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JOST AMMAN AND JOHANN FEYERABEND

Kunstbüchlin, CLICK Darinnen neben THE Furbildung vieler TITLE Geistlicher vnnd Weltlicher Hohes vnd Niderstands Personen so dann auch der Turckischen Kayser.

Frankfurt am Main: R. Beatus fur J. Feyerabend, 1599. Small quarto. Title in red and black. 293 full-page woodcuts. Late 18th- century blue straight grain morocco, bound by Roger Payne, covers bordered in gilt and blind, blue endpapers, gilt edges. Provenance: Henry Huth (arms in gilt on covers, morocco booklabel); Huth sale (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, November 15, 1911, lot 166).

First complete edition of this model book for painters, designers, copyists and other craftsmen.

(#38210) $ 15,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

AURELIUS AUGUSTINUS, SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO

De civitate Dei ... [with commentaries of Thomas Waleys and Nicolaus Trivet] ... [Bound with:] De Trinitate.

Basel: Johann Amerbach, 13 February 1490; [Basel]: Johann Amerbach, 1490. Two volumes in one. [De Civitate Dei:] 268 leaves, gothic letter in two colums, rubricated throughout. Illustrated with large woodcut depicting the Saint at work on verso of title. [De Trinitate:] 86 leaves, gothic letter in two columns, rubricated throughout. Contemporary full blind-tooled calf over wooden boards by the monks at the Benedictine Abbey of Saints Peter and Paul in Abdinghof at Paderborn in Westphalia, rebacked, with leaves from a 15th century large-format liturgical manuscript on parchment used as a pastedown inside the front board, and a full leaf (pastedown and fly-leaf) inside the back board, catches present, lacking clasps, five circular brass bosses on back board; ornate blind tooling distinctive of the abbey bindery used on both boards.

Incunable editions of two of St. Augustine's most important theological works: the Sexton copy, in a noted monastic binding.

(#37360) $ 27,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

GIROLAMO BENZONI

Novae Novi Orbis Historiae, id st, Rerum ab Hispanis in India Occidentali Hactenus Ges- tarum...Libri Tres, Urbani Calvetonis Opera ... ex Italicis...Latini facti...His ab eodem adjuncta est, de Gallorum in Floridam Expe-ditione, & Insigni Hispanorum in eos Saevitiae exemplo, Brevis Historia.

[Geneva]: Eustatium Vignon, 1578. Octavo (6 1/2 x 4 inches). [32], 480, [13]pp. Includes errata leaf. Contemporary pigskin, covers elaborately tooled in blind, paper title label in manuscript at head of spine, two metal and leather clasps, all edges painted blue.

First Latin edition of Benzoni's important early account of the New World, translated from the first edition printed in Italian in 1565.

(#31352) $ 7,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss BENEDETTO BORDONE

Isolario di Benedetto Bordone Nel qual si ragiona di tutte l'Isole del mondo, con li lor nomi antichi & moderni, historie, favole ...

Venice: Nicolò d'Aristotile detto Zoppino, 1534. Small folio. Letterpress title in red and black with ornamental woodcut border, woodcut initials. 1 full-page diagram of a world map and windroses, 4 woodcut double-page or folding maps of the World, Venice, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Venetian Archipelago, 4 smaller double- page maps of Sicily, Crete, Cyprus and Euboea, 103 woodcut maps and plans scatter- ed through the text. With an early manuscript inscription in Italian on small piece of paper tipped to inner margin of D1. Expertly bound to style in contemporary vellum.

Early edition of this important geographical compendium with important New World maps and the earliest description in book form of Pizarro's conquest of Peru.

(#23568) $ 32,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

FRANCOIS BOUSSUET

De natura aquatilium carmen, in universam Gulielmi Rondeletii.

Lyon: M. Bonhomme, 1558. 2 parts in 1, small quarto (7 3/4 x 5 3/8 inches). Bonhome's woodcut Perseus device on both titles, woodcut portrait of the author, 466 large woodcut illustrations of fish and marine life. One folding leaf with illustration in the second part. Late 19th century brown morocco by De Samblanx and Weckesser, covers panelled with gilt rules, gilt fleuron cornerpieces, spine with five raised bands, lettered in the second compartment, the others with gilt fleurons, gilt edges, marbled endpapers.

First and only edition of Bossuet's pictorial history in verse of fishes and aquatic animals.

