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Rosario della gloriosa Vergine Maria : con lle sttattiionii & iindullgenttiie delllle chiiese di Roma perr tutto L''anno
by Castello, Alberto da Castello
Venice: Presso la compagnia de gli Vniti, 1585. A later edition of the first rosary Book" in Italian.. This book has a wonderful contemporary binding, recently expertly rebacked. It is of red Morocco with gilt center images and borders gilt, with angels. Over 150 woodcuts (including repeats) comprising almost full-page cuts (1 on t.p.) within borders. All had previously appeared in earlier editions. Ornamental and pictorial border pieces on almost every leaf. ( The wood cut on leaf 173v is upside....
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$7800.00
Psalterium cu(m) apparatu vulgari firmiter appresso
by Psalter
Argentine (Strassburg), Joannem Knoblouch (Knoblauch),1508.
4º. Bound in well-preserved contemporary full pigskin over wood. Profusely blindtooled with rolls and ornamental stamps. Spine with 3 raised bands. Original brass clasp and catch. Light spotting to front cover. On top of front cover clalligraphed in ink: "Psalm". Ff (4) + Ff CXXVI + F (1) + last blank (lower righ of the blank has lost a part of the paper). Title-page printed in red inside vertikal woodcut borders and with a large woodcut... Read more about this item
4º. Bound in well-preserved contemporary full pigskin over wood. Profusely blindtooled with rolls and ornamental stamps. Spine with 3 raised bands. Original brass clasp and catch. Light spotting to front cover. On top of front cover clalligraphed in ink: "Psalm". Ff (4) + Ff CXXVI + F (1) + last blank (lower righ of the blank has lost a part of the paper). Title-page printed in red inside vertikal woodcut borders and with a large woodcut... Read more about this item
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$13500.00
A Selection of Incunabula; 7 December 2004; Sale 5509
by Christie's South Kensington
57 pp. 220 lots. Bibliography. Nicely Illustrated. A selection of lots: Vicentius Bellovacensis, Venice, 1493; Ovidus, Venice 1499; Paulus Pergulensis, Venice, 1491; Paulus de Castro, Nuremberg, 1485; Bible in Latin, Venice, 1483; Biblia Latina, Venice, 1487-88; Biblia Latina, Basel, 1491; Augustinus, Venice, 1486, Augustinus de Ancona, Rome, 1479, Appian of Alexandria, Venice, 1477; Ambrosius, Augsburg, 1476.
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$22.00
![Vitruvius: De architectura; Cleonides: Harmonicum introductorium [Latin]. Tr: Georgius Valla. Angelus Politianus: Panepistemon; Lamia (Praelectio in Priora Aristotelis Analytica); Frontinus: De aquaeductibus](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/571/020/1409020571.0.b.jpg)
Vitruvius: De architectura; Cleonides: Harmonicum introductorium [Latin]. Tr: Georgius Valla. Angelus Politianus: Panepistemon; Lamia (Praelectio in Priora Aristotelis Analytica); Frontinus: De aquaeductibus
by ARCHITECTURE. Vitruvius [Marcus Vitruvius Pollio] (ca. 90 - 20 BC)
Venice: Simon Bevilaqua, 3 Aug, 1497. THIRD EDITION OF VITRUVIUS' "DE ARCHITECTURA", with additional texts, including Sextus Julius Frontinus' "De aquis urbis Romae". Hardcover. Fine. A fresh copy in late 18th c. stiff vellum, later red morocco spine label, gilt (re-cased, text re-sewn), binding lightly soiled, small chips to edge of label, later endpapers and flyleaves). Minor, very discreet repairs to the inner margin of the first leaf and quire E, some skilful restoration to the final leaf (no...
