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Venice: Bernardinus de Vitalibus, 1526. Very Good. Octavo (161 x 115 mm); 372 leaves. Title within elegant woodcut vine scroll border with figures. Sixteenth-century Italian brown leather over pasteboard, panel binding tooled in blind on both boards and on spine with rules and a small X-shaped tool used in repeating pattern to form the shape of… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1881. First American edition. Fine. 26 cm; xvi, 800 pages frontispiece, folding map, 6 folding plans and elevations, 16 leaves of plates, and numerous illustrations in text. Alternate binding in half morocco over marbled boards, marbled edges. Never read, perhaps never opened. With a preface, appendices, and notes by Professor Rudolf… Read more about this item

Parma: Ex Regio Typographeio [i.e., Giambattista Bodoni], 1785. Very Good+. Quarto (32 cm); [4]. xciv, 100, [2] pages. Engraved title vignette, engraved vignette of the arms of Don José Nicolás de Azara (by Domenico Cagnoni). Text in Latin and Greek. Printed in capitals on blue paper. In contemporary dark green-brown speckled calfskin, ruled in gilt and… Read more about this item

Venice: [Giovanni Tacuino] Ioannis Taciuni de Tridino, 1516. Very good with faults as described.. Folio. [14 ], 168 leaves. 35 column-wide woodcut vignettes in text, numerous woodcut decorated letters. Signatures: a\8 b\6 A-EE\6. Title in gothic type; main text printed in large roman type, surrounded on three sides by commentary in smaller roman type;… Read more about this item

Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1873. First edition. Good. 28 cm; 750 pages and XII engraved plates. 200 woodcut figures in text. In green half crushed morocco over marbled boards, ruled in gilt; spine in six compartments, with gilt-stamped images of a vase. Original hand-painted wraps bound in. Abrasions to raised bands on spine. Corners and… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: University Museum, Univ of Pennsylvania, 1959. Very Good. 29 cm; v, 93 pages, 45 plates, map in pocket. Original printed wraps, a bit discolored.

Paris: Oudin Petit, 1552. Reference: Adams L-1338; French Books 77977; Brunet III 145 ("Edition belle et très correcte...").. Folio (34 cm); [18], 388, 18 leaves only. Defective, lacks 188 leaves of commentary. Bound in later speckled calf, gilt stamped on upper board, gilt title. Edges gilt. Joints split but holding on both boards.… Read more about this item

Williamstown: Chapin Library, Williams College, 1955. Original edition. Good. 25 cm; 43,[1] pages, including illustrations (some in color). Title page in red and black, with color illustration. In deckle-edged printed wraps, a bit toned toward the edges, and not without a closed tear or two. Contents clean, but also slightly toned at edges. … Read more about this item

n.p. [Toscolano-Maderno]: Paganino e Alessandro Paganini, n.d. (likely between 1527 and 1533). Very Good. Octavo (16 cm); [248] unnumbered leaves, signed a-z, A-H\8. Italic type. Printer's cypher on verso of final leaf, reading "P. Alex Pag. Benacenses F. Bena. V. V.," generally interpreted to mean "Paganino and Alexander Paganini of Lake Garda made this. Viva… Read more about this item

Paris: Mamert Pattison, at the press of Robert Estienne, 1585. Very Good. Octavo (17 cm); [10], 302, [10] pages. Estienne device on title page. Foliated woodcut initial and ornamental headpiece at beginning. In c17 polished calf, double-ruled in gilt on boards; five raised bands on spine, with gilt floral tools in the compartments. All… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1858. First edition. Good. 2 volumes octavo (24 cm); xii, [2], 415; xii, [2], 437, [2] ads; color lithograph frontispieces, wood engraved figures on title pages, and frequently in text, and 10 lithograph plates (9 colored). In original gilt-stamped maroon cloth by Edmonds and Remnant, a bit mottled. Old cello-tape removal marks… Read more about this item

Paris: Garnier Frères, [1857]. Nouvelle ed.. Acceptable. 28 cm; 527 pages and 12 engraved plates. Red morocco spine over red pebbled cloth. All edges gilt. Spine worn at joints and splitting slightly at crown. Cloth dusty and discolored in places. Text heavily foxed, but plates are not! Better than Shakespeare, say the French.… Read more about this item

Geneva: Skira, 1968. Very Good. Hardcover lacking dust jacket. Large book, 13 by 10 inches, 257 pages, handsome tipped in color plates. Covers have only very slight wear, hinges tight, contents clean. Extra shipping charges will apply.

Parma: Luigi Mussi, 1805. First edition. Very Good. Quarto (31 cm); 2 volumes. [8], x, 272; 322 pages, and full-page engraved frontispiece of the author (after Angelica Kauffmann, mispelled "Kaufmnan"). Bound in publisher's pasteboard decorated in tortoise shell patterns ("carta tartarugata"), with printed paper labels on spines. Pages bright, fresh, and untrimmed. Binding somewhat abraded along joints, with… Read more about this item

Venice: Francesco Bindoni & Maffeo Pasini, 1529. Octavo (17 cm); 2 volumes: 528; 549 [1] leaves. Woodcut architectural title pages (volume II printed in red and black); woodcut printer's devices, and 44 woodcut vignettes. Later, possibly recent or recently restored vellum over boards in Spanish style, titled in manuscript on spines in Spanish, "Obras de Plutarco." … Read more about this item

New York: Chiswick Press; Privately Printed for the Scott-Thaw Company, 1904. #110 of 220 copies, signed by the publisher.. Very Good. Folio (36 cm); 359 pages. Woodcut architectural title page and portrait frontispiece by Dutch artist W[illem] L[eendert] Bruckman (1866-1928). Woodcut initials; title and headings printed in red throughout. Printed on substantial laid paper manufactured… Read more about this item

London: Printed for Rodwell and Martin, [1820]. First edition. Octavo (27cm); 60, [4] pages, engraved frontispiece portrait, engraved title page, and 39 engraved plates (plate #39 hand-colored) with tissue guards. Title and vignette with ornamental border. Plates dated 1819-20. Text in English and French. Followed by "Cartons done from the originals in His Majesty's collection," engraved… Read more about this item

Florence: Barbèra, Bianchi e Comp, 1858. Collezione Diamante. Good. 48mo (112 mm), xvi, 537 pages; engraved frontispiece portrait with tissue guard. Bound in contemporary green cloth, titled in gilt on spine. A few gilt letters are tarnished. Endleaves discolored. Intermittent light scattered foxing. Reference: Annali bibliografici, 40; Parenti, Rarità bibliografiche, I, 45,… Read more about this item

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 1946. Fine. Offprint from the Bulletin of the History of Medicine 20 (1946), pages 601-610, specially bound in decorated paper-covered (wooden?) boards with crushed morocco backstrip with author's name lettered in gilt on upper flap of the backstrip. Abstracted profile portrait of a man wearing Egyptian headgear on upper board.

London: H.G. Bohn, [1814]. Good. 23 cm; xi, 61, [1] pages, and 151 engraved plates (numbered 150), twelve of them hand colored. Eighteen additional engraved vignettes in text. Engraved title page. Bound in contemporary tan half calf over marbled boards, with leather title label. Joints reinforced. Engraved title page somewhat foxed and toned. … Read more about this item