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

87 c HERODOTUS. Historia, sive Historiarum libri. IX. Greek text, edited by Henri Estienne. 24, 362 [i. e., 364], 20 pages. Folio, 322x209 mm, late 17th-/early 18th-century gilt-panelled morocco with unidentified crowned monogram stamp on covers, top of spine damaged, front joint worn through over sewing supports, front hinge cracked; contents toned with marginal dampstaining through most of volume, later underscoring and marginalia, traces of mold on opening leaves. Booklabel of the Hellenist Wladimir Brunet (1809-75). [Geneva]: Henricus Stephanus, 1570 [300/500] first estienne edition of the original Greek text. GLN-2410; Hoffmann II, 230. Without the 4 woodcut plates from the 1566 Estienne edition in Latin, not called for but occasionally found in copies of the 1570 edition in Greek. 88 c HEYNLIN, JOHANNES [or JOHANNES DE LAPIDE]. Resolutoriu[m] dubioru[m] circa celebrationem missaru[m] occurentiu[m]. Woodcut of priest celebrating Mass on title. [36] leaves, including final blank. 4to, 201x151 mm, modern limp vellum; marginal dampstaining throughout, worsening toward end, early underscoring and marginalia, dog-earing in lower outer corners of final leaves. (Zaragoza: Jorge Coci, 10 December 1525) [500/750] Collection of questions and answers relating to the celebration of the Mass first published circa 1492-93 and frequently reprinted through the 16th century. This edition not in Palau, OCLC, USTC, or CCPBE. 89 c HOBBES,THOMAS. Leviathan; sive, De materia, forma, & potestate civitatis ecclesiasticae. [4], 365, [14] pages. 4to, 198x150 mm, contemporary vellum boards with later morocco lettering piece, spine darkened, superficial incisions on front cover; contents toned with occasional marginal dampstaining, horizontal strip torn from front free endpaper, piece torn from blank lower outer corner of P2. Macdonald & Hargreaves 46;Wing H2249. “Londini:Typis Joannis Thomsonii” [i. e., Amsterdam?], 1678 [300/500] 88 89