(#31052) $ 4,250. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

HIERONYMO DE CHAVES

Chronographia ò reportorio de los tiempos el mas copioso y preciso que hasta ahora ha salido a luz.

Seville: Juan Guitierrez, 1561. Small quarto. [9], 219 leaves. Letterpress title with woodcut surround and integral woodcut portrait of the author, 67 woodcut illustrations (including a map of the New World on the verso of leaf i4, woodcut map of Eastern Hemisphere on the verso of leaf i1, 7 personifications of the planets, 12 of the zodiac stars, 1 full-page figure of a man showing the areas of influence of the stars on the body; 39 images connected with lunar and solar eclipses), numerous 4- and 6-line decorative woodcut initials. Contemporary limp vellum, yapp fore-edges, leather ties.

The extremely rare fourth edition of Chaves's important early work on chronography and astronomy, featuring an early map of the New World.

(#19430) $ 35,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

HERNAN CORTÉS DE MONROY Y PIZARRO

De Insulis Nuper Inventis Ferdinandi Cor- tesii ad Carolum V ... Narrationes, cum alio quodam Petri Martyris ad Clementem VII ...

Cologne: ex officina Melchioris Novesiani, impensis Arnoldi Birckman, September 1532. Small folio, signed in 4s and 6s. [82] ff. Text in Latin. Woodcut title-portrait of Charles V within a woodcut border of escutcheons of Spanish provinces and towns, the portrait repeated within decorative border-pieces on A1 and F1, large ornamental woodcut initials and border-pieces in text, woodcut printer's device at end. Later half calf and paper boards, gilt leather labels. Housed in a black morocco backed box. Provenance: Duke of Devonshire (bookplate on the front pastedown).

A crucial edition, with many important materials published for the first time.

(#26780) $ 35,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

ROBERT COVERTE

A True and Almost Incredible Report of an Englishman, that (being cast away in the good Ship called the Assension in Cambaya, the farthest part of the East Indies) travelled by Land thorow many unknowne Kingdomes and great Cities ...

London: Printed by I[ohn] N[orton] for Hugh Perry, 1631. Small quarto (7 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches). [vi], 68, [1] pp. Printer's colophon leaf in rear. (Title and A4 on stub guards). Full red morocco by Zaehnsdorf, covers bordered with a gilt triple fillet, spine in six compartments with raised bands, ruled in gilt on either side of each band, lettered in the second compartment, the others with repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Provenance: early ink and pencil marginalia throughout.

A very rare early account of an overland journey through India and the Middle East.

(#25255) $ 10,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

FRANCIS DRAKE CRISPIN VAN DE PASSE, THE ELDER

[Engraved portrait of Francis Drake].

[Cologne. 1598]. Engraved portrait, approximately 4 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches. An excellent, sharp, crisp impression. Fine. In a blue half morocco slipcase.

The very rare Crispin van de Passe portrait of Drake.

(#23579) $ 7,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

CHARLES ESTIENNE AND JEAN LIEBAULT

Maison Rustique, Or, The Countrey Farme ... Now newly Reviewed, Corrected and Augmented, with divers large Additions.

London: Printed by Adam Islip for John Bull, 1616. Small folio, bound in sixes (10 5/8 x 6 3/4 inches). Woodcut illustrations in text, ornamental headpieces and woodcut initials. [18], 732, [22]pp. Expertly bound to style to full period calf, covers with central gilt device, spine with raised bands in six compartments, lettered in gilt in the second, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt. Provenance: Bridgewater Library (armorial bookplate on front endpaper).

First edition of Markham's revised English translation of Charles Estienne and Jean Liebault's important late 16th century work on husbandry, gardening and country living.

(#36516) $ 7,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

JACOPO FILIPPO FORESTI DA BERGAMO

Novissime Hystoriarum Omnium Reper- cussiones, Noviter ... Editae.

Venice: A. Vercellenius, 1503. Folio. 452,[9] leaves. Titlepage with contemporary hand colouring. Contemporary underlining and annotations throughout. Minor soiling and foxing, sometimes trimmed closely with loss to marginalia.. Medieval vellum manuscript over boards, rebacked at an early date with vellum, manuscript spine label.

Very early references to Columbus: a scarce, very early Americanum with notable illustrations.

(#28592) $ 16,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

LEONHARD FUCHS

New Kreüterbuch, in welchem nit allein die gantz histori, das ist, namen, gestalt, statt vnd zeit der wachsung, natur, krafft vnd würckung.

