De Motu Cordis & Sanguinis in animalibus, Anatomica Exercitatio. Cum refutationibus Aemylii Parisani, Romani, philosophi, ac medici Veniti; et Jacobi Primrosii, in Londinensi collegio doctoris medici
by Harvey, William (1578-1657)
Leiden: Johann Maire, 1639. Hardcover. Fine. Quarto: 3 books in 1 vol. 19.2 x 14.4 cm. I. Harvey: [iv], 267, [i]; 84, [iv] pp., with 2 engraved plates on two inserted leaves. Collation: (?)2, π2 (the plates), A-Z4, Aa-Kk4, Ll2; (a)-k4, l2, π2 (Ad Lectorem). II. Aselli: [viii], 104, [8] pp., with 4 engraved plates on 4 inserted leaves. Collation: )?(4, π4 (plates with letterpress on versos), A-O4. III. Beckher: (xvi), 170, (vi) pp. Collation: *4, **4, A-Y4.... Read More
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Speculum aureum decem praeceptorum Dei
by Henricus de Herpf (c.1410-1477)
Mainz: Peter Schoeffer, 10 September, 1474. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. A fine copy, in an impressive binding, of the first edition, printed by Gutenberg’s apprentice, Peter Schoeffer. Bound in contemporary Bamberg blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards [Kyriss 006, EBDB w000078, Bamberg Minoritenkloster], with flyleaves from vellum manuscript antiphonal, brass catch-plates with sphinxes, straps and clasps intact. Wormholes to both boards, endpapers renewed, binding a little soiled. Incipit and printer’s device printed in red. Rubricated throughout, some of the... Read More
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Copia originalis littere ad Leonem X de pace et federe per eum et Francorum regem
by Henry VIII, King (1491-1547)
[Rome]: [Marcello Silber], after 12th August, 1514. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in 19th c. green morocco, a.e.g., gilt turn-ins, spine rubbed. Ex libris R.B.. A fine copy. Early foliation at upper corners of the lvs. A political letter from Henry VIII to Pope Leo X of Rome, written by Henry when he was only 23 years old. The letter is a rare piece of printed diplomatic correspondence from the last decades of England as a Catholic monarchy.... Read More
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Assertio septem sacramentorum adversus Martinum Lutherum
by Henry VIII, King (1491-1547); Luther, Martin (1483-1546)
Antwerp: Michiel Hillen, 1522. AN EARLY EDITION, ONE OF FIVE PRINTED IN 1522 (The book was first printed in 1521, at London. A Rome edition also appeared in 1521.). Hardcover. Fine. A fine copy, bound in 17th c. calf (ca. 1680), either English or Dutch, with some surface wear and a stain and small sympathetic repair to the lower board, corners bumped, lacking label, gilding perished in places. Title and verso of final blank lightly soiled, first few... Read More
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![ΟΜΗΡΟΥ ΙΛΙΑΣ HOMERI ILIAS [and:] ΟΔΥΣΣΕΙΑ. Βατραχομυομαχια. Υμνοι. ?β. VLYSSEA. Batrachomyomachia. Hymni XXXII](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/157/665/1507665157.9.l.jpg)
ΟΜΗΡΟΥ ΙΛΙΑΣ HOMERI ILIAS [and:] ΟΔΥΣΣΕΙΑ. Βατραχομυομαχια. Υμνοι. ?β. VLYSSEA. Batrachomyomachia. Hymni XXXII
by Homer
Venice: In aedibus Aldi et Andreae Asulani Soceri, April, 1524. THIRD ALDINE EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. A married set, bound in matching leather bindings (late 18th- early 19th c.), boards ruled in gold, spines tooled with attractive floral ornaments, red labels with “Homerus” tooled in Roman, and green labels with the Greek titles (“ΙΛΙΑΣ “, “ΟΔΥΣΣΕΙΑ”). The Aldine anchor and dolphin device is tooled on the boards of both volumes. This is a married set, the first volume slightly... Read More
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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... Read More
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Auslegung uber Sankt Augustins Regel
by Humbertus de Romanis (1200-1277)
[Ulm: Conrad Dinckmut,] c., 1488. FIRST AND ONLY 15th c. EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. A large copy bound in contemporary Augsburg blindstamped calf over wooden boards [Kyriss 81, EBDB w002144], title tooled on upper board, author's name inscribed on fore-edge, label on upper board. The binding is a little worn, with a few wormholes, some leather missing from spine, lacking clasps. An early printed leaf has been used as a rear pastedown. Light dampstaining to the first and final... Read More
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Clag und vormanung gegen dem übermässigen unchristlichen gewalt des Bapsts zu Rom, und der ungeistliche(n) geistlichen
by Hutten, Ulrich von (1488-1523)
Straßburg: Johann Schott, 1520. FIRST EDITION OF HUTTEN'S FIRST VERNACULAR WORK. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in modern ¼ vellum and marbled paper over boards. A very good copy with mild toning, a very small stain in the inner margin, and a small restored tear to the blank upper margin of leaf A4, not affecting the text. With the famous woodcut portrait of Hutten as poet laureate in full armor, accompanied by a revolutionary slogan: "Let us break the chains... Read More
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Dialogi. Fortuna. Febris prima. Febris secunda. Trias Romana. Inspicientes
