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

109 ● ALCIATI, ANDREA. Emblemata. Engraved portrait of the author; 211 woodcut text illustrations, comprising 197 emblems and 11 of botanical subjects. [20], 218, [2] pages, including final blank. 8vo, 174x112 mm, contemporary stiff wrappers, shaken, top of spine damaged; contents browned, occasional fingersoiling, clean tear across C6, part of illustration inked out on page 77. Leiden: Officina Plantiniana Raphelengii, 1608 [250/350] 110 ● BOCCHI, ACHILLE. Symbolicarum quaestionum . . . libri quinque. 151 engraved emblems by Giulio Bonasone. [48], 357, [3] pages, including final blank. 4to, 208x151 mm, 19th-century crimson morocco by Belz-Niedrée, spine darkened, chipped at top, front cover detached; marginal foxing, blank lower outer corner off R1, dark stains in outer margins of T2-4, owner’s inscription on verso of last leaf, showing through on recto. Morocco bookplate of Carson Brevoort. Bologna: Societas typographiae Bononiensis, 1574 [400/600] Second edition, with plates retouched by Agostino Caracci; the first appeared in 1555. Praz, page 276 note; Harvard/Mortimer-Italian 77. 111 ● [KARL LUDWIG, Elector Palatine of the Rhine.] Philothei [pseud.] Symbola Christiana. Title in red and black. [12], 204 pages, including engraved frontispiece and 100 large emblems in text. Folio, 340x217 mm, modern buckram; scattered marginal foxing and soiling, few repaired tears in blank margins, blank outer margin of frontispiece restored. Landwehr/German 477; Praz, page 454. Frankfurt am Main: Johann Peter Zubrod, 1687 [300/500] 111 EMBLEM LITERATURE, continued

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