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

59 61 59 ● DE ROSSI, GIOVANNI BERNARDO. Variae lectiones Veteris Testamenti librorum [with Scholia critica inVeteris Testamenti libros]. [8], clx, 116; xiv, [2], 264; viii, [2], 268; xxxii, [2], 242; xvi, 144 pages, including half-titles. Some use of Greek, Hebrew, Samaritan, and Syriac type. Together, 5 volumes. 4to, 284x213 mm, early 19th-century 1 / 2 leather gilt, spines and joints worn, some spine ends chipped; ink number stamped on verso of titles, dampstain in lower outer corner of last several leaves in Volume 4, contents otherwise generally clean. Parma, 1784-98 [300/500] FIRST EDITION , complete with the supplement, of a compilation of variant readings in the text of the Hebrew Bible based on the examination of over 700 manuscripts and 300 printed editions. Brooks 279, 731. 60 ● EPICTETUS. Epiktetou Encheiridion. Greek text followed by Italian translation by Luca Antonio Pagnini under the pseudonym of Eritisco Pilenejo. [4], 85, [3]; [4], 97, [3] pages, including the 4 blanks. 2 parts in one volume. 16mo, 152x114 mm, modern black morocco, scuffed; marginal soiling and early 19th-century owner’s signature on title, clean tear in blank outer margin of m1, contents otherwise clean; top edges gilt, others uncut, partly unopened. Brooks 490. Parma, 1793 [400/600] 61 ● HESIOD. Opera omnia. Greek text with Latin translation by Bernardo Zamagna. [2], 16, [2], 110; [2], xxxv, [1], [2], 248 pages. 2 parts in one volume. 4to, 284x210 mm, contemporary mottled sheep, attractively rebacked at an early date, spine scuffed, surface imperfections on covers; light soiling on general title, contents otherwise clean; green edges. Bookplate of H. C. Escher. Parma, 1785 [400/600] FIRST BODONI EDITION . ONE OF 500 COPIES on white laid paper, out of an edition of 725. Brooks 290; De Lama II, 36; Hoffmann II, 251. BODONI PRESS Lots 59-68