(Genève), Jean Durand, 1582. 8vo. (16), 551, (1) pp. Veau, dos muet à nerfs, tranches mouchetées rouges. (Reliure du XVIIe.) --------------------Première édition française, très rare, de cette oeuvre capitale de la Renaissance. Médecin, mage et alchimiste, Agrippa, en dissertant sur la vanité de toutes les connaissances humaines, traite de sujets..... More

Augsburg, Erhard Ratdolt, 1490. First separate edition. It is a collection of three related tracts edited by Joannes Angelus (Johann Engel). Engel edited the same year for Radolt the 'Tabulae directionum' of Regiomontanus - providing "the longitudes of the celestial bodies in relation to the apparent daily rotation of the..... More

Paris, Henri Estienne, 1554. Editio princeps. "The book is magnificently printed in all three sizes of the "grecs du roi". ... This is the first book published under the imprint of Henri Estienne II." Schreiber 139. Very nice copy, with large margins, bound by Nicolas-Denis Derome (1731-1790), with its label..... More

[Lyon, Guillaume Le Roy, circa 1485]. Very rare incunabula edition from Lyon. Only 7 copies are found in public libraries, only one in the United States, none in Lyon. The printer Guillaume Le Roy was the first printer at Lyon. Born in Liege, he settled there in 1473. He associated..... More

Paris, Nicolas Bonfons, 1573. Beautiful copy in gilt vellum. This edition contains the ten books of the 'Roman History' by Appian of Alexandria and the sixth book of the Civil Wars, taken from the life of Mark Antony, by Plutarch, translated by Claude de Seyssel. 'L'Ibérique ou Espagnole' and 'L'Annibale..... More

Paris, Gabriel Buon, 1565. 4to. 36 ff. Cartonnage moderne. --------------------Traduction du bénédictin et helléniste Joachim Perion (1499-1559), revue par Nicolas Grouchy (1510-1572), professeur au collège de Guyenne et précepteur de Montaigne. Belle marque d'imprimeur sur le titre. Grandes initiales gravées. Texte en caractères italiques. Exemplaire grand de marges.-. More

[Genève], Henri Estienne, 1557. Editio princeps of the two text known of Athenagoras. The latin translation of the Apology was commissioned by Henri Estienne from the eminent Swiss humanist, naturalist and bibliographer Konrad Gesner, who has added his textual comments on the Greek text. The second treatise "On the resurrection..... More

Roma, Ex officina Nicholai Mutii, 1596. First edition. Illustrated by a fine woodcut frontispiece and another large woodcut page 178: one sees a Roman thermopolium, a kind of tavern that served hot meals and drinks. "The book of Baccius is extremely rare; it is one of the most significant treaties..... More

(Genève), Henri Estienne, 1569. 8vo. 31, (1), 174 pp., 1 f. bl., 248, (8) pp. Maroquin brun, encadrements sur les plats, dos à nerfs orné, tranches dorées. (Reliure du XIXe.) Jean Paul Barbier, Ma bibliothèque poétique 34. Renouard, Estienne 132. Adams B-928.--------------------Cette seconde édition est en grande partie originale. Bèze..... More

Lyon, Jean Crespin, 1529. This large Bible is illustrated with 120 woodcuts in text. One beautiful title page in black and red within engraved border, and 3 large woodcuts (one at the beginning of the text, another at folio CXXIX and another almost full page (folio CCXXII) showing the Nativity..... More

(1460). 15th century book slipcase, probably for a manuscript prayer book (a book of hours, a breviary, a missel...) It consist of a wood box, with its lid, entirly covered with a calf skin, blind stamped with floral decoration. This box was intended to be carried with a shoulder strap..... More

Lyon, Jean d'Ogerolles, 1579. A rare edition illustred by one woodcut on title and 109 woodcuts on half of the page. This universal satire of the mankind is one of the most beautiful illustrated books of the Renaissance. The illustration is full of verve and humor. All members of social..... More

Paris, Jean Foucher, 1548. 8vo. (8), 192 ff. Veau glacé, triple filet d'encadrement sur les plats, dos à nerfs orné, pièces de titre en maroquin rouge et vert, tranches dorées. (Reliure du XIXe, Capé.) --------------------L'humaniste Guillaume Budé, féru de culture antique, a laissé une suite "d'histoires, d'enseignements et sages dits..... More