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

100 c BRUTUS, JACOBUS. Corona aurea. [180] (of [206] leaves; lacks a1-d2 (De laudibus litterarum).Gothic type.4to,201x154 mm,old limp vellum,lacking ties;scattered foxing, marginal dampstaining, and partly cropped marginalia, occasional browning, soiling and scored inscriptions on title, clean tears at top of e3-7 and l5-7, lower portion torn off rear free endpaper. Unidentified Dominican and other branded ownership marks on top, fore, and bottom edges. (Venice: Johannes Tacuinus, 15 January 1496/97) [500/750] first edition . H 4026*; GW 5657; BMC V, 531; ISTC ib01262000. 99 c BOETHIUS, ANICIUS MANLIUS TORQUATUS SEVERINUS. De conso- latione philosophiae [with Pseudo-Boe- thius, De disciplina scholarium, and com- mentary on both texts ascribed to Thomas Aquinas]. [48]; [124] (of [126]) leaves; Boe- thius lacks the title and first leaf of intro- duction and has the index bound before the preliminaries. 2 parts in one volume, with Pseudo-Boethius bound first. 4to, 232x164 mm, old limp vellum with hole in backstrip, lacking ties, book block loose in binding; contents toned with scattered foxing and stains or ink blots, early inscriptions on title of Pseudo-Boethius and last page of Boethius. (Lyon: Jean Du Pré, 3 March 1491/92) [800/1,200] GW 4554; ISTC ib00796000 (copies in 7 collections in Europe and the Houghton Library in North America). 99 100 INCUNABULA, continued