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$150000.00
Incunabula typographia: A descriptive catalogue of the books printed in the fifteenth century (1460-1500) in the Library of Henry Walters
by Olschki, Leo S
Baltimore, 1906 4to (26 cm), front., VII, 522, [2] pp. Publisher's calf, faux thongs on covers, top edge gilt, spine and front cover gilt. Printed in black and red on hand made paper in Florence, bound by Legatoria Tartagli (stamp on the rear end-paper). In 1902 an American art collector Henry Walters (1848-1931) acquired from Florentine bookseller Leo Olschki a spectacular collection of 1200 incunabula. This is a catalogue of this collection finely printed and bound in Florence. Fine copy.
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zł1950.00
Hortuli Commentarium, sive In de Rustica Lib. X. Commentum
by COLUMELLA, Lucius Junius Moderatus
10 leaves, one column, 35 lines, Gothic type, printed guide letters. Small 4to, 19th-cent. red morocco-backed marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt, t.e.g. [Rome: Bartholomaeus Guldinbeck, about 1485].<br /> <P> Second edition (1st ed.: Rome, 1472), of this rare anonymous commentary by Julius Pomponius Laetus on the tenth book - entirely devoted to gardening - of Columella's De Re Rustica. Columella (1st c. A.D.), "Roman landowner, was the author of De Re Rustica ca. AD 60-5), a...
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$19500.00
Glossae ex illustrissimis auctoribus collectae
by SALOMON (891-920), Bishop of Constance and Abbot of St. Gall, attributed to
[Augsburg: Monastery of SS. Ulrich and Afra, circa 1474]. From the Collection of Arthur & Charlotte Vershbow. Royal folio (402 x 268 mm). 287 leaves (of 288, lacking first blank). 55 lines, double-column. Roman type. 12-line woodcut white-vine capitals; spaces for 2-line initials and for one 13-line initial. Printed paragraph marks. Leaves 2/5 and 2/6 disjunct as usual (one or the other a cancel), the stubs preserved. 17th-century German half pigskin, mottled paper boards. Early repair in lower...
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$35000.00
Single incunable leaf with woodblock column miniature of the Martyrdom of Saints Felix and Regula
by JACOBUS DE VORAGINE (1230-1298)
Paperback. Fine. Verso with column miniature of Life of St. Saviano, from a 15th-century "Golden Legend." (Size: 280 x 190mm).
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$375.00
Christ, Plato, Hermes Trismegistus: The Dawn of Printing. Vol. I, Part 1-2
by Ford Lane, Margaret
Brill | Hes & De Graaf, 1990 2 volumes 4to (30.5 cm), 410, [2] pp. Publisher's cloth, in cloth slipcase (the slipcase little at stained the top and dusted). A catalogue of the incunabula in the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, a private Dutch library founded by Joost Ritman. 192 items described, many illustrated. Preface by Joost Ritman, an introduction "Collecting incunabula in the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica" by Frans Janssen.
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zł650.00
Fabulae, in Latin and Italian. Translated and edited by Accio Zucco
by AESOP (circa 620-564 BCE)
Venice: Manfredus de Bonellis de Monteferrato, 1492. 4to (211 x 145 mm). 70 (of 72) leaves, a2.7 supplied in facsimile. Gothic type, 40-41 lines, initial spaces with printed guide letters. 64 (of 66) woodcuts within any of five decorative historiated frames; a single woodcut initial. Modern russet morocco. Some spotting and soiling. Provenance: Giambattista Giorno (early ownership inscription); some early marginalia at end, and a few early ink outlines of animals; sold by Philip Hofer to Arthur and...
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$60000.00
Two full-page hand-colored woodcuts from a 15th-century Dutch Bible
by DUTCH BIBLE ILLUSTRATIONS
Paperback. Very Good+. Two leaves containing full-page, hand-colored woodcuts of Christ’s "Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes" and Scenes from the "Life of the Virgin" (Joachim and Anna at Golden Gate, Virgin Mary’s Birth, Annunciation to Joachim and Joachim’s offerings rejected at the Altar) taken from a Dutch Bible with text on verso, 15th century. (Size: 245 x 180mm, each).
