On this Thursday the  ABAA New York Antiquarian Book Fair at the Park Avenue Armory Begins. If you are in NY stop by and say Hi!

643 Park Avenue, New York
Between 66/67 Streets

Preview
Thur April 7 5-9pm
Open Hours
Fri April 8 noon-8pm
Sat April 9 noon-7pm
Sun April 10 noon-5pm
Discovery Day, Sunday, 1pm-3pm

I Have put together a list of some of the books which I will be offering for sale,this is a very brief list and of course, full  detailed descriptions of each book is available on request, many of these books have appeared on previous blogs and in earlier catalogues.

 

Books can be quite a complicated scene. There are truly some of the most important and beautiful books in the world being offered here.

 

The ABAA New York Antiquarian Book Fair

 

 

738G      Alciati Emblemata (Viri Clarissimi) Emblemata. 1600.   $1,100

 

276G      Anon       British curiosities in nature and art . 1713           $1,100

 

649G      L’Estrange A compendious history of the most remarkable passages of the last fourteen years: 1680        $2,200

 

240F Anonymous The Secret History Of the Most Renowned Q. Elizabeth And The E. of Cssex. [sic] By a Person of Quality. 1702   $1,500

 

775G Antoninus Florentinus Confessionale: [Christophorus Valdarfer, 1470-71]   $15,000

 

760G      Aristaenetus Epistola erotikai., 1566        $2200

 

904F       Aristotle Aristotle’s master-piece: or the secrets of generation display’d 1704.   $1,800

 

394G      Augustine The meditations, soliloquia, and manual 1686.               $1,100

 

179FBaconThe Two Bookes of Advancement of Learning, 1633   $1,750

 

213FBacon The Advancement Of learning 1640 $2,800

 

464F Bacon Sylva Sylvarum, 1635               $2,800

 

722F Bacon The essays, 1680.     900

 

693GBacon The History Of the Reigne of King Henry The Seventh. 1629.  $1,100

 

694G Bacon The essayes 1629    $3,500

 

896F       Bennet A discourse the everblessed Trinity in unity, 1718.              $2,100

 

723G Bonaventura,  Speculum Beatae Mariae Virginis. 1476

 

668G Bonaventure             Stimulus amoris. 1493                   $2,900

633G Boucher Apologie povr Iehan Chastel Parisien 1595               $3,800

 

305G Buchanan The Nature and Design of Holy Days.         1705.     $2,200

 

756d      Burnet   The Life and Death Of Earl of Rochester,1696 $1,600

 

319G Burton       The Anatomy of Melancholy 1638             $5,500

 

451G      Camfield, A theological discourse of angels 1678 $2,500

 

650G      Canisius     Commentariorum de Verbi Dei Corruptelis tomi          $6,500

 

781G Bible “New”Testament”in”English”
1589   $18,000

 

774G      Butler The feminin monarchi , or the histori of bee s [1634]        $5,500

 

814E Cleveland Poems., 1661    $3,000

 

935E      Cleveland The Rustick Rampant  1658.                   $1,750

 

816F       Colman The religious regards we owe to our country 1718.          $2,800

 

815F Cornwallis Essayes 1632  $3,500

 

866F Courtilz  The Political Testament 1695                        $1,500

 

655G Davenant The Works of Sir William Davenant 1673               $2,500

 

109F Davies The Original, Nature a Nosce teipsum 1697                  $3,000    29
403G Delrio Ex miscellaneorum …sive pandectarvm Iuris Civilis Interpretatio  1590.      $2,900
756G      Diodorus Bibliothecae historicae libri VI               (1505-08)            $1,900

 

138F Donne         Poems, &c 1669                 $8,500

 

420E      Drayton The Battaile of Agincovrt. 1631                   $3,000

 

1022E   Drayton   Poems 1637     $3,200

 

894F Drummond The works of Drummond 1711.               $3,500

 

682G Dufresnoy De arte graphica. The art of painting 1695             $2,200

 

755F Dunton The Athenian Oracle 1707.                 $3,500

 

396GEdmonds The Commentaries of Caesar 1677.            $2,200

 

786F Eland Eland’s tutor to astrology 1704.       $2,900

 

700G      Gregory (Onomastikon brachy) 1672      $2,200

 

682F Finch            The Spleen, A Pindarique Ode. 1709         $1,100

 

716G Fisher          Defesio Regie assertionis cotra Babylonica captiuitate 1525        $6,000

 

531G Fitzherbert La graunde abridgement, , 1577.               $5,500

 

664G Fuller The Church History of Britain 1656                  $3,500

 

781G      Gassendi Disquisitio metaphysica seu dubitationes et instantiae adversus Renati Cartessi metaphysicam & responsa. ;1644     3500

 

640G Gebert         Epistola Gerberti, 1611                   $2900

 

535G Gerbec Miscellanea curosia 1685.                  $2200

 

639GGibbons       In Librvm Dvodecim Prophetarvm Commentarii.
Sensvm Eorvndem Prophetarum Historicum & Moralem, persæpe etiam Allegoricum complectens          1611      $3,000

 

707G      Gotthard Historia Indiae Orientalis 1608                $5,000

 

770E      Fulke, Lord Brooke Certaine Learned And Elegant VVorkes, 1633                  $5,500

 

500F       Elizabeth, Countess of Kent              Grey A choice manual of rare and select secrets in physick and chyrurgery  1653               $1,400

