Paris: apud Simon de Colines, 1523. First edition. Contemporary French blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, panelled with intersecting fillets and lozenge tools; remains of clasps present, metal attachments preserved; spine with raised bands. ff. 373 [22]. A rare example of early educational use of Erasmus’s Adagia, in its contemporary French..... More
Toulouse: Pierre Bosc, 1648 [1647]. First edition. Two parts in one volume (Part 2 with separate title-page dated 1647, and separate pagination and signatures). Title-pages with woodcut vignette; decorative initials and headpieces throughout. Later vellum, with morocco lettering-piece to spine and simple decorative gilt rolls at head and foot. [16]..... More
Romae [Rome]: Typis & impensis Sac. Congr. de Propag. Fide, MDCXXXI [1631]. First edition. [8] 72 75 [ie. 77; nos. 71–72 repeated; 45 misnumbered as 54] [3] p. The first Malay-Latin, Latin-Malay dictionary, an important tool for the missionaries in the Malay peninsula. The “Dictionarium Malaico-Latinum et Latino-Malaicum,” published..... More
[Wisingsborg/Visingsborg (Visingsö)]: [s.n. (Johan Kankel, for Per Brahe)], 1675. First edition. Later leather binding with gilt title on spine, preserved in a modern red cloth case. [2] 42 pp. Scarce early Swedish Americana, the first printed Swedish account of North America’s indigenous peoples. An exceptionally rare Swedish Americana, printed..... More
Jenae [Jena]: Sumtibus Johannis Jacobi Bauhoferi [Bauhöfer, Johann Jacob], Anno M. DC. LXXX [1680]. Illustrated with five large, almost full-page and full-page woodcuts and five smaller woodcut illustrations, and a large folding plate. Second edition (first published in 1667). Four works bound in one volume. Contemporary vellum binding with title..... More
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Alcalá de Henares: Miguel de Eguía, May 1533. First Spanish edition in this revised state. Woodcut armorial title page with early ownership inscriptions. Woodcut initials throughout. Somewhat later limp vellum, title and floral ornament inked to spine. ff. [10] CXC [1]. An early Spanish humanist history of Spain, including an..... More
A Paris: De l’imprimerie de Hierosme de Marnef, et Guillaume Cavellat au mont S. Hilaire à l’enseigne du Pelican, 1575. First edition. In later binding, brown calf spine over marbled paper boards; marbled edges, spine with raised bands, compartments ruled in blind, and gilt spine label reading “Histoires orientales”, and..... More
Stockholm: in Verlegung des Autoris, 1730. Illustrated with 21 engraved and woodcut illustrations, maps, and tables, several folding, and the folding Tabula Polyglotta on two folding leaves. The illustrations and maps were designed by Strahlenberg and Ferdinand Hilfreich Frisch. First edition. Provenance: Gyula Ortutay. Contemporary full calf, spine gilt in..... More
Frankfurt; Darmstadt: Ex Officina Typographica Matthiae Beckeri, sumptibus Ioannis Berneri; Ex Officina Typographica Balthasaris Hofmanni, sumptibus Ioannis Berneri, 1606. First edition. Three titles bound into one volume as usual. Eighteenth-century full calf with gilt spine, apparently reused from a slightly larger volume. Contemporary decorated paper pastedowns. Edges gilt. pp. [8]..... More