Italy: 1518. Manuscript document on paper. Only the second half of the document. 13 lines, chancery script, probably written by Ludovico degli Arrighi. Signed by Pietro Bembo as Papal Secretary. Two lines filled by a different hand. With the residue of the papal red wax seal and cord. Papal brief...
Krakow: 16th century. Five iron tools with different stamps. Housed in mid-century, custom made casket, covered in red cloth. Title vignette and imaginary bookbinder’s coat of arms mounted on the lid. Covered internally with red plush and silk, the bottom is designed with concave shapes for the tools. Sample on.....
Paris: Excudebat Christianus Wechelus [Chrétien Wechel], sub scuto Basiliensi, in uico Iacobaeo, Anno: M. D. XXXIII [1533]. First edition. Woodcut printer's device on title page and final leaf verso. Papered spine. 30, (2) p. A rare edition of the last two colloquies of Erasmus, Epicureus (The Epicurean), and Problema (A...
En Anveres [Antwerp]: En l’Oficina Plantiniana, Cerca la Biuda, Iuan Moreto [widow of Plantin and Jan Moretus], M. D. XC I. [1591]. Illustrated with an engraved title vignette of a knight on horseback with background and 20 full-page etchings, attributed to Pieter van der Borcht. First Plantin edition. In contemporary...
