Birmingham: printed by John Baskerville [through 1771], MDCCLXIX [1769]. First Edition thus. Full Calf. First Issue (Old Testament title page dated 1769) of the First Illustrated Edition (second edition overall) of the Birmingham printer's mighty tour de force. Large Printing Demy folio (410 x 255 mm): unpaginated, with 572 leaves..... more
London: Printed by Felix Kyngston [and R. Badger], and are to be sold by Robert Bostocke at his shop at the signe of the Kings head in Pauls Church-yard, 1633. Full Calf. Second Edition, revised, corrected and enlarged (though Church calls it a "paginary reprint of the First," which it..... more
![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
![Eikon Basilike [Greek letters]: Vel Imago Regis Caroli, In illis suis Aerumnis et Solitudine...](/pictures/thumb/BB1588.jpg?v=1551831370)
Hagæ-Comitis [i.e. London]: Ex officina Samuelis Broun, bibliopolae Anglici, M DC XILX [1649]. Vellum. Rare variant of the king's book, unrecorded in both Wing and ESTC. 12mo: [16, including frontispiece],272pp, illustrated with double-page copper-engraved frontispiece by Wenceslaus Hollar after an original design by William Marshall. Contemporary vellum, contrasting brown lettering..... 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. 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 plates (some with two..... 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
![Council of Pisa] [Religion] Histoire du Concile de Pise: et de ce qui s'est passé de plus...](/pictures/thumb/BB0336.jpg?v=1499796649)
Amsterdam: chez Pierre Humbert, 1724. First Edition. Full French calf. Two quarto volumes in one. 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 queen, one of papal medals, and 13 of the Council's participants) and two title-page..... 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
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
Oxford: printed by Leonard Lichfield, 1642. First Edition. Half-Calf. 4to: [16],214,[2]pp, with a copper-engraved title page showing numerical manifestations of ‘666’ and their supposed connections with the Catholic Church, signed: W. Marshall sculp, full-page metal cut, woodcut diagrams in the text, numerous woodcut initials and a head- and tailpiece. Leaf..... more
London: printed for Ralph Mabb, 1641. Mottled Calf. Not to be confused with another small quarto of the same title published the same year (ESTC R8409), but without frontispiece portrait. 4to (179 x 133mm): [2],14,21-34pp, with frontispiece signed, Edw: Bower pinxit G: Glouer fecit. Text and register continuous despite pagination..... more
London: Printed for Charles Daly, 1838. Cloth. 8vo; xiv, [2], 133, 471, [1]pp, with all five plates present and in superb condition: frontispiece of a folding view and plan of the Temple of Mecca; three genealogical tables (2 folding), and a folding map of Arabia and the surrounding countries. Original..... more
![Judaica] De synagoga vetere libri tres : quibus tum de nominibus, structurâ, origine,...](/pictures/thumb/BB1022.jpg?v=1499796714)
Franequeræ [Franeker, the Netherlands]: Typis & impensis Johannis Gyzelaar, illustr. Frisiæ Ordd. atque eorundem Academiæ typograph. ordinar. MDCXCVI [1696]. Second Edition. Vellum. Small 4to, complete in two continuously paginated volumes. [30],608,[6],609-1138, [38, indices, addenda, emendanda]pp, with the identical additional engraved title page, showing Jews before a temple and signed "J..... more
![Children's Literature] Original stories from real life with conversations, calculated to regulate...](/pictures/thumb/BB1281.jpg?v=1503665084)
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