THE BEGINNING OF ARCHAEOLOGY Ex-coll. ÉTIENNE BALUZE and HONORÉ, 8th duc de LUYNES Leone, Ambrogio. De Nola Opusculum. Distinctum Plenum Clarum Doctum Pulcrum Verum Graue Varium & Vtile. Venice: Giovanni Rosso, 4 September 1514. First edition. Folio in 6s (11 ½” x 8 3/16”, 292mm x 209mm): 2 binder’s blanks.....
Au Dezert [Geneva]: for the author, 1630. First complete collected edition. Small octavo (6 ½” x 4 3/8”, 165mm x 111mm): 2 binder’s blanks, *6 A–T8 V2, 2 binder’s blanks [$4 signed; G4 signed “F4”]. 160 leaves, pp. [12] (title, blank, 3pp. preface, 7pp. table of contents) 1–308. Sumptuously bound.....
London: for Philip Chetwin [and Robert Clavel], 1670. Sixth edition. Folio in 6s (7 1/8” x 11”, 181mm x 279mm): A4 B–X6 [$3 signed; A4 signed A3]. 124 leaves, pp. [8] (title, blank, 2pp. epistle dedication, 2pp. to the reader, 2pp. dedication to the prince) 1–240. With an engraved title.....
THE CUTHBERT–BOTFIELD–MARQUESS of BATH SET Two volumes. London: C. Nourse, 1782. First edition, fourth issue (Stafleu-Cowan). Folio (18 ¼” x 11 3/16”, 460mm x 283mm).Vol. I: 2 front binder’s blanks, 1 rear binder’s blank; with 322 engraved plates, each blank verso: title, dedication to Mead (dated “14th of July.....
Pfintzing, Melchoir (ed.); Maximilian I. Die geuerlicheiten und eins teils der geschichten des loblichen streitbaren und hochberumbten helds und Rotters Twerdannckhs [Theuerdank]. Augsburg: Johannes Schonsperger, 1519. Second edition (first edition available to the public). Folio (13” x 8 5/8”, 330mm x 220mm): a8(–a8) b8(–b1) c8 d6 e–h8 i6 k–n8 o6.....
THE DISCOVERY OF ROBIN HOOD’S OAK IN SHERWOOD FOREST London: J. Nichols for the author, B. White and Son, and J. Robson; 1790. First edition. Quarto (11 ¼” x 9”, 288mm x 228mm): A4 B-C4 [$2 signed]. 12 leaves, pp. 1-4 (title, blank, dedication, blank) 5-23 [1] (blank). With.....
RICHLY BOUND AND SUPERBLY COLORED Paris: Didot for Debure Pere, 1767. First edition in French. Quarto (11 5/8” x 8 ½”, 295mm x 215mm): binder’s blank, a4 b4 A-Mmm4, binder’s blank [$2 signed]. 240 leaves, pp. i-v (half-title, blank, title, blank, dedication) vj-xij [4] (2pp. privilege, errata, to the.....
Paris: l’Imprimerie Nationale for Editions d’Art Édouard Pelletan, 15 October 1920. Limited edition, no. 477 of 1,950. Duodecimo in 4s (6 1/8” x 4”, 154mm x 102mm): binder’s blank, printed wrapper, A4 B4 1-174 χ2 (χ2 blank), printed wrapper, binder’s blank [$2 signed; –91]. 78 leaves, pp. [6] (limitation, blank.....
Ca. 1792–1797. Sheet 2 (7 5/8” x 12 7/16”, 194mm x 316mm) recto: grey ink and wash over graphite, verso: “2” in brown ink. Watermark: arms of Le Tellier.Sheet 3 (7 9/16” x 12 ½”, 193mm x 317mm) recto: grey ink and wash over graphite with black chalk, verso: grey.....
[Basel: Froschover, 1546?] Pot octavo in 4s (5 15/16” x 3 ¾”, 151mm x 95mm): binder’s blank, a-c4 d4(–d4; d3 blank), 9 binder’s blanks [$3 signed; –a1, d3]. 15 leaves, pp. [30] (title, “ordo planetarum,” “Regiones & nomina Ventorum,” 12 double-page wood-cut maps, 1 single wood-cut map, 2pp. blank). [≈.....
[Rome:] Jo. Jacobi de Rubeis[, 1674–1675]. Oblong folio (12 5/8” x 16 3/16”, 322mm x 411mm): with 55 engraved plates: an engraved title-cum-dedication, a portrait frontispiece (of Raphael) and 53 engraved plates, the first unnumbered and then numbered 1-52. Bound in contemporary half sheep over marbled boards (re-backed in calf).....
AN UNRECORDED LETTRE MISSIVE FROM FRANCIS I Saint-Prix (“Sainct Prys”): 20 October 1540. Pot folium (12”[1] x 8 ¼”, 305mm x 209mm). With a header, sixteen lines of text, a signature and a countersignature. Directed verso in five lines. Watermarked with a handled pot with two lines of text.....
Amsterdam: Pieter Mortier, 1693 (the map dated 1694). First edition, first state. Engraved map with contemporary hand-color, heightened gilt, on six sheets joined (24 3/16" x 56 7/16"). Presented floating in an antique baroque scrollwork gilt frame (32 3/4" x 65 3/8"), with cochlear corner-pieces, behind UVIII Plexiglass. Infill at.....
