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Florence: Banca Toscana, 1992. 4to; 311 p. Full cloth in d.j. Very good, with dust jacket spine somewhat faded 1492, year of discovery. The Renaissance peaked, the New World appeared on the horizon, the old beliefs began to give way to empirical science. This lavishly illustrated book, published for the Banca Toscana, surveys that signal year in all of its permutations. ... more information

Naples: Istituto Nazionale di studi sul Rinascimento Meridionale, 1991. 66 p. Wraps. Fine. A short history and literary investigation into the assassination that helped restore the Aragonese to the throne of Naples in 1495. ... more information

London: Egypt Exploration Fund, 1902. First edition. 32 cm; 60 pages and 80 plates. Extra illustrated with photograph tipped in on front blank, and ink tracing on onion skin laid in showing "detail from arch leading to inner hall of tomb of Qen Amen," signed in March 1903 with the initials T.M. Bound in original printed boards with cloth spine. Boards and spine somewhat worn and text block somewhat shaken in binding. ... more information

London: Egypt Exploration Fund, 1902-03. First edition. 32 cm; 2 volumes (of three); 60 pages and 80 plates; 58 pages and 64 plates. Bound in original printed boards with cloth spine. Boards and spine somewhat worn and text block somewhat shaken in binding. Upper hinge of volume II split but holding. ... more information

London: George Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode, 1838. First printing. Reference: Izhak Gross, "Parliament and the Abolition of Negro Apprenticeship, 1835-38," The English Historical Review 96 (1981) 560-576.. 30 cm; pages [181]-191. Disbound. Evenly toned. The British Parliament passed legislation in 1833 abolishing slavery in most of its colonies, but however well-intentioned, the law was ineffective. It created a new category of near-slavery, called apprenticeship, that was heavily abused and ... more information

Geneva: R. Estienne, 1558. Reference: Adams E-456 ; Schreiber, 114; Renouard 89,#4.. Folio, [32] leaves, 1126 numbered columns (=282 leaves). Woodcut olive tree device (Schreiber #10) on title page. Foliated initials. Contemporary paneled calf, rebacked with recent plain leather spine. Some light wear. The last book of classical interest printed by Robert Estienne, consisting of his son Henri's edition of Erasmus's popular Adagia, with his commentaries and indices which make this edition partic... more information

New York: Columbia University Press, 1954. Second printing. 24 cm; xiv, 397 pages. Cloth. As new in original glassine dustwrapper. ... more information

Böblingen: Codex-Verlag, 1975. Facsimile of 1822 edition. 42 cm; five volumes in one. Bound in recent black buckram. Binding a bit discolored in places, contents fresh. Reprint of the 1822 ed. published in Stuttgart by J.G. Cotta and in Paris by F. Didot. Note: extra shipping charges may apply. ... more information

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. 29 cm; 283 pages. Illustrated. Cloth, no dust jacket. Unblemished. Translated by James Palmes; revised and edited by Peter Murray. ... more information

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1925. 28 cm; 2 volumes. 768;748 pages, and 50 color plates including folding plates, primarily of subjects in natural history, and several maps. Bound in original green cloth stamped in blind on covers and in gilt on spines. This copy inscribed in calligraphic hand to Otto Braitmayer from the Sydney office of the Dayton Moneyweight and Scale Company, dated March 1927. An artifact of the early days of IBM. In 1901, the company then known as the Computing Scale Company of A... more information

[Washtington]: June 3, 1833. 1 page, quarto. Addressed to the cashier of the Branch Bank of the United States at Nashville, Tennessee. Duane was appointed Secretary of the Treasury by Andrew Jackson to succeed Louis McLane when McLane refused to aid Jackson in his war on the United States Bank by withdrawing the government funds. Duane also refused to withdraw the deposits, and Jackson accordingly dismissed him. Here Duane writes to the Cashier of the Branch Bank of the United States at Nashville, "... more information

Bologna, 1699.. 20 lines of text on 1 leaf watermarked laid paper (267 x 190 mm), addressed to an agent in the sale of two pictures. Slight tears where the paper has disintegrated under ink strokes result in negligible loss. Marcantonio Franceschini (1648-1729) is considered the quintessential representative of Bolognese classicism of the late 17th century. Schooled in a baroque tradition arching back to the Caracci, the artist gracefully anticipated elements of the subsequent neoclassical style. Among hi... more information

New York: Burt Franklin, 1973. Reprint. 19 cm; 272 pages. Bound in red cloth. No dust jacket. Very light shelf wear only, else unblemished. Reprint of the 1907 edition, of which only volume 1 was published. ... more information

Milano: Gioseffo Marelli, 1666. References: Aboca Museum, 144; Thorndike VII, 595. 12mo (14 cm) [20], 346, [2] pages. Woodcut ornaments. Bound in contemporary vellum over boards, expertly rebacked. Well-thumbed text, foxed and dampstained. Owner's inscription on rear pastedown. Popular medical recipe book of home remedies (emetics, plasters, purges, antidiarrhea infusions, and so on), including tobacco soup for depression. Lizard blood mixed with tears, powdered coral and red clay makes a good cl... more information

Venice: Petrus Liechtenstein, at the expense of Joannes Oswalt, 1516. Reference: Essling, 289. Octavo (17cm); [12],329,[2] leaves (last leaf with extraneous woodcut on verso apparently bound in from a different text). Gothic type. Text in two columns. Printed in black and red, with six full-page woodcuts (one repeated, one extraneous), historiated initials and illustrated borders. Title page woodcut of Virgin in majesty. Benefactor's monogram on f. 233. Old flexible vellum, soiled. Straps not ... more information

Milano: Salamon 3 Agustoni, 1971. First edition. 31 cm; 33 pages, and 34 plates (13 of them folding). Original cloth in dust jacket. Minor edge wear to dust jacket. ... more information

New York: Henry Schuman for the Honorary Consultants to the Army Medical Library, nd [1950]. 8vo (26 cm.); xiii, 361 p., and 12 plates. Bound full cloth; titled in gilt on spine. Slight shelf wear to bottom edge. Bookplate of Goodspeedís Book Shop reference library on front pastedown. Full descriptive bibliography for 490 volumes of incunabula, almost all of them rooted in some aspect of medical science (or protoscience). In addition, the volume accounts for 34 Western manuscripts and the Army&iacut... more information

New York: Columbia University Press, 1966. 24 cm; 401 pages. With musical illustrations. Cloth in original glassine dust jacket. ... more information

New York and London: Scribner & Welford; John C. Nimmo, 1885. First edition of this translation; limited to 200 copies in the US and 300 in Great Britain.. Octavo (23 cm); 3 preliminary leaves, [9]-31, v, [7]-494 pages. Engraved frontispiece portrait of La Bruyere, six additional engraved portraits by Benjamin Damman of Montaigne, Descartes, Le Brun, Louis XIV, William III, and Bossuet. Fifteen (of sixteen) vignette headpieces engraved on tissue by Valentine Foulquier and mounted at chapter titles (l... more information

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991. 32 cm; 671 pages. Illustrated. Cloth in dust jacket. Very good condition. ... more information