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1 (AESOP) L’ESTRANGE, SIR ROGER Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflexions. London: printed for R. Sare, T. Sawbridge et al., 1692.

4to, 3/4 red morocco over cloth-backed boards, gilt lettering to spine. Engraved frontispiece and one other plate. First L’Estrange edition. Manuscript ex-libris to f.f.e.p.; otherwise fine. $400-600

2 ANONYMOUS A Protestants Resolution: Shewing His Reasons Why He Will Not Be a Papist. London: Printed for Dorman Newman at the Kings Arms in the Poultrey, 1680.

70 pp. 8vo, no boards. An often cited anonymous tract pertaining to Protestant dissidence. Age darkening to pages; otherwise sound. $400-600

3 ANTICHI MONUMENTI, Per servire all’opera intitolata l’Italia avanti il dominio dei Romani. (By Guiseppe Micali). Firenze, 1810.

Atlas folio, quarter leather over marbled boards. Fold-out map and 61 engraved plates (duplicate of plate 20). Minor pen markings to some plates; wear to boards; otherwise fine. $100-200

4 BARCLAY, JOHN Euphormionis lusinini, sive Jo Barclaii, satyricon . . . accessit sive conspiratio Anglicana. (Leyden): Lugd. Batavorum, ex Officina Hackiana, 1674.

720 pp. 8vo, full tooled vellum, leather pastedown label to spine, illustrated half-title before letterpress title. Barclay, a Scot and Latin poet of merit, wrote this novel as a satire of Jesuits, Puritans, doctors and life in Europe. Wear to boards; very small wormhole to p. 335; dark spot to lower margin of pp. 715-720; otherwise fine. $200-400

5* BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI La geneologia de gli dei de gentili . . . tradotta per M. Gioseppe Bertussi da Bassano. Venice: Apresso Giovan. Antonio Bertai, 1560.

8vo, full leather, spine gilt in compartments, four raised bands, engraved title vignette, engraved initials throughout. Early Bertussi edition (first edition printed in 1547). Professional repair to spine; hinges cracked; dampstaining to some pages; contemporary manuscript notes to endpapers and manuscript ex-libris to title page; book plate tipped in front pastedown; minor wormholing to interior; wear to boards; otherwise fine. Property from the University of Chicago $200-400

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6 6 (BOOK OF HOURS) (Use of Paris, circa 1555). Almanac for 17 years, between 1538 and 1555.

104 pp. 12mo, green gilt-stamped calf, marbled endpapers, vellum leaves, pages ruled in red. Contains 11 illuminated scenes in architectural borders and illuminated initials throughout. Lacking a1 (title page). Calendar complete. A7, B-D8, E6, F6, G8, H7, I-M8, N4. Boards detached; text block separated in three parts (A2-F2), (F3-F6), (F7-end); lacking spine. $4,000-8,000

7 COLLINA, (ABONDIO) Considerazioni istoriche sopra l’origine della Bussola Nautica nell’ Europa, e nell’ Asia. Faenza: Vescovile, 1748.

8vo, full vellum. First edition of this history of the mariner’s compass and navigation. Bookplate of the Marchese di Salva. Wear to vellum; worming to top edge of front cover; minor soiling throughout; otherwise fine. $200-400

8 COOK, CAPT. JAMES A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertaken, by the Command of His Majesty, for Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. Performed Under the Direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in His Majesty’s Ships the Resolution and Discovery; in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780. London: W. and A. Strahan, 1784.

3 vols. 4to, full mottled calf, red labels to spine and titles in gilt. First edition of Cook’s last voyage, published five years after his death. Text only with plates removed; lacking atlas volume; book plate tipped in front pastedown; scattered foxing throughout; otherwise fine. $300-500

9 ELECTOR BIBLE Biblia, das ist, die gantze Heilige Schrifft des altes und Newes Testaments teutsch D. Martin Luthers . . . Nuernberg: Wolffgang Endter, 1644.

Folio, full leather, five brass studs to front and back covers, metal corners, remnants of two leather straps, engraved frontispiece, title page vignette and six engraved sectional title pages. Illustrated with 12 full page engraved portraits depicting the Electors of the Holy Roman Empire, including Martin Luther, set against elaborate landscapes and city views, two fold-out engravings, two-full page engravings and many in text woodcuts. Frontispiece missing some pieces but laid down on endpaper; wear to some pages; wear to boards; otherwise fine. $600-800

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10 HOMER The Whole Works of Homer; Prince of Poetts. In His Iliads, and Odysses. Translated according to the Greeke by Geo. Chapman. London: Printed [by R. Field and W. Jaggard] for Nathaniell Butler, (circa, 1616).

