Memoires de Mr d'Artagnan, 3 tomes in one. by SANDRAS DE COURTILZ, GATIEN - 1700 - 1701: Capitaine Lieutenant de la premiere Compagnie des Mousquetaires du Roi, Particulieres et Secrettes

Basel: Adam Petri de Langendorff. Second Latin edition, 1517. Hardcover. Good. Fine border of cherubs riding dragons, nudes, men in armour, foliage, columns etc. signed Urs Graf (U.G.) and with date 1516.. Folio bevelled wooden covers with wide rolled pigskin spine handsomely blind stamped with rampant lions in lozenges between parallel strands of vines & flowers. TP is printed in red & black. Spines with three raised bands and diamond shaped alternating with stylized flower tools (lacks clasps/some worm holes to wood and vellum) Fore-edge lettered Simon de Cassea (14)+469 leaves + colophon with large printer's mark for Alantsee of 2 griffons suporting a shield with cipher ALT and supporting an oak tree above (total fatness of book just under 11cm) TP with three ownerships (2 on top margin one with a single line through it the 3rd to side of text) Fore-edge of TP slightly rough & tanned. Some large foliated initial capitals and fine double column typography of this near incunabulum. Some worm holes… Read More

Paris: [B. Prévost for] Jean de Roigny, 1552., 1552. folio. pp. 2 p.l., [3]-776, [38]index & colophon. numerous large criblé & smaller foliated initials. 145 woodcuts in the text measuring approximately 2 x 3". (including some repeats). 17th century sheep, rebacked with gilt spine mounted, corners renewed (some scarring to covers, occasional stains, dampstaining to some leaves in middle gatherings). First Thierry Edition, First Issue, with colophon dated November 1551 rather than January 1552. An important recension of the six comedies of Terence by Jean Thierry, incorporating the commentaries of sixteen leading Renaissance humanists, inlduding Erasmus, Dolet, Glareanus, Melanchchton, Bembo, &c. This edition is also notable for its one hundred and forty-five theatrical woodcuts (including repetitions), depicting an actor on a medieval stage surrounded by his audience, and actors against a background of stage draperies. According to Mortimer "the text, notes, and… Read More

Lugduni: Claudii Davost (Detroys) Expensis S. Vincentij - Pridie Kal. Martii. [Fig. postincunabolo-Medicina] (cm.18,5) buona piena pergamena dell' epoca con unghie e tracce di lacci.-- cc. 284 nn. (di cui due bianche), 41 linee, caratteri gotici, molti capilettera figurati. Nel testo 4 xilografie (ripetute) che rappresentano la decollazione di Saint Symphorien, e davanti Champier con la sua donna inginocchiati con le loro armi. Edizione originale veramente rara e molto bella. La dedica è datata V idus aprilis 1507. Manca ad Harvard, Waller, Choix e addirittura al Baudrier " Bibliogr. Lionnaise ". L' autore (1472-1539) fu un grande filosofo e medico e pubblicò molte opere, fra le quali la celebre: " De Quadruplici Vita " del 1507. Vedi la lunga descrizione in Brunet e Graesse; Per notizie biografiche vedi Hirsch I 700. La sezione medica contiene: " Vocabulorum Medicinalium " e " Liber Quartus Ethymologiarum.qui est de medicina ". In fine un… Read More

The oldest surviving geographical text written in Latin.Pomponius Mela is considered an accurate sum of the European geographical knowledge before the discovery of the New World. De orbis situ libri tres dates from the first century A.D, and was first printed in 1471.Mela's descriptions of Africa were used by the Portuguese sailors navigating the waters of the Atlantic for the first time.Hardcover. Fine. With commentary by Ioachimi Vadiani. Illustrated with elaborate woodcut title page and woodcut initials. 4to. Bound in modern brown leather, spine with 5 raised bands, gilt letters, gilt decorations. Basel 1522. First Edition with the Vadianus Appendix. Mela's text (printed in Roman) is surrounded by extensive commentary in italic by Joachim Vadianus. The volume ends with an appendix, Loca aliquot ex Vadiani commentarijs summatim repetita, & obiter explicata, consisting of Vadianus study of Melas work and attempting to address inconsistencies and problems in it. Additionally the appendix, has a coda… Read More

De Vulgari Sacrae Scripturae Phrasi libri duo, Patricio Cocburno Scoto authore, quorum summa seuqens pagella indicabit Patricio Cocburno (Patrick Cockburn) (On Holy Scriptures in vulgar language) – In Latin language.
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Parisiis (Paris), Aqud Ioannem Caueiller, via Frementella, sub insigni Stellae aureae, 1558.
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Pp. /52/ + 154 + /67/ Size: 16 x 11 cm
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Binding: Original vellum binding. Signs of aging and wear, wormhole damage, top of the back panel missing (see scans), tear on the top of back cover, partially missing, spine exposed, foxing, stain on top of the front cover ink inscription on the back of the front panel. Condition: Ink inscriptions on the title page and troughout the text, some of which is affected by the inscription, wormholes throughout the text block, affecting legibility (wormhole damage is especially prominent from beginning trough to pp. 9).
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For condition and details see the scans.

