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

86 ● Psalterium Romanum dispositum per hebdomadam. Full-page woodcut of King David on 2+4v. [12], 176 leaves. BOUND WITH : Sacra baptizandi institutio iuxta ritum Sancte Romane Ecclesie . . . Accessere alia multa cum Exorcismis contra Daemoniacos, &Visitatione Infirmorum. Full-page woodcuts of the Deposition on K4v and King David on N2v. 176 leaves.Text and music printed in red and black.Together, 2 volumes in one. 8vo, 157x103 mm, contemporary brown morocco decorated with gilt arabesque border around center cartouche of arabesque tools enclosing Crucifixion stamp on front cover and owner’s name (SOR / BRIGI / DA / MONDI / NI) on rear cover, brass catches, one clasp (of 2), top of spine reinforced, joints and cover edges rubbed; marginal dampstaining and worming not affecting text at beginning of first work and end of second, traces of mold in lower margin of preliminaries in first work; gilt edges, gauffered to ropework pattern. Later female owner’s calligraphic bookplate mounted on front pastedown. Venice: apud Giuntas, 1576; 1581 [800/1,200] Sammelband in contemporary binding executed for a nun, containing the Psalter and a ritual book for baptism, extreme unction, exorcism, etc. This edition of the Psalter not in EDIT16, SBN, OCLC, or USTC. 87 ● Sacrarum caeremoniarum sive rituum ecclesiasticarum S. Rom. Ecclesiae libri tres. Woodcut illustrations throughout depicting church rites and ceremonies. [8], 226 leaves.Text printed in red and black. 4to, 235x158 mm, 17th-century mottled sheep, worn; paper slips pasted over inscriptions on title, M1.8 and M2.7 browned, dampstaining in lower outer corners in second half of volume; red edges. Venice: apud Juntas, 1582 [300/500] 86