Recent Arrivals from James Gray Bookseller

London: Iohn Bill, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie, 1628. Second edition (the first printed in England). This copy is bound in original sheep rebacked about 100 years ago. There are Eleven engravings by Verstegan himself, (copies/re-cut for copies printed in England but very faithfully so) that appear in the text including the title vignette of the tower… Read more about this item

London: J.R. and are to be sold by the author, 1696. Third edition, the first was printed in 1674. . This copy is bound in a red textured cloth with "Birmingham Medical Institute" on the spine as well as "Walwyn's Physic-1696.". Two Copies in N.America: U.S. National Library of Medicine , University of Minnesota ,UCLA Other copies I have located… Read more about this item

London: A. Roper and E. Wilkinson at the Black Boy, and R. Clavel at the Peacock, in Fleetstreet, 1697. Third EDITION (a year after the first edition.). Bound in contemporary, speckled calf, ruled in blind. with spine is rebacked with "Female Sex" gilt spine. With an engraved frontispiece, "The Compleat Beau". 'An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex" (1696)… Read more about this item

Speyer: Peter Drach, 1587. First and second editions , Copies are known mixed with sheets from the 1486 printing (Goff P1022); cf. J. Dane, Abstractions of evidence in the study of manuscripts and early printed books (Farnham, 2009) pp.96-100. Bound in early green sturdy vellum slight cracking at joint; paste-downs with bookplates. This copy has some light wear, glue… Read more about this item

Lyons: Not Aldus: [Lyons] : [.s.n.] Lyon. 1518 (19 November) {It looks like Lyon: [Jaques Myt] for Barthèlemi Trot(h)}, 1518. first edition of this forgery. This copy is bound in paste paper covered boards, made up of both early printed waste leaves and re-purposed manuscript materials with many repairs and vellum spine. ( see images below). This copy Housed… Read more about this item

London: R[oger]. N[orton]. for Walter Kettilby, at the Bishop's-Head in S. Paul's Church- Yard, 1697. Third edition [The first two parts were published in 1681 in Latin under the title "Telluris Theoria Sacra," and three years later in its English translation; the second part, The Two Last Books containing the burning of the world, and concerning the new heavens… Read more about this item

Rome: Johann Besicken, 1493. Vellum spine over paste boards. Octavo 19 x 13.5 cm Signatures : a8 Fol. 8 blank and present. Old bibliographies assigned this to Plannck, later revised to Besicken. Besicken worked at Basel in 1483, and at Rome from 1493 until 1510, partly with various partners. Most of the woodcut capitals employed by Besicken… Read more about this item

Straßburg or Köln or Deventer: Husner? or Quentell? or Jacobus de Breda, 1483. ISTC it00272000. CIBN; T-193; HC; 1355 bound with (HC 8397) IG; 2586; GW; M46053; ISTC locates only one US copy, Huntington. Internet Access: https://data.cerl.org/istc/it00272000 http://www.gesamtkatalogderwiegendrucke.de/docs/M46053.htm. Bound in modern vellum over boards. Veer clean copy.. Quarto 20×14 cm. Signatures: AA-BB⁶ (BB6 blank) & A8 The tract… Read more about this item

Venetiis: Per Jo. Alvisium de Varisio, 1501. Bound in modern paste boards backed in vellum. Some restorations to the last leaves covering small parts of the text, uniform, and light browning of the first issue, but a very good, margined and fresh copy. Ancient maniculæ, notes and passim attention signs. (McLemore, "Medieval Sexuality, Medical Misogyny, and the Makings of… Read more about this item

Venice: Ioa[n]nem Rubeum, 1506. First edition. This copy is bound in modern quarter vellum. Dampstain at upper right, and throughout light dampstain at headband. dampstaining in the headpiece towards the gutter, sporadically lightly foxing, in parts lightly (a few pp. more heavily) browned, at the beginning and at the end slightly worm-hole. 80 woodcuts in text and numerous initials. Particularly… Read more about this item

