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

119 ● APPIANUS of Alexandria. Romaikon . . . Romanarum histori- arum. Greek text. 393, [2] pages. Folio, 347x214 mm, contemporary limp vellum, worn, ties lacking; contents generally quite clean apart from few minor stains on opening leaves, tiny wormhole through approximately the last dozen leaves not impairing legibility. WIDE - MARGINED COPY . Paris: Charles Estienne, 1551 [800/1,200] FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL GREEK of Appian’s history of Roman wars and conquests, “generally cited as the supreme example of the use of the Royal Greek types . . . the first classical text printed in all three sizes of the ‘grecs du roi’”—Schreiber 126. Harvard/Mortimer-French 29; Hoffmann I, 214; Updike I, 237-38. 120 ● (DIO CASSIUS.) Xiphilinus, Joannes. Rerum romanarum . . . epitome. Greek text. 357, [3] pages. 4to, 219x151 mm, later 18th-century mottled sheep gilt with arms of General Count Dimitrios Mavros (1820-96) added on front cover and his crowned monogram in bottom spine compartment, 2 small holes near top of spine, front joint cracked, cords intact, rear joint reinforced; margins trimmed without text loss, marginal dampstaining at beginning and end, marginal soiling on title. Inscription of Count Mavros dated 1872 on endleaf facing title, his stamp on title verso; bookplate of Seved Tegefors. Paris: Robert Estienne, 1551 [500/750] FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL GREEK , elegantly printed, of an 11th-century abridgment of the early 3rd-century Roman history by Dio Cassius. Harvard/Mortimer-French 170; Hoffmann III, 618; Schreiber 108. 121 ● ESTIENNE, HENRI. Thesaurus Graecae linguae. 8 (of 20), xx pages, xxiiii, 1946 columns, blank leaf; [1] leaf, xii, 1592 (of 1700) columns, blank leaf; 1793 columns, blank leaf; [1] leaf, 834 columns; 1746, 212 columns, blank leaf; lacks preliminary pages 9-20 inVolume 1, and blank 3Z4 and last 28 leaves (columns 1593-1700) inVolume 2. 5 volumes in 4. Folio, 353x228 mm, modern cloth; intermittent dampstaining in upper and lower margins, occasional soiling, owner’s inscription dated 1669 on titles,Volume 1 title and facing endleaf adhered in gutter, few small wormholes through first half ofVolume 5 affecting text. [Geneva]: Henri Estienne, 1572-73 [500/1,000] FIRST EDITION of Estienne’s monumental Greek dictionary,“a high point in the annals of European scholarship . . . to this day the essential tool for the study of Greek”—Schreiber 181. GLN-2434; Printing and the Mind of Man 62 note. ESTIENNE PRESS, continued 119