4to, full leather, 5 raised bands, a.e.g., title in gilt to spine, renewed endpapers, two volumes in one, engraved title page by William Hole and engraved portrait frontispiece of Chapman to verso cut down and tipped in, engraved dedication page to King Henry. First collected edition, first issue. Minor wear to boards; slight age darkening; manuscript ex-libris to engraved title page; intermittent foxing; otherwise fine. $3,000-5,000

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11 (ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LEAF) Vellum, circa 15th century, double-sided text incorporating portions of the Psalms, 20 lines of single-column text, written in brown and red ink, illuminated with 19 painted initials (four double-line) in pink, blue, red, and gold. 7 1/2 x 5 1/3 inches. $100-200

12 (ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LEAF) Vellum, circa 16th century. A group of two illuminated manuscript leaves from a Book of Hours, with text from the Vespers, Psalm [147] “Lauda Hierusalem Dominum.” Illuminated in blue, red and gold. $200-400

13 (ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LEAF) Vellum, circa 15th century, German, double-sided text, 20 lines of single-column text, written in brown and red, illuminated with 12 painted initials (one double-line, two triple-line) in blue, green and red. Framed in a double-sided window frame. Size of frame 14 x 12 inches. $100-200 14 (ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LEAF, QU’RAN) Vellum, written in Arabic on paper by calligrapher Mohammed bin Kuzel Al Isawai, 15 lines in black and red ink, 14 sentence rosettes in gilt. Framed and matted. Size of frame 19 x 15 inches. $600-800

15 (ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LEAF, ANTIPHONAL) Vellum, circa 16th century. A group of two illuminated manuscript leaves from an Antiphonal. Six staves and a hand painted floral border on one side of both sheets depicting two saintly figures. Illuminated in green, red and gold. Contents include the “Attendite popule meus,” Psalm lxxvii. 21 x 15 inches. $200-400

16 (ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LEAF) Vellum, circa 15th century, double-sided text, 20 lines of single-column text, written in black, illuminated with 19 painted initials (four double-line, one tripleline) in blue, white, pink and gold. Framed in a double-sided window frame. Size of frame 13 x 11 inches. $100-200 17 (ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LEAF) Vellum, circa 1450, Dutch, double-sided text, 15 lines of single-column text, written in black, illuminated with a single double-line initials with extended bar ending in a leafy spray at the top and bottom of the text on the recto, painted in blue, gilt and white. Framed. Size of frame 8 x 6 1/2 inches. $100-200

18 (INDIA) Calligraphic verses inscribed in black upon a gilt background, flanked on either side by red painted deities and ornamentation between the lines. Framed and matted. Size of frame 10 1/2 x 28 inches. $100-200

19 (INDIA) Sanskrit manuscript, two leaves, double-sided text, six lines in black and red within a painted orange border. $100-200

20 JUNIUS Stats nominis umbra. London: Printed for Henry Sampson Woodfall, 1772.

Vol. 2 (of 2) only. 12mo, full calf, 5 raised bands. First authorized edition. Front board detached. Together with Letters of Junius (London: T. Davison, 1820). $200-400

21 KEMPIS, THOMAS De navolginge Christi: bedeylt in vier boecken. Loven: Jan Maes, 1628.

8vo, vellum, manuscript title to spine. Dutch edition. Illustrated with engravings by C. V. Sichem, including title vignette and numerous full-page engravings throughout. Boards split; vellum darkened; wear to leaves and fore edge; otherwise engravings are very detailed and in good condition. $200-400

22 LEAF BOOKS A group of four books dedicated to important manuscripts, each with a single leaf from that manuscript tipped in, together with a single incunabula leaf laid into a cloth-backed folder.

The Brescia Dante. With a Leaf from the Illustrated Edition of 1487 Printed by Boninus de Boninus. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 1975. One of 250 copies. A Leaf from the Letters of St. Jerome First Printed by Sixtus Reissinger, Rome, c. 1466-1467. Bennett Gilbert, ed. Los Angeles; London: Zeitlin & Ver Brugge, 1981. One of 200 copies printed and bound by Kater-Crafts Bookbinders. A Leaf from the First Edition of the First Complete Bible in English, The Coverdale Bible, 1535. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1974. Leaf from II Kings: 25-28. One of 425 copies printed. $100-200

23 (MAP) SPEED, JOHN AND THO. DURHAM The Isle of Man, Described by Tho Durham, Ano. 1595, Performed by John Speed, Anno 1610. 1610 (but 1611), hand-colored. The first map of the Isle of Man alone and the first based on an actual survey, performed by Thomas Durham in 1595 and first published by John Speed in 1605. The dispute over possession of the island is illustrated by four mythological beasts with riders representing Scotland, England, Ireland and one other, possibly France. Text to verso. Chipping along the edges of the map; some age darkening; archival text to bottom edge. 16 1/4 x 21 inches. $100-200

24 MARRIAGE CONTRACT Vellum, French, 4pp. Manuscript marriage settlement between a French woman and a Spanish man, dated February 17, 1621. $200-400

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25 25 (MILITARY) MENDOZA, BERNARDINO DE Theorica & practica militaris. Das ist eigendtlicher bericht alles dessen so in kriegssachen beides zu landt und zu wasser zu bedencken und zu thun vonnoethen ist. Frankfurt am Main: Nicolas Hoffmann, 1617. [Bound with:] Tyrocinium. Das ist bericht und ubung nach welchem angehende soldaten sollen in allerhandt waffen abgericht werden . . . By Bartolomeo Pelliciari. Frankfurt am Main: Antonio Hummen, (1616).

