51st California International Antiquarian Book Fair

Booth 221 Pasadena Convention Center

300 East Green Street Pasadena, CA 91101

Fair Opening Times Friday, February 9, 2018 • 3 pm to 8 pm

Saturday, February 10, 2018 • 11 am to 7 pm Sunday, February 11, 2018 • 11 am to 5 pm

Contact Information: Sokol Books Ltd

239a Fulham Road × London SW3 6HY × UK books@sokol.co.uk www.sokol.co.uk

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SOKOL BOOKS LTD

ACQUAPENDENTE, Hyeronimus Fabricius ab.. Tractatus anatomicus triplex..

[Oppenheim?], per Iohann Thedoroum de Bry, 1613.

$7,000

L2732

HANDSOMELY ILLUSTRATED BOOK ON ANATOMY1.

ADAMSON, John. Ta tōn Mousōn eisodia: The Muses vvelcome to the high and mighty prince Iames … At His Majestieshappie returne to his olde and natiue kingdome of Scotland, ....

Edinburgh, [s.n.], 1618; Edinburgh, Excudebat Andreas Hart, anno 1618.

$41,750

K58

A ROYAL COPY2.

AESOP. Vita & Fabulae...cum interpretatione Latina [and other works].

Venice, Apud Aldum, 1505, October.

$84,250

L1283

3.

AGRICOLA, Georgius [or BAUER, Georg]. De re metallica libri XII - De animantibus subterraneis liber.

Basel, Hieronymus Froben and Nicolaus Bischoff, 1561.

$16,250

L1713

IN USE AFTER 400 YEARS4.

ALESSIO Piemontese [or RUSCELLI Girolamo]. The secretes... Containing excellent remedies against diuers diseases,woundes, and other accidentes, with the maner to make distillations, parfumes, consitures, dyinges, colours, fusions, and meltinges...

London, Parts 1&2: Rouland Hall for Nycolas England; Part 3: Henry Denham, for Iohn Wyght, 1562; 1563; 1566.

$8,450

L1633

RARE AND VALUABLE COLLECTION5.

ALLESTREE, Richard [with] DADE, William [and] NEVE, John [and] WHITE, John [and]WOODHOUSE, John [and] VAUX, John [and] SOFFARD, Arthur [and] PERKINS, Samuel [and]LANGLEY, Thomas [and] WYBARD, John [and] PIERCE, Mathew [and] JEFFEREYS, Thomas. I. 1635. Anew almanacke and prognostication, for the yeere of our Lord God, 1635. Collected and properly referred to the longitude and sublimityof the pole Artick, of 51. deg. 32. mi.

$35,400

L2148

12 EXCEPTIONALLY RARE ALMANACKS FOR 16356.

ANDERTON, Lawrence. The Protestants Apologie for the Roman Church.

St Omer, [English College Press), 1608.

$5,300

L2692

7.

ANDERTON, Lawrence. The apologie of the Romane Church, deuided into three seuerall tractes.

England, Printend [sic] with licence [by the English secret press], 1604.

$7,435

L2691

8.

[ANONYMOUS]. Nova esposizione de recami et dessegni..

Venice, Giacomo Antonio Somascho, n.d. [c. 1600].

$10,600

L2506

EMBROIDERY PATTERN BOOK9.

APOLLONIUS RHODIUS. Interpretatio antiqua, ac perutilis in Apollonij rhodij Argonautica.

Paris, Jacques Bogard for the widow of Conrad Neobar, 1541.

$1,770

L1519

10.

Page 1

ARCHIMEDES. Opera quae extant. Nouis demonstrationibus commentariisque illustrata. Per Dauidem Riualtum a FlurantiaCoenomanum...

Paris, Apud Claude Morel, 1615.

$8,450

L1429

AN IMPORTANT AND HIGHLY INFLUENTIAL VERSION11.

ARISTOTLE. Organum, hoc est, libri omnes ad logicam pertinentes,.

Frankfurt, apud heredes Andreae VVecheli, Claudium Marnium, & Iohan. Aubrium, 1597.

$7,010

L2251

FINE ETON BINDING12.

BACON, Francis. Historia Vitae & Mortis.

London, John Haviland, 1623.

$3,185

.B6

13.

BARBARO, Daniello. La pratica della perspettiua ... opera molto vtile a pittori, a scultori, & ad architetti.

Venice, appresso Camillo, & Rutilio Borgominieri fratelli, al segno di S. Giorgio, 1568.

$13,800

L2580

14.

BIBLE. Evangelium Sanctum, in Arabic.

Rome, Medici Oriental Press, 1590-1591.

$35,400

L2002

ARABIC TYPE IN ITALIAN PRINT15.

BIBLE. The Booke of Common Prayer [with] The Holy Bible [and] The Whole Book of Psalms.

London, Robert Barker, and G.M. for the Companie of Stationers, 1635, 1636 [and] 1636.

$3,900

L2197

ENGLISH BIBLE AND PSALTER IN ORIGINAL BINDING16.

BIBLE. La Bible [with] Les CL. Pseaumes de David… mis en rime francoise par Clément Marot, & Théodore de Besze. Avec laforme des prières ecclésiastiques, et la manière d'administrer les sacremens, & célébrer le mariage.

