Search Results: Titles starting with V from Liber Antiquus

Rome: Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, 1660. SECOND EDITION (first printed in 1606). Hardcover. Fine. With an engraved allegorical title with the main title incised within a wolf's hide hung on a monument; an engraved dedication to Matthaeus Wacker von Wackenfels (numbered'1'), with the text incised on a stone tablet between flanking obelisks and with two putti supporting the dedicatee's arms; and 49 full-paged engraved plates (ca. 170 x 270 mm), all numbered and signed 'Marco Sadeler excudit', with descriptive captions in Italian. An extremely fine, broad-margined copy with very rich and clear impressions of the plates. In an attractive contemporary binding of stiff ivory vellum, the boards with large central arabesques in gold, framed by a double gilt rule, and with floral tools at the angles and along the spine. Thirty-six of these images were copied by Aegidius Sadeler from Etienne Du Pérac's " Vestigi dell'Antichità di Roma" (Rome 1575). For the other images, Sadeler drew on drawings by Jan… Read More

Prague: Aegidius Sadeler, 1606. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. A very fine, broad-margined copy with very rich and clear impressions of the plates. Occ. marginal soiling, a few pin-prick wormholes in the margins of a few leaves. Bound in contemporary morocco, richly tooled in gold. With an engraved allegorical title with the main title incised within a wolf's hide hung on a monument; an engraved dedication to Matthaeus Wacker von Wackenfels (numbered'1'), with the text incised on a stone tablet between flanking obelisks and with two putti supporting the dedicatee's arms; and 49 full-paged engraved plates (ca. 170 x 270 mm), all numbered and signed 'Marco Sadeler excudit', with descriptive captions in Italian. This is the first edition. Thirty-six of these images were copied by Aegidius Sadeler from Etienne Du Pérac's " Vestigi dell'Antichità di Roma" (Rome 1575). For the other images, Sadeler drew on drawings by Jan Breughel the elder and Pieter Stevens. Marco Sadeler, whose name appears on the… Read More

Mexico: por la Viuda de D. Joseph Bernardo de Hogal, 1745. THIRD EDITION (1st ed. Madrid 1689; 2nd Mexico 1690.). Hardcover. Fine. Bound in 18th c. vellum, possibly re-cased at an early date. A fine copy with light wear to corners and a few margins, and a few trivial blemishes. With a woodcut title border and decorative borders to the text leaves throughout; a few of the borders very lightly shaved. Type-set acrostic poem on penultimate leaf. With a 19th c. private ownership stamp (dated 1881) Pedro Escobar y Cano, possibly the Durango jurist of that name. A marvelous and highly unusual first person verse travelogue by a Mexican Franciscan priest, who relates his journey from Zacatecas to Rome in the year 1687. De Castro was commissioned to represent the province of Zacatecas in the General Chapter of the Franciscan Order that was to take place on June 5, 1688 in Rome. De Castro recounts his journey overland through Mexico, by ship through the Caribbean, across the Atlantic to Spain, overland… Read More

Strasbourg: Johann Knobloch, 1516.
Price: $10,500.00
[Bound with]: Erasmus, Desiderius (1466?-1536)De duplici copia, verborum ac rerum commentarij duo. Ab authore ipso diligentissime recogniti & emaculati, atque in plerisque locis aucti. ... ; Item Epistola Erasmi Roterodami ad Iacobum Vuimphelingium Selestatinum.Strasbourg: Mathias Schürer, October 1516[And]:Hutten, Ulrich von (1488-1523); Weiditz, Hans (1495- ca. 1536), artist.ΟΥΤΙΣ. NemoAugsburg: Johann Miller, 9 September 1518Benzing, Hutten 62; Fairfax-Murray 211; Musper, "Petrarka Master" L7; Roettinger 7; Adams H 1237; BM STC German, p. 427; VD 16; H 6384; Worst Brock, German humanism 1480-1520 (2009), p 1200 f., No. 10.2; Röttinger, Weiditz, 7; Fairfax Murray 211; Richard C. Kessler Reformation Collection I, 114Quarto: 19.3 x 13.6 cm. I. (Burley) [8] LII ff. Collation: [i-viii]8, A-B8, C-D4, E8, F4-H4, I8 (leaf 8 in fist gathering blank). II. (Erasmus) [6], LXXIII, [5] ff. Collation: [1-6]6, a4, b8, c4, d8, e-f4, g8, h-i4, k8, l-m4,… Read More

