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

141 ● FOXE, JOHN. Acts and Monuments of Matters Most Special and Memorable, happening in the Church . . . from the Primitive Age to these Later Times of Ours. Engraved portrait of the author; 4 engraved plates; text illustrations throughout. EXTRA - ILLUSTRATED with 16 engraved portaits from an unidentified edition of Gilbert Burnet’s History of the Reformation of the Church of England. [60], 895, [1]; [2], 551, [1], 131, [109]; [2], 959 pages. 3 volumes. Folio, 433x274 mm, later 18th- century russia, rebacked; occasional toning or browning, scattered foxing and minor stains or rust spots, corners torn off a few leaves with minimal text loss, double-page plate between pages 36 and 37 in Volume 1 partly separated along center crease, double-page plate between pages 884 and 885 rehinged with repair on verso. Bookplates of Adolphus WilliamWard. WIDE - MARGINED SET . London: Company of Stationers, 1684 [2,500/3,500] Ninth edition of Foxe’s huge 1563 martyrology,“one of the most widely read, popular, and influential works of the Elizabethan Age” (DLB), written with a strong anti-Catholic bias and emphasizing in particular the persecution of English Protestants under Queen Mary I.Wing F2036. 142 ● (FRANCISCANS.) Catalano da Santo Mauro, Niccolò. Fiume del Terrestre Paradiso . . . Tratatto Difensivo . . . ove si ragguaglia il Mondo nella Verità dell’Antica Forma d’Habito de’ Frati Minori istituita da S. Francesco. Numerous engraved illustrations. [42], 592 pages, including engraved additional title. 4to, 240x163 mm, old reversed sheep, spine defective, covers stained and wormed, front cover detached; intermittent marginal dampstaining, small wormholes through first and last few leaves, rust stain through several leaves in middle of volume, lower outer corner off 2S1 and 3E3, wormhole through gathering 2T slightly affecting image on page 333, repaired clean tear in 3A4, Franciscan ownership inscriptions on title. Florence: Amadore Massi, 1652 [400/600] FIRST EDITION of an iconography of Franciscan garb with illustrations after paintings by Giotto and other early Italian masters. 141