Geneva, de l'imprimerie de Matthieu Berjon, 1605.

$13,500

L2196

GENEVA MARRIAGE BINDING17.

BIBLE. The first set of English madrigales: to 3. 4. 5. and 6. voices.

London, printed by Thomas Este, [1604].

$38,950

K63

18.

[BIBLE]. La Biblia.

[Basel], [Samuel Apiarius, Thomas Guarin], 1569.

$21,230

L2749

DE REINA’S PRESENTATION COPY TO DANIEL CORNELIS BOMBERG19.

BOAISTUAU, Pierre and BELLEFOREST, Francois de, etc. Histoires Prodigieuses Extraictes de plusieurs fameuxautheurs.

Paris, La Vefue Guillaume Cauellat, 1597-98.

$13,500

L2153

FANTASTICAL STORIES AND NATURAL 'MIRACLES'20.

Page 2

BODIN, Jean. De la demonomanie des sorciers.

Paris, Chez Iaques de Puys Libraire Iuré, a la Samaritaine, 1580.

$10,600

L2564

21.

BONAVENTURE, Saint. The life of the most holy father S. Francis.

Douai, by Martin Bogard, 1635.

$4,175

L2698

22.

BONHAM, Thomas. The chyrurgians closet: or, an antidotarie chyrurgicall.

London, Printed by George Miller, for Edvvard Brevvster, and are to be sold at the signe of the Bible at the north dooreof Pauls, 1630.

$3,185

L2319

23.

BOOK OF HOURS. Use of Rome, in Latin and French. Hore beate Marie virginis secundum usum Romanum totaliter ad longumsine require Cum multis suffragiis & orationib' de nouo additis.

Paris, Germain Hardouin, 1528.

$34,700

L1985

24.

BOOK OF HOURS. Use of Rome, in Latin and French. Ces presentes heures sont a lusaige de Romme toutes au long sansrequerir.

Paris, [Germain Hardouyn], 1534.

$31,850

L2026

PRINTED ON VELLUM25.

BOOK OF HOURS. Miniature Book of Hours, Use of Rome, in Latin and French, illuminated manuscript on vellum.

Northern France, (Paris), c. 1490-1510.

$12,350

K51

26.

BOOK OF HOURS. The Hours of Catherine Semo, Use of Rouen, in Latin and French, illuminated manuscript on vellum.

Flanders, , beginning of 15th century.

$138,000

K52

27.

BOOK OF HOURS. The Hours of Gabrielle d’Estrées, Use of Paris, illuminated manuscript in Latin and French on vellum.

Northern France, (Paris), c. 1480.

$81,400

K92

THE GABRIELLE D’ESTRÉES - PRINCE DE CONDÉ COPY28.

BOOK OF HOURS. Use of Rouen, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum.

Northern France, (Rouen), c. 1500.

$177,000

K97

29.

BOOK OF HOURS. Use of Rome, in Latin. Hore divine virginis Marie secundum usum Romanum.

Paris, Germain Hardouyn, 1533 (Kalender: 1520-32).

$55,000

K98

A PRINCE-BISHOP’S COPY30.

Page 3

BOUCHET, Jean. Les triu[m]phes de la noble et amoureuse Dame et l'art de honnestement aymer.

Paris, en la gallerie pro ou on va a la chancellerie par Jehan Longis, 1537.

$7,000

L1551

RARE AND BEAUTIFULLY PRINTED EDITION31.

BOURCHIER, Thomas [with] LEYDANUS, Florentius. Historia ecclesiastica, de martyrio fratrum ordinis minorum diviFrancisci, de observantia qui partim in Anglia sub Henrico iix. Rege, partim in belgio sub principe auriaco, partim et in hyberniatempore Elizabethae regnantis reginae, passi sunt [with] Historia pasionis novorum in Germaniae inferioris provinciaConstantissimorum martyrum.

Ingolstadt, Wolfgang Eder, 1583 [with] 1582.

$2,650

L2062

32.

BRACTON, Henry. De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae.

London, Richard Tottell, 1569.

$13,800

L739a

PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN33.

BRADSHAWE, Nicholas. Canticum evangelium summam.

London, John Norton for Robert Bird, 1636.

$13,500

L1737

NOT IN STC34.

BRESSANI, Francesco Giuseppe. Breue relatione d'alcune missioni de' PP. della Compagnia di Giesù nella Nuoua Francia delP. Francesco Gioseppe Bressani.

Macerata, Per gli heredi d'Agostino Grisei, 1653.

$19,100

K20

35.

BRETON, John le. Britton.

London, In Flete strete by me Robert Redman dwellyng in saynt Dunstones parysshe at the signe of the George,[1533?].

$13,500

L1780

36.

BRIDGEWATER, John. Confutatio Virulentae Disputationis Theologicae, In Qua Gerogius Sohn ProfessorAcademiae Heidelbergensis, Conatus est….

Trier, Excudebat Henricus Bock, 1589.

$3,500

L2808

37.

[BROWNE, William]. Britannia’s pastorals. The first booke.

