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

129 ● FERRARI, GIROLAMO. Delle Notizie Storiche della Lega tra l’Imperatore Carlo VI. e la Republica di Venezia contra il Gran Sultano Acmet III. [8], 337, [1] pages, including engraved portrait of the dedicatee, Alvise Pisani. 4to, 245x180 mm, 18th- century patterned stiff wrappers, shaken, spine darkened, with 2 short cracks, ends worn; title soiled in outer margin with repair in blank lower outer corner, contents otherwise clean; uncut. Venice: Carlo Buonnarigo for the Author, 1723 [300/500] FIRST EDITION of an account of the 1714-1718 territorial wars in the Balkans fought by the Venetian Republic and Austria against the Ottoman Empire. 130 ● [FIELDING, HENRY.] The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews. xix, [1], 306, [4]; [4], 310, [2] pages, including 2 ad leaves at end of first volume and one each at beginning and end of the second. 2 volumes. 12mo, 164x96 mm, 19th-century russia gilt by Francis Bedford, rebacked retaining original backstrips, few small stains on covers; contents toned with scattered light foxing.Tipped to Volume 1 front endleaf is a later 18th-century newspaper cutting (“Prologue to the New Farce of Joseph Andrews spoken by Mr. Bensley”). London: A. Millar, 1742 [800/1,200] FIRST EDITION , LIMITED TO 1500 SETS , of Fielding’s first novel. Cross III, 305; Rothschild 844. 131 ● FILIPPINI, ANTON PIETRO. La Historia di Corsica. Woodcut portrait of the author on title verso (showing through on recto), and his coat of arms on 2*4, 4B2v, and 4D2v. [20], 563, [17] pages. 4to, 238x157 mm, 18th-century mottled sheep gilt, recased with top and bottom spine compartments restored; contents browned and dampstained, ink scrawls in lower margin of page 55, dark stains on several leaves toward end. FIRST EDITION . Turnon: Claude Michel, 1594 [500/750] 132 ● (FLORENCE, COUNCIL OF.) Que in hoc volumine continentur Acta generalis octavae Synodi sub Eugenio quarto Ferrariae inceptae [etc.]. Title within woodcut architectural border. 158, [2] leaves, including errata leaf and final blank. Folio, 281x208 mm, contemporary blind-tooled sheep over pasteboard, heavily worn, backstrip lacking, covers loose; contents dampstained and dampwrinkled. (Rome: Antonio Blado, 23 May 1526) [500/750] Acts of the 1438-45 Council of Florence, convened to reconcile theWestern and Eastern Churches. Sander 21 note. 132 131