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

168 ● (GREEK ANTHOLOGY.) [Anthologia Graeca Planudea.] Greek text, edited by Janus Lascaris and printed in all-capital font designed by him. 7 manuscript initials of varying sizes in gold and colors. 271 (of 280) leaves; LACKS THE TITLE and the final 8-leaf gathering containing the editor’s dedicatory letter in Latin to Piero de’ Medici. 4to, 230x165 mm, modern panelled calf; dampstaining along top edges at beginning and occasionally in lower inner corners, scattered foxing and early marginalia, first and last leaves soiled and stained, the first remargined at top and bottom, restoration in blank lower inner corner of the next several leaves, [Mu]3.4 folded backward. (Florence: Laurentius de Alopa, 11 August 1494) [5,000/10,000] FIRST EDITION of the collection of Greek epigrams and verse compiled by the scholar Maximos Planudes (d. 1310), the basis for the Greek Anthology until the discovery in 1607 of a manuscript of the 10th-century collection by Constantine Cephalas at the Palatine Library in Heidelberg.“The last quire is not found in all copies, probably because the flight and proscription of Piero de’ Medici shortly after the publication of the book caused the dedication to be suppressed” (BMC). Hain- Copinger 1145*; GW 2048; BMC VI, 666; ISTC ia00765000. For the first critical edition see lot 146. 169 ● HIERONYMUS, Saint. Epistolae. [6], 174; [4], 229, [1] leaves, including initial and final blanks. Roman type. Rubricated throughout, and with decorated initial and painted scrollwork in one margin on [pi]2r and a1r in first volume and on A1r in second. 2 volumes in one. Folio, 416x287 mm, later binding of manuscript choirbook vellum over boards, recased, joints partly cracked, endpapers renewed; occasional marginal soiling and stains, mainly conspicuous on opening leaves of first volume, first 2 leaves rehinged, rust hole in center of second leaf affecting a few letters, partial reinforcement in outer margin on verso, upper portion of outer margin excised and restored slightly entering painted decoration on A1r in second volume, early underscoring and marginalia throughout. Ownership inscription of the Piarist College of Schlackenwerth (now Ostrov, Czech Republic). (Venice: Andreas Torresanus, de Asula, 15 May 1488) [2,000/3,000] Hain-Copinger 8558*; GW 12430; BMCV, 309; ISTC ih00170000. 168 169