London, printed by Iohn Hauiland, 1625.

$8,140

L2638

38.

BRUELE, Gualtherus. Praxis medicinæ, or, the physicians practice: vvherein are contained inward diseases from the head to thefoote.

London, Iohn Norton, for William Sheares, 1632.

$3,470

L2746

39.

CAESAR, Gaius Julius. Commentarii tradotti di latino in volgar lingua.

Venice, Paolo Manuzio, 1547.

$3,185

L2288

40.

Page 4

CALVIN, Jean. Institutio Christianae religionis.

Strasbourg, Wendelin I Rihel, 1545.

$21,230

K120

CELEBRATING THE OTTOMAN DEFEAT?41.

CAMDEN, William. Britannia.

London, [printed at Eliot's court press] impensis Georg. Bishop, 1600.

$22,300

K68

IN DE THOU’S FINEST BINDING42.

CAREW, Thomas. Itinerarium R.D. Thomae Carue Tripperariensis .... cum histori facti Butleri, Gordon, Lesley & aliorum -(with) Itinerarium, Pars Altera.

Mainz, Nicolaud Heyll, 1640, 1641.

$4,175

L2063

TRAVELS IN WAR TIME43.

CARTWRIGHT, John. The Preachers travels: ...through the great countreyes of Syria, Mesopotamia, Armenia, Media, Hircaniaand Parthia. With the authors returne by the way of Persia, Susiana, Assiria, Chaldæa, and Arabia.

London, by William Stansby for Thomas Thorppe, 1611.

$20,500

L1122

VERY RARE FIRST EDITION44.

CASAS Bartolomé de las. Istoria ò breuissima relatione della distruttione dell' Indie Occidentali..

Venice, Marco Ginammi, 1630.

$5,600

L2357

45.

CASTLEMAINE, Roger Palmer, Earl of. The Catholique apology … & D.r Du Moulins Answer to Philanax; as also D.rStillingfleet’s last gun-powder treason sermon, his attaque about the treaty of Munster, & all matter of fact charg’d on the EnglishCatholiques by their enemies..

[Antwerp], s.n., M. DC. LXXIV. 1674.

$3,185

L2700

46.

CATHOLIC CHURCH. Taxe cancellariae apostolice et taxe sacre penitentiarie itidem apostolice.

Paris, Venundantur Toussaint Denis, 1520.

$5,300

L1807

47.

CAUS, Salomon de. Les raisons des forces mouuantes, auec diuerses machines tant vtiles que plaisantes: auquelles sont adjointsplusieurs desseins de grotes & fontaines.

Paris, chez Hierosme Droüart, ruë S. Iacques, à l'escu au soleil, 1624.

$21,230

K108

48.

CHALMERS, David. De Scotorum fortitudine, Doctrina & Pietate, ac de ortu & progressu haeresis in Regnis Scotiae & Angliae…nunc primum in lucam editi.

Paris, Petri Baillet, 1631.

$2,600

L1843

IRISH AND SCOTTISH CATHOLICS49.

CHAUCER, Geoffrey. The Workes of our Ancient and Learned Poet.

London, Adam Islip, 1602.

$12,000

L626

50.

Page 5

CICERO, Marcus Tullius. Epistolae familiares.

Paris, ex officina Simonis Colinaei, 1545.

$5,600

L1852

BEAUTIFULLY BOUND AND RARELY COMPLETE51.

CICERO, Marcus Tullius [with] APHTHONIUS, Sophista. Philippicae [with] Praeexercitamenta Fabula.

London, R. Pynson, 1520-1.

$46,000

L1014

52.

CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA. Klēmentos Alexandreōs ta heuriskomena hapanta.

Florence, Lorenzo Torrentino, 1550.

$28,300

K113

EX-LIBRIS ABRAHAM ORTELIUS53.

CLUSIUS, Charles. Rariorum plantarum historia..

Antwerp, ex officina Plantiniana apud Ioannem Moretum, 1601.

$6,725

L2736

SUPERBLY ILLUSTRATED BOOK ON BOTANY54.

COLUMNA, Petrus Galatinus. De arcanis catholicae veritatis, contra obstinatissimam Judeorum nostrem tempestatis perfidiam:ex Talmud, aliisque hebraicis libris nuper excerptum... Epigramma hebraicum....

Orthona, per Hieronymum Soncinum, 1518.

$21,230

.SN2632

A VERY RARE AND CURIOUS CABALISTIC WORK55.

[CONVENTO DE SAN JUAN DE LOS REYES]. Renuncia que hizo la Religion de nuestro Padre S. Francisco… en laNueva España é Islas Filipinas.

Toledo?, ?, 1645?.

$4,175

L2515

56.

CORTE, Claudio. The art of riding, conteining diuerse necessarie instructions

.

London, By H. Denham, 1584.

$24,775

L2517

57.

CRESPET, Pierre. Devx livres de la hayne de Sathan et malins esprits contre l'homme… pour nuyre à l'homme par charmes,obsessions, magie, sorcellerie, illusions, phantosmes… en l’Eglise...

Paris, Chez Guillaume de La Nouë, 1590.

