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

108 107 c GUTIÉRREZ, JULIÁN. De computatione dierum criticarum. [64] leaves. Gothic type. 4to, 195x143, mm, disbound; occasional light dampstaining in upper inner corners, intermittent marginal foxing, soiling, and early underscoring and partly cropped marginalia. (Toledo: Antonio Tellez, 28 March 1495) [8,000/12,000] only edition of a treatise on the astrological determination of critical days affecting the progression of an illness, a doctrine derived from Galenic medicine. Gutierrez served as physician to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain. ISTC records 4 indulgences and 4 books from the Tellez press; this is the only production with his imprint. H 8338; GW 12110; Haebler, Bibliografía Ibérica 314; overlooked by Chinchilla and Hernández Morejón; ISTC ig00734000 locates copies in 6 collections, 4 of them in North America. 108 c (HIERONYMUS, Saint.) Eusebius, Pseudo-; et al. Vita et transitus [Hieronymi]. [44] leaves. Gothic type. 4to, 206x150 mm, old limp vellum with later endpapers, probably a remboîtage; marginal dampstaining throughout, occasional marginal soiling, old scored inscriptions on otherwise blank recto of first leaf, showing through on verso. (Venice: Peregrinus de Pasqualibus and Dominicus Bertochus, 20 December 1485) [500/1,000] Collection of short writings on the life of St. Jerome first published circa 1470. HC 8631; GW 9451; BMC V, 391; ISTC ih00243000.