Basel: Michael Isingrin, 1543. Folio (14 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches). Woodcut printer's device on title, full-page woodcut portrait of Fuchs on title verso, 517 full-page botanical woodcuts by Viet Rudolph Speckle after Heinrich Fullmaurer and Albert Meyer, woodcut portraits of the three artists with woodcut number 100 "Traubenkraut" on recto tipped in after o4 in numerical sequence with the other woodcut illustrations, woodcut historiated initials in several sizes. Lacks text leaf Hh4 and the final text leaf with printer's device. Eighteenth century calf.

First edition in German of "perhaps the most celebrated and most beautiful herbal ever published" (PMM).

(#34429) $ 18,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

PEDRO DE CIEZA DE LEÓN

La chronica del Peru, nuevamente escrita, por Pedro de Cieça de Leon, Vezino de Sevilla.

Antwerp: Juan Steelsio, 1554. 12mo (5 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches). [8], 285, [9] leaves. Woodcut illustrations. 19th century red morocco by Thibaron-Joly, spine with raised bands in six compartments, lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges.

The primary account of the history of Peru before the conquest: one of two 1554 Antwerp editions of Cieza de León's highly regarded history of Peru, and the earliest obtainable edition, following the first edition in Spanish printed in Seville the previous year.

(#30369) $ 25,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

THOMAS HARIOT AND JOHN WHITE

[Hariot's Virginia.] Admiranda narratio fida tamen, de commodis et incolarum ritibus Virginiae ...

Frankfurt: Theodor De Bry, 1590. Folio. Engraved title to text, letterpress title to plates, engraved arms on dedication leaf, colophon leaf F6, blank D6. 1 double-page engraved map of Virginia [Burden 76, state 2], 1 engraved plate of Adam and Eve (first state with inscription "Iodocus a Winghe in / Theodore de Bry fe" and with traces or early hand-colouring), 27 engraved plates after John White. Expertly bound to style in early limp vellum. Housed in a black morocco backed box.

A fine copy of the De Bry first edition in Latin of Hariot's Virginia: the first eyewitness pictorial record of the American southeast and the first illustrated account wholly dedicated to any portion of what is now the United States.

(#18499) $ 95,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

MARIN CUREAU DE LA CHAMBRE

Nouvelles Observations et Conjectures sur l'Iris.

Paris: Pierre Rocolet, 1650. Quarto (9 1/4 x 7 inches). [6], 340, [6]pp. Engraved printer's device on title-page, engraved head-piece and initial on the dedication leaf, 26 engraved illustrations (including one full-page). Contemporary mottled calf, expertly rebacked to style, spine gilt with raised bands, red morocco lettering piece.

First edition of an important work of optics and the musical nature of the refraction of colour.

(#37850) $ 4,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

FRANCISCO LOPEZ DE GOMARA

The Pleasant Historie Of The Conquest Of The West India, Now Called New Spaine. Atchieved By The Woorthie Prince Hernando Cortes Marques Of The Valley Of Huaxacac, Most Delectable To Reade....

London: Thomas Creede, 1596. Small quarto. [12], 405, [6]pp. Nineteenth century red morocco, elaborately and handsomely tooled in gilt on the boards and spine, gilt leather label, a.e.g. Bookplate on front pastedown and front free endpaper. Titlepage backed. A very good handsome copy.

A primary account of the Conquest of Mexico.

(#23576) $ 22,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

STEFFANO DI LUSIGNANO

Description de Toute l'Isle de Cypre, et des Roys, Princes, et Seigneurs, tant Payens que Chrestiens, qui ont commandé en icelle ... [Bound with:] Histoire contenant une som- maire description des Genealogies, Alliances & gestes de tous les Princes & grans Seigneurs ...

Paris: Chez Guillaume Chaudiere, 1580 [first work]; Paris: Chez Guillaume Chaudiere, 1579 [second work]. 2 volumes in one, quarto (8 3/8 x 6 5/8 inches). Titles with woodcut device, woodcut headpieces and initials. [10], 292, [xviii]; [iv], 72 ff. Contemporary limp vellum, yapp edges, manuscript titling on spine. Provenance: Artus de Prunier, Comte de Clermont, la Seigneurie de Virieu en Dauphine (period inscriptions and signature); Nicolas de Prunier (armorial bookplate).

Very rare first edition in French of a noted early history of Cyprus and account of the Ottoman Empire conquest of 1571.