$13,500

L2659

58.

DAVIES, Sir John. A Discovery of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely Subdued.

London, John Jaggard, 1612.

$5,300

L1215

A MAJOR HISTORICAL WORK59.

DE BILLON, François. Le Fort inexpugnable de l'honneur du sexe femenin.

Paris, chez Ian d'Allyer, 1555, 1 April.

$13,500

L646

A PASSIONATE PANEGYRIC ON THE MERITS OF WOMEN60.

Page 6

DE VIERI, Francesco. Discorso … intorno a’ dimoni, volgarmente chiamati spiriti.

Florence, Bartolomeo Sermartelli, 1576.

$6,000

L2657c

61.

[DEVEREUX, Robert] . Lawes and orders of warre, established for the good conduct of the seruice in Ireland.

[London, Printed by the deputies of Christopher Barker?, 1599?].

$5,600

L2065

IRISH MILITARY CONDUCT, A GUIDE62.

DOLCE, Lodovico. Trattato delle gemme che produce la natura; nel quale di discorre della qualità, grandezza, bellezza et virtùloro. .

Venice, Giovan Battista & Giovan Bernardo Sessa, 1617.

$3,500

L2713

MINERALOGY63.

DONNE, John. Poems, by J.D. VVith elegies on the authors death.

London, printed by M[iles]. F[lesher]. for Iohn Marriot, and are to be sold at his shop in St Dunstans Church-yard inFleet-street, 1633.

$46,000

K102

64.

ELISABETH I. Discours de la prinse de deux grandes navires envoyees de la part de la royne d’Angleterre au roy de Navarre.

Paris, veuve François Plumion, 1589.

$2,335

L2166

65.

ELYOT, Sir Thomas. The boke named the governour.

London, [Thomas Marsh], 1557.

$12,000

L550

THE EDUCATION OF PRINCES66.

ESTIENNE, Charles. De dissectione partium corporis humani libri tres… cum figuris, & incisionum declarationibus, à StephanoRiuerio chirurgo compositi.

Paris, apud Simonem Colinæum, 1545.

$49,550

K109

A LARGE PAPER COPY67.

EUCLID. [Opera].

Venice, Joannes Tacuinus de Tridino, 1510.

$41,750

L1425

A BEAUTIFUL, UNSOPHISTICATED COPY68.

[F., N.]. The husbandmans fruitfull orchard. Shewing diuers rare new secrets for the true ordering of all sortes of fruite in their dueseasons. ...

London, Imprinted [by R. Bradock] for Roger Iackson, 1608.

$6,725

L2577

69.

FERRARA, Camillo, Gabriele. . Nova Selva di Cirurgia. .

Venice, Bartolomeo Carampello, 1596.

$3,500

L2674

ELEMENTS OF SURGERY70.

Page 7

FITZRALPH, Richard. Ricardi Archiepiscopi Armachani Hyberniae Primatis Defensorum Curatorum aduersus eos quiprivilegiatos se dicunt.

Paris, Apud Petrum Billaine, 1633.

$4,600

L2066

THE FIRST IRISH PRINTED TEXT71.

[GAULTIER, Jacques]. Rodomontades Espagnolles. Colligées des commentaires des tres espouentables ... Capitaines, Matamares,Crocodille & Rojobroqueles, Fanfaron. Rodomuntadas Castellanas. ... Avec les figures representants les Mœurs des Espagnols.

Rouen, Jacques Caillüé, 1650.

$9,200

L1879

72.

GESNER, Conrad (ed.). Chirurgia. De chirurgia scriptores optimi. (with) [anon.], De Vlceribus..

1) Zurich 2) manuscript leaf, 1) Andreas Gessner and Hans Jakob Gessner. 2) probably German, 1) 1555 2) second halfof the sixteenth century.

$10,600

L2767

FROM THE LIBRARIES OF RENOWNED PHYSICIANS73.

GIOVIO, Paolo. Historiarum sui temporis.

Paris, Michel de Vascosan, 1558-1560.

$10,075

L2115

ITALIAN HISTORY AND POLITICS IN EXCEPTIONAL GENEVA BINDINGS74.

GUAZZO, Francesco Maria . Compendium Maleficarum.

Milan, ex collegi Ambrosiani typographia, 1626.

$21,230

L2661

A FINELY ILLUSTRATED BOOK ON WITCHCRAFT75.

HAMOND Walter. A Paradox. Prooving, that the inhabitants of the isle called Madagascar, or St. Laurence, …are the happiestpeople in the world.

London, for Nathaniell Butter, 1640.

$13,500

L2519

76.

HAYWARD, Sir John. The life, and raigne of King Edward the Sixt.

London, printed [by Eliot’s Court Press, and J. Lichfield at Oxford?] for Iohn Partridge, 1630.

$2,335

L1488

AN ENTIRELY UNSOPHISTICATED AND UNTRIMMED COPY77.

HERBAL. The Greate Herball.

London, John Kynge, 1561.

$53,000

L1033

A VERY GOOD CLEAN COPY78.

