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Suso, Henricus. ((1295-1366).

Horologium aeternae sapientiae.

Cologne: Johann Landen, 1500/1501. In this copy there are lombard initials in red and blue, one with dog-head decoration, red capital strokes, paragraph marks, and underlining. In this edition A Woodcut appears three times, on title, title verso, and verso of final leaf (margin of f. 2 slightly extended, occasional.....

Price: $22,000.00

Item #235J Lucensium Oratio Luculentissima Pont. Maximo Alexandro Sexto per Nicolaum Tygrinu[m]...

Tygrinus or Nicolaus Tegrinus or Tegrini

Lucensium Oratio Luculentissima Pont. Maximo Alexandro Sexto per Nicolaum Tygrinu[m] Lucensem Vtriusq]ue] Iuris.

Rome: [Andreas Freitag],15 October 1492, 1492. Later black roan & gray boards, spine letters gilt.Binding slightly worn, first leaf lightly soiled. Ex-libris Walter Goldwater. Oration such as this are usually rare and short this one is both it is a tribute from the City of Lucca to the election of.....

Price: $4,000.00

Valerio da Venezia, (Giuseppe Ballardini). (1550-1618)

Sanctuarium monacharum. Der Klosterfrawen Heiligthumb

München: Peter König : (Anna Berg,), 1623. 14 engraved plates. First German edition. This copy is bound in early cloth over wooden bards with remains of clasps and catches present under the cloth. a very nice copy a a rare small devotional. (https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/valerio-da-venezia_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/ ) Isidoro de Villapadierna, Valère de Venise (Ballardini).....

Price: $3,500.00

Item #97 Theater moral de la vida humana, en cien emblemas; con el Enchiridion de Epicteto, y La...

Venius, Otto van Veen

Theater moral de la vida humana, en cien emblemas; con el Enchiridion de Epicteto, y La tabla de Cebes, philosofo platonico.

Antwerp: Amberes,{Antwerp} Por Enrico y Cornelio Verdussen 1701, 1701. The Rubens master. third Edition. This large folio is bound in full contemporary vellum with gilt tooling. Snags repaired in the blank of the title page and on the folding Engraving , without damaging the text. Scattered freckles. Good copy. Landwehr.....

Price: $3,500.00

Item #845 The true amazons: or, the monarchy of bees. Being a new discovery and improvement of...

Warder, Joseph Warder active 1688-1718.

The true amazons: or, the monarchy of bees. Being a new discovery and improvement of those wonderful creatures. Wherein is experimentally demonstrated, I. That they are all govern’d by a queen. II. The amazing beauty and dignity of her person. III. Her extraordinary authority and power. IV. Their exceeding loyalty and unparallel’d love to their queen. V. Their sex, male and female. VI. The manners of their breeding. VII. Their wars. VIII. Their enemies with directions plain and easy how to manage them, both in straw-hives and transparent boxes; so that with laying out but four or five pounds, in three or four years, if the summers are kind, you may get thirty or forty pounds per annum. Also how to make the English wine or mead, equal if not

London: John Pemberton, , at the Buck and Sun over-against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-street, and William Taylor at the Ship in Pater-noster-row, 1716. The third edition with additions. Engr. Portrait of Warder. Bound in Contemporary calf, with raised bands, boards with gilt-ruled border, rebacked with gilt-ruled spine. Red sprinkled.....

Price: $1,400.00

Item #828 Warhafftige Ableinu gvnd verantwortung vnser von Gottes gnaden Weiganden Bischouen zu...

Weigand of Redwitz Bishop of Bamberg 1476-1556

Warhafftige Ableinu gvnd verantwortung vnser von Gottes gnaden Weiganden Bischouen zu Bamberg wid' dz vnfüglich vñ vngründig aussschreibdë vñ schmachbüchlein :so der Hochgeborn Fürst Marggraff Albrecht zu Brandenberg/ gegen dem Hochwirdigen Fürsten/ Herrn Melchiorn Bischouen zu Wirtzburg : vnsern besondern lichen herrn vñ freünd vnd vns/ auch die wirdige vnsere Thumbcapittel vnter d dato Montags nach Palmar den 27.tag des Monats Marcij/ dieses lauffenden 53.jars im druck auss gehn lassen .

Nürmberg: Gabriel Hein, 1553. Quarto 7 X 5 inches A-K4 This is a disbound pamphlet. Weigand of Redwitz became a canon in Bamberg in 1490. He made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. In 1520, he was the senior pastor of Kronach. Among his congregation was the reformer Johannes Grau, who.....

Price: $1,100.00

Item #764 Iter Boreale, with large additions of several other poems, begin an exact colection of...

Wild, Robert

Iter Boreale, with large additions of several other poems, begin an exact colection of all hitherto extant. Never before published together

London: 1668. 1668. First Edition. Printed: 1668 1609-1679 octavo, First Complete edition, Fourth edition overall "The recantation of a penitent Proteus" and "The fair quarrel" with separate title-pages/ There are at least three editions of 1668 See my blog of July 27 2015 The present is mispaged and the first.....

Price: $4,800.00

Item #246J [ De spiritualibus ascensionibus.] Tractatus de spiritualibus ascensionibus Add:...

Zutphania, Gerardus de Zutphania (1367-1398)

[ De spiritualibus ascensionibus.] Tractatus de spiritualibus ascensionibus Add: David de Augusta: De exterioris et interioris hominis compositione Lib. II, 1 (De quatuor in quibus incipientes deo servire debent esse cauti)

Basel : Johann Amerbach and Johann Petri de Langendorff, not after 1489]. 1489. Lacking a1 (blank) & a2 title. Rubricated in red, initials painted in red, blue and green. Contemporary binding in full calf, with blind tool. Zerbolt was born in 1367 into a wealthy burgher family in Zutphen, then.....

Price: $9,000.00