Paris: Robert Estienne, 1551 & Paris: [Robert Estienne], 1551., 1551. 4to. pp. 357, [3]; 3 p.l., 280, [10]index. Greek & Latin texts. woodcut devices on titles (Renouard 471 & 296). woodcut ornaments & initials. 18th century calf, rebacked, all edges gilt (binding worn but solid, crack in spine, occasional light embrowning & marginal stains). First Edition of the abridgment of Dio Cassius by the younger Joannes Xiphilinus, bound, possibly as issued, with Guillaume Leblanc’s Latin translation of same. Estienne’s name does not appear on the title-page to the second title. These works complement Estienne’s 1548 folio edition of Dio Cassius. Xiphilinus’ 11th century epitome of the roman history is the only source for Dio’s lost books 61 to 80 (see Schreiber). The first text is printed in the first font of the ‘grecs du roi’, and is based on a manuscript in the Royal Library. It is also one of the last Greek texts to carry Estienne’s Paris… Read More

Basel: In Officina Hervagiana [Per Ioannem Hervagium], 1539., 1539. 7 Parts in 1. folio. pp. 2 p.l., 63, [5]; 244; 243; 211; 91, [1]; [39], [1]; [96]. woodcut printer's device on first title, on title & at end of Book 5, on title & at end of the Chronologia, & at the end of the text. historiated woodcut initials. A nice copy, bound in 17th century speckled calf, paneled in gilt, rebacked, preserving endpapers & spine label, corners renewed (very occasional marginal stains). engraved armorial bookplate of Algernon Capell, [second] Earl of Essex, dated 1701, on title. A handsome folio edition, based on the Basel Froben editions of 1531 and 1535, the former being the first to incorporate the first five books of the Fifth Decade (Books 41-45), sourced from a manuscript discovered by German humanist Simon Grynaeus [1493-1541] in the Benedictine abbey of Lorsch in 1527. This edition reprints the 1531 dedicatory preface by Erasmus, and the improved chronology by Swiss humanist, Heinrich… Read More

De Vulgari Sacrae Scripturae Phrasi libri duo, Patricio Cocburno Scoto authore, quorum summa seuqens pagella indicabit Patricio Cocburno (Patrick Cockburn) (On Holy Scriptures in vulgar language) – In Latin language.
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Parisiis (Paris), Aqud Ioannem Caueiller, via Frementella, sub insigni Stellae aureae, 1558.
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Pp. /52/ + 154 + /67/ Size: 16 x 11 cm
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Binding: Original vellum binding. Signs of aging and wear, wormhole damage, top of the back panel missing (see scans), tear on the top of back cover, partially missing, spine exposed, foxing, stain on top of the front cover ink inscription on the back of the front panel. Condition: Ink inscriptions on the title page and troughout the text, some of which is affected by the inscription, wormholes throughout the text block, affecting legibility (wormhole damage is especially prominent from beginning trough to pp. 9).
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For condition and details see the scans.

Mainz, Johannem Schöffer, 1530. Folio. (32),+ CLXIII ll. Richly illustrated with 115 wood cuts in pagination, of which 14 are full page, and with wood cut device of Schöffer. Minor stain in margins, some spotting, more on ll. 40-41, 45-48. Paper repair on leaf (2), (7-9 in upper margin) and (27). Contemporary ink annotations in margins, mainly in the beginning. Modern rebound in old vellum antiphonary leaf, with notes and text written with black and red ink, small crack at top of front hinge. From the library of Victor von Stedingk, with his book plate, and from the library of Bengt Lassen. VD16, C 56. Adams C80. Schweiger p. 51. The Mainz edition, printed by Johannes Schöffer, the son of Peter Schöffer, of the first German translation of Caesar’s ”De bello gallico” and ”De bello civili”. The translation made by Ringmann Philesius, i.e. Matthias Ringmann, was first published in Strassburg in 1507, with a second edition in 1508. This is the third edition. It also contains a German… Read More

Tres obras en un solo volumen:
CLAUDIANUS (Theod. Pulmani Craneburgii)"Diligentia, & fide summa, è vetustis codicibus restitutusAntverpiae, Ex Officina Christophori Plantini, 1571.
JUNTO CON: Ad. Cl. Claudiani V. C. Opera Martini Antonii Del Rio Notae.Antverpiae, Ex Officina Christophori Plantini, 1572.
JUNTO CON : AVIANI, Flavio. "Aesopicarum fabularum liber" (A Theod. Pulmanno Craneburgio ex membranis in lucem editus)Antverpiae, Ex Officina Christophori Plantini, 1572.
16º. I : 353, [7] pp. II : 80, [4] pp. III : 29, [3] pp. Cada parte con página de título y numeración independiente, todas con el sello del impresor (Plantin) que es el compás de oro manejado por la mano de Dios, y la leyenda "Constancia y labor". Encuadernación en piel de cerdo, con el sello de Caspar Odontius grabado a mano al frente, con fecha grabada 1580. Al reverso, detallado grabado del suicidio de Lucrecia. Era una mujer noble de la antigua Roma que fue violada y luego se suicidó apuñalándose, lo que, según la… Read More