HERBERT, Sir Thomas. A relation of some yeares trauaile, begunne anno 1626. Into Afrique and the greater Asia, especially theterritories of the Persian monarchie: and some parts of the orientall Indies, and iles adiacent.

London, Printed by William Stansby, and Iacob Bloome, 1634.

$5,300

L2416

79.

[HERTEL, Jacob]. Ta ek ton palaion kai panton sophon komikon… Vetustissimorum sapientissimorum comicorum quinquaginta..

Basel, [Johann Oporinus], [1560].

$10,600

L2387

GARZONI'S EXTENSIVE ANNOTATIONS80.

Page 8

HILTON, John. Ayres, or Fa las for three voyces. Newly composed and published by Iohn Hilton, Bachelor of Musicke.

London, Printed by Humfrey Lownes, and are to be sold by George Lathum at the Bishops head in Pauls Church-yard,1627.

$38,950

K78

81.

HIPPOCRATES. Hippocratis Aphorismorum lib. VII. Prognostica. Coacae praenotiones. Prorrheticorum lib. II. De insomniis.Iusiurandum.

Paris, apud Guil. Morelium in Graecis typographum regium, 1557.

$12,000

L2386

A LA FANFARE82.

HOOD, Thomas. The Use of the Celestial Globe in Plano.

London, [By John VVindet] for Tobie Cooke, 1590.

$11,250

L1174

THE ONLY EARLY EDITION83.

[JESUIT LETTERS] RAGUENEAU, Paul. Relation de ce qui s'est passé de plus remarquable és missions des Peres de laCompagnie de Iesus, en la Nouuelle France, es annees 1650 & 1651.

Paris, Chez Sebastien Cramoisy, et Gabriel Cramoisy. ruë S. Iacques, aux Cicognes, 1652.

$22,500

K21

84.

[JESUIT LETTERS] VALIGNANI, Alessandro. Lettera del p. Alessandro Valignano. Visitatore della Compagnia di Giesunel Giappone e nella Cina de' 10 d'Ottobre del 1599. (with) Sopplimento dell'Annua 1600.

Rome, Luigi Zannetti, 1603.

$5,600

L1577

85.

JOHN OF DAMASCUS. Logoi treis apologētikoi pros tous diaballontas tas agias eikonas. [Apology Against Those who DecryHoly Images.].

Rome, apud Stephanum Nicolinum Sabiensem, [1553].

$12,000

L2680

ART HISTORY FIRST EDITION86.

JOHN OF DAMASCUS. Ekdosis tes orthodoxou pisteos…Editio Orthodoxae Fidei..

Verona, apud Stephanos et Fratres Sabios, 1531.

$13,500

L2596

EXTENSIVE ANNOTATIONS87.

JUNIUS, Hadrianus. Nomenclator octilinguis omnium rerum propria nomina continens.

[Geneva], Excudebat Iacobus Stœr, 1602.

$2,650

L2690

88.

KETHAM, Johannes de. Fasciculus medici[n]e.

Venice, Cesare Arrivabene, 1522.

$41,750

K32

FIRST MEDICAL BOOK WITH REALISTIC FIGURES89.

KNOX, John. An answer to a great nomber of blasphemous cauillations written by an Anabaptist, and aduersarie to Gods eternalpredestination.

[Geneva], Printed by Iohn Crespin, M.D.LX. [1560].

$17,700

L2752

90.

Page 9

LACINIUS, Janus. Praeciosa ac nobilissima artis chymiae collectanea.

Nuremberg, Gabriel Hain, 1554.

$7,000

L2163

THE SEARCH FOR THE PHILOSOPHER’S STONE, IN HANDSOME MANUSCRIPT BINDING91.

LAET, Johannes de [with] [ABELIN, Johann Philippx. COOTWIJK, Johannes van. DRECHSLER,Wolfgang. FARGHANI. SIONITA, Gabriel. HESRONITA, Johannes]. Persia seu Regni Persici status [with]Arabia.

Amsterdam, ex officina Elzeviriana, 1633.

$2,500

L1321b

92.

LANCASTER, Thomas. The ryght and trew vndersta[n]dynge of the Supper of the Lord and the vse therof faythfully gathered outof ye holy Scriptures worthely to be embrased of all Christen people.

London, by Johan Turke [E. Whitechurch? for] Iohan Turke], [1550?].

$8,450

L2072

EUCHARISTIC CHURCH DEBATE IN IRELAND93.

LANGLAND, William. The vision of Pierce Plowman newlye imprynted after the authours olde copy.

London, Owen Rogers, 1561.

$33,250

L1993

94.

LAWRENCE, Anthony, and Beale, John. Nurseries, orchards, profitable gardens, and vineyards encouraged, the presentobstructions removed..

London, printed for Henry Brome at the Gun in St. Pauls Church-Yard, 1677.

$12,000

L2578

95.

LAWSON, William. A New Orchard and Garden or The best way for planting, grafting, and to make any ground good, for a richorchard: … (with) the country housewifes garden … for hearbs and Seedes of common vse.

London, printed by Nicholas Okes for Iohn Harison, at the Golden Vnicorne in Pater-noster-row, 1631.

$9,200

L2578a

96.