Augsburg. [[The Place of publication not identified (but most likely Augsburg ]: Most likely by H. Steiner, 1530. First German edition. Bound in Modern half vellum with label on spine (somewhat stained, slightly discolored in the margins). The title page has dense contemporary annotations, first and last few pages somewhat waterstained. Quarto: 20 x 15cm. Signatures: A-M⁴ N². This… Read more about this item

Ulrich Zel, Cologne's first printer, learned his craft from Fust and Schoeffer in Mainz. He began printing in Cologne probably in 1465: I[ Cologne, Ulrich Zel, not after 1473], 1473. One of the earliest editions most likely the Second, (editio princeps: Venice 1470). This copy is bound in new quarter calf over original wooden boards. Capitals supplied in Red and… Read more about this item

Anvers: De l'imprimerie de C. Plantini, (PLANTIN), 1567. Third edition expanded to 217 Emblems. Bound coeval limp laced case parchment. a clean copy in original condition. 217 woodcuts Each woodcut is accompanied by a motto, followed by an explanation. Landwehr Romantic Nº 569; VOET, The Plantin Press, N° 1953." Réimpression de l'édition donnée par Plantin en 1561, & illustrée… Read more about this item

Venice: Hannibal Foxius, 1487. Bound in twentieth century quarter Morocco, with a spine label "Transito di. ISTC ih00257000; Goff H257; H8645*; GW 9466]. - United States: Walters Library & Huntington Library.. This collection of pseudonymous works are now considered to have been composed anonymously in the thirteenth or fourteenth century by Dominicans in Rome. These Epistles here attributed… Read more about this item

This collection of pseudonymous works are now considered to have been composed anonymously in the thirteenth or fourteenth century by Dominicans in Rome. These Epistles here attributed to threefamous Bishops who were contemporaries of St Jerome Eusebius of Cremona 347-420, Augustine ofHippo 354- 430 and Cyril of Jerusalem 313-386., ISTC ih00257000; Goff H257; H8645*; GW 9466]. - United States: Walters Library &… Read more about this item

This is the first edition with woodcut title and 80 woodcuts in text and numerous initials. Particularly noteworthy is the depiction of the birth of Caesar (f. 1), la plus ancienne illustration de l'opération césarienne (Sander). The word formation sectio caesarea - caesarean section (actually from Latin caedere = to cut out) is related to this caesarean (section) birth of… Read more about this item

Brescia: Angelus Britannicus de Pallazolo Biblioteca Virtual del Patrimonio Bibliograìfico, 1498. ] Woodcut printer's device C on leaf o9 verso. For Britannicus's device C, see BM 15th cent., VII, 972 . Second edition variations in texts though. This is a large and clean copy. Bound in later full vellum, a large copy with some deckle edges. Octavo, 14 ½x10… Read more about this item

Antwerp: Ex officina Platiniana, apud Ioannem Moretum, 1605. First Edition. This copy is bound in contemporary calf with a Cross insignia in gold on the front board and Mary and the Baby Jesus on the rear board. A very nice copy, Quarto, 8 x 6 in. First (and only)edition. +-++4, A-Z4, a-t4. Daly & Dimler Jesuit series ;part… Read more about this item

Leipzig: Conrad Kachelofen, 1490. One of the first printed works with German translations of Seneca. There are some small but interesting variations in this book. From the copy of the same edition available to see on BSB #M214: Electronic facsimile: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München For example the München copy has different spacing of the type causing line endings to be… Read more about this item

Cologne: Johann Landen, 1501. In this edition A Woodcut appears three times, on title, title verso, and verso of final leaf (margin of f. 2 slightly extended, occasional damp stains at gutter and edges, a few leaves in gathering O stained and one with short closed tear). Bound in modern vellum with manuscript antiphonal leaf reused as pastedowns. A… Read more about this item