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

20 19 c AUSONIUS, DECIMUS MAGNUS. Opera. Edited by Theodor Poelmann. [16], 359, [25] pages, including penultimate colophon leaf and final blank. 16mo, 112x77 mm, early 19th-century tan calf gilt by Lefebvre, short crack at top of front joint; occasional light toning, old signature on title. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1568 [400/600] first poelmann and first plantin edition ; issue with errata on a4v.Voet 608. 20 c BANDELLO, MATTEO. Premier et Second Thome des Histoires Tragiques. French translation by Pierre de Boaistuau and François de Belleforest. 287, [1]; 312 [i. e., 299], [1] leaves, including final blanks. 8vo, 165x99 mm, 19th-century crimson morocco by Chambolle-Duru; contents washed with light residual toning. Morocco booklabels of Isidoro Fernández (1878-1963) on pastedowns, his gilt supra-libros added on covers. Paris: Jacques Macé, 1568 [2,000/3,000] Selection of 36 stories from Bandello’s collection of 214 novelle, “the largest and most influential . . . of the sixteenth century” (Wilkins). The Italian original was first published in 3 parts in 1554, with a fourth appearing posthumously in 1573. In various translations it was drawn upon by Shakespeare, Webster, Massinger, and Beaumont and Fletcher. Wilkins, page 232-34.