Search Results: Sixteenth Century Books from Sam Gatteno Books

Lugduni: Apud Haered. Seb. Gryphii, 1560. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. 716 pages, 1ff. With the Gryphius device on the title-page and a different device at the end. a8-z8, A8-Y8. Contemporary calf, hinges cracked. Lower part of spine missing. With ornamental oval cartouche on covers. Historiated woodcut initials. Baudrier VIII, pp.297-298; BMC French Books, p. 389.

In Venetia, al Segno della Speranza, 1550.. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. [viii], 327ff. Printer's device on title-page. Half vellum over paper boards. Adams C1173.

Basileæ: Ex officina Eusebii Episcopii, & Nic. Fratris Hæredum, 1587.. Hardcover. Good. Folio. [viii]ff., 707pp, [xxiv]ff. With the printer's device on the title-page and on the verso of the last leaf. Modern calf, while retaining the original back cover and attempting to match it on the upper cover.

Salamanca: Excudebat Lucas a Junta, 1582.. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. [8], 56ff. A8-G8, H6. With the printer's device on the title-page. Historiated woodcut initials. Later limp vellum. Duclas, Robert, Catalogo Descriptivo de los Libros Impresos en la Ciudad de Salamanca en el Siglo XVI existenses en la Bibliotheca Publica de Guadalajara, 145a (for the 1580 edition). Bound with: Leon, Luis Ponce de, In Cantica Canticorum ...

Salamanca: Excudebat Lucas a Junta, 1582.. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. [8], 293ff. *8, A8-Z8, Aa8-Oo8. With the printer's device on the title-page. Historiated woodcut initials. Later limp vellum. Duclas, Robert, Catalogo Descriptivo de los Libros Impresos en la Ciudad de Salamanca en el Siglo XVI existenses en la Bibliotheca Publica de Guadalajara, 145 (for the 1580 edition). Bound with: Leon, Luis Ponce de, In Psalmum Vigesimum Sextum Explanatio.

Geneva: Excudebat Henricus Stephanus, illustris Viri Huldrici Fuggeri Typographus, 1564.. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. 432 (numbered 433) pages. Printer's device (Device 9) on title-page. a8-z8, aa8-dd8. Contemporary limp vellum. Renouard, p. 123, 1564.6; Moeckli 59; Armstrong 234-235; Adams P1705; Schreiber 152; Brunet II, 1080; Schweiger II, 343.

Basileae: Excudebat Petrus Perna suis & Heinrici Petri impensis, 1566.. Hardcover. Good. Folio. [xx], 737, [iii], 212pp. Sheep, rebacked. Historiated initials. Adams C1522. A very good copy.

In Lucca: per Vincentio Busdrago, 4 May 1550.. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. 95ff. Title within ornamental border incorporating printer's mark; large printer's mark on leaf 95 verso. "Canace, tragedia di messer Sperone Speroni" (leaves 55-95) has special title-page with printer's mark. Nineteenth-century marbled boards over sheep spine.

In Venetia: Appresso Pietro Marinelli, 1586.. Hardcover. Good. Duodecimo. [xxiv], 271 pages. With the printer's device on the title-page and on the register. +12, A12-L12, M6. Contemporary vellum. Bound with: Bound with: Bembo, P. Delle Rime di M. Pietro Bembo. Adams B583.

In Vinegia : Appresso Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari e Fratelli, 1550.. Hardcover. Good. Duodecimo. 42ff. First edition. With several historiated capitals. Contemporary vellum. Bound with 5 other plays of Cecchi: La Dote (1556), La Moglie (1550), I Dissimili (1550), L'Assivolo (1550), and La Stiava (1550), all first editions.

