1 Alamanni, La coltivatione, Florence, 1549, contemporary English calf by the King Edward and Queen Mary Binder for William Bill

2 Alberti, De pictura, Basel, 1540, Parisian calf with the arms of Jacques-Auguste de Thou

3 Apianus, Libro de la cosmographia, Antwerp, 1548, Lyonese binding for a member of the Malipiero family

4 Appianus, Des guerres des Rommains, Paris, 1552, French polychrome binding with Amerindian panel stamp

5 Ariosto, Orlando furioso, Venice, 1546, Venetian green morocco by the Fugger Binder for Perrenot de Granvelle

6 [Augsburg Confession] Confessio fidei, Wittenberg, 1531, from the library of a leader of the Protestant Reformation, Lazarus Spengler

7 Ausonius, Opera, Lyon, 1558, French limp vellum for Hartmann von Liechtenstein und Nikolsburg

8 Baif, Annotationes in legem II, Basel, 1537, contemporary Roman morocco for Fernando de Torres

9 Bembo, Epistolarum libri sexdecim, Venice, [1535?], Roman goatskin by Niccolò Franzese for Cardinal Ippolito II d’Este

10 Bembo, Epistolarum libri XVI, Lyon, 1540, Roman impresa binding by Niccolò Franzese for Apollonio Filareto

11 Berni, Orlando innamorato, Venice, 1541, Roman red morocco gilt with arms of the Jacovacci family

12 Berosus, De antiquitate Italiae, Lyon, 1555, Parisian morocco for Madruzzo, one of the earliest French bindings with a spine title

13 La Bibbia, Venice, 1547, Parisian armorial morocco by Wotton Binder C for Paolo Giordano Orsini

14 [Biblia sacra polyglotta] Prophetae posteriores, Antwerp, 1570, volume IV of the rare vellum issue of the Plantin Polyglot Bible

15 Billon, Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld

16 Boccaccio, Laberinto d'amore, Venice, 1529, contemporary Italian goatskin for a member of the Tuti family of Siena

17 Boccaccio, Genealogiae deorum, Basel, 1532, Parisian armorial calf by the Pecking Crow Binder

18 Boccaccio, Il Decamerone, Venice, 1542, Venetian morocco by the Fugger Binder for Catherine de Médici

19 Borja, Empresas morales, Prague, 1581, the first original Spanish emblem book

20 Bossus, Dialogus de veris et salutaribus animi gaudiis, Florence, 1491, Renaissance plaquette binding

21 Boucher, Caroli Lotharingi Card. et Francisci ducis Guysii... in funebri oratione, Paris, 1577, Parisian vellum with the arms of the Cardinal de Lorraine

22 Budé, Epistolae, Paris, 1522, Genoese impresa binding, probably for Tommaso Franzone

23 Calvete de Estrella, El felicissimo viaje, Antwerp, 1552, Flemish binding by Plantin for Federico Badoero

24 Cicero, Epistolae familiares, Paris, 1540, Parisian black morocco gilt by the Salel Binder

25 Clavius, Horologiorum nova descriptio, Rome, 1599, red morocco by the Soresini for Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, the dedicatee

26 Francesco Colonna, Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger

27 Vittoria Colonna, Rime, Venice, 1539, Venetian dark blue morocco by the Cicero Binder for Perrenot de Granvelle

28 [Congrégation royale] L'office de la Vierge Marie, Paris, 1586, a Parisian red morocco "penitential" binding

29 Diogenes Laertius, Epistolae Bruti, [Venice, 1492], binding by Mahieu's Aesop Binder for Jean Grolier

30 Dogale, Ducal commission from Lorenzo Priuli to Melchiorre Salamon, 1557, manuscript, Venetian red goatskin

31 Du Pérac, I vestigi dell'antichità di Roma, Rome, 1575, London diced russia for Sir Andrew Fountaine

32 Eusebius, Evangelicae demonstrationis libri decem, Venice, 1536, contemporary Spanish morocco for Cardinal Juan Álvarez de Toledo

33 Eusebius, Evangelicae praeparationis lib. X, Paris, 1544, a Paris alla greca binding by Gomar Estienne for Marcus Fugger

34 Fendt, Monumenta sepulcrorum, Breslau, 1574, a sixteenth-century German velvet binding

35 Ferreri and Ventimiglia families, copies of notarial acts, [Sicily, 1560s], Venetian olive morocco for a member of the Ferreri family

36 Fiaschi, Trattato dell'imbrigliare, maneggiare, et ferrare cavalli, Bologna, 1556, French calf for a member of the Gouffier family

37 Florus, De fatti de Romani, Venice, 1546, Roman armorial red morocco for Girolamo Ruiz

38 Gesner, Epitome bibliothecae, Zurich, 1555, contemporary half pigskin, from the library of Kaspar Melisander

39 Giovio, De vita Leonis decimi pont. max. libri IIII, Florence, 1548, unique copy printed on vellum for Cosimo I de' Medici

40 Giovio, Vitae duodecim vicecomitum Mediolani principum, Paris, 1549, citron morocco by Gomar Estienne for Mahieu

41 Giovio, Historiarum sui temporis tomus primus, Paris, 1558, Parisian armorial morocco for Bartolomeo Cenami

42 Glareanus, In Titum Livium annotationes, Lyon, 1542, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder A for Thomas Wotton

43 Gohory, Hystoria Jasonis, Paris, 1563, Parisian architectural binding for Nicolas Dangu

44 Guarini, Il pastor fido, Venice, 1602, Parisian vellum gilt with arms of Henri IV of France

45 Guicciardini, La historia d'Italia, Venice, 1569, morocco with the impaled arms of Cosimo I de' Medici and Eleonor de Toledo

46 Guitot, Les meditations, Paris, 1558, French tan calf for Wolfgang Frantz from the Collège de Fortet

47 Herolt, Sermones discipuli super epistolas dominicales, [Ulm, c.1479-1483], a fifteenth-century Augsburg chained binding

48 Hippocrates, Livre de la generation de lhomme, Paris, 1559, Flemish calf for Marc Laurin dated 1559