LE NORMANT, Jean Sieur de Chiremont. Histoire Veritable et Memorable de ce qui c'est passé sous l'exorcisme de trois fillespossedées es païs de Flandre.

Paris, O. de Varennes, 1623.

$3,900

L2665

97.

LE POT. Histoire véritable arrivée de nostre temps en la ville de Beauvais touchant les conjurations et exorcismes faits à Denise de laCaille, possédée du diable...

Paris, P. Billaine, 1623.

$2,500

L2666

98.

LENTULO, Scipione. An Italian grammer; vvritten in Latin by Scipio Lentulo a Neapolitane: and turned in Englishe: by H.G..

Imprinted at London, By Thomas Vautroullier dwelling in the Blackefrieres, 1575.

$27,605

L2520

SIR EDWARD COKE’S COPY99.

MACER, Floridus. [ODO, Magdunensis]. Herbarum vires Macer tibi carmine dicet.

np. [Paris], np. [Pierre Baquelier], nd. [c. 1515].

$13,800

L2513

100.

Page 10

MARKHAM, Gervase. The inrichment of the vveald of Kent: or, A direction to the husband-man.

London, rinted by Anne Griffin for Iohn Harison, 1636.

$1,770

L2677

101.

MARKHAM, Gervase. Markhams farewell to husbandry: or, the enriching of all sorts of barren and steril grounds in ourkingdome,..

London, Printed by Edvvard Griffin for Iohn Harison, 1638.

$16,600

L2675

102.

MAROT, Clément. Les Oeuvres de Clement Marot, de Cahors… [with] Les Cinquante Deux Psalmes.

Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Guillaume Thibout, 1558.

$9,600

L2398

LOVELY RENAISSANCE BINDING103.

MARTIAL, Marcus Valerius [Petrus Scriverius]. Nova editio, ex museo Petri Scriverii. Iusti Lipsii, Iani Rutgersii, I. IsaciPontani, Notae in Martialem. Ad Petrum Scriverium.

Leiden, apud Ioannem Maire, 1619.

$2,500

L1979

DE THOU104.

MARTIN, Gregory. A discouerie of the manifold corruptions of the Holy Scriptures by the heretikes of our daies,specially the English sectaries, ….

Rhemes, By Iohn Fogny, 1582.

$3,185

L2696

105.

MASINI, Eliseo. Sacro Arsenale Ouero Prattica dell’Officio della Santa Inquisitione.

Genoa and Perugia, Stampa Camerale appresso Sebastiano Zecchini, 1653.

$3,900

L2653

MANUAL FOR INQUISITORS106.

MASON, Francis. Vindiciæ Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ; siue De legitimo eiusdem ministerio, id est, de episcoporum successione,consecratione, electione, & confimatione: item, de presbyterorum, & diaconorum ordinatione.

London, Impressum per Felicem Kyngstonum, 1625.

$10,075

L2284

A REGAL BINDING107.

MASON, James. The anatomie of sorcerie. VVherein the wicked impietie of charmers, inchanters, and such like, is discouered andconfuted..

London, By Iohn Legatte, printer to the Uniuersitie of Cambridge, 1612.

$17,700

L2522

108.

MERCADO, Luis. Institutiones chirurgicae ... pro chirurgis in praxis examinandi.

Madrid, Ludovicus Sanchez, 1594.

$2,600

L1940

109.

MERCURIALE, Girolamo. De arte gymnastica..

Paris, Jacobus du Puys, 1577.

$3,185

L337

110.

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METIUS, Adrian. De genuino usu utriusque globi tractatus adjecta est nova Sciatericorum, et artis Navigandi ratio novisInstrumentis et inventionibus illustrata. [with] Mensura geographica et usus globi terrestris, Artisque Navigandi Institutio, novisInstrumentis et Inventionibus adaucta..

Franeker, Ulderich Balck, 1624.

$3,900

L105

111.

[MEXICAN CHURCH]. Sanctum Provinciale Concilium Mexici.

México, Juan Ruiz, 1622.

$13,500

L1925

LAWS OF THE EARLY CATHOLIC CHURCH IN CENTRAL AMERICA112.

MONARDES, Nicolas. Ioyfull newes out of the new-found vvorlde. Wherein are declared, the rare and singuler vertues of diuersherbs, trees, plants, oyles & stones, ...

London, Printed by E. Allde, by the assigne of Bonham Norton, 1596.

$46,000

K110

113.

MONTE, Guidobaldo del. Mechanicorum liber..

Pesaro, Hieronymus Concordia, 1577.

$27,605

L2651

EXCEPTIONAL COPY114.

MONTE, Guidobaldo del. In duos Archimedis aequeponderantium Libros paraphrasis..

Pesaro, Hieronymus Concordia, 1588.

$14,850

L2652

FINELY ILLUSTRATED ON MECHANICS115.

MORE, Thomas. Epigrammata ... pleraque e graecis versa.

Basel, Froben, 1518, December.

$6,725

L2232

116.

MORLEY, Thomas. A plaine and easie introduction to practicall musicke.

London, Peter Short, 1597.

$38,950

L2157

THE CONTEMPORARY THEORY OF RENAISSANCE MUSIC117.