THE BLACKMER SET of the GREAT FICTIONAL VOYAGE AROUND ANCIENT GREECE Five volumes. Paris: De Bure l’aîné, 1788. First edition. Voyage: quarto (11 5/16” x 8 7/16”, 287mm x 215mm).Vol. I[1]: binder’s blank, a4 b4 c2(–c2) χA4 χB-E4 Α-Zzz4 Aaaa2, binder’s blank [$2 signed]. 307 leaves, pp. i-v (half-title, blank, title.....
EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED FIRST EDITION OF CARDINAL-INFANTE FERDINAND’S ENTRANCE INTO GHENT Broadsheet folio (20 ¾” x 15 13/16” 528mm x 401mm): *–****1 A–Nn1 [$1 signed]. 40 leaves, pp. [8] (title, blank, 2pp. dedication, 4pp. list of office officials), 1 2–68 [4] (plate list, 2pp. index of historical narrations, blank). With an engraved.....
Wheler, George, Sir. A Journey into Greece, by George Wheler Esq; In Company of Dr Spon of Lyons. In Six Books. Containing I. A Voyage from Venice to Constantinople. II. An Account of Constantinople and the Adjacent Places. III. A Voyage through the Lesser Asia. IV. A Voyage from Zant.....
Three volumes. Paris: Marchant for Gabon et Compagnie, 1805. First edition. Octavo (8 ½” x 5 7/16”, 215mm x 139mm).Vol. I: π4 (π4 trimmed to a stub) a4 1-338 34-354 (354 trimmed to a stub) [$2 signed; –344]. 278 leaves, pp. [6] (half-title, imprint, title, blank, dedication, blank) i ii-vii.....
Paris: Tériade Éditeur, [1955]. First edition. Folio (16 ½” x 12 ½”, 420 x 320 mm): 66 leaves, 1–152 [4] (tribute to Gris, blank, limitation, blank). With 12 lithographs, of which 11 are printed in color (11 of which are included in pagination but unnumbered). Inlaid mosaic morocco binding in.....
Nuremberg: Christoph Weigel, 1745. Third revised edition. Octavo (6 15/16” x 4 3/8”, 177mm x 111mm): π2 )(4(–)(1) A–R8 S4(–S4) [$5 signed]. 144 leaves, pp. [4] (blank, double-page title, blank), 6pp. to the reader, 1–275, [3] (2pp. register, blank). With 31 double-page engraved plates finished in original hand color, 27.....
THE RAREST VIEW OF THE SUN KING’S PARIS “The most famous city not just of Europe but of the World” Paris: Alexis-Hubert Jaillot, 1669. Third state. Twenty-four sheets joined: 8 woodcut sheets for the title, 10 etched-engraved sheets for the view (the panorama in 4, detail views in 4, vignettes.....
PRESENTATION COPY OF WILLIAM DANIELL 8 volumes. London: for the author by Longman and Thomas Davison, 1814 [–1825]. First edition. Large quarto (13 13/16” x 10”, 351mm x 253mm):Vol. I: 2 binder’s blanks, A4 B–EE4 FF2, 2 binder’s blanks [B–R $1 signed; S–FF $2 signed; –FF2]. 112 leaves, pp. i–iii.....
THE JACQUES LEVY COPY London: A. & R. Spottiswoode for Longman, Hurst, Reese, Orme, and Brown; 1823. First edition. Octavo (8 3/8” x 5 3/8”, 212mm x 136mm): binder’s blank, A4 (A4+π1) B-CC8 DD4 EE2, binder’s blank [$4 signed]. 211 leaves, pp. i-v (title, imprint, dedication, blank, preface) vi-ix.....
Rome: Petrus de Turre, 4 November 1490. Second Rome edition. Folio in 8s (16 ½” x 11 1/8”, 420mm x 284mm): A8 (A1 blank) B-C8 D6 E6(–E6 blank) a10(–a1 blank) b-g8 h4(–h4 blank) 2a-b8 2c6(–2c6 blank) [$half signed; –a1, A1, 2a1; D2 signed as “D3”]. 116 leaves (plus 54 leaves.....
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THE [DUPORT–BARROW–]HUTH–PARCÉ COPY of the EDITIO PRINCEPS of DIO’S ROMAN HISTORY with EXCEPTIONAL MARGINS Των Διωνος ρωμαικων ιστοριων εικοσιτρια βιβλια [Tôn Diônos rhômaikôn historiôn eikositria biblia] Dionis Romanarum historiarum libri XXIII, à XXXVI ad LVIII vsque. Paris: Robert Estienne, 31 January 1548. Editio princeps. Folio in 6s (13 5/8” x 9”.....
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CHURCHILL’S MAGNUM OPUS A RARE UNIFORM SET OF FIRST PRINTINGS Five parts in six volumes. London: Butler & Taylor for Thornton Butterworth Limited; April 1923–October 1923–1927–1927–1929–1931. First British editions, first printings. Octavo (8 5/8” x 5 7/8”, 220mm x 149mm).Vol. I: binder’s blank, π4(–π1 blank) A-KK8 LL4, binder’s blank [$1.....