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

158 ● HORATIUS FLACCUS, QUINTUS. Opera. 8 plates, including frontispieces, and a profusion of illustrations, head- and tailpieces, and ornamental initials. [30], 264, [2]; [22], 191, [14] pages. Contents ENTIRELY ENGRAVED THROUGHOUT by John Pine. 2 volumes. 8vo, 232x149 mm, contemporary red morocco gilt, flat spines with olive morocco lettering pieces, bindings somewhat scuffed, minor spotting onVolume 1 covers; light offsetting from frontispieces onto titles, scattered fingersoiling, contents otherwise generally clean. Stamp of the diplomat Mikhail Alexandrovich Golitsyn (1804–1860) on Volume 1 title; unidentified armorial bookplate with motto Non Ignobile Otium on front pastedowns. London, 1733-37 [500/750] FIRST PINE EDITION , “the most elegant of English eighteenth-century books in which text and illustrations alike are entirely engraved” (Ray); first state of page 108 inVolume 2, with “post est” in the numismatic headpiece. Ray,The Art of the Illustrator and the Book in England, page 3. 159 ● (HORSES.) Massari Malatesta, Alessandro. Della Ragione e Modi d’Imbrigliar Cavalli Trattato. 89 (of ?) woodcut plates of bridles, bits, and other horse gear. [21] leaves. Folio, 424x311 mm, 17th-century vellum boards with spine title in ink,worn, front hinge split; light stain in outer marginal of first few leaves, light soiling on title, faint streak across center of some plates, light spotting on plate 1, conspicuous foxing on plate 58, narrow horizontal holes in plate 60 slightly affecting image, few dark stains on plateVIII. Large armorial bookplate of Don José de Guzmán y Guevara (1709-81), 6th Marqués de Montealegre, etc., and Mayordomo Mayor to King Charles III of Spain. Rome: Stefano Paolini, 1613 [1,500/2,500] Italian version of a treatise on harnessing originally published in 1607 in Latin. 160 ● (HORSES.) Reizenstein, Wolf Ehrenfried von, Baron. Der vollkommene Pferde-Kenner. 28 folding engraved plates. [26], 176, [52]; 176, [14] pages, including engraved additional title. 2 parts in one volume. 4to, 208x170 mm, contemporary mottled sheep gilt with modern leather lettering piece, recased, endpapers renewed; light even dampstaining through opening leaves, occasional marginal dampstaining elsewhere in text, varying soiling, stains, and edgewear on plates, repaired clean tear in first plate. 19th- century stamp of theVerein für Rostocks Altertümer on verso of frontispiece; bookplate of Henry Sarasin. Uffenheim: Joh. Simon Meyer, 1764 [5,000/7,000] FIRST EDITION of a comprehensive equestrian manual with sections on the general characteristics of horses, horse buying, breeding, riding, training, grooming, veterinary care, and horse tack, and a bibliography listing over 40 works from the 16th century onward. SIGNIFICANT FOR YIDDISH HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS is the 36-page appendix to part one, which contains a glossary of over 1500 transliterated Yiddish and Hebrew terms and 5 sample dialogues intended to aid non-Jews in understanding the horse trade dialect used by Jews. Commerce in livestock was a predominantly Jewish occupation in Central and Eastern Europe at the time; see EJ XI, 411-12. 161 ● HOWELL, JAMES. Londinopolis; An Historicall Discourse or Perlustration of the City of London . . . whereunto is added another of the City of Westminster. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author by Claude Melan; folding etched view of London by Wenceslaus Hollar. [10] (of [12]), 124, 301-407, [9] pages; lacks initial blank. Folio, 273x175 mm, contemporary sheep with later leather lettering piece, joints worn, stains and surface imperfections on covers; mostly marginal foxing of text, occasional toning, old signature and light soiling on title. From the Evelyn family library, sold at Christie’s, 1 December 1977, lot 795. London: J. Streater, for Henry Twiford, George Sawbridge, Thomas Dring, and John Place, 1656 [400/600] FIRST EDITION ; issue with Dring named in the imprint. Pforzheimer 515;Wing H3091.