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

119 117 c PHILELPHUS, FRANCISCUS [i. e., FILELFO, FRANCESCO.] Epistolae. 92 leaves. Roman type. Folio, 296x202 mm, modern ½ vellum with leaves from the 1483 Koberger Bible in German over covers; occasional toning, soiling and ink blots on title, scattered cropped earlymarginalia. (Venice:Philippus Pincius,5September 1492) [1,000/2,000] HC 12941; BMC V, 494; ISTC ip00591000. 118 c PHILELPHUS, FRANCISCUS [i. e., FILELFO, FRANCESCO.] Orationes [and other texts, including Galen, Introductorium ad medicinam principiis, translated by Giorgio Valla]. [80] leaves, including final blank. bound with his : Epistolae. [93] (of [94]) leaves; lacks final blank. both bound after : BRUNI, LEONARDO. Epistolarum familiarium libri VIII. [56] leaves.Together, 3 volumes in one, all printed in roman type. Folio, 294x199 mm, 18th-century vellum boards;scattered foxing,mostly minor stains,and cropped early marginalia, some leaves in all 3 works severely browned, worming in blank gutters of approximately the last 30 leaves of the Philelphus Epistolae; marbled edges. Bookplate of Vincenzo Marini. (Venice: Philippus Pincius, 14 October 1492); (Venice: [Bernardinus Benalius], 15 January 1493/94); [Venice: Damianus de Mediolano, de Gorgonzola, in part by Petrus de Quarengiis, Bergomensis], (15 June 1495) [2,000/3,000] HC 12924*, 12942*, 1567*; BMC V, 494, 375, 512; ISTC ip00610000, ip00594000, ib01243000. INCUNABULA, continued 119 c POLITIANUS, ANGELUS. Omnia opera. [452] leaves. Roman, Greek, and Hebrew type. Folio, 312x214 mm, 18th-century vellum boards with morocco lettering pieces; occasional light marginal foxing and dampstaining in lower outer corners, scattered early marginalia and marginal markings, title foxed, trimmed and masked to size with 2 small holes causing slight text loss, small hole in blank lower outer corner of next leaf, blank portions excised from last 3 leaves and restored with last leaf mounted. wide - margined copy . (Venice: Aldus Manutius, July 1498) [6,000/9,000] first collected edition of the Latin writings and translations by one of the outstanding classical scholars of the period. The first use of Hebrew type in Venice appears on C5v, line 21, and H8r, line 32. HC 13218*; BMC V, 559; ISTC ip00886000; Renouard, page 17(4); Ahmanson-Murphy 26; Reynolds & Wilson, pages 143-46.