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Period: 17th Century
A Parallel of Antient Architecture with Modern by John EVELYN
Located in Middletown, NY
Evelyn, John translator; Fréart, Roland de Chambray
A Parallel of Antient Architecture with Modern,; In a Collection of Ten Principal Authors who have Written upon the Five Orders, P...
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English Antique 17th Century Books
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Gold Leaf
17th C. Sheet Music "Feria vi. Paschae" (page 191 and 192)
Located in Soquel, CA
17th C. Sheet Music "Feria vi. Paschae" (page 191 and 192)
Excellent example of Latin sheet music for Catholic church services. Bold red title and notations, with red staff lines. N...
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European Baroque Antique 17th Century Books
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Paper
Le moyen de parvenir by François Béroalde de Verville, (1556-1626)
Located in Middletown, NY
Le moyen de parvenir; oeuvre contenant la raison de tout ce qui a esté, est & sera : avec démonstrations certaines et nécessaires, selon la rencontre des effects de vertu .
n.d. (ci...
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French Antique 17th Century Books
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Gold Leaf
Very Early Illustrated Book on Birds, Giovanni P. Olina: "Uccelliera", 1622
Located in Middletown, NY
Giovanni Pietro Olina. UCCELLIERA; Overo discorso della natura e proprietà di diversi uccelli e in particolare di que' che cantano, con il modo di prendergli, conoscergli, allevargli, e mantenergli.
Rome: Andrea Fe, 1622. FIRST EDITION.
Large Octavo, 9 3/16 x 6 7/8 inches (232 x 175 mm);pp. XI + 161 + [12], including 66 full-page engraving of which 43 represent individual birds and 23 illustrate the materials about trapping and caring for birds; woodcut initials & tail-pieces, light offsetting as typical, a little browned, a few stains, A7 lacking small portion from inner margin, E4 with small paper flaw holes at head just touching head-line; 18th century diced russia, rebacked, flat spines divided into panels by single gilt rules, gilt title and publication year, rubbed, corners worn, gilt-rolled turn-ins, marbled endpapers.
Front pastedown with the engraved armorial bookplate of Thomas Philip Earl de Grey...
Category
Italian Antique 17th Century Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
Canterbury Cathedral: First Edition, The Antiquities Of Canterbury By Somner
Located in London, GB
An extremely rare first edition: William Somner, The antiquities of Canterbury. Or a survey of that ancient citie, with the suburbs, and cathedrall. Containing principally matters of...
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English Antique 17th Century Books
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Leather, Paper
Of Gardens; Four Books by Rene Rapin & John Evelyn the Younger
Located in Middletown, NY
RARE: John Evelyn the Younger's first book, rare first issue with title date 1672.
Rapin, René (1621-1687) and Evelyn, John (the Younger 1655 -1699), translator
Of Gardens; Four Boo...
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English Antique 17th Century Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
John MILTON. A Defence of the People of England. 1692 - FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: MILTON, John.
TITLE: A Defence of the People of England, by John Milton: in Answer to Salmasius's Defence of the King.
PUBLISHER: n.p., n.p., 1692.
DESCRIPTION: FIRST EDI...
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British Antique 17th Century Books
Materials
Leather
Bibliothecæ Alexandrinæ icones symbolicæ / elogiis illustratæ, by C. Giarda
Located in Middletown, NY
DISTINGUISHED PEDIGREE: from the libraries of Robert Hoe and John Barrymore.
Elegantly illustrated and bound copy with a famed pedigree that spans from Robert Hoe—the businessman, collector, and founding member of the Grolier Club in 1884— to "The Lamberts" (probably purchased in the epic Hoe library auction of 1911-1912), who gifted it to the colorful and famous actor John Barrymore. Their bookplates adorn the inside covers, will your bookplate be next?
Giarda, Cristoforo
Bibliothecæ Alexandrinæ icones symbolicæ … elogiis illustratæ
Milan: Giovanni Battista Bidelli, 1628.
4to, 9 5/8 x 7 inches (244 x 178 mm); (xii) + 140 pp, not including plates and inscriptions. Engraved architectural title with Saints Peter and Alexander by Cesare Bassano, 16 copperplates of female figures; woodcut dropcaps and tailpieces throughout.
Later (circa 1890) red levant morocco binding by R. Petit (signed in gilt on front turn-in) with triple gilt frames on boards, raised bands, gilt title and decorative motifs in compartments; inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, professionally rebacked preserving original richly gilt backstrip in compartments; title and preliminaries stained, occasional spotting or light soiling and a few small light ink stains to covers.
[Praz p.349]
Provenance: Robert Hoe (blue morocco book label...
Category
French Antique 17th Century Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Shakespeare. The Comedy of Errors - FOURTH FOLIO - 1685 - page 81-82.
