very light transference of the red from the blocks onto occasional pages. The last short piece "In Ebrietatem" which follows the fourth book of De Arte Iocandi may have a pages missing as there is a trailing word Vta at the end the last two lines are "Sic armis illud vestris circundate monstrum Caedeq prostrata tingite tela ferae". The page facing this has a reverse image of part of a handwritten document with an apparent renaissance signature. Text is in Latin. No dust jacket as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 06611070110. All our books music and maps are sent by a tracked mail service. Francoforti ad Moenum hardcover
1552NL8214Lugduni: Apvd. Seb. Gryphium 1552. HB. Full leather gilt lettering on gilt panel on spine with three raised bands 8 vo 701 pp. Early edition of Pietro Vettori's 1499-1585 translations of Cicero this title mainly dealing with the letters of Cicero. Covers show minor edge wear small hole in leather on spine. No marks in text binding solid. Some foxing to preliminaries text clean. Printed by Sebastianus Gryphius 1493-1556 with his printers device on title page. Book condition VG. Apvd. Seb. Gryphium hardcover
1518136414Bunkyu-do. Circa Meiji 11.5 1878. 2 volumes of a 4 volume atlas of Japan. Volume I: 4pp district list 22 double page copper engraved maps of Kinai Kyoto-Osaka region and Tokaido Tokyo-Kanto region 2 double page in colour 19 double page in black and white and one double page featuring 3 maps of island groups. Volume III: 27 double page maps 3 in colour and 24 in black and white map of the San'indo northern Chugoku region; San'yodo southern Chugoku region and Nankaid Chugoku region Shikoku. Relief shown by hachures. Printed on folded double leaves. Bound accordion style patterned paper covered boards. 26 x 17cm. Very nice clean volumes. Japanese text with Romanised titles on most maps and Romanised title on title page. The orientation of the maps vary. This atlas is surprisingly scarce. OCLC shows only one copy and even odd volumes are not often seen. A very nice example of late 19th century Japanese cartography. . Bunkyu-do. hardcover
1600046524Geneva: Paulus Stephanus Paul Estienne 1600. Early Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Early paneled calf rebacked ca. 19th c. endpapers refreshed hinges worn and cracked held by cords corners bumped wear at edges title foxed scattered mostly light foxing and browning - generally quite clean internally and an attractively printed Estienne edition of Pliny's letters. 28 646 blank 28 8 168 151 pp. Size: Quarto 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 046524. Paulus Stephanus (Paul Estienne) hardcover
1519180794Chicago.: Chicago Daily Tribune. January 151942. Printed colour map on a single newspaper leaf 53 x 40.7 cm; 59.8 x 45 cm sheet inset text box marginal browning and at the folds but remarkably bright in very good condition. WWII map of China showing most of China Indo-China Thailand and Korea with territory captured and controlled by Japan shaded in orange and red published by the Chicago Daily Tribune barely six weeks after the bombing of Pearl Harbour. The text on the map reads "Since 1937 China has been at war with Japan. Lacking many essentials of war the Chinese nevertheless have managed to maintain a front against the aggressors. China's principal life line is the Burma road shown on the map which starts at Lashio Burma and extends to Kunming Yunnan province where it links with connections to Chunking the present Chinese capital". <br> <br>Based on a Rand McNally map the Tribune briskly got to work issuing maps for readers showing the beginnings of the war with Japan. Later maps were also published for sale separately but remarkably few have survived. <br>"… the historic Chicago Tribune was an innovator in color inks and printing but also a pioneer in bringing colorful art in the form of illustrations photographs cartoons and advertisements to the average person in an everyday medium." see The Janet A. Ginsburg Chicago Tribune Collection Michigan State University Libraries. . Chicago Daily Tribune. unknown
1591CAT0004501591. Good Condition. Hand colored engraving light foxing and soiling paper thinned in upper margin from prior mounting damage to the text section with significant loss repaired with paper.<br/><br/>It reads translation from Discovering the New World Based on the Works of Theodore de Bry Harper & Row 1976: "At a certain time of year the Indians collect all kinds of game fish and even crocodiles. Baskets are filled with these creatures and put on the shoulders of curly-haired hermaphrodites whom we have already described. All this is taken to storehouses where it is not touched except in cases of extreme need when to avoid disputes the Indians come to an agreement among themselves which illustrates the harmony that exists among them. However the king is at liberty to take what he chooses." Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking Wine & Dining; History. Inventory No: CAT000450. unknown
1552WB18316Lugduni: apud Seb. Gryphium 1552. Hardcover. Good. 16mo. pp. 887. Old leather with attractive decorative endpapers. Contents shaken with a few leaves loose. Uncommon pocket edition of this ancient history miscellany. <br/><br/> apud Seb. Gryphium hardcover
1562045392Venice: Domenico Guerra & Gio Battista 1562. Early Edition. Hardcover rebound in leather. Good Condition. Rebound in modern sheep front endpapers replaced minor worming and modest staining throughout but still an attractive copy of this early Italian edition of Pliny the Younger and others. With historiated initials - separate section titles but continuously paginated. 16 375pp with a printers mark on the verso of page 375. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 045392. Domenico Guerra & Gio Battista hardcover