NAUSEA, Friedrich. A Treatise of Blazing Starres in Generall.

London, Bernard Alsop for Henry Bell, 1618.

$5,300

L1554b

OF PARTICULAR ASTRONOMICAL AND ASTROLOGICAL INTEREST118.

NIEREMBERG, John Eusebius. Historia Naturae Maxime Peregrinae.

Antwerp, ex Officina Plantiniana, Balthasar Moretus, 1635.

$10,600

L1549

FIRST AND ONLY EDITION119.

NOSTRADAMUS, Michel de. Les Propheties.

Lyon, Pierre Rigaud, n.d. [1604].

$3,900

L1702

A GOOD, ENTIRELY UNSOPHISTICATED COPY120.

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O’FIHELY, Maurice. Enchyridion fidei lucubrationibus.

Venice, Boneto Locatello for Ottaviano Scoto, 1509.

$5,300

L2185

121.

OLEARIUS, Adam. Relation du Voyage de Moscovie, Tartarie, et de Perse, .. depuis l’an 1633, jusques en l’an 1639.

A Paris, chez Pierre Aubouin, 1656.

$31,500

L2689

122.

ORDER OF SANTIAGO . Regra y statutos: da Ordem de Santiago.

Lisboa, Germão Galharde, 1548.

$5,600

L2633

123.

PACINI, Giacomo. De tenuis humoris febrem faciente ante purgationem per artem incrassatione...

Venice, Paulus Manutius, 1558.

$3,900

L2655

124.

PERSONS, Fr. Robert. Quaestiones duæ de sacris alienis non adeundis, ad vsum praxim Angliæ breuiter explicatæ...

[Saint Omer], [François Bellet], 1607.

$3,900

L2566

125.

PICCOLOMINI, Alessandro. Della sfera del mondo... Delle stelle fisse.

Venice, Nicolò Bevilacqua, 1561.

$3,500

L1976

126.

PORTABLE BREVIARY AND PSALTER FOR ROMAN USE. Illuminated manuscript in Latin on vellum.

Northern Italy, probably Liguria, (Genoa or Savona), 1447 and third quarter of the 15th century.

$77,900

K4

FOR THE PRIVATE DEVOTION OF A POPE,THE CYBO BREVIARY127.

PULCI, Luigi. S’ensuit l’histoire de Morgant le geant.

Paris, Alain Lotrian, [c. 1536].

$31,850

L2501

128.

RATHBORNE, Aaron. The Surveyor in foure bookes.

London, W. Stansby for W. Burre, 1616.

$17,700

L384

A NEWLY RECOGNISED AMERICANUM129.

REVESE BRUTO, Ottavio. Archisesto per formar con facilità li cinque ordini d'architettura.

Vicenza, appresso gli Heredi di Dominico Amadio, 1627.

$14,850

L2657d

130.

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ROBERTS, Alexander. A treatise of witchcraft. VVherein sundry propositions are laid downe, plainely discouering the wickednesseof that damnable art, ….

London, Printed by N[icholas]. O[kes]. for Samuel Man, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard at the signeof the Ball, 1616.

$12,000

L2523

131.

SACROBOSCO, Joannes de. Textus de sphaera: introductoria additione commentarioque, ad vtilitatem studentium PhilosophiaeParisiensis Academiae illustratus. Cum compositione Annuli astronomici Boneti Latensis: Et Geometria Euclidis Megarensis.

Paris, Simonem Colinaeum, 1538.

$9,840

L1928

132.

SALLUST [and] CICERO. De Coniuratione Catilinae (The Catiline Conspiracy) [and] De Amicitia and De Senectute, inLatin, illuminated manuscript on vellum.

[Italy, (perhaps Florence), second half of 15th century].

$71,500

L1649

133.

SANDYS, George. A relation of a iourney begun an: Dom: 1610. Foure bookes. Containing a description of the Turkish Empire,of Ægypt, of the Holy Land, of the remote parts of Italy, and ilands adioyning.

London, Printed [by Thomas Cotes] for Ro: Allot, 1627.

$3,900

L2382

134.

SANDYS, George. A paraphrase upon the divine poems.

London, [Printed by John Legatt, sold] at the Bell in St. Pauls Church-yard [i.e. the shop of Andrew Hebb], 1638.

$5,300

L2238

LARGE PAPER COPY135.

[SEMINARIO JESUITA DE SEVILLA]. Algunos motivos y razones que ay, para favorecer los seminarios ingleses.

[Seville?], n.p., [c. 1630].

$2,335

L2395

136.

SFORZA, Isabella [LANDO, Ortensio]. Della vera tranquillità dell’animo..

Venice, In casa de’ figliuoli di Aldo, 1544.

$5,600

L2763a

PHILOSOPHY AND WOMEN’S WRITING137.

SHAKESPEARE, William. Comedies, Histories and Tragedies. Published according to the true originall copies.

London, Tho Cotes, for Robert Allot, 1632.

$400,000

K1

A DRAMATIST'S COPY138.

SPENSER, Edmund. The Faerie Queen [with] The Shepherds Calendar: Together with the Other Works.

