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

76 73 ● CALMET, AUGUSTIN. Traité sur les Apparitions des Esprits, et sur les Vampires, ou les Revenans de Hongrie, de Moravie, &c. . . . Nouvelle Édition. [2], xxvii, [1], 486; xvi, 483, [5] pages. 2 volumes. 8vo, 167x95 mm, contemporary mottled sheep gilt, spine ends chipped, numbering pieces off, cover corners worn, front joints cracked, cords intact; contents relatively clean, worming in blank lower margins toward end of first volume. Paris: Debure l’aîné, 1751 [200/300] Treatise originally published in 1746 dealing with apparitions in general and Central European vampires in particular. Caillet 1966. 74 ● CAMILLO, GIULIO. Tutte le Opere. 263, [1] pages. 12mo, 124x70 mm, later vellum boards with spine title in ink; margins trimmed without text loss, old scored inscription in lower margin of title. Venice: Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari et fratelli, 1552 [200/300] FIRST COLLECTED EDITION of Camillo’s writings, including L’Idea del Theatro, describing his memory theater, an arcane mnemonic system. Contemporaries of Erasmus I, 248-49. BOUND WITH HIS : Annotationi . . . sopra le Rime del Petrarca. 132 leaves. Conspicuous worming in upper margins affecting some text, title soiled with old arithmetic calculations in ink on verso. Venice: Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari, 1557. 75 ● CAMILLO, GIULIO. Opere. 311, [1]; 227, [1] pages. 2 volumes in one. 12mo, 137x76 mm, contemporary limp vellum, shaken, spine darkened, ties lacking; scattered marginal foxing. Venice: Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari, 1560 [200/300] 76 ● CARTARI, VINCENZO. Le Imagini de gli Antichi. 88 full-page engraved illustrations by Bolognino Zaltieri of subjects from classical mythology. [38], 566 pages. 4to, 212x155 mm, contemporary limp vellum, rebacked; intermittent marginal soiling and dampstaining, scattered foxing and marginalia, old monogram stamp on title, restoration in blank upper outer corner of G3-4, old inscriptions and doodles on endpapers; gilt edges, elaborately gauffered to floral pattern. Venice: Francesco Ziletti, 1580 [800/1,200] “First encyclopedia of classical iconography . . . widely used by Renaissance and Baroque artists”—Arntzen & Rainwater H35 (1556 original edition).

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