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: SHAKESPEARE, William.
TITLE: The Works of William Shakespeare. (The Comedy of Errors) - page 81-82.
PUBLISHER: London: Printed for H. Herringman, E. Brewster and R. Bentle...
Category
British Antique 17th Century Books
Materials
Paper
The Works of the Famous Nicolas Machiavelli - SECOND EDITION - 1695
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: MACHIAVELLI, Nicolas
TITLE: The Works of the Famous Nicolas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence. Written originaIly [sic] in Italian, and from thence newly and fait...
Category
British Antique 17th Century Books
Materials
Leather
Seminal guide to the East and West Indies, with 42 coloured maps and plates
Located in ZWIJNDRECHT, NL
Seminal guide to the East and West Indies, with 42 double-page and folding plates, including 6 maps, all engravings beautifully coloured by a contemporary hand
LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygh...
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Dutch Dutch Colonial Antique 17th Century Books
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Paper
Furniture Collections in the Louvre (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This is a deluxe edition in two volumes which does justice to the splendour of this incomparable collection. This collection has never before been the subject of such an important wo...
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Antique 17th Century Books
Materials
Paper
Shakespeare. The London Prodigal - FOURTH FOLIO - 1685 - page 219-220.
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: SHAKESPEARE, William.
TITLE: The Works of William Shakespeare. (The London Prodigal) - page 219-220.
PUBLISHER: London: Printed for H. Herringman, E. Brewster and R. Bentl...
Category
British Antique 17th Century Books
Materials
Paper
Ariosto 'Lodovico', Orlando Furioso, the First English Language Edition, 1634
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
Author: Ariosto (Lodovico).
Title: Orlando Furioso In English Heroical Verse. By Sir John Harington of Bathe, Knight. Now thirdly revised and amend...
Category
British Antique 17th Century Books
Materials
Leather
The Forest of Hermits / 't Bosh der Ermyten by Abraham Bloemaert
Located in Middletown, NY
Bloemaert, Abraham and Rosweyde, Héribert
't Bosch der Eremyten ende Eremytinnen van Aegypten ende Palestinen (...) [The Forest of Hermits of Egypt and Palestine...
Hantvverpen (Antwerp): Hieronymus Verdussen, 1619.
Illustrated by Abraham Bloemart.
First Edition in book form.
4to, 8 7/8 x 6 3/4 inches (251 x 171 mm). ix pp, 51 sheets on cream laid paper, text in Dutch (gothic letters). 50 numbered full page copperplate engravings of Christian hermit saints (25 male, 25 female), printed recto with text pages on verso. Full-page frontispiece for the work and with an additional full-page frontispiece for each of the two sections. Full contemporary vellum, untitled, with some handling discoloration but the vellum remains supple and the binding is tight. Pages clean and bright with a couple of foxing spots and a small brown stain on the 2nd frontis titled "Sacra Eremus ascetarum"; toned page edges. Previous owner's name and date in ink on front flyleaf and small pencil and ink notations inside back cover; bookplate of Buijnsters Smets pasted inside front cover.
[De Backer...
Category
Dutch Antique 17th Century Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
Masterpieces from the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
A beautiful catalogue which was published in 1995, still in the original slipcase, to coincide with an exhibition of the collection of the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture in San Francisco...
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Antique 17th Century Books
Materials
Paper
The Workes of our Ancient and Learned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer
Located in Middletown, NY
Chaucer, Geoffrey
The Workes of our Ancient and Learned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, Newly Printed
London: Adam Islip, 1602.
Second Edition.
Folio, 13 x 8 3/4 inches (328 x 223 ...
Category
English Antique 17th Century Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
William Shakespeare, Othello, the Moor of Venice, a Tragedy, 1695 Sixth Edition
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
"But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve"
AUTHOR: SHAKESPEARE, William.
TITLE: Othello, The Moor of Venice. A Tragedy. As it hath divers times Acted at the Globe, and at the Black-Friers: and now at the Theatre Royal,...
PUBLISHER: London: for Richard Bentley, 1695.
DESCRIPTION: SIXTH EDITION. (ii)76pp., complete, quarto, 8-5/8" x 6-1/4", several leaves with untrimmed bottom edges, some toning and foxing to pages, closed tear to F2 mended without loss, a few headlines slightly trimmed but generally good wide margins, ex-libris Viscount Mersey of Bignor Park with book label...
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British Antique 17th Century Books
Materials
Leather
Torquato TASSO, Gerusalemme Liberata
Located in Middletown, NY
An early illustrated edition of Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso (1544 – 1595)
"La Gerusalemme Liberata; Di Torquato Tasso – Figurata da Bernardo Castello – con le annotationi ...
