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

84 ● Missale Romanum. Full-page engraved illustrations of the Annunciation, Nativity, Crucifixion, and Resurrection. [48], 640, clii pages. BOUND WITH : Missae Propriae SanctorumTrium Ordinum Fratrum Minorum ad formam Missale Romanum. x, 61 pages. Together, 2 volumes in one, with text and music printed in red and black. 8vo, 238x157 mm, contemporary gilt-stamped brown morocco over wooden boards with brass catches, lacking clasps, worn overall, spine chipped and cracked at top, few pieces of leather missing from covers; occasional marginal soiling, Canon Missae leaves reinforced in blank margins, dampstaining in inner corners toward end; gilt edges with green-dyed vellum fore-edge tabs. Venice: Niccolò Pezzana, 1752; 1744 [150/250] 85 ● Officium defunctorum. 61, [3] pages, including macabre engraved frontispiece and final blank. 8vo, 185x127 mm, contemporary limp vellum titled MEMENTO MORI in ink on front cover, worn, contents partly loose in binding, heavily soiled throughout with scattered stains. SOLD AS IS . Venice: Domenico Lovisa, 1691 [100/200] An 18th-century Italian owner’s distinctively personalized copy of a scarce edition of the Office of the Dead, not in SBN or OCLC, with devotional engravings, manuscript additions (miscellaneous prayers, revelations to SS. Elizabeth of Hungary and Bernard of Clairvaux, etc.) and printed religious ephemera bound in. CATHOLIC LITURGY, continued 85