1572158424上海.Shanghai.: 三益社.Mimasusha. 昭和十三1938. Coloured folding map China as far north as Hebei Province south to Hong Kong west to Sichuan and Guizhou Provinces and corresponding coastal regions. Some folding black and white plates including one of the Bund looking north. 4 full page colour plates black and white photographic plates some highlighted with colour image of Chinese dragon wall sculptures on endpapers pictorial cover in red silver and gold titled in English and characters. The 54 leaves of photographic plates each captioned in Japanese are accompanied by a tissue guard with a somewhat more detailed explanation of the scenes in English and Japanese. Image of Chinese pagoda in red upper cover rubbed with a little loss. Upper corners bumped. Album measures 26.6 x 19.8cm. In original worn and marked pictorial card slipcase. Very good copy. This volume illustrates the famous sightseeing areas in Shanghai Suzhou Wuxi Zhenjiang Nanjing Wuhu Hangzhou Jiaxing and Songjiang. Additionally one leaf show three young Chinese beauties and two others the everyday lives of Chinese people. . 三益社.[Mimasusha]. unknown
1518170899今井喜兵衛. Imai Kichibē. Meiji 15 1882. Woodblock Japanese printed booklet containing 3 folded leaves. Text accompanied by small handcoloured illustrations showing the minor criminal offences described above. 7 x 3cm section of loss upper section of colour woodblock upper cover stain lower cover upper cover and first two leaves lacks lower cover but contents are complete neatly rethreaded. Still an attractive copy of a fascinating and scarce item. A fascinating insight into crime and punishment in 1880s Japan this little booklet provides colour-illustrated explanations of minor crimes with details of the punishments which apply to them in Shiga Prefecture. It appears to have been designed for distribution to the public - perhaps to shops small businesses etc. From it we learn amongst other things that you could be imprisoned for between 3 and 10 days or fined a sum between 1 and 1.95 yen for giving lodging to a foreigner without recording their address properly. A sentence of 2 to 5 days imprisonment or a fine applied to people who sold raw fugu highly poisonous without proper treatment sold the meat of diseased animals offered photos or woodblock prints of the Emperor and Empress for sale or cremated the dead without official permission or in a place other than the officially approved cremation sites while a sentence of between 1 and 12 days applied to crimes which included flying paper kites near overhead telegraph lines. . 今井喜兵衛. [Imai Kichibē]. unknown
1506W2491Basel Switzerland: Johann Petri & Johann Froben 1506. An original leaf from chapter 19 of the Book of Exodus with rubrication in red and blue. Folio 12 inches by 8 5/8 inches. Printed text in Latin. A leaf from a vulgate Bible with glosses commentary and other matter by the 13th century Catholic theologian Nicolaus de Lyra 1270-1349. De Lyra's insistence on a literal rather than allegorical interpretation of the Bible was a major source of influence on Martin Luther and provided theological impetus to the Reformation. This particular leaf includes passages from Exodus 19 as well as de Lyra's commentary on those passages. It is guaranteed to be more than 500 years old. The leaf is in near-fine condition: clean bright and supple with some minor browning limited to the top edge. Original. Single Sheet. Near Fine. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Manuscript. Johann Petri & Johann Froben
1572171337東京 Tokyo.: 日本古典全集刊行会. Nihon Koten Zenshu Kankokai. 昭和12. 1937. 92 colour plates tipped in 90 42 5pp 17.5 x 12.5cm attractive gilt spine appears to lack the facsimile title label otherwise all tipped in images are present a good hardback copy with embossed cloth covers. 17.3 x 12.2cm. A beautifully produced little book with colour illustrations showing the uses of traditional dyestuffs. Each small tipped in colour plate shows the colour produced by a dye plant or other dyestuff and examples of the designs in which they were used. This is followed by a section of explanatory text on the various fabric dyes illustrated in the volume. <br> <br>This book is a reprint of material originally produced by Haruta Nagatoshi 1753-1800 an eighteenth century armour-maker and was re-published in the 1930s as part of a series of reproductions of classical Japanese writings. . 日本古典全集刊行会. [Nihon Koten Zenshu Kankokai]. hardcover
1519161165Tokyo: Hokuseido Press. 2nd Edition. Showa 15. 1940. 4 colour plates 2 folding numerous black and white photographic illustrations xi 141pp. Attractive purple cloth covered boards contrasting red cloth title label upper cover Japanese binding with tassel ties cloth worn with loss at corners and edges. Good copy. The author writing in the 1930s notes the young Japanese are becoming more Westernized "their bobbed heads buzz with thoughts of cinemas and sports. So it is that every year a decreasing number really understands the significance of the festival figures and their tiny trappings." The book is divided into two parts: The Girls Festival and The Boys Festival with an appendix. . Hokuseido Press. hardcover
1587016842: Abraham Ortelius Original 1587 But This A Reprint 1587. 5th or later Edition . No Binding. Near Fine/No Jacket. 19" x 17. Image Size: 18 7/8" X 13 3/4". Text "Cum Privilegio Decennali Ab. Ortelius Delineab. Et Excudeb. 1587" At Lower Right. However This Must Be A Late Eighteenth Century To Twentieth Century Reprint Printed On Wove Paper Sheet Never Placed In An Atlas. Strong Impression And Color Minor Loss Of A Millimeter Depth In A Tiny Area Of Lower Left Margin Otherwise Undamaged. Margins Irregular Up To 1" Deep. Professionally Cleaned And De-Acidified With Archival Materials By A Museum-Experienced Conservator. <br/> <br/> Abraham Ortelius (Original 1587 But This A Reprint) unknown
