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

62 ● HORATIUS FLACCUS, QUINTUS. Opera. Edited by José Nicolás de Azara. [4], xv, [1], 371 pages, including initial blank. Folio, 425x292 mm, contemporary mottled calf gilt, extremities worn, joints starting at top, few surface imperfections on covers; scattered light foxing in blank outer margins, inscription at top of front blank erased with resulting small hole. Ulrico Hoepli booklabel. Parma, 1791 [800/1,200] FIRST BODONI EDITION , LIMITED TO 125 COPIES . Brooks 417. 63 ● MILIZIA, FRANCESCO. Memorie degli Architetti Antichi e Moderni. [12], cxix, [1], 371, [1]; [4], 436 pages, including half-titles. 2 volumes. 8vo, 218x140 mm, contemporary marbled boards, rebacked with calf; contents clean; board slipcase. Modern owner’s bookplates on half-titles. Parma, 1781 [300/500] Third edition, the only one printed by Bodoni, of a 1768 history of architecture patterned after Vasari,“especially valuable as a source for 18th-century Italian architects”—Arntzen & Rainwater H108. Brooks 189. Bound opposite the half-title in Volume 1 is a scarce leaf printed by Bodoni with the text of a 1781 brief from Pope Pius VI thanking him for the gift of 2 of his publications. Brooks 178. 64 ● MONTI,VINCENZO. Aristodemo, Tragedia. [12], 130, [2] pages, including engraved frontispiece and final blank. 4to, 290x214 mm, contemporary 1 / 2 morocco gilt and paste-paper boards, top of spine chipped; contents clean. Parma, 1786 [200/300] FIRST EDITION . Brooks 312; Gamba 2617. BODONI PRESS, continued 62 66