![Item #BB1797 [The Courtier] Il Libro del Cortegiano [Unmutilated]. Baldassare CASTIGLIONE](/pictures/thumb/BB1797.jpg?v=1568328844)
Padova [Padua]: Appresso Giusseppe Comino, [1766]. Early Reprint. Full Calf. An important reprint of Aldine's first edition of 1528, discarding the extensive alterations to the text that corrupted editions of this classic treatise on etiquette for more than a century. 4to (23 x 16 cm) xxiv, 352pp, with portrait frontispiece..... more
![Item #BB1603 Eikon basilike [in Greek]. The pourtraicture of His Sacred Majesty in his solitudes...](/pictures/thumb/BB1603.jpeg?v=1634312103)
London: Printed by R. Norton for Richard Royston Bookseller to His most Sacred Majesty [from 1649], M DC LXXXI. [1681]. Morocco. Later seventeenth-century edition of this purported spiritual autobiography attributed to King Charles I of England. Crown 8vo (181 x 101mm): [16],256pp, with frontispiece engraved by William Marshall (Madan 47)..... more
London: Printed for the author, and sold by the booksellers in town and country [through 1740], M DCCXXXIX [1739]. Early Reprint. Complete in two volumes, with numerous copperplate engravings. 4to: xii,13-616,46; [2],619-722,xx,21-390,47-82[pp. 73-76 omitted (as always), but text continuous and complete],[2]pp, with portrait frontispiece (in vol. I) and 89 full-page..... more
London: printed by Tho. Brudenell for John Stafford, dwelling in Brides Churchyard, neer Fleetstreet, 1651. First Edition. First Issue, with engraved title page signed "Ro: Vaughan sculp:" and imprint "Sould by Iohn Stafford in Brides Churchyard 1651." Small 4to: [10],440,[20],441-596pp, with additional engraved title page and forty-three engraved portraits in..... more
Cambridge: printed by Roger Daniel, and are to be sold by John Williams at the signe of the Crown in Pauls Church-yard [through 1648], 1647. Full Calf. Small Folio: [16], 286, [28, chronological table and index]pp, with additional engraved title page depicting the crusades and folding map of Palestine; [8],189..... more
London: printed by E[llen]. C[otes]. for Edward Dod, and Henry Seile the younger, and are to be sold at the Gun in Ivie-lane, and over against St. Dunstans Church in Fleet-street, 1655. First Edition. Full Calf. First Edition of this rare history of the reign of Charles I to May..... more
![Item #BB0336 [Council of Pisa] [Religion] [Catholic Church] Histoire du Concile de Pise: et de ce...](/pictures/thumb/BB0336.jpeg?v=1625865965)
Amsterdam: chez Pierre Humbert, 1724. First Edition. Full French calf. First Illustrated Edition, complete in two volumes bound in one, of this history of the Council of Pisa. 4to: liii,366; 327,[31]pp, with 16 full-page copper-engraved plates (portrait of the author by J. Houbraken after A. Pesne, one of the Prussian..... more
London: printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper in the Strand, MDCCXLIX [1749]. Early Edition. Full Calf. First Newton Edition, complete in two volumes, the first definitive edition of Milton's magnum opus (see below), an epic running nearly 11,000 lines. Medium 4to (295 x 230mm): [128],lxi,[5],16,[12],459,[1]; 444,[132]pp (including..... more
![Item #BB2413 [Catholic Church] Per la erezione d'un momumento a monsignor Gabrio Maria Nava fu...](/pictures/thumb/BB2413.jpeg?v=1650321722)
Milano: Tipografia e libreria Pirotta e C, 1838. Wrappers. First and only edition, extremely rare, of this celebration of the memorial in honor of Gabrio Maria Nava, bishop of Brescia, with a splendid full-page lithograph illustrating the proposed monument. Royal 4to (320 x 240mm): 8pp, with frontispiece. Uncut in original..... more
![Item #BB0970 [Catholic Church] An interpretation of the number 666. Wherein, not onely the...](/pictures/thumb/BB0970.jpeg?v=1617841982)
Oxford: printed by Leonard Lichfield, 1642. First Edition. Half-Calf. First Edition one of the most curious and fascinating books of the seventeenth century, Potter’s treatise on the Number of the Beast. 4to: [16],214,[2]pp, with copper-engraved title page by W. Marshall, showing numerical manifestations of ‘666’ and their supposed connections to..... more
![Item #BB1022 [Judaica] De synagoga vetere libri tres : quibus tum de nominibus, structurâ,...](/pictures/thumb/BB1022.jpeg?v=1632322988)
Franequeræ [Franeker, the Netherlands]: Typis & impensis Johannis Gyzelaar, illustr. Frisiæ Ordd. atque eorundem Academiæ typograph. ordinar. MDCXCVI [1696]. Second Edition. Vellum. Second Edition of this work on the ancient synagogue and development of the early Church. Complete in two continuously paginated volumes bound in one. Small 4to (194 x...... more
![Item #BB1281 [Children's Literature] Original stories from real life with conversations,...](/pictures/thumb/BB1281.jpeg?v=1626032043)
London: printed for J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1791. Second Edition. Vellum. First Edition illustrated by William Blake (and first to carry Wollstonecraft's name on title page) of this didactic collection of stories for children. 12mo: viii,[4],177,[3,advertisements]pp, with six full-page copper-engraved plates (including frontispiece) designed and engraved by..... more
London: Printed for J. and F. Rivington, in St. Paul’s Church-yard, MDCCLXXIII [1773]. Full Calf. First and only edition of this attempt to describe the method of God's creation through the words of the Bible, touching on the geology of the earth, its mountains, seasons, and rainbows, before and after..... more