Sale 2468 - Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, March 8, 2018

Rabbi Samuelis, a widely disseminated medieval anti-Judaic tract, supposedly written originally in Arabic by a Moroccan apostate Jew but more likely the work of its ostensible Latin translator, the 14th-century Spanish Dominican Alfonso Buenhombre. 8 9 8 c ANTONINUS FLORENTINUS, Saint. Chronica. Prima[-tertia] pars his- toriarum. Titles in red and black within woodcut historiated border. [14], 173; [10], 198, [5]; [14], 212 leaves; each part lacks the last leaf, blank except for woodcut device on ver- so. 3 parts in one volume. Folio, 318x208 mm, old vellum boards with spine title in ink and remnants of thong ties, top of spine and rear joint damaged, holes through vellum on front cover, book block loose in binding; contents toned or browned with dampstaining in upper margins, worming throughout causing vary- ing text loss, scattered marginal foxing. Own- ership inscription of the Colegio de Santa María de Todos los Santos de México on first title and branded ownership mark (CCMF/ BJML-9002) on top edges; signature of Joan Gonçalez, Canónigo de México, on first title. Lyon: Gilles & Jacques Huguetan, 1543 [300/500] 9 c ANTONIO, NICOLÁS. Bibliotheca Hispana vetus. xl, [8], 410; [20], 286, [62] pages, including half-titles. 2 volumes. Folio, 335x240 mm, contemporary limp vellum with spine titles in ink and remnants of thong ties; occasionally severe browning, marginal dampstaining through much of the second volume, monastic ownership inscription on half-titles. Rome: Antonio de Rossi, 1696 [250/350] first edition of a bibliography of Spanish authors to the year 1500, following Antonio’s 1672 Bibliotheca Hispana nova on later authors. Besterman, The Beginnings of Systematic Bibliography, pages 44-45 (“not merely the biggest but the best national bibliography before the eighteenth century”); Grolier/Breslauer & Folter 66. Palau 13310. World chronicle from the Creation to the end of the 14th century, first published in 1484. The second part includes the text of the Epistola