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Italian Antique 17th Century Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
Description of the city of Delft, by Dirck can Bleyswijck - ILLUSTRATED, 1667
Located in Middletown, NY
A very good copy of Bleyswijck famous description of the history, topography, institutions, and commercial life of Delft in the 17th Century. The plates are exquisite depiction's of ...
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Dutch Antique 17th Century Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
La femme demasquée ou l'amour peint selon l'usage nouveau – Quesnot de La Chênée
Located in Middletown, NY
Quesnot de La Chênée, Jean-Jacques
La femme démasquée ou l'amour peint selon l'usage nouveau
la Haye (The Hague): Jacob van Ellinckhuysen, 1698.
First Edition.
12mo, 5 x 2 3/4 inc...
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French Antique 17th Century Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Les Fables d'Esope Phrigien avec celles de Philelphe [Aesop's Fables, 1708]
Located in Middletown, NY
A RARE EARLY EDITION OF AESOPIC LITERATURE, BEAUTIFULLY ILLLUSTRATED.
Les Fables d'Esope Phrigien avec celles de Philelphe; traduction nouvelle, Enrichie de Discours Moraux et Histor...
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Dutch Antique 17th Century Books
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Gold Leaf
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BARCLAY. An Apology for the True Christian Divinity - 1678 - 1ST ED IN ENGLISH
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: BARCLAY, Robert.
TITLE: An Apology for the True Christian Divinity, as the Same Is Held Forth, and Preached by the People, Called, in Scorn, Quakers.
PUBLISHER: [Aberdeen(...
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British Antique 17th Century Books
Materials
Leather
Shakespeare. Love's Labour's Lost - FOURTH FOLIO - 1685 - page 111-112.
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: SHAKESPEARE, William.
TITLE: The Works of William Shakespeare. (Love's Labour's Lost) - page 111-112.
PUBLISHER: London: Printed for H. Herringman, E. Brewster and R. Bent...
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British Antique 17th Century Books
Materials
Paper
Joseph GLANVILL. The Vanity of Dogmatizing. FIRST EDITION - 1661 - HIS 1st BOOK!
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: GLANVILL, Joseph.
TITLE: The Vanity of Dogmatizing: Or Confidence in Opinions Manifested in a Discourse of the Shortness and Uncertainty of Our Knowledge, and Its Causes, w...
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British Antique 17th Century Books
Materials
Leather
Shakespeare. Pericles Prince of Tyre - FOURTH FOLIO - 1685 - page 197-198
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: SHAKESPEARE, William.
TITLE: The Works of William Shakespeare. (Pericles Prince of Tyre) - page 197-198.
PUBLISHER: London: Printed for H. Herringman, E. Brewster and R. B...
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British Antique 17th Century Books
Materials
Paper
Secreet-Boeck, by Abraham Canin, Dordrecht, 1601
Located in Delft, NL
Secreet-Boeck, by Abraham Canin, Dordrecht, 1601
Titel:
Secreet-Boeck, Waer in vele diversche secreten ende heerlicke consten
in veelderleye verscheyden materien, seker Latijnsche,...
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Dutch Antique 17th Century Books
Materials
Paper
Palaces of the Sun King by Andrew Zega & Bernd h. Dams (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
:Versailles, Trianon, Marly, The Chateaux of Loius XIV
This Comprehensive volume documents for the first time twenty-one chateaux and pavilions commissioned by Louis XIV, the 'Sun K...
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Antique 17th Century Books
Materials
Paper
HEYLYN. Mikrokosmos A Little Description of the Great World. THIRD EDITION 1627
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: HEYLYN, Peter.
TITLE: Mikrokosmos. A Little Description of the Great World.
PUBLISHER: Oxford: by I. L. & W. T. for William Turner & Thomas Huggins, 1627.
DESCRIPTION: TH...
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British Antique 17th Century Books
Materials
Leather
Edmund BOLTON. Nero Caesar, or Monarchie Depraved - FIRST EDITION - 1624
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: BOLTON, Edmund.
TITLE: Nero Caesar, or Monarchie Depraved. An Historical Worke.... By the Translator of Lucius Florus.
PUBLISHER: London: by T. S. for Thomas Walkly, 1624....
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British Antique 17th Century Books
Materials
Leather
17th Century Dutch Book, Oost-Indien, 1694
Located in Delft, NL
17th Century Dutch Book, Oost-Indien, 1694 by Frikius, Hesse and Schweitzer, Simon de Vries
Dutch translation by Simon de Vries of the accounts of three Ge...
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Dutch Antique 17th Century Books
Materials
Paper
HOWARD, Sir Robert. The History Of The Reigns Of Edward and Richard II. (1690)
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: HOWARD, Sir Robert.
TITLE: The History Of The Reigns Of Edward and Richard II.
PUBLISHER: London: by F. Collins, for Thomas Fox, 1690.
