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

102 ● DIONYSIUS OF HALICARNASSUS. Antiquitatum Romanarum libri quotquot supersunt [Quae exstant rhetorica et critica] Greek text with Latin translation by Aemilius Portus, notes by Henri Estienne and others, and chronology by Henry Dodwell, edited by John Hudson.Table. [20], 727, [1]; [12], 360, [110], 111, [1] pages, including half-titles. 2 volumes. Folio, 385x235 mm, contemporary panelled sheep, spines attractively gilt, joints partly cracked or starting, cover corners worn through; dampstaining in lower outer corner of opening leaves inVolume 1 and outer margin of last several leaves inVolume 2, title page of the chronology browned, contents otherwise clean. Oxford: at the Theater for Thomas Bennet in London, 1704 [100/200] FIRST HUDSON EDITION . Hoffmann I, 582. 103 ● DONI,ANTON FRANCESCO. Mondi Celesti,Terrestri, et Infernali. [16], 430, [2] pages. 8vo, 154x105 mm, 20th-century vellum boards, covers slightly warped; dampstain in lower outer corner of preliminaries and old inscription and stamp on title. Venice: Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari, 1562 [300/500] FIRST COMBINED EDITION of Doni’s 1552 Mondi and 1553 Inferni, comprising dialogues on imaginary worlds and hells, including a utopian society influenced by Sir Thomas More. Gamba 1369 note; Gibson 665. 104 ● DONNE, JOHN. Letters to Severall Persons of Honour. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author by Pieter Lombart. [8], 318 pages. 4to, 184x134 mm, contemporary sheep, rebacked in the 19th-century, spine ends, joints, and cover edges worn; portrait trimmed and inlaid, light dampstain in lower margin of opening leaves, contents otherwise generally clean. Bookplates on front endpapers. London: J. Flesher for Richard Marriot, 1651 [1,500/2,500] FIRST EDITION . Keynes 55; Pforzheimer 295;Wing D1864. 104