London: Roxburghe Club, 1998. First Edition. Large 4to. 22 pp., photocopy of the title-page of the Roxburghe publication loosely inserted. Original green wrappers (faintly creased on lower wrapper; ink inscription on p. 1). Bernard Breslauer's perceptive analysis of the masterpiece of Florentine woodcut books, Frezzi's "Quadriregio" (The Four Realms) of..... More

Uppsala and Leipzig: Alquist & Wiksell, 1907. First Edition. Small thick folio. 38 ff., 507, [1] pp. Original wrappers (somewhat worn, spine darkened), edges completely uncut (a few gatherings opened, in some instances hastily). IMPORTANT CATALOGUE OF THE INCUNABULA IN THE UPPSALA UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, with many detailed collations and extensive..... More

Copenhagen ["Hafniae"]: Libraria Gyldendal, 1889-1898 (i.e. 1901). First Edition. 8vo. [6], 470 pp. Later neat blue buckram, red morocco lettering piece, top edges gilt, original wrappers bound in (short tear at top of front wrapper). NOT ex-library! Special edition, limited to 100 copies (sic) with a preface by H.O. Lange..... More

Venice: Giordano Ziletti, 1574. First Edition in Italian. Folio. [18] ff., 296 pp. Collation: *8 **6 ***4 A-Z6 AA10, COMPLETE. Ziletti's device on title, 5 large woodcuts showing operations (2 on the battlefield), numerous woodcut illustrations of surgical instruments and heads with incisions, occasional staining or soiling; title with outer..... More

Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1953. First Edition. Small 4to. 172, [4] pp. With 15 full-page plates, including frontispiece portrait of Ugo da Como. Original printed wrappers (slightly dust-soiled), uncut and unopened. Catalogue of the incunabula in one of the most important private libraries in Northern Italy, a "Citadel of..... More

Bethesda, MD: U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, National Library of Medicine; U.S. Govt. Printing Office, 1967 and 1971. First Edition. Together 2 vols. 4to (265 x 205 mm). Ad 1: xi, 698 pp. Ad 2: v, 51 pp. Original decorated gray cloth with black embossed roundel and black..... More

Austin, TX: [Harry Ransom] Humanities Research Center, 1974. First Edition, Second Impression, limited to 250 copies. 8vo. 29 pp. Title-page printed in black and orange. Original burnt-orange colored boards, original clear protective wrapper. NOT ex-library! A very useful and very readable account of the evidence -- and lack thereof --..... More

Paris: Techener, 1840. First Edition. 17 x 26.5 cm. 8vo. Hardcover. 83 pp. with 5 plates (of which 3 are folding). Contemporary beige quarter calf, patterned brown cloth sides (hinges somewhat worn), gilt armorial device of the Duc d'Arenberg on both covers (some foxing throughout as is true in all..... More

Venice: Domenico Giglio; Paolo and Aldo Manutius, 1558; 1564. Three volumes in two, 8vo. Ad 1: Part 1: [1], 2-138, [4] = 142 ff. Part 2: [1], 2-122, [2] = 124 ff. Contemporary limp vellum with "yapp" edges, title in MS on spine, singular "1" at bottom of spine indicating..... More

The Hague, Paris and London: Nicolaus van Daalen / G.-F. de Bure / Thomas Wilcox, 1765. First Edition. Two vols., 4to. Ad 1: xi, [1], 260 pp. Ad 2: viii, 312 pp. + [2] pp. (Avis au Relieur). COMPLETE with 2 engraved portraits (Meerman and Coster), 1 double-page letterpress genealogical..... More

Venice: Ioannes Rubeus Vercellensis, 1508. Small 4to. 32 ff. (some stains and repairs). Later inscriptions in Italian on final blank page. Bound in 20th-century French crushed niger morocco, five raised bands on spine, title lettered direct in the second compartment, turn-ins gilt, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, edges plain. An attractive..... More

Venice: Aldo Manuzio (Aldus Manutius), 1502. First Edition thus. 8vo (167 x 97 mm). Collation: a-z8 A-B8 C4 (lacking C2-3 but not the Aldine anchor on C4r; traces of damp on front pastedown and first gathering; fols. d1-f4 stained for which SEE IMAGES, fol. c4 with small hole, affecting text)..... More

Lyon: Bibliotheque de la Ville de Lyon, 1967. First Edition. 4to. [4], iii, 106, [2] ff., printed on rectos only. Original wrappers (a little worn). NOT ex-library! Scarce Supplement to Pellechet's great "Catalogue des Incunables des Bibliotheques publiques de Lyon" published in 1893, which only comprised entries 1-634 (sic!), a...... More