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

280 ● BELON, PIERRE. Plurimarum singularium & memorabilium rerum in Graecia, Asia, Aegypto, Judaea, Arabia, aliisque exteris provinciis ab ipso conspectarum observationes. Woodcut text illustrations mostly depicting plants and animals; EXTRA - ILLUSTRATED with contemporary pen-and-ink drawing captioned in French of 2-horned animal resembling an oryx (“envoyé d’Étiopie au Roy”) and 2 folding engraved views of Mt. Sinai and Jerusalem. [16], 495 pages. BOUND WITH HIS : De neglecta stirpium cultura atque earum cognitione libellus. 87 pages. Together, 2 volumes in one. 8vo, 178x108 mm, contemporary blind-stamped vellum boards with paper lettering piece, soiled and worn, spine darkened, ties lacking; contents toned with varying marginal dampstaining, second work dampwrinkled, later owner’s notes in upper margin of title, on rear free endpaper, and numerous marginalia in text. Old booklabel on front pastedown (“ex Bibliotheca Hamburgensi Wolfiana”); old stamp of the Hamburg Stadtbibliothek on title verso (duplicate, released). Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1589; 1589 [800/1,200] FIRST EDITIONS IN LATIN of an account of the author’s 1546-50 travels in the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, and his treatise on the cultivation of exotic trees and plants.“One of the first explorer-naturalists” (DSB), Belon (1517-64) was a pioneering zoologist particularly known for his work in comparative anatomy.The original versions in French were first published in 1553 and 1558. DSB I, 596; Nissen ZBI 305 (first work);Voet 639, 638. 281 ● CHANDLER, RICHARD. Travels in Asia Minor; or,An Account of a Tour made at the Expense of the Society of Dilettanti. Folding engraved frontispiece map. xiv, xiii, [3], 283, [1] pages. 4to, 258x199 mm, contemporary mottled sheep gilt, spine ends chipped, front cover detached; map lightly offset with short clean tear, contents otherwise generally clean. Bookplates of Lord Craven and Erroll Graham Sebastian. FIRST EDITION . Oxford: Clarendon Press for J. Dodsley et al., 1775 [300/500] 282 ● CHANDLER, RICHARD. Travels in Greece; or, An Account of a Tour made at the Expense of the Society of Dilettanti. 7 engraved maps, the first folding. [4], xiv, [2], 304 pages. 4to, 274x217 mm, contemporary tree sheep, rebacked, cover edges worn; most maps heavily foxed, offsetting onto adjacent leaves, scattered foxing elsewhere, upper outer corner of front free endpaper excised. FIRST EDITION . Oxford: Clarendon Press for J. Dodsley et al., 1776 [300/500] 280