Fine Books and Manuscripts
Catalog Information: 340 lots | 339 with images
Date: 2007
Auction House:
Bonhams
Location:
USA
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De hermaphroditorum monstrosorumque partuum natura... . Oppenheim: Hieronymus Galleri, 1614. 36, 594, [2] pp. Engraved title page with portrait on verso & 6 plates, 1 folding, and 1 folding table. 8vo (162 x 93 mm). Period vellum. Light age toning, c [...more]
Single leaf from a Franco-Flemish Book of Hours, 170 x 125 mm, text block 100 x 90 mm, 16 lines per page, with historiated borders incorporating a female Saint recto and a group of male Saints verso, floriated multi-colored borders, and four 2-line i [...more]
Catullus, Tibullus & Propertius. Opera . Venice: Aldus, March 1515. A-D8, E10, AA-DD8, EE4, a-i8. 8vo (150 x 95 mm). 19th century full vellum gilt. Small chip to upper fore edge of A5, ownership signature to front pastedown, spine label chipped, else [...more]
Chaucer, Geoffrey. Single leaf (of 374) from the Canterbury Tales . [Westminster: William Caxton, c. 1478.] 29 lines. High crown watermark. Chancery folio (234 x 180 mm). Tipped to modern paper, narrow staining to inner and lower margins, tiny corner [...more]
1. Lactantius. L. Coelli Lactantii Firmiani Diuinarum institutionum libri septem.. .. Venice: In aedibus haeredum Aldi et Andreae soceri, 1535. aa8, bb4, *4, a-z8, A-T8, V4; X-Z8, AA-CC8; DD12, EE-HH8. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final pa [...more]