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

231 c [SOUMILLE, BERNARD-LAURENT, Abbé.] Le Grand Trictrac, ou Méthode facile pour apprendre sans Maître la marche, les termes, les règles, & une grande partie des finesses de ce Jeu. Over 250 woodcut text diagrams. [22], 438 pages, including etched frontispiece. 12mo, 158x98 mm, contemporary mottled calf gilt, top of spine chipped, cover corners worn through; contents clean; red edges. Avignon: Alexandre Giroud, 1756 [250/350] Second edition, enlarged, of a 1738 guide to a variant of backgammon. 232 c SUCQUET, ANTOINE, S. J. Den Wech des Eeuwich Levens. Dutch translation by Gerard Zoes, S. J. 32 engraved plates by Boetius van Bolswert. 881, [21] pages, including engraved title. 8vo, 184x117 mm, later 19th-century ¼ pigskin, spine faded and rubbed; marginal foxing throughout, scattered marginal dampstains and soiling, title toned with top of blank upper margin excised, narrow strip torn from blank lower margin of 2I3, clean tear in plate 30 repaired with brown paper tape on verso. Antwerp: Hendrick Aertssens, 1622 [300/500] first edition in dutch of a religious allegory of human life, influenced by the Tablet of Cebes (see lot 45), originally published in Latin in 1620. Praz, page 506. 231 232