![FRENCH GOTHIC COFFRET CA. 1560 WITH CONTEMPORARY WOODCUT]. Anonymous French Artist](/pictures/thumb/3224.jpg?v=1601261704)
(Lyon or Paris): Ca. 1550-1570 (?). The coffret measures (in mm) ca. 280 (long) x 190 (wide) x 115 (high): around sides are four looped metal fittings for leather straps, all five original hinges on back, on front the original iron hasp facade with forged "pine leaf" decoration, keyhole &..... More
![Responce [i.e. response] d'un notable serviteur du roy a un sien amy, sur le discours de deux...](/pictures/thumb/864.jpg?v=1553284741)
Tours: Chez Jamet Mettayer, Imprimeur ordinaire du Roy, 1594. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 33 pp. Mettayer's wodcut device on title-page with motto: "Omni praestantior arte." Sympathetically bound in the antique style: recent quarter calf over speckled boards, red morocco label; small blemish on title; four leaves (including title) with blind-stamp..... More
London: Printed by J[ohn] D[arby] for Richard Chiswell, 1682. First Edition. Softcover. Small quarto. Collation: A-H4 (final verso blank), COMPLETE. Pagination: 63, [1] pp. Recent sympathetic wrappers. Small 19th-century printed booklabel on upper left corner of title-page ("1047"). Unobtrusive blind-stamp of the Theological Institute of Connecticut (now known as the..... More
![CHRONICLE OF FABYAN, 1559]. The Chronicle of Fabian, whiche he Nameth the Concordaunce...](/pictures/thumb/3597.jpg?v=1637016759)
London: W. Rastell (i.e. Jhon Kingston), 1533 (i.e. 1559). Folio (276 x 186 mm). Part one (of two) only. [24], 369 pp. (lacking title-page which has been supplied in MS on 19th-century wove paper, ruled in red). Collation: A-B6 a-z6 A-G6 H4. Outer margins of fols. A2-4 amateurishly extended with..... More
![GLORIOUS REVOLUTION / ABDICATION OF JAMES II]. The debate at large, between the House of Lords...](/pictures/thumb/565.jpg?v=1584829864)
London: Printed for J. Wickins; and to be sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster, 1695. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Octavo. COLLATION: A-B4 C-F8 G-Q4, COMPLETE. [2], 19-176 pp. Attractive half calf antique, marbled boards, red morocco label gilt, compartments gilt with small tools. ¶ FIRST EDITION of this important..... More
New York: Doubleday, 1996. Hardcover. Octavo, 470 pages, original cloth with dustjacket. Illustrated throughout in black and white and color. ¶ The flowering of civilization, the rebirth of classical scholarship, and the emergence of some of the greatest artists and thinkers the world has known: this is the traditional view..... More
![ANCIENT FUNERALS]. De funeribus Romanorum libri quatuor cum appendice. Accessit et Funus...](/pictures/thumb/30.jpg?v=1553284700)
Leiden: apud Hackios, 1672. Romeyn de Hooghe. Hardcover. 12mo., 2 parts in 1 volume: 23 ff., 649 pp. (wrongly numbered 641), 22 ff.; 24 pp. With fine etched frontispiece and 4 etched folding plates by Romeyn de Hooghe. Woodcut printer's device on both titles. Many passages in Greek. BOUND WITH..... More
![ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S DAY MASSACRE, 1572]. Autograph Letter Signed, being a contemporary account the...](/pictures/thumb/3068.jpg?v=1590462303)
Steinhilben (near Reutlingen, Baden-Wurttemberg): 1572. Together 3 sheets. Ad 1: Folio (330 x 210 mm) penned by Ludwig III Duke of Wurttemberg. Recto: 25 lines including florished signature, verso blank; without watermark. Ad 2: (85 x 210), 4 lines, being a small document written on paper from the same stock..... More
![REFORMATION]. Johannes Zwick und die Reformation in Konstanz / Quellen und Forschungen zur...](/pictures/thumb/3158.jpg?v=1595430184)
Gutersloh, Germany: Gutersloher Verlagshaus Gerd Mohn, 1961. First Edition. 8vo. 308 pp. pp. Original cloth (a trifle dusty). NOT ex-library! The definitive, critical biography of Johannes Zwick (ca. 1496-1542) who with his brother Konrad, and Ambrosius and Thomas Blarer, implemented the Reformation in Constance and "deputized" other brothers in other..... More
![BOOK THIEF / BOOK THEFTS]. Scientist, Scholar & Scoundrel: A Bibliographical Investigation of the...](/pictures/thumb/1779.jpg?v=1589687433)
New York: The Grolier Club, 2013. Softcover. Octavo, 176 numbered pages, illustrations in both black and white and color. ¶ Biographical and bibliographic account of Count Libri, known for his activity as a book collector and book thief. More
![EARLY ENGLISH HISTORY, 1596 - CONTEMPORARY BINDING]. Rerum Anglicarum scriptores post Bedam...](/pictures/thumb/3607.jpg?v=1637016842)
London: G. Bishop, R. Nuberie & R. Barker, 1596. First Edition. Folio (311 x 196 mm). [2] 520, [30] ff. COLLATION: [para]2 A-R6 (P3 misprinted as "Oiii"), S8, T-Z6, 2A-2D6, 2E4, 2F-4R6, 4S4, *4, **4, ***6, A-H2, COMPLETE. Four titles with fine woodcut borders dated "1574." First gatherings with staining..... More
![SCOTLAND, 1703]. Some thoughts on the present state of affairs. Humbly offered to the high court...](/pictures/thumb/564.jpg?v=1553284717)
[Edinburgh]: 1703. First Edition. Softcover. Together two volumes, small quarto. 12 pp., COMPLETE. Stitched in old blue paper wrappers at a recent date. Contemporary (or near-contemporary) author attributions in ink on title-pages, faint blind-stamps on first and final leaves of both pamphlets. BOTH editions of Sinclair's pamphlet recommending Scottish parliamentary..... More
![SOVIET DESIGN / PROPAGANDA]. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics / New York World's Fair 1932....](/pictures/thumb/3272.jpg?v=1605064871)
[New York]: Pavilion of the U.S.S.R. at the New York World's Fair, 1939. First Edition. Tall pamphlet (230 x 105). 12 pp., stapled as issued, original wrappers printed in red and black. Remarkable but little known Soviet graphic design, intended for liberal distribution at the 1939 New York World's Fair..... More
Basileae (Basel): Thomas Guarinus, 1575. First Edition. Small 4to. [8], 185, [23] pp. Modern vellum, red and white mottled edges. Old shelf-mark (?) "4069" in ink on title. Light foxing throughout. Overall very good. "All Things Burgundian." This early and impressive Renaissance chronicle of Burgundy covers the years 408 to..... More
