Sale 2457 - Early Printed Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, October 17, 2017

245 ● POLYBIUS. Historiarum libri priores quinque . . . item Epitome sequentium librorum ad decimumseptimum. Greek text with Latin translation by Niccolò Perotti of Books 1-5 and epitome by Wolfgang Musculus of Books 6-17. [8], 282; [8], 323, [11] pages. 2 parts in one volume. Folio, 331x190 mm, modern 1 / 4 leather; early underscoring and marginalia, dampstaining along top edge of opening leaves with slight paper corrosion, general title lightly soiled with stain in outer margin, clean tear in D6 in second part, single tiny wormhole through last quarter of volume not impairing legibility. Basel: Johann Herwagen, (March 1549) [400/600] Principal contemporary history of the rise of the Roman Empire, composed in the 2nd century B.C. Perotti’s translation of the only fully preserved portion was originally published in 1473, and the partial epitome by Musculus in 1542.The extant Greek original text first appeared in 1609. Hoffmann III, 269. 246 ● POPE, ALEXANDER. The Works. Volume 1 (of 4). Folding engraved frontispiece portrait of the author by GeorgeVertue. [32], 408 pages, including half-title. Folio, 298x192 mm, 19th-century red straight-grain morocco handsomely gilt by Lloyd, Wallis & Lloyd, cover corners and front joint rubbed; margins trimmed not affecting text, occasional light toning or browning. Bookplate of Clarence S. Bement; presentation inscription dated May 1932 from the American Whig and Cliosophic Societies to John Grier Hibben (1861-1933), presumably on his retirement as President of Princeton University. London:W. Bowyer for Bernard Lintot, 1717 [300/500] FIRST FOLIO COLLECTED EDITION , FIRST ISSUE , with Bowyer/Lintot imprint.The remaining 3 volumes were published in 1735, 1737, and 1741. Griffith 82; Rothschild 1585. 246