by Hutten, Ulrich von (1488-1523)
Mainz: Johann Schöffer, 1520. FIRST EDITION OF THE TRIAS ROMANA, FORTUNA, FEBRIS SECUNDA, AND INSPICIENTES. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in 17th c. calfskin, spine tooled in gold (discreet repairs to joints, corners, and top compartment of spine; slim crack at head of rear joint, minor wear to the gilding.) A nice copy with minor soiling to title and final leaf, and a few instances of light marginal foxing. With a title page allegorical woodcut of Fortuna (Fairfax Murray 215)... Read More
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De gvaiaci medicina et morbo gallico liber unus
by Hutten, Ulrich von (1488-1523)
Mainz: Johann Schöffer, 1524. FOURTH EDITION (1st ed. 1519). Hardcover. Fine. Bound in 20th c. green morocco with gilt turn-ins. A fine copy, a.e.g., with a fine woodcut title border, woodcut initials, and occ. contemporary annotations. The title border incorporates Schöffer's coat of arms (see Johnson no. 62 and Pflugk-Harttung no. 52). Ulrich von Hutten's famous work on the treatment of syphilis, one of the earliest and most important books on the topic. Hutten, who had himself suffered... Read More
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Systema Saturnium, sive de causis mirandorum Saturni phaenomenon, et comite eius planeta novo
by Huygens, Christiaan (1629-1695)
The Hague: Adrian Vlacq, 1659. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. [Bound with:] De circuli magnitudine inventa. Accedunt eiusdem problematum quorundam illustrium constructiones. Leiden: Elzevir, 1654 Quarto: II. (8), 71, (1) p. Collation: *4, A-I4 FIRST EDITION of Huygens' landmark work on Saturn bound with the FIRST EDITION of Huygens’ work on the quadrature of the circle, “De circuli magnitudine inventa.”(1654). Very fine copies in contemporary vellum with a very pale damp-stain to leading edge... Read More
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Esercizj spirituali di S. Ignazio di Lojola, fondatore della Compagnia di Gesù. Con una Breve Istruzione di meditare, cavata da' medesimi Esercizi
by Ignatius, of Loyola, S.J., Saint (1491-1556)
Venice: Giovanni Radici, 1737. Hardcover. Fine. Illustrated with twenty-five full-page engravings in the text. With a woodcut Jesuit device on the title page. Inquisitor's approbation on the recto of the final leaf, verso with publisher's advertisement. Bound in contemporary stiff parchment (lightly soiled, corners bumped, small defects at head and tail of spine). A fine copy with scattered marginal soiling and a few small marginal stains. Edges sprinkled red. The "Spiritual Exercises" of Ignatius of Loyola, founder... Read More
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Exercitia spiritvalia Ignatij de Loyola
by Ignatius, of Loyola, Saint (1491-1556)
Rome: Collegio Societatis Jesu, 1596. FIRST EDITION OF THE DEFINITIVE VULGATE TEXT. Hardcover. Fine. Jesuit emblem on title-page, wood-cut initials throughout. A very good copy of this rare edition. Small area of corrosion at head of the title page, not affecting text, as the result of an early ink inscription. Contents with scattered foxing and occasional light damp-stains and a few ink spots. Bound in 17th c. sprinkled calf (some abrasions to boards, minor wear to foot of... Read More
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Dell'Historia Natvrale di Ferrante Imperato Napoletano Libri XXVIII: nella qvale ordinatamente si tratta della diuersa condition di miniere e pietre: con alcune historie di piante & animali, sin'hora non date in luce
by Imperato, Ferrante (ca. 1550- ca. 1625)
In Napoli: Nella Stamparia à Porta Reale per Costantino Vitale, 1599. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in 19th c. mottled parchment (minor wear to extremities and head and tail of spine) with gilt spine label. A fine copy, illustrated with 126 woodcuts, with some light intermittent spotting, and instances of foxing and light browning in nine gatherings. Complete with the double-page woodcut view of Imperato's private cabinet of curiosities in his apothecary shop, printed on heavier paper. FIRST... Read More
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![The book of common prayer, and administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the church, according to the use of the Church of Ireland: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches. [Bound with, as issued:] A New version of the Psalms of David, fitted to the tunes used in churches. By N. Brady, D.D. chaplain in Ordinary, and N. Tate, Esq; poet lauraet [sic] to His Majesty](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/539/756/1693756539.0.l.jpg)
The book of common prayer, and administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the church, according to the use of the Church of Ireland: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches. [Bound with, as issued:] A New version of the Psalms of David, fitted to the tunes used in churches. By N. Brady, D.D. chaplain in Ordinary, and N. Tate, Esq; poet lauraet [sic] to His Majesty
by CHURCH OF IRELAND
