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

56 ● (BIBLE IN SYRIAC.DANIEL.) Daniel secundum editionem LXX interpretum ex tetraplis desumptam. Syriac text with Latin translation and notes by Gaetano Bugati. [12], xxxii, 168 pages. 4to, 276x216 mm, 19th-century 1 / 4 vellum; half-title soiled and spotted, bookseller’s stamp on half-title, title, and a few other leaves, contents otherwise generally clean; uncut. Milan: Monastery of St. Ambrose press, 1788 [250/350] FIRST EDITION of the text of Daniel from a 7th-century Syro-Hexaplar manuscript discovered by Bugati in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan.The press of the Cistercian Monastery of St.Ambrose was established in 1778 using types produced by Giovanni Battista Bodoni. Darlow & Moule 8975 note; Fumagalli, Lexicon Typographicum Italiae, pages 220-21. 57 ● (BIBLE LEAVES.) Group of 17 leaves, comprising 16 from 15th-century printed Bibles in German, Low German, and Latin, and one from the true 1613 folio edition of the King James Bible. Folio, varying dimensions; Zainer leaf toned and foxed with some wear along edges, occasional marginal soiling on the others. For list see swanngalleries.com . Vp, 1470s-1480s; London, 1613 [1,500/2,500] 58 ● BLACKSTONE, WILLIAM, Sir. Commentaries on the Laws of England. 2 engraved tables of consanguinity and descents in Volume 2. [4], iv, [4], 485, [1]; [8], 520, xix, [1]; [8], 455, [1], xxvii, [1]; [8], 436, vii, [76] pages. 4 volumes. 4to, 273x218 mm, contemporary calf with gilt arms of John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford (1710-71) on covers, rebacked, cover edges worn, dark stains on front cover of first 3 volumes; occasional heavy browning or foxing. Bookplates of Woburn Abbey, seat of the Dukes of Bedford, dated 1873. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1766-68-68-69 [400/600] Second edition of the first volume, third edition of the second, and first edition of the third and fourth. Eller 2, 1; Printing and the Mind of Man 212; Rothschild 407. BIBLES, continued 56 57