[1] Venice; [2] Basel: [1]1532; [2] 1537. First edition. In 17th century leather binding. Spine with six raised bands, gilt compartments, one with title. Gilt turn-ins. Tinted edges. An extremely scarce early Malermi translation of the Bible into Italian, bound together with the first Hebrew translation in print of the..... More

[Impressus Lugduni (Lyon): [per Johannem De La Place (Jean de La Place)], M.CCCCC.XXIII [March 13, 1523]. Early Lyonese edition. In later vellum, using old material. ff. [12] cxcj [ie. 191]. A scarce and early Lyonese-edition of this medieval bestseller. The second edition of the Gesta in Lyon, the first..... More

France (Paris?): between 1625–1630. llustrated manuscript on vellum in French. 20 lines, written in brown ink on vellum, in a neat French cursive bookhand. Pages are numbered in brown ink, ruled by a gold and blue double-frame. Decorated with numerous gilt initials, tail, and headpieces. Illustrated with several tables, diagrams..... More

A Paris: Par Annet Briere Imprimeur, demeurant en la rue des Porées, à l’image Sainct Sebastian, 1562. First edition. Papered spine. ff. [4]. First edition of this scarce Catholic attack on the Huguenots, an important document of the French Wars of Religion. An anonymously published Catholic attack on the..... More

[Venetiis (Venezia):]: per Bernandinum Benalium (Bernardino Benali), (around 1510).]. First edition in this format. The first book is illustrated with twelve large woodcuts of the sibyls and ornamented with several historiated and white-on-black knotwork woodcut initials. Roman and rotunda types, 42 lines. In later vellum. (28) leaves. Coll.: [A2], B–D4..... More

Imprimé a Pairs: par Michel de Vascozan, por luy, & Gilles Corrozet Libraires, Avec privilege de la Court, M. D. XLVII [1547]. Second, corrected and amended edition. In 20th-century leather. ff. 155 [1]. Sign.: A–T8 V4 (V4 blank). Enlarged second edition (first in 1545) of the first translation of any..... More

Basel: [Robert Winter], [1541]. Sewn without binding. 8vo. [24], 115, [3], [1 blank], [1] pp. Woodcut printer’s device on final page. A rare 1541 Basel edition of Brandolinus’s dialogue composed for King Matthias Corvinus—a philosophical reflection on illness, mortality, and the ideals of Renaissance kingship. A humanist dialogue addressed..... More

Parisiis [Paris]: apud Ludovicum Cyaneum sub duobus Gallis in via Jacobaea [Louis Blauwbloem], 1532. First edition. In near-contemporary black calf binding with double gilt fillet border on the covers, each board gilt-stamped with the bachelor supralibros of Jacques-Auguste de Thou—an oval laurel wreath enclosing his family arms (a chevron and..... More

A Paris: Par Jean Dallier Libraire demeurant sur le pont Sainct Michel, à l’enseigne de la Rose blanche, 1568. First(?) edition. Papered spine. ff. 24. Scarce Wars of Religion document, related to the negotiations leading to the Peace of Longjumeau. The Peace of Longjumeau marked the end of the brief..... More

Paris: Jean Petit. 1512. In later half vellum. Title page with woodcut printer’s device. With two full page woodcut illustrations and several woodcut initials. (8º); A–X8, Z8, &8, AA–GG8; [Z1 and &1 corrected in contemporary manuscript to "Y" and “Z” as in other copies we seen.]; ccxli [i.e. ccxxxix –..... More

[Rome or Florence]: M.D.LXIX. Kal. Mai [1569]. Engraved title and 49 numbered full-page plates (numbered 2–50), complete. First edition. Latin text engraved beneath each image. Later quarter calf over marbled boards; spine with red morocco label titled Urbis Romae. Marbled endpapers. 50 plates (title included). (c. 270 × 190 mm)..... More

Beaufort-en-Vallée: September 6, 1532. Autograph letter. Signed. Address panel, docketing and seal remnants on the verso. 1 folio, written on one side. Scarce autograph letter by Cardinal Jean du Bellay to François II de Dinteville, discussing church matters and the expedition of the bishopric of Paris. In this letter..... More

Original engraving, 1524. Very clear, strong contrast, but slightly later impression, wide-margined. With the “small coat of arms of Augsburg with ‘A’ and ‘M’” watermark (around ca. 1560–1600; Meder 179; Briquet 2119). The inscription in the box below the portrait with no date and monogram. Plate size: 114 × 183..... More