Dublin: Printed by and for George Grierson, printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, at the King's Arms and Two Bibles in Essex-Street, 1733. With 52 engraved plates on heavier paper, by Elisha Kirkall (1682-1742), printed at London by John Clarke. Hardcover. Fine. An extremely rare Dublin imprint in a contemporary Irish binding. The publisher, George Grierson, husband of the Irish author Constantia Grierson (1705-1732). ESTC locates only 2 copies (British Library, National Library of Ireland.). Bound in... Read More
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![Ta tōn Mousōn eisodia: = The Muses welcome to the high and mightie prince Iames by the grace of God King of Great Britaine France and Ireland, defender of the faith &c. At His Majesties happie returne to his olde and natiue kingdome of Scotland, after 14 yeeres absence, in anno 1617. Digested according to the order of his Majesties progresse, by I.A. [bound with, as often] Ta tōn Musōn exodia (STC 142)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/385/611/1691611385.0.l.jpg)
Ta tōn Mousōn eisodia: = The Muses welcome to the high and mightie prince Iames by the grace of God King of Great Britaine France and Ireland, defender of the faith &c. At His Majesties happie returne to his olde and natiue kingdome of Scotland, after 14 yeeres absence, in anno 1617. Digested according to the order of his Majesties progresse, by I.A. [bound with, as often] Ta tōn Musōn exodia (STC 142)
by [James I, King of England (1566-1625) & James VI of Scotland] Drummond, William (1585-1649); Hay, John, 1546-1607; Hume, David (1558-1629); Boyd, Robert (1578-1627), et al.
Imprinted at Edinburgh: [s.n.], 1618. FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE. "A reissue of STC 140 (Edinburgh: Thomas Finlason, 1618). Hardcover. Fine. With cancel title page and dedication printed by A. Hart; Page 109-12 are a cancel bifolium printed in London by the Eliot's Court Press. Cf. STC. This copy is bound with bound with, as often, "Ta tōn Musōn exodia" (see STC 142). There are two variants of Hart's issue, the other with line 3 in the title reading... Read More
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The Works of Ben Jonson, Which were formerly Printed in Two Volumes, are now Reprinted in One. To which is added A Comedy, Called the New Inn. With Additions never before Published. Neque, me ut miretur turba laboro: Contentus paucis lectoribus
by Jonson, Benjamin (ca. 1572-1637)
London: Thomas Hodgkin for H. Herringman, E. Brewster, T. Basset, R. Chiswell, M. Wotton, and G. Conyers, 1692. FIRST COMPLETE COLLECTED EDITION. With the engraved frontispiece portrait of Jonson as Poet Laureate, by William Elder after Robert Vaughn, bound opposite the title. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary speckled calf, very nicely re-backed, boards lightly pitted, board edges and corners bumped (with some small losses to the leather), boards ruled with a double gold filet. The spine is richly... Read More
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Liber de confutatione hebraice secte
by JUDAICA. ANTISEMITISM. BIBLICAL STUDIES. Gratiadei, Johannes Baptista [Giovanbattista Graziadei]
Strasbourg: Ex officina...Martini Flach civis Argentinensis [i.e. Martin Flach], 20 September, 1500. SECOND OF TWO EDITIONS. The first was printed at Rome by E. Silber in May of the same year. No other editions were printed. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in modern vellum. A fine, clean copy with just some occasional, very mild foxing to the upper margin. The Hebrew passages have been transliterated rather than set in Hebrew characters. A methodical refutation of Rabbinic interpretations of the Book... Read More
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His Majesties Most Gracious and Royal Commission for the Relief of Poor Distressed Prisoners
by DEBTORS' PRISONS. SOCIAL JUSTICE
London: Printed for M.D. and are to be sold by Nathaniel Webb, at the Royal Oak, in St. Pauls Church-yard, neer the little north-door of St. Pauls Church, 1664. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in modern quarter calf and marbled boards. A crisp copy (a few sall rust marks, final leaf dusty, verso of last text leaf lightly foxed.) The first leaf is a full-page woodcut of the royal arms. The final leaf (bound at the beginning in... Read More
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Argumenta Satyrarum Iuuenalis per Antonium Mancinellum. Cum quattuor commentariis
by Juvenal [Decimus Junius Juvenalis] (C.E. 60-130)
Venice: Impressum per Ioannem de Cereto alias Tacuinum de Tridino, 10 December, 1501. SECOND EDITION THUS. Hardcover. Fine. An attractive copy in a contemporary, blind-stamped Italian Renaissance binding of quarter calf and wooden boards (some worm-traces and defects to leather and boards, clasps and one fastener missing, metal catches preserved, straps perished). Fine and clean internally with the exception of some marginal soiling and trivial blemishes (soiling to lower margin of title, light damp-stain to upper margin of... Read More
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Harmonices Mundi Libri V.
