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

247 ● POPE,ALEXANDER. TheWorks. Volume 1 (of 4). Engraved divisional initials and head- and tailpieces. [32], 408 pages, including half-title; LACKS THE PORTRAIT . Folio, 360x226 mm, contemporary calf gilt, spine darkened, lettering piece off, joints starting at top and bottom, covers worn; minimal marginal foxing at beginning, some toning or browning at end, ink blot in blank lower margin of d1v. London:W. Bowyer for Jacob Tonson and Bernard Lintot, 1717 [300/500] FIRST FOLIO COLLECTED EDITION , second issue, with Bowyer/Tonson/Lintot imprint; LARGE - PAPER COPY . Griffith 86. 248 ● POPE, ALEXANDER. The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace, imitated in a Dialogue between Alexander Pope . . . and his Learned Council. 19 pages. Folio, 368x237 mm, disbound; scattered minor marginal stains and foxing, toning toward end, narrow strip torn from blank outer margin of last leaf; cloth folder. Griffith 292; Foxon P888. London: L[awton] G[illiver] for A. Dodd et al., 1733 [100/200] 249 ● (QUR’AN.) The Koran, commonly called the Alcoran of Mohammed. English translation by George Sale. Folding engraved map of Arabia; 3 engraved genealogical tables; folding plate showing plan and view of the Kaaba at Mecca. xvi, [2], 266, [14]; [8], 519, [13] pages. 2 volumes. 8vo, 212x127 mm, modern 1 / 2 leather; varying foxing or browning, scattered pencil underscoring. 19th-century embossed stamps of the College of New Jersey on titles. London: L. Hawes et al., 1764 [200/300] Second edition of Sale’s 1734 translation, the first scholarly version in English made directly from the original Arabic. 250 ● RICHELIEU,ARMAND-JEAN, Duc de, Cardinal. Instruction du Chrestien. Engraved head- and tailpieces and chapter initials. [16], 330 pages, including half-title and engraved title. Folio, 370x258 mm, later 19th-century mottled sheep gilt, scuffed, small surface imperfection on rear cover; scattered marginal soiling and foxing or spotting. Bookplates of Robert Bruce Moyer and Thomas Owen Morgan. Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1642 [300/500] 247 249