Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper

Dante Alighieri.- Lactantius (Lucius Coelius Firmianus) Opera, second edition, the second book by these printers, collation: *12 1-1110 128 13-161...

Luciani Palinurus. Luciani Scipio romanus. Luciani heroica in amorem. Luciani Asinus aureus. Bruti romani epistole. Diogenes cynici epistole, coll...

Turks and Christians.- Methodius (Saint) Revelationes Divinae a Sanctis Angelis Factae, first illustrated edition, edited by Sebastian Brant, coll...

Asia.- Mandeville (Sir John) Tractato bellissimo delle piu maravigliose cose & piu motabile che sitrovino nelle parte delmondo, collation: a-k8, 8...

Etterlin (Petermann) Kronica von der loblichen Eÿdtgnoschaft ir harkommen und sust seltzam strittenn und Geschichten, first edition, second issue,...

Hours, use of Rome.- Catholic Church. Hore christifere virginis marie secundum usum Romanum ... cum illius miraculis & figuris apocalipsis et bibl...

Distilling.- Brunschwig (Hieronymus) Liber de arte Distillandi de Compositis, first edition of the so-called 'Grosses Destillierbuch', collation: ...

New Testament, German.- Luther (Martin) Das neuw Testament recht grüntlich teutscht, collation: A-C4 D-E2 F4 B-Z6 Aa-Gg6 Hh8, title within ornate ...

Reynard the Fox.- Reynke Voss de olde, third Low German edition extant, first edition with these illustrations, collation: A-Ll8, complete, Gothic...

Early Songbook.- [Petri (Theodoricus)] [Piae Cantiones Ecclesiasticae et Scolasticae Veterum Episcoporum...], first edition, collation: A-M8 N4, l...

Pierced binding.- Moritz of Hesse (Count) Davidis regii prophetae Psalterium, Vario Genere Carminis Latine Redditum, second edition, collation: A-...

Aquinas (Thomas, Saint).- Petrus de Bergamo. Tabula operum Thomae Aquinatis, collation: [a–m10 n8 o4 p–u10  x8  y14+1  z A–C10 D8 E6+1 ] (varies b...

Astronomy.- Regiomontanus (Johannes Müller) Kalendarium, second edition, collation: a8 b10 c12 d2 32ff. complete, printed in red and black, roman ...

Simonetta (Giovanni) Commentarii rerum gestarum Francisci Sfortiae, first edition, [edited by Franciscus Puteolanus], collation: a-z8 A-E8 F-G6 H-...

Hortulus anime, collation: 1-20, a-z8, ζ8 Ɔ4, but lacking 55ff., printed in red and black, woodcut illustrations and initials by Hans Baldung Grie...

Boccaccio (Giovanni) Laberinto d'amore...Con una epistola á Messer Pino de Rossi confortatoria, collation: A-I8, mostly in Italic type, initial sp...

Cato (Marcus Porcius) Varro, Columella & Palladius. Libri de re rustica, first Badius edition, collation: Aa6, A8, B6, a-t8, v6, x8, Roman type, t...

Judaica.- ibn Shuaib (Joel) Perush Megilat Eicha [Commentary on the Book of Lamentations], 40 ff., occasional marginal staining, short tear to fin...

Machzor KeMinhag Roma [festival prayers for the entire year], 2 parts in 1, 210ff., printed on blue paper, double column, title within architectur...

Judaica.- Talmud, Babylonian.- [A set of 20 Tractates], a mixed set, in 17 vol., with the following commentaries; Rashi, Tosafoth, Piskei Tosafoth...

Judiaica.- Immortality of the Soul.- ben Israel (Menasseh) Nishmath Chaim, engraved portrait frontispiece, title within ornate architectural borde...

Judaica.- "False Messiah of Izmir".- Coenen (Thomas) Ydele Verwachtinge der Joden Getoont in den Persoon van Sabethai Zevi, text in Dutch and Hebr...

Seder Haggadah shel Pesach, commentary by Isaac Abrabanel, 54pp., additional engraved title (laid down, from another copy, its wormholes repaired)...

Judaica.- Herzl (Theodor) Der Judenstaat - Versuch einer modernen Lösung der Judenfrage, first edition, first issue with printer's device of a sin...

Judaica.- Sepher Pirkei Avot [Ethics of the Fathers], translated by Joseph Nahmuli, text in Greek and Hebrew, titles and 15 ff. with marginal loss...

Israel.- Public Warning (A)! by His Eminence the Chief Rabbi for Eretz Israel A. I. Kook ... be warned and remember that it is Strictly Forbidden ...

Israel.- Iton Rishmi [Official Gazette of Israel, no. 1], first printing of Israel's declaration of independence, text in Hebrew, hole-punch holes...

Israel.- Weizmann (Chaim) Trial and Error, 2 vol., one of 500 copies signed by the author, original cloth, light rubbing to spine tips and corners...

Castiglione (Baldassare) Il libro del cortegiano del conte Baldesar Gastiglione, collation: A-Z8 AA-BB8, woodcut printer's device to title and ver...