DESCRIPTION: 1 vol., 7-3/16" x 4-9/...
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British Antique 17th Century Books
Materials
Leather
Plainsong Manuscript of the Nicene Creed - 3 Parts for Performance
Located in Ilkley, GB
Three-part plainchant polyphonic manuscript of the Nicene Creed probably originating in Spain in the late 16th or early 17th century. This large format manuscript written on paper wa...
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European Renaissance Antique 17th Century Books
Materials
Paper
Pliny, Gaius Secundus: HISTORIE OF THE WORLD
Located in Middletown, NY
A rare and complete first English edition of this seminal work.
Pliny, Gaius Secundus / Plinius, Gaius Secundus (23-79 AD) / Translated by Philemon Holland.
The Historie of the Wor...
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English Antique 17th Century Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
Les Moeurs des Israelites by Claude Fleury
Located in Middletown, NY
A third edition in an attractive 19th-century binding of the influential work by the eminent French priest, historian and jurist Claude Fleury (1640 – 1723). It is an account of the ...
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Antique 17th Century Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Works of William Shakespeare. 1632 - (Tragedy of Titus Andronicus) - page 75-76
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: SHAKESPEARE, William.
TITLE: The Works of William Shakespeare. (The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus) - page 75-76.
PUBLISHER: London: Smethwick, J., Aspley, W., Hawkins, Richa...
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British Antique 17th Century Books
Materials
Paper
CAMDEN - The Historie of the Life & Death of Mary Stuart - SECOND EDITION - 1636
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: CAMDEN, William.
TITLE: The Historie of the Life and Death of Mary Stuart Queene of Scotland.
PUBLISHER: London: by John Haviland, and are to be sold by William Sheares, 1...
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British Antique 17th Century Books
Materials
Leather
Antique Books circa 1696, The Life of Leopold I Hapsburg
Located in Opole, PL
We present you three volumes in Spanish which describe the life of Leopold I Hapsburg.
Published in Milan in 1696.
All the volumes are decorated with various graphics by Pieter Bal...
Category
Italian Antique 17th Century Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
Shakespeare. The London Prodigal - FOURTH FOLIO - 1685 - page 217-218
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: SHAKESPEARE, William.
TITLE: The Works of William Shakespeare. (The London Prodigal) - page 217-218.
PUBLISHER: London: Printed for H. Herringman, E. Brewster and R. Bentley, 1685.
DESCRIPTION: THE FOURTH FOLIO. 217-218p., correctly-incorrectly numbered, 1 leaf extracted from the fourth folio, 13-3/4" x 9", good margins.
CONDITION: A VERY GOOD leaf...
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British Antique 17th Century Books
Materials
Paper
Jacques Callot "Misères Et Malheurs De La Guerre" Collection of Engraving 17th
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
“Les Misères Et Les Malheurs De La Guerre” (“The misfortunes of war”) more commonly called “the great miseries of war” (“The great miseries of war”) is a major work by the 17th centu...
Category
French Louis XIII Antique 17th Century Books
Materials
Paper
COTTON, Charles, The Wonders of The Peake, 1681, FIRST EDITION
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: COTTON, Charles.
TITLE: The Wonders of The Peake.
PUBLISHER: London: for Joanna Brome, 1681.
DESCRIPTION: FIRST EDITION. 1 vol., 6-7/8" x 4-1/2", [ii]86pp., complete, bound in contemporary full speckled calf, covers ruled in blind.
CONDITION: Internally clean and bright, inner and outer hinges fine, head and foot of spine rubbed with some minor loss, overall VERY GOOD.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The dedicatee is Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire. Written in heroic couplets, this work by Cotton was one of the first landscape poems of a movement which only became significant under Queen Anne.
Charles Cotton published this satirical poem just five years after Thomas Hobbes' own "Wonders of the Peak" poem was translated into English. Cotton's poem recalls a visit to the 'Devil's Arse', nowadays known as Peak Cavern, in Castleton.
Cotton is also known for contributing a treatise on fly fishing for trout in the second edition of Izaak Walton's famous book, "The Compleat Angler".
Category
British Antique 17th Century Books
Materials
Leather
Austrian Set of Six Vellum Bound Books, Circa 1699
Located in Atlanta, GA
A handsome collection of 6 Austrian vellum bound books from the late 17th century. This antique set of six books from Austria, which retain their original vellum bindings, have Latin...
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Austrian Antique 17th Century Books
Materials
Paper
Italian Rare Edition of Historia Dell'Armi Imperiali from Venice 1687
Located in Sofia, BG
Rare antique Italian edition of HISTORIA DEGL'AVENIMENTI DELL'ARMI IMPERIALI CONTRO A'RIBELLI, ET OTTOMANI published in Venice at 1687.
Italy
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Italian Antique 17th Century Books
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Paper
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