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$800.00
Sermones Pomerii fratris Pelbarti de Themeswar diui ordinis sancti Francisci de Sanctis: Jncipiunt feliciter
by Pelbartus de Themeswar
Augsburg: Hagenau(Augsburg): Heinrich Gran, for Johannes Rynman, 30 September, 1501. [imp[re]ssi ... p[er] industriu[m] Henricu[m] Gran i[, 1501. Folio π6 [chi]6 a-b8 c6 d-e8 f6 g-h8 i6 k-l8 m6 n-o8 p6 q-s8 t6 v-x8 y6 z8 A8 B6 C-D8 E6 F-G8H6 I-K8 L6 M-N8 O6 P-Q8 R6 S-T8 U6 X-Y8 Z6 [&]8 l[eaves 12 and 358 blank ]. ( 13, 357 ff. ). This copy is bound contemporary blind-stamped leather over wooden boards from an Augsburg workshop operating between 1482 and 15. ISTC ip00252500, citing holdings at 15...
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$16000.00
Liber Bibliae Moralis
by [Incunabular Leaf] Berchorius
Ulm: Johann Zainer, 1474. Two handsome and well preserved incunable leaves from a bible printed in Latin at the press of Johann Zainer. Zainer was the second printer in Ulm, and is documented there with a first printed book in 1473, the Pestordnung by the Ulm city doctor Heinrich Steinhöwel. He further developed book decoration and published the first German translation of a work by Giovanni Boccaccio. Like Günther Zainer, printer in Augsburg, Johann Zainer came from Reutlingen; the two men might have...
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$300.00
![[Bodoni] Notizie bibliografiche intorno a due rarissime edizioni del secolo XV](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/728/185/1183185728.0.b.jpg)
[Bodoni] Notizie bibliografiche intorno a due rarissime edizioni del secolo XV
by Pezzana, Angelo
Parma: Bodoni, 1808 8vo (23.5 x 15 cm), [4] ff. 91 pp. Cont. calf backed boards, untrimmed (binding little soiled, top of the spine chipped, stains to free leaves, internally fine). Printed on fine thick paper. An essay on two incunabula printed in Parma (Opuscoli di Plutarco, S.Geronimo e S. Basilio, 1472 and La rime del Petrarca, 1477) by Angelo Pezzana, a librarian of Biblioteca Reale. Brooks 1048.
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zł1950.00
A Leaf from a Latin Version of the Bible
1497. Book. Good. No Binding. A Leaf from a Latin Version of the Bible, printed in Venice in 1497 by Hieronymus de Paganini. While early editions of the Vulgate followed one another in rapid succession, all are now scarce and worthy of attention if only for their place in the history of typography. The need for thin paper in printing as large a book as the Bible was evidently felt as keenly then as in our own day, and the very credible success obtained by Paganini in this direction may be said to...
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$150.00
![Declamationes maiores [edited by Jacobus Grasolarius].](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/103/117/1436117103.0.b.jpg)
Declamationes maiores [edited by Jacobus Grasolarius].
by QUINTILIANUS, Marcus Fabius [pseudo]
Chancery folio (270 x 195mm.), 123 leaves (of 124, without final blank), a10 b8 c-s6 t10, 35 lines, roman type, initial spaces, some early annotations, last 2 leaves with repaired wormholes, otherwise a
fine copy with wide margins and internally fresh.The binding in crushed burgundy morocco by Brugalla dated 1947, gilt edges, marbled slipcase. The endpapers are vibrant marbled paper with broad inner dentelle gilt decorated edges. There is a private
leather library label to the front pastedown. The...
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£7500.00
Liber Cypriani de duodecim abusionum gradibus
by Pseudo - Aurelius Augustinus
Augsburg: Anton Sorg, 1477. Hardcover (rebound in leather). Good Condition. In modern blue morocco with blanks added at the end to fill out the binding. Complete unto itself, but lacking the De consideratione by Bernardus Claravallensis that usually precedes it. Age toning to pages, chipping and darkening at edges, moderate soiling and light staining in spots, marginal notes in an attractive contemporary hand (or two hands, one later), a few leaves trimmed in the margin; still attractive overall. 7...
