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

71 ● (CALLIGRAPHY MANUALS.) Sammelband containing 11 scarce works, entirely engraved throughout. Oblong folio, 193x288 mm, contemporary sheep gilt, badly worn, front cover warped and detached; contents soiled with scattered stains, some plates creased, some loose, front free endpaper lacking. For list see swanngalleries.com . SOLD AS IS . all but one Nuremberg: Johann ChristophWeigel, early 1700s [800/1,200] “ChristophWeigel, publisher and print-dealer in Nuremberg, brought out numerous writing manuals in the early eighteenth century, many of which were especially designed for young people (at least on the title-page in order to sell better)—and many were anonymous.Weigel probably possessed the copperplates of certain writing-books . . . which he mixed and published under various titles”— Ekström/Hagelin, page 63. 72 ● CALLIMACHUS. Hymni . . . cum scholiis nunc primum aeditis. Sententiae . . . non ante excusae. Greek text, edited by Sigismund Gelenius.Woodcut white-on-black historiated initials, including 2 larger ones depicting Diogenes and Aristippus and David and Goliath. 245, [3] pages, including last leaf with printer’s device on verso. 4to, 211x149 mm, 18th-century mottled sheep; minor marginal stains and soiling at beginning and end, old label remnant on front pastedown, top portion of front free endpaper excised and restored, outer half of rear free endpaper excised; title in ink on fore edges. Inscription on title page of Pedro de Carvajal, Predicador General, noting the absence of the book from the 1640 Index. WIDE - MARGINED COPY . Basel: (Hieronymus Froben & Nicolaus Episcopius, June) 1532 [800/1,200] Third edition in the original Greek, and first to include previously unpublished scholia and short moral texts by other Greek authors. Hoffmann I, 428. 71