(#27702) $ 15,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

PETER MARTYR, GONZALO FERNÁNDEZ DE OVIEDO Y VALDÉS AND GIOVANNI BATTISTA RAMUSIO

Summario de la Generale Historia de l'Indie Occident- ali.

Venice: 1534. 3 parts in one volume, small quarto. 1 folding woodcut map of Hispaniola, 4 woodcut illustrations (3 full-page, 1 half page). Bound to style in 18th-century dark red morocco, covers bordered in gilt, spine in six compartments with raised bands, ruled in gilt on either side of each band.

Important source for primary material on the New World.

(#25121) $ 45,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

ANTONINUS MUSA, APULEIUS BARBARUS, GABRIEL HUMMELBERGER

In hoc opere conenta. Ant. Musae de Herba Vetonica ... L. Apulei de Medica minibus Herbarum ...

Zurich: C. Froschauer, 1537. Quarto (7 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches). [viii], 304, [28]pp. Woodcut initials. Expertly bound to style in early vellum. Housed in a black morocco backed box.

"First edition of Hummelberger's editing of these two classics" (Hunt).

(#29433) $ 2,800. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

OTTOMAN-VENETIAN WAR BALTHASAR JENICHEN

Warhafftige Co[n]terfettung der Turckischen Armata von Galleen und andern Schiffen Dreihundert wie solche dess 1570 Jars in Ordnunge wider die Venedische Lendt ist auss- gefahren.

[Nuremberg: circa 1571]. Engraving, printed on two sheets of laid paper joined. Engraver's monogram at the lower left. Early manuscript caption in English in the lower margin. Plate mark: 11 x 16 inches. Sheet size: 14 5/8 x 18 3/8 inches.

Very rare German news-sheet map depicting the Turkish fleet invasion of Cyprus in 1570.

(#28345) $ 54,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

JOHN PERKINS

A profitable booke of Mr. Iohn Perkins, felowe of the inner Temple treating of the lawes of Englande.

London: Richard Tottell, [1593]. Octavo. [20], 168 leaves. Preface in Latin, text in Law-French. Contemporary manuscript annotations. Title reinforced at outer edge, minor voids at edges of first few leaves without loss to text, minor ink staining extending from the top edges. Modern calf.

An early edition of a popular English legal treatise.

(#31515) $ 2,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

MATTEO RICCI AND NICOLAS TRIGAULT

Histoire de l'expedition Chrestienne au royaume de la Chine entreprinse par les peres de la Compagnie de Iesus.

Lille: Pierre de Rache, 1617. Small quarto (7 5/8 x 5 3/4 inches). Title printed in red and black. [12], 559, [5]pp. Contemporary vellum, spine titled in manuscript, expertly recased (small repair at head of spine). Provenance: Franciscan Monastery at Weert (small inked stamp on title).

Second edition in French of the most important work on China published in the first half of the 17th century.

(#28941) $ 8,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

HARTMANN SCHEDEL

[World map] Das ander alter der werlt.

Nuremberg: 1493. Wood engraved world map, original hand colouring recto and verso. German text. Sheet size: 16 3/4 x 23 1/4 inches.

Schedel's map of the world, from the German edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle: one of the earliest obtainable world maps, here with very fine original hand colouring.

(#27597) $ 24,000. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

CAIUS JULIUS SOLINUS POMPONIUS MELA

Iivlii Solini Polyhistor. cum indice summatim omnia complectente. [with:] mela, pomponius: pomponii melae geo- graphiae, libri tres.

Vienna: Johann Singriener for Lukas Alantse, [1520]. [8], 151, [32]pp.; [56] leaves. Contemporary green-stained vellum. Some light wear and soiling, ties lacking. Minor foxing and soiling. Very good, in unsophisticated original condition.

Important classical geography in a contemporary sammelband.

(#25542) $ 8,500. DDoonnaalldd AA.. HHeeaalldd || RRaarree BBooookkss

STRABO

Rerum geographicarum libri septemdecim.

Basel: Henrich Petri, August 1571. Folio (13 3/4 x 8 5/8 inches). Text in two columns in Greek and Latin. Woodcut initials, printer's woodcut device on title-page, smaller device on verso of last leaf, 27 double-page woodcut maps by Sebastian Munster, 6 smaller maps in the text by Johann Honter and others, one woodcut text diagram. 17th century manuscript inscription on verso of title. Contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title on the spine.

Early edition of Strabo's Geography.

(#38227) $ 8,000.