 

662G Grosse Magica De Spectris Et Apparitionibus Spiritum 1656 $2,500

 

295F Fenton        &Guevara The Familiar Epistles of sir Anthonie of Gueuara, 1577               $9,300

 

250F Harrington The Oceana 1700           $2,500

 

754F       Head       The English rogue 1680.                 3500

 

689G      Herbert, The Temple. Sacred 1674              $4,500

 

 

497G Ignacio de Paredes del arte de la lengua mexicana, 1759     $2,900

 

392G      Selden, pseud. Historiae rei nummariae 1695    $3,200

 

515F Huet The history of romances. 1715.           $2,200

 

786G      Huttich Imperatorum et Caesarum Vitae, 1534  $6,000

 

765G Imperato, Historia Naturale   1672       $18,000

334G      Izquierdo Praxis exercitiorum spiritualium 1695             $3,000

 

560G      Izquierdo Practica de los Exercicios Espirituales 1675    $3,800

 

393G Jenks An essay upon the art of love, [1702]                 $2,000

 

683G Jonson The Works of Ben Jonson, 1692        $7,500   Folio

 

543G      Haloander   Nouellarum constitutionu[m] 1562     $1,200

 

737G      trans. Holyday Juvenalis, And Persius Flaccus Translated and Illustrated.    1673.                  $1,950

 

642G Kircher       Itinerarium Exstaticum, 1729  $2,500

 

720G Kircher       Ars magna lucis et umbræ,. 1671 .             $15,000

 

632G Kestler/ Kircher   Physiologia Kircheriana 1680       $10,500

 

622G Kircher Ars Magna Sciendi, Artificiosum Combinationum 1669     $9,500

 

744G Langston Lusus poeticus 1675.      $1,400

 

551G Ling Politeuphuia, Wits Common-wealth. 1684.     $2900

 

779G Ling Politeuphuia,  1647. $4900

 

147F Lucretius Six Books Of Epicurean Philosophy 1683                 $1,800

 

344G      Lutius (Lucio) Index librorum prohibitorum, [ca. 1699?]                $1800

 

857F       MARSHALL,D.D The penitential discipline [1714].                $1,100

 

714G      Luther& Melanchthon Confessio fidei 1531.          $22,000

 

629G Milton         Paradise Lost. A Poem In Twelve Books. 1688   $17,500

 

666G Montfaucon Diarium italicum, 1702     $3,000

 

630G More The Common-Wealth of Utopia, 1639                $1,200

 

455G Morhof        Literarivs Philosophicvs Et Practicvs ,1714        $3500

 

739G Nicetas Magni logothetae secretorum 1557.”           $6,500

 

766G      Nider      TRACTAT[US]!UTILIS!DE!SEPTEM!PECCATIS! 1505 $3,800

 

350E      Ockland   Anglorum Prælia ab anno Domini. 1327. 1582                       $1,300

 

783G      Sandys Ovid’s Metamorphosis Englished, Mythologiz’d 1632

 

718G Philips Poems 1667           $5,800

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719G Philips Poems 1678             $4,500

 

103G      Philips Letters from Orinda 1705            $5,500

 

767G      Philips   Letters from Orinda to Poliarchus   1705       $5000

 

189G Playford Introduction to the skill of musick 1718                    $2,900

 

628G Playford  An introduction to the skill of musick 1687.        $4,200

 

452G      Ray  Discourses Concerning the Dissolution and Changes of the World. 1692       $2,500

 

637G      Gibbons  IN LIBRUM DUODECIM PROPHETARUM COMMENTARII 1611  $2,800

 

596G      Pisis, Fludd ,Ibn al-`Arabi  Tabulae geomanticae, 1687.      $2200

 

244F       du Bartas Deuine Weekes and Workes 1613       $3,100

 

597G      Schediusi De dIs Germanis 1648                 $1,100

 

 

 

710G      Schott     Mechanica hydraulico-pneumatica 1657                 $7,000

 

679G      Schott, /Kircher Ioco-seriorum naturæ et artis, sive, Magiæ naturalis centuriæ tres, das ist, Drey-Hundert nütz- und lustige Sätze allerhand  1672                  $5,500

 

379G Byard & Sibylla, Speculum peregrinarum &Dictionarius pauperum 1511
$4900

 

477E      Sidney The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia. 1633.        $3,200

 

763G      Smith, Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum 1696            $3,500

 

893F Suckling Fragmenta Aurea, 1646     $5,500

 

375G Sucquet  Piæ considerations 1672                 $2,900

 

378G Trevisano   Decisionum Civilium, Criminalium Et Haereticorum, 1611         $1,300

 

785G      Vassari Le vite de’ più eccellenti pittori, scultori et architetti 1648 $12,000
758F       Ward The secret history of the Calves-Head Club: 1709.                   $ 2,000

 

684G  Sheffield/Wharton, Anne A Collection of Poems: Viz. The Temple of Death: 1702    $2,250

 

807E      Wild Iter Boreale, 1668.                 $4800

 

208F       Wild        Iter boreale [1660.]         $6,000

 

472F       Wild        Iter Boreale, 1668.           $4,800

 

789G      Wild Iter Boreale, 1670.                 $2,800

 

1007E   Earl of Rochester(Wilmot) Poems, On several occasions: 1705        $4500

 

735F       Earl of Rochester Poems, (&c.) 1696          $6,600