Argentinae: Sumptibus Lazari Zetzneri, 1597.. Hardcover. Good. Folio. [xxxvi], 28, 1080, [xxxiv]pp. Title-page in red-and-black. With large woodcut printer's device. Modern half calf over marble boards. With textual illustrations. Adams S1517; Cutter and Viets pp 29-30; Durling 2254; Garrison and Morton 6013; Norman 1977; Waller 9096; Wellcome 6030. An assembly of gynaecological texts, both classical and 'modern.' 'Spach's compilation of gynecological and obstetrical texts was the largest such collection of its day, reprinting most of the works collected in Caspar Wolff's Volumen gynaeciorum and Gaspard Bauhin's Gynaeciorum sive de mulierum affectibus (1586-88), and adding several other treatises. The collection includes works by Plater (whose anatomy of the female genitalia heads the collection), Moschion, Le Boë, Montanus, Paré and many others. Some of the anatomical woodcuts are taken from Vesalius's Fabrica, in particular his "masculinized" representation of the female reproductive… Read More

[London: Printed by Richard Pynson, 1527 (21 Feb.)].. Soft cover. Good. Folio. [ix], ccxviff. a6, A6-X6, 2A6-2O6, 2P. One leaf only. ESTC S107088.

Leyden: Chris. Plantin, 1584.. Hardcover. Good. Sextodecimo. Viiiff., 272pp., [viii]ff., 95pp. Two parts in one volume, with separate title-pages to the two parts. In a contemporary vellum binding, yapp edges. GRAESSE II, 17; 'RUELENS & de BACKER, p. 264:12; ADAMS C233 and C235; INDEX AURELIENSIS 129.592.

In Vinegia : Appresso Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari e Fratelli, 1550.. Hardcover. Good. Duodecimo. 45, [i]ff. First edition. With several historiated capitals. Contemporary vellum. Bound with 5 other plays of Cecchi: Gl'incantesimi (1550), La Moglie (1550), La Dote (1556), L'Assivolo (1550), and La Stiava (1550), all first editions.

Lugduni: Apud Ioan. Tornæsium, 1552.. Hardcover. Good. Sextodecimo. 543 pages, [i]ff. Nineteenth-century half calf over marbled boards. Cartier 220; Graesse III, 447.

Venice: Appresso Giambattista, & Marchio Sessa, & Fratelli, 1565. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. [3]ff., 438pp., 34, [82]ff. Collates "A8-Z8, Aa8-Ii8, Kk4-Zz4, AA4-FF4, GG2." In an eighteenth-century calf binding, worn. GRAESSE VII, 57.

Venice: Dominicus Lilius Excudebat. Sumptibus D. Melchior Sessa, 1548. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. 338 (I.e. 222), [1], 33, [2]ff. Numerous errors in foliation, including the omission of ff. 148-158 and 180-279. Collates "A8, B4-Z4, a4-z4, Aa4-Gg4, Hh6, A4-I4." In a vellum binding. GRAESSE VII, 57.

Florence: Impressum Florentiæ, Opera & Sumptu Philippi Juntæ, 1517.. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. 90, 127ff. With the printer's device on the colophon. +4, AA8-KK8, LL10, A8-Q8. Nineteenth-century half calf over marbled boards. Bandini II, pp. 116-117; Adams H376; Decia 98; Renouard xli, 93.

Francfurt: Apud Hæredes Christiani Egenolphi, 1563.. Hardcover. Good. Quarto. [vi]ff., 42, 43, [iii], 57, [v] pages. With separate title-pages to parts II and III. Poorly bound, margins trimmed. In some instances, catchwords and signature marks have been cut off, not affecting text. Sheep, somewhat worn. Kleinheyer/Schröder, Deutsche Juristen aus 5. Jhdtn. (1983), 147-149. Bound with: Kling, M., Matrimonialium ... Melchior Kling (1504-1571) from Hanau was an important 16th century German jurist and proponent of the systematic school of jurisprudence.

Venice: Apud Juntas, 1568.. Hardcover. Good. Quarto. 50, 391ff. Later vellum. Illustrated with woodcuts.