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

186 ● KATIP ÇELEBI. Cronologia Historica. Italian translation by Giovanni Rinaldo Carli. [8], 206, [2] pages. 4to, 211x154 mm, contemporary blind- tooled pigskin over wooden boards with brass catches and clasps, covers soiled and stained, front endpapers renewed, rear free endpaper lacking; dampstaining in lower margins throughout and in upper outer corners at end. Venice: Andrea Poletti, 1697 [800/1,200] FIRST EDITION of a world history in tabular form from the Creation to the mid-17th century by the Ottoman scholar Katip Çelebi (1609-57), the first of his works to appear in print.The original text in Persian and Turkish was first published by the Constantinople printer Ibrahim Müteferrika in 1733. No copy in RBH,ABPC, or JAP. BOUND AFTER : Pirhing, Ehrenreich, S.J. Facilis, et succincta S.S. canonum doctrina. [12] (of [16]?), 350, [13] pages only.Venice: Niccolò Pezzana, 1693. AND : Moretto, Bernardo. Propugnacolo della Cattolica, Apostolica, Universale Santa Romana Chiesa. [14] (of [16]), 112 pages; lacks A2.Venice:Andrea Poletti, 1685. 187 ● LOCKE, JOHN. An Essay concerning Humane Understanding. Engraved frontispiece portrait. [40], 407, [12] pages. Folio, 318x205 mm, modern panelled leather; dark stains in margins of preliminaries and index leaves, small hole in portrait causing minimal image loss, 19th-century institutional stamp on title and elsewhere, ink blot on G1, pencil marginalia on page 395, old catalogue cuttings mounted on blank last page. Signature of Daniel Tyerman dated Newport, Isle of Wight, 1804. London: Awnsham and John Churchill and Samuel Manship, 1694 [1,000/2,000] Second edition, enlarged; second issue, with Churchill/Manship imprint.Wing L2740;Yolton 62B (this edition); Garrison-Morton 4967; Printing and the Mind of Man 164 (citing the 1690 original edition). 188 ● LUCIAN of Samosata. Opera. Greek text with Latin translation and notes by various commentators. [16], 1060, [76]; [12], 922, [26], 55 pages, including engraved additional title and final blank inVolume 1. 2 volumes. 8vo, 183x115 mm, contemporary vellum boards with later leather lettering pieces; varying foxing or browning, 19th- century owner’s stamp on titles. Hoffmann II, 537. Amsterdam: P. & I. Blaeu for Wolfgang et al., 1687 [300/500] 186