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

155 ● HORATIUS FLACCUS, QUINTUS. Poemata omnia. [8], 189, [3] leaves, including blank A8, colophon leaf, penultimate blank, and final leaf with printer’s device. 8vo, 156x92 mm, early 19th-century navy straight-grain morocco handsomely gilt, pink silk endleaves, vellum flyleaves; contents unobtrusively washed with scattered residual faded stains and marginalia, repaired wormholes in blank margins at beginning and end, a1.8 possibly supplied from another copy. (Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, July 1519) [800/1,200] FIRST ALDINE EDITION . Renouard, page 88(10);Ahmanson-Murphy 184. 156 ● HORATIUS FLACCUS, QUINTUS. Q. Horatius Flaccus. With commentary by Laevinus Torrentius and Petrus Nannius. [20], 839, [49] pages, including engraved portraits of the author and Torrentius, penultimate colophon leaf, and final blank. 4to, 251x177 mm, 17th-century vellum boards with blind-stamped arabesque centerpiece on covers, ties lacking, covers slightly warped; occasional toning or browning, few ink blots. Macclesfield embossed stamp on title and next 2 leaves; armorial bookplate of the North Library at Shirburn Castle. FIRST TORRENTIUS EDITION . Antwerp: Officina Plantiniana apud Joannem Moretum, 1608 [250/350] 157 ● HORATIUS FLACCUS, QUINTUS. Opera. [4], 321 pages, including half- title and engraved title after NICOLAS POUSSIN . Folio, 373x260 mm, contemporary calf, rebacked, spine and restored cover corners worn, endpapers unobtrusively renewed; occasional toning, faded marginalia on page 73, dampstain in blank lower margin of several leaves toward end. Paris:Typographia Regia, 1642 [400/600] An early production of the Imprimerie Royale, which was founded in 1640. See also lots 184 and 250. 155 155