Sale 2468 - Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, March 8, 2018

14 c ARISTOPHANES. The Frogs. English translation by Charles Dunster. [8], 122 pages. 4to, 259x211 mm, contemporary tree calf, spine attractively gilt, ends worn, joints just starting; contents lightly toned, endpapers foxed. 19th-century armorial bookplate of Joseph or Joseph John Martin of Ham Court, Worcestershire. Oxford: J. and J. Fletcher for Messrs. Rivington et al., 1785 [500/750] first edition in english . Hoffmann I, 266. 15 c ARISTOTLE. Ethicorum ad Nicomachum libri decem. Latin translation by Joannes Argyropoulos, with commentary by Donato Acciaiuoli. [6], 205 leaves; lacks final blank. Folio, 303x212 mm, old limp vellum with spine title in ink and remnants of thong ties, book block loose in binding; title mounted with printer’s device excised and restored in facsimile, negligible dampstaining and paper corrosion in upper outer corners at very end, contents otherwise generally clean. Indistinct branded ownership mark on top edges. Venice: Luc’Antonio Giunta, (February) 1535 [400/600] 16 c ARISTOTLE. Opera omnia. Volumes 1-5 (of 7). 637, [3]; 796; 792; 842, [2]; 903 pages, including final blank in Volume 1 and final leaf with printer’s device in Volume 4. Together, 5 volumes. 16mo, 117x78 mm, contemporary limp vellum, spines darkened; contents toned with occasional marginal dampstaining. Later ownership inscription (“Lud. Josephi Dreux et amicorum”) on front free endpapers. [Geneva]: Jacques Berjon, 1580 [800/1,200] Collected edition in Latin lacking only the final 2 volumes, which contain the Rhetorica and index. GLN-2768; Hoffmann I, 300. 14 15