Search Results: Incunabula from Butler Rare Books

Chancery folio (270 x 195mm.), 123 leaves (of 124, without final blank), a10 b8 c-s6 t10, 35 lines, roman type, initial spaces, some early annotations, last 2 leaves with repaired wormholes, otherwise a
fine copy with wide margins and internally fresh.The binding in crushed burgundy morocco by Brugalla dated 1947, gilt edges, marbled slipcase. The endpapers are vibrant marbled paper with broad inner dentelle gilt decorated edges. There is a private
leather library label to the front pastedown. The slipcase is equally delightful, matching the marble effect and matching leather edging to the entrance of the case and a white felt lining. Hand and glove.
 EDITIO PRINCEPS of this collection of model speeches attributed to Quintilian. The editor, Jacopo Grasolari, was a student of Giorgio Merula who checked over Grasolari's text before publication.
(Grasolari later became a Venetian notary.) ISTC iq00019000PROVENANCE: Gianni de Marco, morocco book label. Bookseller's ticket adhered to the outer case… Read More

4to [314] leaves (first and last blank). Gothic type; 60 lines & headline: with white on black woodcut printer's device at end. Rubricated with guide letters and capitals beautifully supplied in red with decoration often extended into the margins. A contemporary owner has written "Flores Sapienne" on the recto of the first blank leaf. Few tiny round worm holes in first few and last few leaves with small worm hole in bottom blank margins of some leaves; few contemporary annotations and pointing hands in the margins; some faint spotting. Contemporary blind tooled calf over wooden boards with two clasps (front hinge expertly repaired, few tiny worm holes and light rubbing) with contemporary vellum MS spine label and two brass clasps (bottom clasp a newer substitute). Fourth edition of this book of Lenten sermons by the Servite theologian and preacher Ambrosius de Spiera (ca. 1413-1454/55). First pubished in 1476 by Vindelinus de Spira in Venice, this popular collection would go through seven editions by… Read More

Royal Folio; leaves measure 415 mm x 285 mm, with vast margins, apparently untrimmed. Bound in 15th-century blind-stamped South-German pigskin over wooden boards. Covers richly decorated in blind using both rolls and individual stamps, including flowerpots, dragon, double-headed eagle, 'lamb of God', text banners, etc; rear cover of somewhat different design with more geometric patterns. The quality of tooling - both in workmanship and in the detailing of the stamps - is superb. Most likely a formerly chained binding with evidence of several formerly present metal bosses, corner-pieces and clasps (all now gone). Old manuscript title to top spine compartment. 246 leaves (forming total of 492 pages); foliated in roman numerals: [7], ccxxxviii, [1] ff. Collation: [16 2-1310.8 14-1510 16-2510.8 26-278 286].
COMPLETE, including all three integral blanks [11, 21, 286]
Printed in double column; 51 lines per page and headline. Text in fine large gothic letter: Type: 3:110aG (text), 4:160G (headings and… Read More