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

65 ● TASSO,TORQUATO. Aminta, Favola Boschereccia. Etched portrait vignette of Tasso on title. [14], 14, [2], 142, [2] (of [4]) pages, including initial and final blanks; lacks penultimate leaf with printer’s notice, not found in all copies. 4to, 295x215 mm, contemporary calf. spine ends and covers rubbed, cover corners worn through; small dampstain in lower inner corner of opening leaves. Parma, 1789 [300/500] FIRST BODONI EDITION , LIMITED TO 100 COPIES . Brooks 379. 66 ● VIVIANI, NICCOLÒ. Ero e Leandro, Poema. [8], 40 pages. Folio, 410x263 mm, contemporary mottled sheep gilt; contents clean. HANDSOME COPY . Parma, 1794 [800/1,200] FIRST EDITION , LIMITED TO ONLY FIFTY COPIES IN FOLIO FORMAT , of a paraphrase in ottava rima of the 6th-century A.D. Greek poem by Musaeus. Brooks 547; Gamba 2362 note; Hoffmann II, 611. 67 ● BODONI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA. Manuale Tipografico. Frontispiece portrait of Bodoni; 539 specimens of Roman, Greek, and exotic types, type ornaments and borders, technical symbols, numerals, and music notation. 2 volumes. 4to, 310x210 mm, original patterned boards, spines faintly darkened; contents clean; publisher’s matching board slipcase. London: Holland Press, 1960 [150/250] Complete facsimile of the posthumous 1816 second edition of Bodoni’s type specimen book, “probably the most elaborate . . . the world has ever seen” (Updike). Brooks 1216; Updike II, 171 (both describing the original edition). 68 ● BROOKS, HUGH CECIL. Compendiosa Bibliografia di Edizioni Bodoniane. Frontispiece portrait. xiii, [3], 357, [2] pages. 4to, 279x191 mm, original boards, rebacked retaining original paper lettering piece; contents clean; uncut and largely unopened. FIRST EDITION . NUMBER 125 OF 700 COPIES . Florence:Tipografia Barbera, 1927 [80/120] 69 ● CAESAR, CAIUS JULIUS. Commentarii. Italian translation by Agostino Ortica della Porta. 5 full-page woodcuts of fortifications; double-page woodcut map of Iberia. 231, [1] pages, including final blank. 8vo, 153x102 mm, modern vellum boards, covers slightly warped; marginal soiling on opening leaves, dampstaining in upper outer corners in middle of volume and at end, gathering 2E browned. Venice: Comin da Trino, 1541 [200/300] 70 ● CAESAR, CAIUS JULIUS. I Commentari. Italian translation by Francesco Baldelli, with an introduction by Andrea Palladio on the Roman military. 39 (of 40) double-page etched plates of military subjects by Palladio; 2 double-page maps of Iberia and Gaul; lacks plate K. [40], 407 pages. 4to, 223x161 mm, 18th-century brown morocco gilt with blind-stamped arms of Baron Bagot above unidentified gilt-stamped arms on covers, joints worn and starting, ties lacking; title soiled with 2 repaired holes in blank portion, occasional light toning, blank lower outer corner off G3. Venice: Girolamo Foglietti, 1618 [colophon dated 1598] [400/600] Cf. Fowler 237; Harvard/Mortimer-Italian 97 (1575 first Palladio edition).