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

112 ● PFANN, JOHANN. Biblische Emblemata und Figuren, welche in den zweyen verneurten Stuben dess Hospitals zum Heiligen Geist in Nürmberg allen Krancken zu sonderm Trost anstatt der Schrifft sind vorgemalet worden. Engraved title and 16 plates; lacks secondary title (Aigentlicher Abrisz der neuen im Spital ufgehengten Tafeln) and 3 further plates with engraved text. 4to, 179x149 mm, old boards with handwritten front cover label, front joint worn; title trimmed and mounted, minor marginal spotting on some plates, old catalogue cutting mounted inside front cover. [Nuremberg?], 1626 [300/500] Collection of emblematic engravings after paintings in the Hospital of the Holy Spirit in Nuremberg. Landwehr 474; Praz, page 452. 113 ● PITTONI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA. Imprese Nobili, et Ingeniose di Diversi Prencipi, et d’Altri Personaggi. Engraved title and 105 (instead of 71?) plates of emblems with verse by Lodovico Dolce; lacks the 2-leaf letterpress preface and engraved plate with arms of Giacomo Soranzo. 4to, 272x204 mm, remboîtage of 17th-century gilt- stamped vellum boards, covers slightly warped; marginal dampstaining through much of volume, occasional marginal soiling; title in ink on fore and bottom edges. Praz, page 458 note. Venice: Girolamo Porro, 1578 [800/1,200] BOUND WITH : Vredeman de Vries, Jan. Pictores, statuarii, architecti, latomi [et al.] . . . adeste: et hunc libellum varias coenotaphiorum, tumulorum, et mortuorum monumentorum formas . . . comprehendentum inspicite, emite, utimini. Engraved title and 26 plates of tombs and cenotaphs. Oblong 4to, contents bound along top edge; marginal soiling, conspicuous stains on title. [Antwerp]: Hieronymus Cock, 1563. 112 113