16th Century
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Essays
by Michel De Montaigne
"Screech's translation brilliantly captures the directness, energy, and pithiness of Montaigne's writing."—The Christian Science Monitor.
16th Century Books & Ephemera
Elizabethan and Metaphysical Imagery Renaissance Poetic and Twentieth-Century Critics
by Rosemond, Tuve
Pannoniae et Illyrici Veteris Tabula
by ORTELIUS, Abraham
Antwerp: Abraham Ortelius, 1595. Map. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 14" x 18 1/8". Sheet measures 17" x 21 3/8"<br/> <br/> Beautifully colored map of the classical regions of Pannonia and Illyria (Dalmatia), lying on the northeastern coast of the Adriatic Sea. Depicts present-day Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro. Shows classical place names, topographical and geographical features. Latin text on verso. From "Theatrum Orbis...
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NZ$1,361.76
The Antiques Clinic. A Collector's Guide to Diagnosing Damage, The Possibilities of Restoration and Care For the Future
by Fielden, James; Garnier, Richard; Davidson, Paul; Duffield,Susan; O'Day, Deidre; Barnard, Jill; Cooper, Gilly Cameron
Royston, U.K: Eagle Editions. 2012. Square Quarto Size [approx 26x24cm]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in a purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Laminated pictorial boards. Illustrated with colour photographs and drawings. 224 pages. The antiques equivalent of a health guide - a guide to damage, care and restoration of all types of collectibles. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Reprint. Hardback.
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NZ$22.25
Holy Family with Two Saints
by Trento, Antonio da (after Parmigianino)
1540. Chiaroscuro woodcut on cream laid paper with a partial anchor in a circle watermark, printed from two blocks in black and olive-green, 10 3/4 x 8 3/8 inches (272 x 221 mm), thread margins. We believe this to be an early, first state impression (of two), issued from Niccolò Vicentino's workshop. The second state edition printed by Andrea Andreani in the early 17th century includes a monogram added by Andreani, which is not present in our impression. Scattered expert repairs, most notably a 1-inch...
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NZ$15,319.80
La Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino, Nuouamente tradotta di Greco in Italiano, da Ieronimo Ruscelli; Con Espositioni del medesimo, particolari di luogo in luogo, & uniuersali sopra tutta il libro, & sopra tutta la Geografia, o modo di far la descrittione di tutto il mundo..
by RUSCELLI, Girolamo; TOLOMEO, Claudio [PTOLEMY] [PTOLOMAEUS]
Venice: Giordano Ziletti, 1564. hardcover. very good(+). 3 parts in 1. Each part has a separate title page with large printer's device. Part 2: Espositioni et Introduttioni Universali di Girolamo Ruscelli, sopra tutta la Geografia di Tolomeo. Part 3: Discorso Universale di M. Gioseppe Moleto mathematico. Illustrated with 63 (of 64) fine double-leaf copper engraved maps, including the rare "World in Hemispheres". Additional large in-text engravings and decorative initials throughout. [8],...
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NZ$18,724.20
Shakespeare's England : Life in Elizabethan & Jacobean Times
by Pritchard, R.E
Gloucester: Sutton Publishing. 1999. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition. Black & white illustrations. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 252 pages. Brings to life, through these writers' careful observations and acute comments, and with a wealth of contemporary illustrations, the variety, the energy and the often harsh reality of the society that produced England's greatest writer. . 1st Edition. Softcover.
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NZ$17.80
A Wild Boar, and a Bear, from Animalium Quadrupedum
by Collaert, Adriaen
Antwerp: Theodor & Jan Galle, 1597. Engraving on cream laid paper, 4 3/4 x 7 5/16 inches (120 x 185 mm), thread margins. Non archival tape at top right and left corners, verso, attached to mount. Small tear in the bottom-center sheet edge, appx 1/8 inch, scattered repairs, primarily at corners and sheet edges. Scattered staining. All consistent with age. First state (of 2), with the publisher's address of Adriaen Collaert, (before the addition of publishers Theodor and Jan Galle's address), with a Fish...
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NZ$425.55
Russiae, Moscoviae et Tartariae Descriptio
by ORTELIUS, Abraham
Antwerp: Ortelius, Abraham, 1608. framed. Map. Engraving with beautiful hand coloring. Image measures 14" x 17.5". Gold frame with empire matting 22 1/2 x 25 1/2 inches.<br/> <br/> Exquisite circa 1608 map of western Russia from the Baltic States, shows the Gulf of Finland, to just beyond the Ob' River in Western Siberia. Includes the Caspian Sea. Richly decorated with folkloric vignettes with descriptions of obscure religious rites to match. Compilation map based on travel...
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NZ$4,766.16
Aeschyli Tragoediae VII. In quibus praeter infinita menda sublata, carminum omnium ratio hactenus ignorata, nunc primum proditur; opera Gulielmi Canteri ultralectini
by Aeschylus. Edited by Willem Canter
Antwerp: Christophe Plantin (Dutch: Christoffel Plantijn), 1580. First Canter Edition. 32mo; 4 1/4 x 3 in. (152 x 80 mm); pp. 355 + vii; texts in Greek, introduction and notes in Latin. Title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, trimmed at head and foot, touching a few headlines or signatures, some staining, and one small paper loss (p. 97) not affecting the text. 19th century tan calf with gilt dentelle on covers, gilt green label and gilt decorations on...
