Venice: Ioa[n]nem Rubeum, 1506. 80 woodcuts in text and numerous initials. Particularly noteworthy is the depiction of the birth of Caesar (f. 1), la plus ancienne illustration de l'opération césarienne (Sander). The word formation sectio caesarea - caesarean sectio. First edition. This copy is bound in modern quarter vellum. Dampstain.....

Herbipolus [i.e., Wurzburg]: Sumptibus Johannis Andreæ Endteri & Wolffgangi Jun. Hæredum. Excudebat Jobus Hertz Typographus, 1667. P. Gasparis Schotti Regis Curiani E Societate Jesu, Olim in Panormitano Siciliæ, nunc in Herbipolitano Franconiæ Gymnasio ejusdem Societatis Jesu Matheseos Professoris, Physica Curiosa, Sive Mirabilia Naturæ Et Artis Libris XII. Comprehensa, Quibus pleraq;.....

Anvers: De l'imprimerie de C. Plantini, (PLANTIN), 1567. 217 woodcuts Each woodcut is accompanied by a motto, followed by an explanation. Third edition expanded to 217 Emblems. Bound coeval limp laced case parchment. a clean copy in original condition. Landwehr Romantic Nº 569; VOET, The Plantin Press, N° 1953." Réimpression.....

Paris: Guillaume Godard, 1514. Printed on vellum, trimmed close and with tight inner margins as printed. The initials are in red and gold or blue and gold. The title has the mark go Godard, ant it is followed by an Almanac and calendar for 1514-1530, Before the calendar there is.....

Leipzig: Gregorius Böttiger (Werman), 1493. First Edition. bound in a fourteenth or early fifteenth century leaf. With a 16th century manuscript leaf as a front pastdown on perspective. Goff B254; H 2636*; IBP 863; IDL 706; Kotvan 189. The Walters Art Museum Library Univ. of Chicago Yale University.....

Antwerp: Ex officina Platiniana, apud Ioannem Moretum. 1605. First Edition. This copy is bound in contemporary calf with a Cross insignia in gold on the front board and Mary and the Baby Jesus on the rear board. Daly & Dimler Jesuit series ;part one: J.144 p.150. Sommervogel vol. II, 1847.....

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.....

Magdenburg: : Moritz Brandis, 1500. Second edition. rubricated in red, modern boards. Under torture Savonarola confessed to having invented his prophecies and visions, then recanted, then confessed again. In his prison cell in the tower of the government palace he composed meditations on Psalms 51 and 31. On the morning.....

Milan: Giacomo Ferrari, 1509. Editio princeps, a Latin translation of the Italian manuscript original, which was never printed. Bound in full early vellum. EDIT 16 CNCE 19894 JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675,; 1:49; Alden, J.E. European Americana,; 509/6; BM STC Italian, 1465-1600,; 281Thacher,; II, p. 100 (Miscellanea); Adams,; F1148; Isaac,; 13634;.....

Nürnberg: Koberger :Per Antonium Koberger impræsse, 1497. Folio. 20 x 15 cm. Signatures: π¹⁰,A-Z⁸ a-g⁸ h⁴(lacking blank leaf h4); leaf D2 signed C₂./ Final leaf blank and wanting. This copy is bound in XVII century, full vellum. With filled initial spaces, printed guide letters, foliation, without catchwords, The first initial letter is Illuminiated.....

Nuremberg (In Jmperiali ciuitate Nurembergensi): Höltzel, 1503. Wolf Traut, Full-page woodcut on verso of title: an excellent impression showing a beardless St Jerome (with lion!) in the wilderness. First Edition. Bound in blind tooled 19th century calf, very nice. Wolf Traut clearly worked closely with several Nuremberg publishers and the.....

London: Printed for H. Rhodes, at the Star, the corner of Bride-lane, in Fleet-street: And sold by R. Clavel at the Peacock against St. Dunstan’s Church in Fleetstreet, 1696. Second edition. Octavo 7 X 4 ½ inches A4, B-Z8, Aa-Cc8./  Errata on p. 393./ Publisher's advertisements last 7 unnumbered pages. This copy is bound.....

London: Printed for James Partridge, stationer to his Royal Highness, George, Hereditary Prince of Denmark, and sold at his shop at the Post-house between Charing-cross and White Hall, 1685. 1685. Rare second edition. Octavo 14 x 8 ½ cm. (Title page is A2.)A2-4 B-L8 Lacking initial blank only. This is.....