Numismatics.- Huttichius (Johannes) Imperatorum et Caesarum vitæ, cum Imaginibus ad vivam effigiem expressis, 2 parts in 1 vol., title within wood...

Albania.- Barlezio (Marino) De Vita Moribus ac Rebus Praecipue adversus Turcas..., second edition, collation: [*]6 A-Z a-h6, woodcut device on tit...

Emblemata.- Alciati (Andrea) Los Emblemas...Traducidos en rhimas Espanolas, first edition in Spanish, translated by Bernardino Daza, collation: A-...

Emblemata.- Alciati (Andrea) Diverse Imprese...tratte da gli Emblemi dell' Alciato, first edition in Italian, translated by Giovanni Marquale, col...

Emblemata.- Alciati (Andrea) Emblemes...de nouveau Translatez en Francois vers pour vers jouxte les Latins, first edition of the second French tra...

Emblemata.- Alciati (Andrea) Emblematum libri duo, miniature edition, collation: A-I8 complete, woodcut device on title and another on verso of fi...

Emblemata.- Alciati (Andrea) Emblemata cum commentariis & notis, additional engraved title, printed title with woodcut device and large woodcut de...

Emblemata.- Paradin (Claude) Devises Heroiques, second edition, collation: a-q8 r4 complete with final blank leaf, title within woodcut border, 18...

Binding.- Horatius Flaccus (Quintus) Q. Horatius Flaccus: cum commentariis & enarrationibus commentatoris veteris..., collation: *-**4 A-Z4 a-z4 a...

Binding.- Louis XIII.- Dempster (Thomas) Antiquitatum Romanarum Corpus Absolutissimum, title in red and black with printer's woodcut device, 2 fol...

Binding.- Charles de France, Duc de Berry.- Office de la Semaine Sante, manuscript single rule border in brown throughout, some marginal spotting,...

Binding.- Royal Arms.- Office de la Semaine Sainte, engraved additional title laid-down to sheet, ink note in later hand to recto, lacking front e...

Binding.- Maria Josepha of Saxony, Dauphine of France.- Version du Nouveau Testament selon la Vulgate, woodcut device to title, contemporary red m...

Binding.- Madame Victoire de France.- Campagne de Monsieur le Marechal de Villars en Allemagne, 2 vol., half-titles, some browning to vol. 1, engr...

Silver binding.- Arndt (Johann) Paradiess Gärtlein, 2 parts in 1, title to part 1 printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece and 5 plates, ti...

Bound in the arms of the dedicatee.- Palazzuolo (Cesare) Il Soldato di Santa Chiesa, first edition, title with woodcut arms of the dedicatee Franc...

Vallisneri (Antonio) Opere diverse, 3 parts in 1, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, 30 folding plates, some light marginal water-stai...

Cornerstone of French Enlightenment Philosophy.- Helvetius (Claude Adrien) De l'Esprit, true first issue "A" of the suppressed first edition, larg...

Fox (Charles James).- Beccaria (Cesare) Dei Delitti e delle Pene, engraved frontispiece, occasional light foxing, contemporary English blue straig...

Hugo (Victor) Les Miserables, 10 vol., mixed edition, half-titles, some foxing, the occasional light stain, vol. 9 final 2 leaves with marginal te...

Psalter, in Sahidic dialect of Coptic, in Coptic Uncials, manuscript on parchment, single leaf with a stub from its sister leaf on the other half ...

Pseudo-Marcellus, Passio sanctorum Petri et Pauli, an apocryphal text based on the Acts of St. Peter, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment,...

Leaf from a very large copy of the Acta Sanctorum, with a monumental decorated initial ‘T’, in Beneventan minuscule, in Latin, decorated manuscrip...

Bifolium from a decorated manuscript Antiphonary, illustrated with initials formed of a bird, a richly clothed human arm and a growling green lion...

William I [known as William the Lion], King of Scots, c. 1142-1214) Charter grant by William I to his clerk Helyas de Munros (i.e., Elias of Montr...

Leaf from a Lectionary, in Latin, in archaising script and perhaps that of a student-scribe copying an old exemplar, decorated manuscript on parch...

Alfonso XI (King of Castile, Leon and Galicia, called the Avenger, "el Justiciero", 1311-50) Privilegio rodado of King Alfonso X I of Castile, gra...

[Greek Orthodox Church].- [Menaion], manuscript in Greek, on paper, c. 400pp. only, in Greek letters, in light brown ink, a few pp. in black ink, ...

Cromwell (Thomas, first Earl of Essex, royal minister, b. in or before 1485, d. 1540) Sale by Thomas Cromwell to John at ffelde [Atfield] and Mich...

Humanist Treatise.- [Isabella Sforza (Lady, author, natural daughter of Giovanni Sforza, Lord of Pesaro, wife of Cipriano del Nero, Lord of Porcig...

Irish Gaelic.- Penitential with prayers, Bible extracts and similar, manuscript in Irish and Latin, on paper, 280pp. excluding blanks, all but fir...