by Kepler, Johannes (1571-1630)
Linz: J. Planck for G. Tampach, 1619. FIRST EDITION, first issue (see below). Hardcover. Fine. The Norman copy of Kepler's great cosmological treatise. Bound in contemporary reversed English calf, rebacked and re-sewn. A fine copy. Very slight fraying to outer margin of title, clean tears (not entering the text in the upper margin of leaf f2 and leaf C1; a third clean tear to the inner blank margin of leaf S2. In addition to the engraved illustrations on... Read More
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Musaeum Kircherianum sive Musaeum A.P. Athanasio Kirchero in Collegio Romano Societatis Jesu iam pridem incoeptum nuper restitutum, auctum, descriptum, & Iconibus illustratum
by KIRCHER, ATHANASIUS (1602-1680)]; Buonanni, Filippo (1638-1725)
Rome: Typis G. Palchi, 1709. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Complete with all 172 full-paged engraved plates of specimens from the museum's collections and the portrait of the dedicatee, Francesco Ruspoli. Bound in contemporary vellum over boards (soiled, corners bumped, wear to the lower edges of the covers with some exposure of the boards. A nice copy with minor soiling and occasional small spots. There is a small stain in the upper blank margin of the final four index... Read More
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![[Ἐρωτήματα (Grammatica Graeca)] and associated texts](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/756/565/1523565756.12.l.jpg)
[Ἐρωτήματα (Grammatica Graeca)] and associated texts
by Lascaris, Constantine (1434-1501)
Venice: apud Aldum, mense octobri, 1512. THIRD ALDINE EDITION. “This edition of 1512 is certainly the third, and later than the one without a date (ca. 1502-3, Renouard p. 262, Ahmanson-Murphy 50), in which we do not find the three treatises on the Greek dialects, added to this one. Hardcover. Fine. A truly fine copy. Bound in 16th c. German blind-stamped pigskin over beveled wooden boards with the original clasps preserved (one clasp with small defect, minor wear... Read More
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Omnium homicidiorum examen in duas partes dispertitum, Quarum prima, Ad fiscum potissimè spectantia dilucidat, secunda, Quae reis principaliter prosunt accuratè complectitur
by LAW. HOMICIDE. Melchiori, Bartolommeo, attrib
Venice: Lorenzo Basilio, 1728. SOLE EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary carta rustica. Untrimmed, with deckled edges preserved throughout. Fine condition with just a few leaves spotted. Extremely rare. OCLC and KVK locate 4 copies outside of Italy, only 1 of which is in North America (Harvard Law Library). The work has been attributed to Bartolommeo Melchiori, who also authored a book on criminal law, "Miscellanea di materie criminali, volgari e latine, composta secondo le leggi civili e... Read More
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Bambergische halszgerichts Ordenung
by LAW. TORTURE. Schwarzenberg, Johann von (1463-1528)
Mainz: Johann Schöffer, 2 April ("Uff Mitfasten"), 1508. SECOND EDITION (1st ed. 1507) of a "milestone and turning point in the development of German criminal law" (E. Wolf). Hardcover. Fine. Bound in fine blue morocco by the Belgian binder Charles De Samblanx (1855-1943), boards richly tooled in gold, framed by three fillets and stippling. With a large central ornament and further ornaments at the corners. Fine red morocco doublures, also richly tooled in gold. Spine ruled and tooled... Read More
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