London, H. L. For Matthew Lownes, 1609 and 1611.

$7,000

L1085

139.

STANDISH, Arthur. The commons complaint. Wherein is contained tvvo speciall grieuances...

London, Printed by William Stansby, 1611.

$7,000

L1872

A PRIME MINISTER'S FORESTRY140.

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TACITUS, Publius Cornelius. P. Cornelii Taciti ab excessu divi Augusti historiarum libri quinque.

Florence, per haeredes Philippi Iuntae, 1527.

$12,300

L2716

ATTRACTIVE ITALIAN BINDING141.

TAGAULT, Jean. De chirurgica institutione librie quinque.

Lyon, apud Guliel Rouillium sub scuto Veneto, 1567.

$6,865

L1438

ATTRACTIVE EDITION OF A POPULAR SURGICAL TEXT142.

THE PROTESTATION. of the Generall Assemblie of the Church of Scotland.

Glasgow, by George Anderson, 1638.

$3,900

L2644

143.

THOMÁS, de Jesús. Stimulus missionum: siue de propaganda a religiosis per vniuersum orbem fide...

Rome, apud Iacobum Mascardum, 1610.

$3,755

L2561

144.

THUCYDIDES. De bello Peloponnesiaco libri.

[Geneva], Henry Estienne, 1588.

$28,300

K90

BOUND FOR WILLIAM CECIL, LORD BURGHLEY145.

THYRAEUS, Gulielmus. Discursus panegyrici de nominibus, tribulationibus, et miraculis S. Patricii Ibernorum apostoli, cumexhortatione ad perfectiones pro fide patienter ferendas, & apostophe ad Iberniam.

Douai, Ex officina Baltazaris Belleri, sub circino auteo, 1617.

$5,300

L2075

THE MIRACLES OF SAINT PATRICK146.

TOPSELL, Edward (trans.); GESNER, Conrad. The Historie of Fovre-Footed Beastes [with] The Historie of Serpents.

London, William Iaggard, 1607; 1608.

$41,750

K82

147.

VALERIS, VASILEOS (ed.). Hieron Evangelion [Holy Evangeliary].

Venice, Andrea and Giacomo Spinelli, 1550.

$15,550

L2597

ONLY TWO COPIES RECORDED148.

VALERIUS, Maximus. Dictorum factorumque memorabilium exempla.

Lyon, Seb. Gryphium, 1547.

$4,600

L1141

FINE LYONESE BINDING149.

VECELLIO, Cesare. Habiti antichi et moderni di tutto il mondo.

Venice, Giovanni Bernardo Sessa, 1598.

$9,700

L1435

WITH 507 WOODCUT PLATES150.

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VESLING, Johann. De plantis Aegyptiis observationes et notae ad Prosperum Alpinum.

Padua, Paolo Frambotto, 1638.

$2,125

L2255

151.

VICCARS, John. Decapla in psalmos: sive commentarius ex decem linguis Mss. et impressis : Heb. Arab. Syr. Chald. Rabbin.Græc. Rom. Ital. Hispan. Gallic. Cum specimine linguæ Cophticæ, Pers. & Ang.

London, apud Robertum Young, 1639.

$8,140

L2241

FROM THE VANISHED LIBRARY OF THOMAS FULLER152.

VISCONTI, Zaccaria. Complementum artis exorcisticae, cui simile nunquam visum est.

Venice, apud Franciscum Barilettum, 1619.

$5,600

L2723

153.

WIRSUNG, Christoph. A generall practise of physicke : Wherein are conteined all inward and outward parts of the body.

London, Impensis Georg. Bishop, 1598.

$10,600

L2524

154.

WITHER, George. The hymnes and songs of the Church. Diuided into two parts.

London, Printed [by John Bill] for G[eorge] W[ither], 1623.

$9,200

L2188

155.

WITHER, George. A collection of emblemes, ancient and moderne : quickened vvith metricall illustrations, both morall and divine:and disposed into lotteries.

London, by A[ugustine]. M[athewes]. for Robert Milbourne, 1635.

$17,700

K85

156.

WOODALL, John. The surgeons mate... Discouering faithfully & plainly ye method and order of ye surgeons chest, ye vses of theinstruments, the vertues and operations of ye medicines, w[i]th ye exact cures of wounds made by gun-shott.

London, printed by Rob: Young [J. Legate? and E. Purslowe], for Nicholas Bourne, and are to be sold at his shop at thesouth entrance of the Royall Exchange, 1639.

$14,850

L2161

157.

ZAMORANO, Rodrigo. Compendio del arte de navegar.

Seville, en casa de Juan de León, 1588.

$49,550

L2415

158.

ZONCA, Vittorio. Nouo teatro di machine et edificii per uarie et sicure operationi con le loro figure tagliate in rame e la dichiarationee dimostratione di ciascuna Opera necessaria ad architetti...

Padua, appresso Pietro Bertell, 1607.

$16,250

L2276

159.

ZURITA, Jeronimo. Indices rerum ab Aragonese regibus gestarum… ad annum MCDX.

Zaragoza, Dominicus a Portonariis de Cursinis, 1578.

$2,650

L2624

160.

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