Sold2015[Harangues, Ancient Lawyers] Cicero, 1519 3 volsVERY RARE FIRST ALDINE EDITION OF CICERO’S HARANGUES [Cicero’s Harangues, Aldine] Cicero, Marcus Tullius. M. T. Ciceronis Orationum volumen primum [secundum et tertium]. Venice: Aldus Manutius, JaSee Sold Price
Sold2023GRASSI, Giacomo di. Ragione di Adoprar sicuramente l'arme si da offesa. Venice, 1570. FIRST EDITION.GRASSI, Giacomo di. Ragione di Adoprar sicuramente l'arme si da offesa, come da difesa, con un Trattato dell'inganno et con un modo di essercitarsi da se stesso, per acquistare forza, giudicio et presSee Sold Price
Sold2022Greek language.- Suidas. [Lexicon], Venice, House of Aldus & Andrea Torresani, 1514.Greek language.- Suidas. [Lexicon], edited by Demetrius Chalcondylas, collation: aα-zψ, &ω, AΑ-ZΨ, &ω, AA ΑΑ8, double column, Greek type, title with woodcut priSee Sold Price
Sold2022Sefer Lechem Mishneh – Venice, 1604-1606 – Pat 2, First EditionSefer Lechem Mishneh – Venice, 1604-1606 – Pat 2, First EditionSee Sold Price
Sold2020BONDÌ DI MAZO - La spada maestra. Venice: DomenicoBONDÌ DI MAZO - La spada maestra. Venice: Domenico Lovisa, 1696. First edition of this sought after work on fencing. Oblong 4to (158 x 215mm). Woodcut vignette on title, at p.3 engraved illustratioSee Sold Price
Sold2017Venice.- Albrizzi (Giovanni Battista) ForestiereVenice.- Albrizzi (Giovanni Battista) Forestiere Illuminato intorno le cose piu' rare e curiose, antiche, e moderne, della Citta di Venezia, first edition, engraved frontispiece with the arms of the dSee Sold Price
Sold2016[Atlas of the world] Zatta, Atlante Novissimo, 1775-85SCARCE COMPLETE FIRST EDITION OF ATLANTE NOVISSIMO ZATTA, Antonio (fl. 1757-97). Atlante Novissimo. Venice: Antonio Zatta, 1775-1785. 4 volumes bound in 2 large volumes in 2° (384x273 mm), contemporaSee Sold Price
Sold20221553 FRANCESCO PETRARCA ILLUSTRATED antique 16th CENTURY PETRARCH RAREPETRARCA, FRANCESCO. 1304-1374. Il Petrarcha con la spositione di m. Giovanni Andrea Gesualdo. Venice: Domenico Giglio, 1553. FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION 2 parts in one volume. 4to: 6 by 8.5" (208 x 149See Sold Price
Sold2021Sacrobosco, Johannes de (c. 1195-1256) Sphera VolgareSacrobosco, Johannes de (c. 1195-1256) Sphera Volgare Novamente Tradotta. Venice: Bartolomeo Zanetti for Juan Ortega de Carrión, 1537.First Italian edition, quarto, A-O4, lacking final two leavesSee Sold Price
Sold2015[Harangues, Greek] Demosthenes 1554, 3 volsFIRST AND ONLY ALDINE EDITION OF DEMOSTHENES’ ORATION IN THE ORIGINAL GREEK TEXT DEMOSTHENES. Demosthenis Orationum pars prima: in qua deliberativae sexdecim eius orationes, una cum exordiis deliberSee Sold Price
Sold2022Emanuel Chrysolorae. "Erotemata" Venice 1617.Published by Aldus. Full Vellum. Text in Greek. Bright Tight Copy.See Sold Price
Sold2022Mercuriale (Girolamo) De arte gymnastica libri sex, second (first illustrated) editon, Venice,Mercuriale (Girolamo) De arte gymnastica libri sex, second edition, title with woodcut device, woodcut initials, 2 full-page plans and 21 illustrations, all but one full-page, slight worming and someSee Sold Price
Sold2022ROWLING (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, INSCRI...ROWLING (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 'To Jenny and Lucy, with best wishes, J.K. Rowling' and dated 6-9-97 on front free enSee Sold Price
Sold2017Birds of Asia, Gould, First Edition, Rare BookBirds of Asia. John Gould (1804-1881). London: Taylor and Francis for the Author, 1850-83. Physical Description: 7 volumes. Folio (21 5/8 x 14 1/2 inches). 530 hand-colored lithographs after John GoulSee Sold Price
Sold2022Roupell Specimens of the Flora of South Africa by a Lady, First EditionROUPELL, Arabella Elizabeth (illust.); William Henry Harvey (text) Specimens of the Flora of South Africa by a Lady. London: Printed by W. Nicol, 1849. Comparables: Sotheby's, 1999 - $17,250; ChristieSee Sold Price
Sold2022Elliot's First Edition of New and Heretofore Unfigured SpeciesELLIOT, Daniel Giraud (1835-1915). The New and Heretofore Unfigured Species of the Birds of North America. New York: Published for the Author, [1866]-1869. Comparable: Christie's, 2009 - $22,500. PROVSee Sold Price
Sold2022TOLKIEN (J.R.R.) The Lord of the Rings, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSIONS, George Allen a...TOLKIEN (J.R.R.) The Lord of the Rings, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSIONS, with 'sagging text' on p.49 of 'The Return', each with a folding map printed in red and black, publisher's red clothSee Sold Price
Sold2022LE CARRÉ (JOHN) Call for the Dead, FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, SIGNED BY HIM ...LE CARRÉ (JOHN) Call for the Dead, FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, SIGNED BY HIM on the title-page, half-title, publisher's brown cloth, dust-jacket (very faint light stain on rear covSee Sold Price
Sold2018First edition of Gulliver's Travels, 1726Heading: Author: Swift, Jonathan Title: Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships Author: Swift, JonaSee Sold Price
Sold2022Seguy (E.A.) Insectes, first edition, Paris, 20 superb pochoir plates, Editions Duchartre et VanSeguy (E.A.) Insectes, first edition, 20 superb pochoir coloured phototype plates, loose as issued with 4pp. letterpress in original cloth-backed pictorial board portfolio with ties, folio, Paris, EdiSee Sold Price
Sold2024Keats (John) Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and other Poems, first edition, Printed forKeats (John) Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and other Poems, first edition, half-title, 4 advertisement leaves at end, beautiful copy in red morocco, gilt, by Riviere, inner gilt dentelles, t.See Sold Price
Sold2022Mackenzie's First Edition Voyage From MontrealMACKENZIE, Alexander (1763-1820). Voyages From Montreal, On the River St. Laurence, Through the Continent of North America, to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans London: T. Cadell, Jun., W. Davies; CobbettSee Sold Price
Sold2023Greece.- Dodwell (Edward) Views in Greece, from Drawings, first edition, Rodwell and Martin, 1821.Greece.- Dodwell (Edward) Views in Greece, from Drawings, first edition, deluxe issue, title with aquatint vignette, 30 superb hand-coloured aquatint plates by R. Havell, T. Fielding, F.C. Lewis and oSee Sold Price
Sold2022First edition in English of HomerHeading: Author: Homer Title: The Whole Works of Homer; Prince of Poetts. In his Iliads and Odysses. Translated according to the Greeke, by Geo. Chapman. [bound with] Batrachomyomachia Place PublisheSee Sold Price
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