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

5 6 5 c ALCIATI,ANDREA. Omnia . . . emblemata. With commentary by Claude Mignault. Title within woodcut border; 210 woodcut text illustrations, comprising 196 emblems and 14 of botanical subjects. [24], 782, [2] pages; lacks T5 (see below). 8vo, 157x100 mm, old limp vellum with spine title in ink and thong catches and remnants of clasps; contents toned or browned, margins trimmed entering title border and some sidenotes. Ownership inscription of the Colegio Apostólico de la Santa Cruz, Querétaro. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1583 [200/300] Expurgated copy, inscribed and signed by Fray Juan Domingo Arricivita, with leaf T5 removed, text on adjacent leaves scored, and nudity inked out on a number of illustrations. Arricivita headed the Colegio Apostólico in Querétaro, the first Franciscan missionary college in Mexico; his 1792 chronicle of that institution is an important source for Franciscan missions to Texas and California. See Streit-Dindinger III, 1157, andWagner,The Spanish Southwest 174. 6 c ALONSO DE OROZCO, Saint. Liber orthodoxis omnibus perutilis, & maximè Monachis, qui Bonu[m] certamen appellatur. [28], 173, [1], (of [3]) pages; lacks final blank. 8vo, 138x92 mm, old limp vellum, lacking ties, front cover stained; dark stains in lower margins at beginning and end, early underscoring and marginalia throughout, rear free endpaper lacking. Salamanca: Juan María de Terranova, 1562 [300/500] first edition . Palau 204454.

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