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

251 ● ROUSSEAU, JEAN-JACQUES. Du Contrat Social; ou, Principes du Droit Politique. [2] (of [4]), viii, 323, [1] pages; lacks half-title. 8vo, 204x127 mm, modern blue buckram; conspicuous dampstain in lower inner corners throughout, title detached, with 19th-century owner’s embossed monogram stamp. Amsterdam: Marc Michel Rey, 1762 [1,000/2,000] FIRST EDITION of Rousseau’s chief work of political theory, elaborating his controversial notion of the general will as the basis of political legitimacy; third state, with the final 2 leaves reset, eliminating a long footnote on civil marriage and adding a list of Rey publications on the last page. Dufour 132; Leigh, Unsolved Problems in the Bibliography of J.-J. Rousseau, page 22; Printing and the Mind of Man 207. 252 ● ROUSSEAU, JEAN-JACQUES. Les Confessions. [2] (of [4]), 316; [2] (of [4]), 396; 439; 403 pages, with half-titles in third and fourth volumes, lacking in first 2. 4 volumes. 8vo, 160x101 mm, contemporary paste-paper boards with handwritten paper lettering pieces, varying wear to spine ends and joints, portions of paper covering missing from Volume 1 spine; contents of first 2 volumes generally clean apart from scattered contemporary marginalia identifying unnamed individuals in the text, light browning or foxing in third and fourth volumes. Geneva, 1782-89 [100/200] Volumes 19-20 and 31-32 of a 33-volume collected edition of Rousseau’s works; without Volume 33, containing his letters. Dufour 393. 253 ● SANNAZARO, JACOPO. Arcadia. Title in red and black with woodcut vignette; full-page woodcut on verso. [111] (of [112]) leaves; lacks colophon leaf at end. 8vo, 150x100 mm, later vellum boards, shaken, top of spine damaged; margins trimmed without text loss, contents soiled with scattered stains, few cropped marginalia. This edition not in Sander. [Venice: Niccolò Zoppino, December] 1530 [300/500] Popular and widely imitated pastoral romance first published in an unauthorized edition in 1502 and reprinted over 60 times by the end of the 16th century. 251 253