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NZ$2,042.64
Norumbega et Virginia; 1597 Important first state map of the East Coast of North America
by VAN WYTFLIET, Cornelis
Louvain: Cornelis van Wytfliet, 1597. Map. Copper-plate engraving. Image measures 11.25" x 9.25".<br/> <br/> This important 1597 map is from the first atlas of the New World by Cornelis van Wytfliet. Sold as is, the map is missing 1/4 inch of the center margin with text loss. Overall and some wear abrasion to border in between 42 and 43 degrees on the center left margin.The atlas contains some of the first printed maps of the New World as well as a history of the voyages of...
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NZ$2,808.63
Elizabethan and Metaphysical Imagery, Renaissance Poetic and Twentieth-Century Critics
by Rosemond Tuve
The University of Chicago Press, 1957. Hardcover. Good. 1957. 442 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Ex-library copy, with expected inserts and inscriptions. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.
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NZ$15.95
![Phisicke against Fortune, as well prosperous, as adverse, contained in two Bookes [History of Gain and Fortune]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/745/815/1573815745.0.b.jpg)
Phisicke against Fortune, as well prosperous, as adverse, contained in two Bookes [History of Gain and Fortune]
by Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca). Thomas Twyne, translator
London: Richard Watkyns, 1579. First Edition. Very Good. Small 4to; 7 1/2 x 5 5/8 in. (190 x142 mm); pp. [4] + xiv +1-152 First Booke, Physicke for Fortune: 153-343 Second Booke, Phisicke against Fortune + vi (table of contents) + [2]. Each book with Epistolary preface by Franucis Petrarche. Translated into English from Latin by Thomas Twyne whose introduction dedicates the work to "Richard Bertie Esquier." Title within woodcut decorative border, woodcut decorative initials, set in gothic and latin...
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Disegno del Doni; Partito in più ragionamenti, ne quali si tratta della scoltura et pittura ...
by Doni, Anton Francesco
Venice: Gabriel Giolito Di Ferrari, 1549. First Edition. Very good +. Small 8vo, 5 7/8 x 3 3/4 inches (150 x 95 mm); pp. 48, imprint in the base of an elaborate woodcut on the title-page, with Giolito di Ferrari's famous device (phoenix, motto saying 'from my death I live eternal life' and initials GGF) , a different woodcut phoenix device on verso of last leaf, and 21 woodcut pictorial initials (3 series) plus 1 repeat. Light age yellowing, occasional spotting and offset, re-cased, new endpapers,...
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NZ$12,766.50
Silver (Pleasures and Treasures)
by Came, Richard
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1970. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. 128 pages. Pleasures and treasures - an account of the greatest periods of the silversmith's art, the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Reprint. Hardback.
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NZ$16.69
Saint Paul, from the series of Standing Saints
by Leyden, Lucas Van (after)
1510. Engraving on cream laid paper laid down to wove paper, 4 1/4 x 2 5/8 inches (109 x 68), trimmed inside the platemark. Scattered discoloration and uniform age tone, all consistent with age. Adhesive residue at the corners with some minor associated discoloration in the top right corner. A reverse-image impression of Van Leyden's circa 1510 engraving, perhaps done by Jan Muller in the early to mid 17th century. [New Hollstein 88].
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NZ$425.55
Xicotencatl
by IRIARTE, Hesiquio
Mexico City: Diaz de Leon y White, 1870. Primitivo Miranda. Tinted lithograph. Image measures 14 1/2" x 10 1/2". Scattered foxing at margins, minor offsetting from title page, and some loss to right margin, not affecting the image.<br/> <br/> This striking print depicts Xicohtencatl II, or Xicohtencatl the Younger, being hanged by Spanish forces. A Tlaxacallan prince and warleader, he led the Tlaxacaltecs against the Aztecs, allying with the Spaniards in hopes of conquering...
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NZ$468.10
De re hortensi libellus (A small book on gardening); ...vulgaria herborum, florum ac fruticum qui in hortis conseri solent nomina latinis vocibus efferre docens ex probatis authoribus, in puerorum gratiam...
by Estienne, Charles
Paris: Robert Estienne, 1545. 16mo, 6 1/4 x 4 1/4 in. (160 x 107 mm); pp. 141 + errata + [6], title with woodcut printer's device, errata to penultimate verso, text in Latin on hand-made laid paper, supple and clean, with very minor toning; ink doodles and previous owner name inscribed on blank pages at end of book. Later brown calf binding with 5 raised bands and silver titles. [BNF30407841]. This title first appeared 1535, then 1543, and this edition, as stated on the title page, "was lately added...
