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De subitaneis mortibus, libri duo. First edition.
Provenance: Pope Clement XI (born G. F. Albani), with the large engraved papal shield vignette and small circular Albani stamp on the title page; bound in contemporary calf, with the shield of Clement XI as pope on the front and rear covers, with…
Del cantico di Mose audite Caeli quae loquor & c. Nel Deuteronomio al capo 32. Parafrasi lirica.
Provenance: Henry Stuart, Cardinal Duke of York.
The art and culture of early-modern Italy, especially Rome, are interests that inform all of my collections. A largely forgotten aspect of eighteenth-century Rome is that the papacy hosted the…
The art and culture of early-modern Italy, especially Rome, are interests that inform all of my collections. A largely forgotten aspect of eighteenth-century Rome is that the papacy hosted the…
Der Wasserman.
Edition of 70.
Provenance: Type designers Georg Trump and Hermann Zapf.
Der Wassermann has a legendary status among those interested in the letter arts. Each copy consists of four portfolios containing hundreds of examples of Schneidler’s…
Provenance: Type designers Georg Trump and Hermann Zapf.
Der Wassermann has a legendary status among those interested in the letter arts. Each copy consists of four portfolios containing hundreds of examples of Schneidler’s…
Descriptionis Ptolemaicae augmentum.
Provenance: Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580–1637), with his cipher stamped on the cover.
This extremely rare work is the first atlas devoted exclusively to the Americas, and contains the first maps of America to have appeared in any book of…
This extremely rare work is the first atlas devoted exclusively to the Americas, and contains the first maps of America to have appeared in any book of…
Don Quixote.
Translated by T. Smollett, 3 vols.
The focus of my recent collecting has been illustrated editions of Cervantes’ Don Quixote, and I have many. But none mean more to me than this tiny three-volume edition.
My father went to college only because…
The focus of my recent collecting has been illustrated editions of Cervantes’ Don Quixote, and I have many. But none mean more to me than this tiny three-volume edition.
My father went to college only because…
Echiridion militis Christiani.
Provenance: Surgeon and bibliophile François Rasse des Neux, both works signed and dated 1548; and Anthonii Hellin, with his very familiar motto, “et amicorum.”
The foremost scholar-priest of the sixteenth century and the best-selling author of…
The foremost scholar-priest of the sixteenth century and the best-selling author of…
Ein Arbeitsbericht.
Hermann Zapf was my boss in 1977, when he was appointed Cary Professor of Graphic Arts at the Rochester Institute of Technology. I was curator of the Cary Graphic Arts Collection at that time. Years later he gave me this handsome account of his…
Etymologiae.
Provenance: Richard Götlich, a contemporary Strasbourg physician, with his annotations and signature.
Written ca. 600, this work, first in manuscript and then in print, became the major encyclopedia of the Middle Ages. Isidore, archbishop of…
Written ca. 600, this work, first in manuscript and then in print, became the major encyclopedia of the Middle Ages. Isidore, archbishop of…
Four autograph letters signed, to: (1) Louis XV, King of France, St. James’s, January 13, 1724; (2) the Duchess of Orléans, St. James’s, May 13, 1724; (3) the Duke of Orléans; and (4) the Duke of Bourbon (the latter two sealed and unopened but presumably signed).
In January 1724, George I appointed Horatio Walpole (diplomat, politician, and younger brother of Sir Robert Walpole, the first British prime minister and uncle of the author, Horace) as an envoy extraordinary to the court of France. The first and…
Fragments on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening.
Provenance: Dumbarton Oaks co-founder Mildred Bliss, with her bookplate.
I have lived to see many of my plans beautifully realized, but many more cruelly marred sometimes by false economy, sometimes by injudicious extravagance.
Humphry Repton,…
I have lived to see many of my plans beautifully realized, but many more cruelly marred sometimes by false economy, sometimes by injudicious extravagance.
Humphry Repton,…