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$3000.00
Catalogue Of An Exhibition of Monuments of Printing 1455 - 1500. Including First Editions of the Great Classical and Medieval Authors. First Edition.
by Rosenbach Company
NY: Rosenbach Company, 1931.. 8vo. 28 pp., Stapled Wraps, Good with tear to FFEP & marginal tears to covers, else VG. Letterpress on watermarked laid paper.
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$50.00
Bibliotheca Bibliothecarum curis secundis auctior..
by LABBÉ, Philippe
16 p.l., 394 (i.e. 392) pp. 8vo, cont. vellum over boards (minor browning). Paris: L. Billaine, 1664. "This is the first edition of the earliest extant bibliography of bibliographies (despite the 'curis secundis auctior' on the title). It is basically an alphabetical list, arranged by authors' first names, followed by eight intricate subject indices, among them one of publishers' and booksellers' catalogues. Appended is a very useful numismatic bibliography. The work...
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$7500.00
Pierwsza książka polska. Studyum bibliograficzne z 86 podobiznami
by Bernacki, Ludwik
Lwów: Nakładem Zakładu Narodowego im. Ossolińskich, 1918 8o (23 cm), VIII, 510, [2] pp. Bound before: Kowaski, Gerard. Katalog inkunabułów biblioteki opactwa mogilskiego oraz katalog inkunabułów biblioteki klasztoru cystersów w Szczyrzycu. Kraków: Nakładem Akademii Umiejętności, 1915. Front, XIII, 162 pp, 1 plate. Cont. marbled boards, red label on the spine (binding little rubbed). The first book is a study of the...
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zł450.00
incipt Roseum memoriale divinorum eloquiorum
by Rosenheim, Petrus de Rosenheim. (1380-1432)
[Köln] : [Southern Germany : n.pr., about 1480-90?] or [Cologne? : n.pr., about 1483] or [Ludwig von Renchen?], 1483 Deutschla, 1480. First Edition. First edition. - First blank almost loose, with backed tear and torn of corner as well as "Rosarium sup(er) bibliam" in old handwriting, flyleaf with purchase note dated 1908, small water stain on the bottom corner in the first half of the work, slightly soiled and tanned. - Wide margined copy from the Wican Free Public Library (blind stamp and bookplate)....
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$15500.00
Single incunable leaf from Bonaventura treatise, “Quaestiones super IV libros Sentiarum Petri Lombardi"
by BONAVENTURA -- ANTON KOBERGER (c. 1440-1513)
Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1491. Paperback. Near Fine. The text presents repeated questions “Consequenter queritur ...” and is organized with article headings. Fol. xvi only. 64 lines of commentary around text. Double column of Gothic letter. Paragraph markings in red and blue ink. Wide margins, a wonderful survival from a rare Koberger printed Bonaventura, and a beautiful production. (Size: 415 x 275mm).
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$375.00
De sacramentis Christianae fidei
by Hugo de Sancto Victore (ca. 1096-1141)
[Augsburg: Günther Zainer,] c., 1477. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, the brass clasp with catch-plate preserved. An original title on label on upper board is preserved, with slight loss. The binding has been rebacked and has some other minor restorations; the lower boards is a bit wormed. A fine, broad-margined copy, with just a little marginal worming to the first and final few leaves (not affecting the text); light dampstain to the lower...
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$18000.00
Book of Hours
by BOOK OF HOURS
Paris, 1400. BOOK OF HOURS. Use of Paris) In French and Latin, illuminated manuscript, on parchment France, Paris, c. 1400-1410 15 large miniatures by the Master of the Bible Historiale MS fr. 159 (as described by Les Enluminures) This beautifully executed and unusual Parisian Book of Hours was painted at the time of the Duke of Berry. The "realism" seen in the illuminations represents a special moment in Parisian art, one exemplifying its northern origins. The miniatures are attributed to one of...
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$350000.00