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NZ$2,042.64
Spectandum dedit Ortelius mortalib. orbem, Orbi spectandum Galleus Ortelium
by GALLE, Philipe
Antwerp: Abraham Ortelius, 1580. unbound. Map. Engraving with beautiful hand applied color. Image measures 12 1/2" x 8 3/8", page measures 15 1/2" x 11". Antwerp: 1580.<br/> <br/> This finely-colored portrait of the illustrious cartographer Abraham Ortelius appeared as a frontispiece in the 1580 edition of his famous atlas "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum." The elegant profile view of the mapmaker is surrounded in an ornate oval frame, backed by elaborate strapwork and...
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NZ$1,106.43
Study of an architectural element of a Doric column with a bearded satyr
by Tabacchi, L
1550. Drawing in black ink on cream laid paper, 7 5/8 x 2 1/16 inches (192 x 50 mm) (matrix), with uneven margins. Signed in ink, lower-center margin. Scattered significant foxing, unevenly trimmed margins, all consistent with age.
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NZ$595.77
Il Soldato di M. Domenico Mora, Bolognese, Gentilhuomo Grisone, et nel Quale si Tratta di tutto quello, che ad un vero Soldato, et Nobile Cavaliere si conviene sapere, & essercitare nel mester dell'arme...
by MORA, Domenico
Venice: Ferrarii, 1570. First Edition. hardcover. near fine. Engraved title page (lightly foxed and soiled with a partially erradicated signature at top edge). One full page woodcut of a knight in armor and numerous illustrations and charts in the text. Small 4to, [16], 254pp., bound in later full plain vellum, with pencilled "Mora" at head of spine and a small early paper library label at foot. There are no other library markings. Very light foxing on a few pages but generally very clean....
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The King My Brother
by Hartmann, Cyril Hughes
Melbourne: William Heinemann. 1954. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Good Dustjacket - now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Price clipped DJ is age-toned with some mild edgewear. Some offset to free endpapers. Bookplate to Front Pastedown. Previous owner's details to front free end paper. Illustrated with Black and White plates. Preface by Arthur Bryant. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. xiv, 394 pages. The definitive...
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NZ$38.94
Europae Tabula VI
by RUSCELLI, Girolamo
Venice. unbound. very good. Map. Engraving with hand coloring. Page measures 8.5" 11 3/8".<br/> <br/> Beautiful early map of Italy, circa 1562. Includes Corsica and parts of Sardinia and Sicily. From Ruscelli's Italian translation of Ptolemy's "Geographia", "La Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo". Minor stains in bottom corners and along centerfold. Girolamo Ruscelli (c. 1504-1566) was a Venetian editor, cartographer and physician known best for his...
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SYMBOLORUM & EMBLEMATUM EX RE HERBARIA DESUMTORUM CENTURIA UNA COLLECTA bound with three others
by [EMBLEM BOOK] CAMERARIUS, Joachim
Nuremberg: [Typis Voegelinianis], 1590 [1605]. Hardcover. Minor dampstaining at the upper gutter extending toward the center of the page in some instances but usually quite light and never touching any emblem. Near Fine example of this lovely book. Small quarto (5-1/4" x 7-3/4") bound in full recent antique calf with four raised bands and gilt lettering. Bound with Camerarius. Symbolorum & emblematum ex animalibus.... Nuremberg, 1595. And: Camerarius. Symbolorum & emblematum ex volitatibus et...
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NZ$13,830.38
Torcello.; La Sua Storia I Suoi Monumenti
by LORENZETTI, Giulio
Venice, 1939. First. hardcover. very good. Black & white illustrations and several in color. 71 pages. Slim 4to, green cloth-backed boards, inlaid picture on front cover (fading on edges and some wear). Venice: Cura dell'ente Provinciale per il Tourismo, (1939). First Edition. Very good.<br/> <br/>
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NZ$51.07
Herodiani Historiarum Lib. VIII. Graece Pariter, & Latine.; HPOAIANOY 'IETOPIQN, BIBAIA' H.
by HERODOTUS
Venice: Aldus, 1524. hardcover. very good(+). 92 leaves + 97 leaves, with the Aldine dolphin and anchor woodcut device on the title page, but not on the colophon. 12mo, full early brown calf, ornately gilt covers and spine. Text in Greek and Latin. (Venice): Aldus, 1524. Scarce. A very good(+) copy.<br/> <br/> Small, very old ownership signature of Richard Hobbs, and of W. McCree in a later hand, on the title page. Small ink notations on the verso of the title page of part two and...
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Hollandiae Antiquorum Catthorum Sedis Nova Descriptio
by ORTELIUS, Abraham
Antwerp: Abraham Ortelius, 1592. unbound. Map. Uncolored engraving. Sheet measures 16" x 21".<br/><br/> This beautiful 1588 map by Abraham Ortelius depicts Holland or the Netherlands in exceptional detail. The map covers the regions near the Wadden Sea roughly covering modern day provinces of North Holland, South Holland and Utrecht. The map, centered on Amsterdam, is oriented with north to the left. Topographical and geographical features such as mountains and cities are...
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NZ$1,659.64
