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

164 ● ALBERTUS MAGNUS. De coelo et mundo. Woodcut diagrams in text. 73, [1] leaves. Gothic type. BOUND WITH : ALBERTUS DE SAXONIA. Quaestiones in Aristotelis libros de caelo et mundo. [52] leaves, including final blank. Gothic type. Together, 2 volumes in one. Folio, 318x218 mm, contemporary 1 / 4 blind- tooled leather over wooden boards with brass catches and leather clasp straps without clasps, spine defective, covers detached; marginal dampstaining through most of the first work and some of the second, few small wormholes throughout with slight text loss, scattered early marginalia. (Venice: Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, 6 July 1495); (Venice: Bonetus Locatellus for Octavianus Scotus, 24 October 1492) [3,000/5,000] Second editions, after the firsts of 1490 and 1481, of medieval commentaries on Aristotle’s cosmological treatise De coelo. Hain-Copinger (Add) 512*(=1531), Hain 576*; GW 595, 796; ISTC ia00228000, ia00347000. 165 ● ALBUMASAR [i. e., ABU MA’SHAR JA’FAR IBN MUHAMMAD AL-BALKHI]. Flores astrologiae. Latin translation by John of Seville. 55 (of 73) woodcuts, comprising 7 allegorical depictions of planets, 47 (of 59) small illustrations of zodiac figures and constellations, including repeats, and one astrological diagram (of 7). [13] (of [20]) leaves; LACKS THE TITLE , next 5 leaves, and final blank. 4to, 203x149 mm, 19th-century vellum-backed marbled boards, spine darkened and soiled, cover edges rubbed; contents toned, first and last pages soiled, ink smudges in blank lower margin of b5, pastedowns blistered. Early ownership inscription of Magister Petrus Verney over colophon on last page. (Augsburg: Erhard Ratdolt, 18 November 1488) [1,500/2,500] FIRST EDITION of a tract on the elements of mundane astrology by the foremost Muslim astrologer of his time (d. 886), whose influence extended to Europe via Greek and Latin translations. Hain- Copinger 609*; GW 837; BMC II, 382; ISTC ia00356000; DSB I, 36-37. See also lot 266. 166 ● BALBUS, JOHANN. Single leaf from a paper copy of the Catholicon, with entries from Aliqu[an]tus to Altare. Gothic type, 66 lines, 2 columns, no watermark. Rubricated. Folio, 364x282 mm; slight chipping along gutter and fore edges. [Mainz: Printer of the Catholicon, not before 1469] [1,000/1,500] From the first edition of a Latin glossary originally compiled in the 13th century, the first dictionary to appear in print, and the first book to identify its place of printing. Hain-Copinger 2254*; GW 3182; BMC I, 39; ISTC ib00020000. 164

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