Venice: Simon Bevilaqua, 3 Aug, 1497. THIRD EDITION OF VITRUVIUS' "DE ARCHITECTURA", with additional texts, including Sextus Julius Frontinus' "De aquis urbis Romae. Hardcover. Fine. A fresh copy in late 18th c. stiff vellum, later red morocco spine label, gilt (re-cased, text re-sewn), binding lightly soiled, small chips to edge of label, later endpapers and flyleaves). Minor, very discreet repairs to the inner margin of the first leaf and quire E, some skilful restoration to the final leaf (no loss); a few extremely slight marginal worm-trails, again without any loss. The title leaf and opening leaves of the individual texts with rubrication. Illustrated with several woodcut diagrams and ornamental woodcut initials. Complete with all four parts. "De Architectura" is the only text of Greco-Roman architecture that has survived from antiquity. It's importance in the history of Western architecture from the Renaissance to the nineteenth-century is immeasurable, and it remains, to this day, fundamental… Read More

[Augsburg]: [Heinrich Steiner], 1522. FIFTH PRINTING, printed in the year of the first edition. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in modern blind-ruled vellum with a large blind-stamped arabesque at the center. Title page with an attractive, floral woodcut title border. Contents in fine condition with just the palest of marginal damp-staining. Small tab on outer margin of title, small numeral 8 at upper corner of the same leaf. A landmark text on the Lenten Fast, which marked Zwingli's first foray into the cause of religious reform. The impetus for the work was a mundane incident, a group of printers eating sausages on their lunch break. The controversy began with the breaking of the Lenten fast at the house of the printer Christopher Froschauer in Zurich in March 1522. Froschauer and the workers at his press ate a simple meal of sausages, knowing that they were breaking church law. In the present work, Zwingli, who was present at Froschauer's, argued that fasting during Lent must be optional, not mandatory,… Read More

Rome: Valerio and Luigi Dorico, 1544. FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION, the first folio edition, and the third edition overall. Complete with the folding engraved map of Rome by Palatino (Frutaz 12). The often-lacking colophon leaf with the full-paged Pegasus printer's device (Ascarelli fig. 24) is also present. This is the first issue, the only issue to print the text of the privilege from Pope Paul III. Hardcover. Fine. This is an exceptionally large copy, with none of the usual trimming to the oversized woodcuts that illustrate the volume. It is one of the two largest copies that I have handled. Bound in contemporary limp vellum, laced through with the original rawhide sewing supports intact. The binding is entirely unsophisticated and shows signs of wear, particularly to the front board, which has suffered some loss to the vellum, exposing the paper lining the binding. The title page is soiled and has a faded ink spatter plus two old German institutional stamps in the blank margin. There is a discreet… Read More

Rome: Valerio and Luigi Dorico, 1544. FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION, the first folio edition, and the third edition overall. Hardcover. Fine. Complete with the folding engraved map of Rome by Palatino (Frutaz 12). The often-lacking colophon leaf with the full-paged Pegasus printer's device (Ascarelli fig. 24) is also present. This copy has features that will be of interest to the bibliographer. It has all of the points of the first issue, including the privilege from Pope Paul III, as well as the reset leaves and supplement with Marliani's response to the criticisms of Pietro Ligorio. The presence of the reset leaves indicate that this copy was bound around 1553, after Ligorio published his attacks against Marliani for his orientation of the map. (See Mortimer 284) This is a very large copy with none of the usual trimming to the oversized woodcuts that illustrate the volume. Bound in contemporary limp vellum with insignificant faults. The map is in especially fine condition with a few minor stains… Read More