Sale 2457 - Early Printed Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, October 17, 2017

12 ● VITRUVIUS POLLIO, MARCUS. L’Architettura di Vitruvio Libri Dieci. Italian translation and commentary by Daniele Barbaro.Woodcut illustrations throughout, including 2 folding plates included in pagination. [8], 506 pages. 4to, 250x178 mm, contemporary limp vellum; attractive copy with only occasional toning. Venice:Turrini, 1641 [1,000/2,000] ARCHITECTURE, continued 13 ● ARETINO, PIETRO; et al. Il Libro del Perché, La Pastorella del Marino, La Novella dell’Angelo Gabriello, e la Puttana Errante [with Ode a Priapo and Anacreontica Estemporanea a Giovan Gastone de’ Medici]. [2], 166, [2] pages, including etched title and final blank. 8vo, 156x96 mm, contemporary red morocco gilt; light marginal browning on title, contents otherwise clean. “Pe-king: regnante Kien-long, nel XVIII Secolo” [i. e., Paris: Giovanni Claudio Molini, 1784] [300/500] Collection of licentious poetry and prose. Pia (1998) 809; Passano, I Novellieri Italiani in Prosa (1884), pages 340-41. 14 ● ARIOSTO, LODOVICO. Orlando Furioso . . . con gli Argomenti in ottava Rima di M. Lodovico Dolce, et con le Allegorie à ciascun Canto, di Thomaso Porcacchi. 51 divisional woodcut illustrations. 365 [i. e., 265], [5] leaves. 8vo, 163x107 mm, modern 1 / 4 vellum with paper lettering piece; contents toned and soiled with marginal dampstaining mainly at beginning and end, small hole through title, next few leaves, and R7 affecting a few letters. Venice: Gerardo & Giuseppe Imberti, 1622 [150/250] 13 15