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

198 c REAL ACADEMIA ESPAÑOLA. Diccionario de la Lengua Española. Engraved allegorical plate in Volume 1. [8], lxxxxvi, 723, [1]; [12], 714; [12], 816; [12], 696; [12], 656; [36], 578 pages. 6 volumes. Folio, 337x241 mm, contemporary vellum boards with spine titles in ink and remnants of thong catches and clasps, vertical cracks at top of Volume 1 spine, front hinge split, 2 holes in Volume 5 rear cover; worming in blank gutters at beginning and small repaired hole through 3G3-4 in Volume 1, wormtrails through second half of Volume 3 with varying text loss, marginal dampstaining throughout Volumes 5 and 6 with traces of mold at beginning and end. Signatures of Enrique Juan Palacios and indistinct earlier stamp on titles; booklabels of Carlos María Molina on pastedowns. Madrid: Imprenta de la Real Academia Española for heirs of Francisco del Hierro, 1726-39 [800/1,200] first edition of the first attempt at an authoritative dictionary of Castilian Spanish. Palau 1286. 198 199 199 c REMIGIUS [i. e., REMI of Auxerre]. Enarrationu[m] in psalmos David liber unus. Title within woodcut historiated architectural border; woodcut white-on-black decorated initials throughout. [16], 377, [1] (of [3]) pages; lacks final blank. Folio, 319x216 mm, old limp vellum with spine title in ink, lacking ties; contents toned or browned with scattered foxing; green edges. Branded ownership mark of the Seminario Conciliar de México on top edges; Mexican Jesuit ownership inscription and stamp on title. Cologne: Eucharius Cervicornus for Godefridus Hittorpius, (March) 1536 [250/350] first edition of a commentary on Psalms with the full Vulgate text, by a 9th-century Benedictine monk, classical commentator, and author of widely used pedagogical works. Sarton I, 595.