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

bound with : Apostolorum et sanctorum conciliorum decreta. Greek text and Latin translation, edited by Elias Ehinger. [18], 456, [26] pages; lacks the portrait . Contents browned, oxidized stains in upper outer corner of last 2 leaves.Wittenberg: heirs of Lorenz Säuberlich for Samuel Seelfisch, 1614. first ehinger edition of the Apostolic Canons and decrees of the early Church Synods through the Second Council of Nicaea. 197 c QUEVEDO Y VILLEGAS, FRANCISCO. Les Visions. [8], 309 pages. 16mo, 116x77 mm, 18th-century mottled calf gilt; title soiled with early inscriptions, marginal dampstaining at beginning and end, worsening on last few leaves. Blois: François de la Saugère, 1645 [300/500] Popular satire of contemporary social types and vices first published in Spanish in 1627 and in French translation the same year. Palau 244112. 195 c PULGAR, HERNANDO DE. Los Claros Varones de España. [4], 91, [1] leaves. 8vo, 147x99 mm, old limp vellum with spine title in ink and remnants of thong ties, worn, book block loose in binding; contents toned with occasional soiling and underscoring, old scored inscriptions on title, oxidized stain on fore edge of last few leaves. Antwerp: Juan Meursius, 1632 [250/350] Collection of brief biographies of Spanish notables and letters to them by the author, first published in 1486. Palau 242120; Peeters-Fontainas 1084. 196 196 c PYTHAGORAS; et al. Opus aureum et scholasticum, in quo continentur Pythagorae carmina aurea, Phocylidis, Theognidis, & aliorum poemata [etc.]. Greek text with Latin translation by Michael Neander and notes by Neander and Lorenz Rhodoman. 789, [3]; 268, [16]; 191 pages. 3 parts in one volume. 4to, 215x166 mm, modern vellum boards with thong ties; occasional marginal foxing or browning, restoration along edges of general title and next several leaves, pages 82-83 and 86-87 of Coluthus in second part left blank through printer’s error. Leipzig: (Johannes Steinmann, 1577) [400/600] Massive collection of Greek gnomic or moralizing poems and apophthegms, also containing the verse epics on the Trojan War by Coluthus, Tryphiodorus, and Quintus of Smyrna (the last in an excerpt), and Lucian of Samosata’s Gallus, a comic dialogue based on the Pythagorean doctrine of reincarnation. Hoffmann III, 234-35.