2 vols. in 1. 8vo, full later vellum. First printings in German of these two influential military treatises. Illustrated with engraved title pages and nine double-page battlefield views in the Pelliciari. Boards warped; pp. 221-222 of Theorica bound before 219-220; pp. 221-222 with repair to upper edge; Tyrocinium lacking preliminary leaf A2 (statement of dedication to “Johann Martin Bauer von Eyseneck,” the “Gerichts Schultheiss” of Frankfurt am Main).; otherwise complete. $600-800

26* MURATORI, LODOVICO ANTONIO Anecdota, quae ex Ambrosianae bibliothecae codicibus nunc primum eruit. Melodani: Typis Iosephi Pandulfi Malatestae, 1697-1713.

3 vols. 4to, full leather, spines gilt in compartments, leather spine labels, 5 raised bands, marbled endpapers. Front boards detached on all three; call number stickers to spines; rubbing to boards; spotting to interior. Together with Novum lexicon Graeco-Latinum in Novuum D. N. I. C. Testamentum, by Christianus Schoettgenius (Leipzig: Bernh. Christ. Breitkopfii et filii, 1765) and An Abridgement of Lectures on Rhetoric, by Hugh Blair (Poughkeepsie: Parclete Potter, 1813). Property from the University of Chicago $100-200

27 OVID Les metamorphoses d’Ovide, traduites en francais par Mr. du Ryer. Translated by Pierre du Ryer. Paris: Chez Guillaume de Luyne, 1676.

3 vols. 8vo, full calf. Spine vol. 2 reinforced with clear tape; wear to boards; dampstaining to some leaves; minor foxing throughout; otherwise fine. $200-400

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28 PLINY The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Natural History of C. Plinius Secundus. Translated into English by Philemon Holland. London: Printed by Adam Flip, 1601.

2 vols. 4to, quarter morocco, 6 raised bands, titles in gilt to spines, renewed endpapers, all edges stained red. First English translation, first edition. Reinforced title page to volume 1; minor age darkening to extremities of leaves; contemporary manuscript marginalia to some leaves; minor dampstaining; wormholing to first few pages volume 1; otherwise fine. $3,000-5,000

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29* SALLUSTIUS CRISPUS, (CAIUS) La conjuracion de Catilina y la guerra de Jugurta. (Madrid: Joachim Ibarra, 1772).

[22], 395pp. Folio, full gilt-stamped black leather, 5 raised bands, spine gilt in compartments, gilt inner dentells, silk endpapers, a.e.g. Half-title and engraved title, Portrait, 8 engraved plates and map of Africa by E. S. Carmona, J. Ballester, F. Assensio and others after M. S. Maella and others, engraved chapter headings, intials and other in-text illustrations. First edition of this translation. Ibarra’s printing is considered by many as superior to Baskerville in its retention of calligraphic types. $4000-6000

30* TAVERNIER, JOHN BAPTISTA; ROBERT KNOX A Collection of Several Relations and Treatises Singular and Curious of John Baptista Tavernier, Baron of Aubonne: Not Printed Among His First Six Voyages, Divided Into Five Parts. . . London: Edmund Everard, printed by A. Godbid and J. Playford, 1680. [20], 87, [10 index pp.], 66pp., 6 folded leaves of plates: ill., map. [Bound with:] An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon, In the East-Indies: Together, With an Account of the Detaining in Captivity the Author and Divers Other Englishmen Now Living There, and of the Author’s Miraculous Escape. By Robert Knox, a captive there near twenty years. London: Printed by Richard Chiswell, printer to the Royal Society, 1681. [26], 189, [2], 15 leaves of plates: ill., map.

4to, quarter calf over marbled boards, red leather pastedown spine label. Spine labeled Tavernier and Knox Travels. Small tears to some pages; age darkening throughout; wear to boards; hinges reinforced; edges bumped; otherwise fine. Property from the Collection of Louise Deshler Cox, Chicago, Illinois Thence by descent through the family. $600-800

31 ZUCCAGNI-ORLANDINI, ATTILIO Atlante illustrativo; ossia raccolta dei principali monumenti Italiani antichi, del medio evo e moderni e di alcune vedute pittoriche perservire di corredo alla corografia fisica storica e statistica dell’ italia di attilio Zuccagni-Orlandini. Firenzi: (Selbstverl), 1845.

Vol. 2 (of 3) only. Atlas folio, quarter calf over marbled boards. Contains numerous engraved plates throughout. Wear to boards; some spotting to interior; otherwise fine. $400-600

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