À Lyon: Par Guillaume Roville, 1568. First edition, second issue (the first issue is dated 1567 on the title but otherwise identical to the second). Letterpress title within elaborate woodcut border, designed by Pierre Vase. Woodcut headpieces and initials throughout. Illustrated with 60 engraved plates after Nicolay’s drawings by Léon..... More
![Les Touches du Seigneur des Accords. Premier [Second, Troisiesme] livre […]. [Bound with:]...](/pictures/thumb/1710.jpg?v=1568907913)
Paris: Chez Jean Richer, 1585 [I–III]; 1588 [IV–V]. First edition. Title pages with woodcut printer’s devices. Woodcut and typographical head- and tailpieces throughout. Woodcut initials. Woodcut portrait of Tabourot in Quatriesme livre (A4v). Bound in contemporary limp vellum, title inked on the spine. Five parts bound into one volume. 12°..... More
![De l'institution du Prince.] De Linstitution du Prince. Livre contenant plusieurs Histoires,...](/pictures/thumb/1708.jpg?v=1568715005)
Imprimé à l’Arrivour Abbaye [Larrivour]: dudict Seign, Par Maistre Nicole Paris, 1547. First edition, later version (first in 1546). Title page in an ornate frame. Woodcut printer’s device on the last page. Woodcut initials throughout. Woodcut coat of arms of Jean de Luxembourg on S1r. In later paste paper. Gauffered..... More
[S.l.]: [s.n.], [n.d., but after August 27 1516]. First edition. Title page with large woodcut illustration showing the King on his throne surrounded by the delegates. In Bastarda type, with two floral woodcut initials. In later hard paper. Gilt title vignette on spine, damaged. [20] p. A bibliographically unrecorded, early..... More
London: Imprinted by John Wolfe and are to bee sold at his shop at Poules chayne, 1592. First edition. Woodcut device on the title page. Woodcut initials, head and tailpieces throughout. In later blind-tooled calf. Spine gilt, with title vignettes. Marbled endpapers. Tinted edges. 4º: A2–4, B–O4; [6], 103, [1]..... More
In Reggio: Appresso Hercoliano Bartholi [Ercoliano Bartoli], [1591]. First collected edition of these works, first part only. In contemporary Italian limp vellum. Complete. Extremely scarce collection of the majority of Zinani’s literary works. A scarce collection of separately published pieces, issued with a general title page by Zinani’s..... More
Parisiis [Paris]: Apud Joannem Ruellium, sub intersignio Vulpis caudae, via ad D. Jacobum, 1548. First Paris edition. With woodcut initials. In lather leather. Gilt title on spine. Marbled endpapers. Tinted edges. a–b8, C–Z8, AA–HH8; ff. 247, (1). First Paris edition of Eck’s De Purgatorio. Johann Eck’s early anti-Protestant writing..... More
A Paris: Chez Abel L’Angelier, au premier pillier de la grand Salle du Palais, M. D. LXXXVI [1586]. Second edition (first in 1585). With woodcut initials, woodcut and typographical headpieces. In 17th century leather. Spine with five raised bands with red, gilt title vignette, compartments richly gilt. Gilt turn-ins. Panels..... More
A Lyon: Chez Guillaume Rouille, [Imprime a Lyon par Estienne Roussin et Jean Ausoult], 1548. First Rouillé edition. First volume (complete in three). In 18th century leather. Spine with five raised bands. Spine and edges gilt. Title vignette on spine. Marbled endpapers. 8º: *–**8, a–z8, A–K8. [32], 527, [1] p...... More