Early Printing & Manuscripts

[GELDERLAND]. Het bescheet vanden Keyser Kaerle de vijfde van desen name, uutgegheven inden Rycxdach van Reynsborch Int iaer ons heeren M.D. ende XLI. vanden goeden rechte dat hij heeft tot ten hertochdom van Geldre ende Graefschap van Zutphen, Ende oock de wederlegghinghe, ende wederbescheet van heer Willem hertoch van Cleve te Franckfoort ghedaen Int iaer ons heeren M.D. XXXIX overgeset uiten latijn in duytsche.
Antwerp, Marten Vermeere, [1541]. 4to. With the woodcut coat of arms of Charles V on title-page. 19th-century half calf, brown decorated paper sides. [64] ll. Full description

[EBERLIN VON GÜNZBURG, Johann]. Erasmus von Rotherodam ein fürst aller gelerten zu unseren zyte[n], schreibt im buch gena[nn]t Encomion morias, vom predigen der ba[e]ttel münch. Ein jeden ich hie früntlich bit, Das er mich la[e]ss und lach nit. Der. VI. bundtsgnosz.
[Basel, Pamphilus Gengenbach, 1521]. 4to. With 1 large woodcut portrait of Erasmus on the title page, 2 decorated woodcut initials, and a woodcut tailpiece below the end of the text. Modern marbled calf. [5] [1 blank] ll. Full description

EUCHERIUS; Desiderius ERASMUS; Basil of CAESAREA; Petrus GERARDUS (editor). In hoc libello haec in sunt ... Intelligentiae spiritalis formulae: Instructionum libri duo ... epistola paraenetica, ad Valerianum suum ...
(Colophon:) Paris, Claude Chevallon, [ca. 1523]. 8vo. With Cevallons woodcut device on the verso of the final leaf, the title is printed in red and black, and 10 woodcut decorated initials. Modern half vellum and beige paper sides, blue sprinkled head- and fore-edge, manuscript author and title on the spine in brown ink. [6], CVII, [1] ll. Full description

GERTOPHIUS, Johannes and Hermann von dem BUSCHE. Recriminatio ... adversus furiosissimum Sycophantam Edoardum Leum Anglum, qui ausus est primus Erasmum candidissimum luto aspergere. Epigramma extemporale sed felicissimu[m], Hermanni Buschii, in eundem Leum.
[Basel], (colophon:) Andreas Cratander, June 1520. 4to. With an elaborate woodcut title border, a decorated woodcut initial, and a woodcut printer's device on the final page. Modern quarter vellum in older style. 25, [3] pp. Full description

[GESNER (GESSNER), Conrad]. Thesaurus Euonymi Philiatri, de remediis secretis.
Lyon, Balthazar Arnoullet, 1554. 16mo (12.5 x 8 cm). With dozens of woodcut illustrations in text. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment. [44], [4 blank], 499, [8], [5 blank] pp. Full description

GHEYN, Jacob II de. [The riding school or exercise of cavalry].
[Leiden, workshop of Jacob II de Gheyn, 1599]. Oblong folio (25 x 32 cm). With 22 numbered engraved plates (varying sizes, ca. 15.4-16 x 19.7 x 21.5 cm), including the engraved title-page. The illustrations are designed by De Gheyn and possibly engraved by him or by Zacharias Dolendo. Contemporary gold-tooled calf with the large gold-tooled coat-of-arms of the Stuart Princes of Wales (Stuart Prince of Wales, Henry Frederick (1594-1612)) within a gold- and blind-tooled double fillet frame on both boards, with small gold-tooled flowers on the spine, gold-tooled board edges. [22 engraved plates]. Full description

GIORGI, Federico. Libro ... del modo di conoscere i buoni falconi, astori, e sparavieri, di farli, di governarli, et di medicarli, come nella tavola si puo vedere.
Venice, Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1547. 8vo. With Giorgi's woodcut phoenix printer's device on title-page and a stunning larger one at the end. Blue stiff paper wrappers (ca. 1800). 53, [2], [1 blank] ll. Full description

GIOVIO, Paolo. Commentario de le cose de' Turchi, ...
(Colophon: Rome, printed by Antonio Blado "in le case de" Gioanbatista di Massimi, 1535). 4to (20 x 14 cm). With Blado's woodcut device on title-page (repeated below the colophon). Modern blue-grey paper wrappers made with ca. 1750 materials. [84] pp. Full description

GIOVIO, Paolo. Operetta dell'ambascieria de Moschoviti, nella qual si narra il sito della provincia di Moschovia gli costumi ricchezze, il modo della religione, & l'arte militar di quegli. Nuovamente tradotta di latino in lingua volgare.
Venice, (colophon: Bartholomeo detto l'Imperatore), 1545. 8vo. With a woodcut title vignette of a Christian warrior with banner and an eagle on an orb. Later paper boards. 16 ll. Full description

GONSALVIUS MONTANUS, Reginaldus [= CORRO, Antonio del?]. Der heyliger Hispanischer inquisitie, etlicke listighe secrete consten ende practijcken, ontdect ende int licht ghebracht ...
[Emden, Willem Gailliart], 1569. 8vo. With woodcut decorated initials. (Near-) contemporary vellum wrappers, sewn on 3 supports (previously laced through the joints). [4], "143" [= 132], [1] ll. Full description