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Octavo. [32], 289, [51] ff. First Aldus edition, second issue with "duernionem" correctly spelled on the last leaf. Text in Latin and Greek. This miscellany, which encompasses fragments of a number of lost works touching on such subjects as archaeology, grammar and lexicography, is among the last books produced by... more

Price: $7,500.00

Folio portfolio. Although 100 copies of the American edition were intended for publication, the edition was never published. The present set may be considered a proof copy to be shown to prospective subscribers, and as such is quite possibly unique. Contains 60 illustrated leaves, each individually matted, out of important... more

Price: $5,500.00

Octavo. 104 ff. Illustrated with 100 small woodcuts of emblems framed by four-part borders of four different designs. Title within architectural border. With woodcut initials in "lettre fleuries" and criblé style. The woodcuts have been attributed to Jean Cousin. Of the two issues of the third edition of this rare... more

Price: $20,000.00

Octavo. 140 ff. With twelve woodcut illustrations from thirteen blocks, Tory's "pot cassé" device on title page and colophon, and each page with a four-piece border of twenty-six distinct combinations. The lower blocks of several borders feature coats of arms, including those of the King, François I; his mother, Louise... more

Price: $48,000.00

Small quarto. Three parts in one volume: (viii), 182; (ii) (96); 56 pp. First edition. Illustrated with 108 emblematic copperplate engravings by Girolamo Porro, each within Renaissance borders of various designs, numerous six-line woodcut initial capitals and tailpieces. Engraved title pages for each part within an architechtural border. An elegant... more

Price: $4,000.00

Small folio. (1) pp. Referred to "the highest form of flattery" by Adrian Wilson, the pirated edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle was printed at Augsburg by Johann Schoensperger four years after the original Latin and German editions. This is leaf represents folii CXIX and CXX from "Sexta etas mudi" [sic],... more

Price: $450.00

Folio. (1) pp. A leaf representing folii LXXXIII and LXXXIV, from the seminal work of gathered information on Christendom and milestone of early printing. The text is Gothic letter, with wood engravings by Michael Wohlgemut. On the recto, two banners of Roman authors gesture and dialogue with one another, while... more

Price: $250.00

Folio. (1)pp. A leaf from the first edition of the seminal work of gathered information on Christendom. The text is Gothic letter, 64 lines to a page, with illustrations by Michael Wohlgemut. This particular leaf represents the "sexta etas mudi," from folii CL and CLI. The recto illustrates the line... more

Price: $350.00

Folio. 7pp. One of 125 copies. A discussion of Jenson's life and influence, with a leaf showing his beautiful Roman type from the 1472 edition of Pliny's Natural History, printed in Venice. Even more than 500 years after Jenson first developed his Roman type, it is still praised by historians,... more

Price: $950.00

Folio. 109 pp; 60 ff. One of 100 copies. Contains 60 illustrated leaves, each individually matted, out of important books on animals from Meydenbach's "Ortus Sanitatis" of 1491 to Mehl & Kahmann's "Kleine Säugetiere der Heimat..." of 1960-65. These plates are fully described in the quarto catalogue in wrappers (text... more

Price: $5,500.00