Title: EARLY PRINTED, SCIENTIFIC, MEDICAL & TRAVEL BOOKS
Date: May 15, 2012
Time: 1:30 PM
Exhibition: Fri., May 11, 10-6
Sat., May 12, 10-4
Mon., May 14, 10-6
Tues., May 15, 10-noon
Contact Person: Tobias Abeloff
tabeloff@swanngalleries.com

Includes selections of Aldine imprints, Bibles, classics, incunabula, post-medieval manuscripts, and works on law, music, astronomy and Italian travel.

Highlights include:

Musaeus and Orpheus, Musaei opusculum de Herone & Leandro. Orphei argonautica. Eiusdem hymni . . . de lapidibus, Venice, 1517, shown top left.

A near-miniature illuminated manuscript Book of Hours in Latin, Belgium, circa 1500.

St. Augustinus Aurelius, Sermones de tempore [de sanctis], Basel, 1495

Nasmyth and Carpenter, The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite, London, 1874.

Wyld and Lessore, Album Vénitien, Venice, 1837