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

15 ● ARISTOTLE. Ethicorum . . . ad Nicomachum libri decem. Latin translation by Joannes Argyropoulos, together with Dialogus de moribus by Leonardo Bruni, edited by Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples. 268 pages; lacks the 2 blanks at end. 8vo, 155x98 mm, 18th- century vellum boards with leather lettering piece; margins trimmed not affecting text, light dampstaining in lower portion of opening leaves with slight paper corrosion along bottom edges, small paper crack in center of title not affecting text. Lyon: AntoineVincent, 1551 [200/300] 16 ● ASTOLFI, GIOVANNI FELICE. Scelta Curiosa, et Ricca Officina di Varie Antiche, & Moderne Istorie. Woodcut text illustrations throughout. [24], 518 pages; lacks final blank. 4to, 222x162 mm, contemporary limp vellum, recased with rear joint and holes in rear cover restored; light dampstaining in lower margins at end. Old stamp of the Collegio San Giorgio di Novi Ligure on title and in text. Venice: heirs of Marchió Sessa, 1602 [300/500] FIRST EDITION of a collection of tales of virtues and vices exemplified by miscellaneous historical figures. Piantanida 3327. 17 ● BARKER, NICOLAS. Aldus Manutius and the Development of Greek Script & Type in the Fifteenth Century. Folio, 329x227 mm, original red cloth; bookseller’s pencil note on front endleaf, contents otherwise clean; publisher’s red cloth slipcase. Prospectus laid in. Sandy Hook: Chiswick Book Shop, 1985 [600/900] FIRST EDITION , LIMITED TO 200 COPIES . Tipped in at the end are 4 leaves from the first Aldine editions of Aristotle (Volume 4), 1497; Crastonus, Dictionarium Graecum, 1497; Euripides, 1503; and the Septuagint, 1518. 18 ● BARKER, NICOLAS, editor. The Aldine Press: Catalogue of the Ahmanson- Murphy Collection of Books by or relating to the Press in the Library of the University of California, Los Angeles. Folio, 304x227 mm, original cloth; contents clean; publisher’s cloth slipcase. Berkeley, (2001) [100/200] 16