Search Results: 16th Century from Charles Agvent

Venice: Officina Valgrisiana, 1559. Third Edition in Latin. Hardcover. Old partly scored inscriptions on title page, occasionally heavy marginal soiling and stains, scattered early underscoring, clean tear in 2G6, crude marginal restoration on last two leaves. Scratch to front cover. Very Good example of this important and well-illustrated early herbal. Folio in sixes (8-1/2" x 12-1/2") in modern leather; [98] (of [100]), 776; 46, [2] pages, including last leaf with printer's device on verso; lacks index leaf b1. Profusely illustrated with more than 700 woodcuts, about 10% of which are not botanical in nature and include various animals and sea life as well as such scenes as a beekeeper, a couple shearing sheep, a man catching snakes, etc. Mattioli's commentary on the 1st-century A.D. materia medica of Dioscorides was first published in Italian in 1544 (without illustrations) and in Latin translation in 1554 (with fewer woodcuts than in this edition). Appended to this edition is his attack on… Read More

Lugduni [Lyons]: Apud Seb. Gryphium, 1554. Early Edition. Hardcover. Lacks original endpapers and final two blanks; slight aging of text, faint water stains to margins of some pages at end. Near Fine. Small octavo (2-7/8" x 5") in 19th century vellum-backed and cornered marbled boards, gilt-ruled spine, gilt-lettered morocco spine label, all edges gilt; woodcut on title page and two woodcut initials, all pages ruled in red; 112 pages; a-g8 h5. Adams, F 654. Part of Florus's work on LivyÂ’s history of Rome.

Lyons: Matthiam Bonhomme, 1554/1555. First Edition. Hardcover. Woodcut of fish on page 238 of first part pasted over with another woodcut, Y4 in first part and g2 & n3 in second all slightly defective at fore-edge (repaired with loss of a few letters, some supplied in manuscript), H1 of second part defective at foot (no loss) and H6 (final leaf) stained at edges and defective (no loss, laid down), small ink monogram stamped on verso of first title, very light water-staining to upper half, otherwise very clean. A Near Fine copy of this scarce title with wonderful woodcuts. Folio (8" x 13") bound in recent full calf with five raised bands, gilt-lettered spine label, and some blind tooling. Two parts in one volume: (16), 583, (25); (12), 242, (10) pages. Titles with woodcut device, each part with privilege leaf and woodcut portrait of the author, woodcut initials, ornaments and over 400 woodcut illustrations of fish and other forms of aquatic life throughout. Adams R 746 & 757; Casey Wood, 541: "this… Read More

Nuremberg: [Typis Voegelinianis], 1590 [1605]. Hardcover. Minor dampstaining at the upper gutter extending toward the center of the page in some instances but usually quite light and never touching any emblem. Near Fine example of this lovely book. Small quarto (5-1/4" x 7-3/4") bound in full recent antique calf with four raised bands and gilt lettering. Bound with Camerarius. Symbolorum & emblematum ex animalibus.... Nuremberg, 1595. And: Camerarius. Symbolorum & emblematum ex volitatibus et insectis.... Nuremberg, 1596. And: Camerarius. Symbolorum & emblematum ex aquatilibus et reptilibus.... [Nuremberg?], 1604. Edited by the renowned German physician and naturalist J. Camerarius's son, Ludwig Camerarius. First Collected Edition of the four volumes, this copy lacking the general title page and five pages of preliminary matter but retaining the blanks at the end of the third and fourth parts. 102 ff.; 103 ff. [1]; [2] 102 ff. [2]; [4] 100 ff. [1]. Each volume contains an original engraved title… Read More

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1934. Hardcover. Slight foxing to first few pages, many of which are unopened; spine a bit darkened, rubbing to covers with slight loss. Very Good, lacking the slipcase. Bruce Rogers. Large octavo (6-5/8" x 10-1/8") bound in half vellum, gold-stamped, and pattern-paper sides by Frederic Warde. Introduction by H. G. Wells. Designed and decorated with fleuron arrangements and reproductions of sixteenth century woodcuts by Bruce Rogers including a superbly designed title page composed of printers' ornaments. Copy #323 of 1500 SIGNED by the designer on the colophon page.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1934. Hardcover. Spine a little foxed, as usual. Near Fine in a complete slipcase with the bottom section partly detached. Bruce Rogers. Large octavo (6-5/8" x 10-1/8") bound in half vellum, gold-stamped, and pattern-paper sides by Frederic Warde. Introduction by H. G. Wells. Designed and decorated with fleuron arrangements and reproductions of sixteenth century woodcuts by Bruce Rogers including a superbly designed title page composed of printers' ornaments. Copy #875 of 1500 SIGNED by the designer on the colophon page.