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

130 c JOHN CLIMACUS, Saint. Scala spiritualis. Latin translation by Ambrogio Traversari.Woodcut of St. Ildefonso receiving the chasuble from the Virgin on title. [4], 150 leaves. 4to, 214x142 mm, old limp vellum with spine title in ink and remnants of thong ties, hinges partly cracked; marginal dampstaining at beginning and end with slight paper corrosion in upper outer corners, scattered dampstains elsewhere, title soiled with partly indistinct early monastic ownership inscription in lower margin, ink stains on verso of n8. (Toledo: [successor of Pedro Hagembach], 3 January 1505) [2,000/3,000] First or second edition in Latin, published contemporaneously with an undated Paris edition printed for Denis Roce. The Spiritual Ladder is a treatise by a 6th-/7th-century Greek monk at the monastery of Mt. Sinai on ascetic spirituality and the attainment of Christian perfection. It first appeared in Italian translation in 1478, and in Spanish in 1504 from the same Toledo press as the Latin edition offered here. In the late 1530s the Spanish version was reputedly the first book printed by the Mexican prototypographer Juan Pablos, but no copy or fragment is known to exist. Norton 1042; Palau 292613. See also lot 268. 131 c JONSON, BEN. The Works. [12], 264, 281-368, 371-382, 393-744, [4] pages, including engraved frontispiece portrait of Jonson. Folio, 354x222 mm, modern russet oasis gilt by Gray Parrot; marginal toning throughout, heavy browning on 2Z2.3 and 3C², oxidized signature on verso of portrait showing through on recto, blank lower outer corner of portrait and upper margin of A6 conspicuously restored, 19th-century owner’s handwritten addendum mounted on the table of contents, clean tear all the way across B4, small rust holes in O4, Q4, and 4K3 minimally affecting text, narrow strip torn off blank outer margin of 2G3, light marginal dampstaining on last several leaves. London:Thomas Hodgkin for H. Herringman et al., 1692 [400/600] first complete collected edition . Pforzheimer 561;Wing J1006. 132 c JOSEPHUS, FLAVIUS. Los Siete Libros de Flavio Josefo, los quales contienen las Guerras de los Judios, y la Destruicion de Jerusalen, y delTemplo. Spanish translation by JuanMartín Cordero.[16],392 pages.4to,205x152 mm,old limp vellumwith spine title in ink and remnants of thong ties, worn, book block loose in binding; contents heavily browned with occasionalheavydampstaining,largeinkstainontitle,holeinX7affectingafewwords.Palau125056. Madrid: Gregorio Rodríguez for Gabriel de León, 1657 [150/250] 133 c JOSEPHUS, FLAVIUS. Sämtliche Wercke. Engraved allegorical frontispiece and 8 plates; double-page folding map of the Holy Land. [8], 28; 20; 736; 212; 178; 34 pages, including half-title. Folio, 363x225 mm, 18th-century speckled boards, worn; stain in blank outer margin of the numismatic plates, contents otherwise relatively clean. Tübingen: Johann Georg Cotta, 1735 [150/250] 134 c JUSTINUS, MARCUS JUNIANUS. Trogi Pompei externae historiae incompendiumabJustinoredactae. 204leaves.8vo,162x96mm,18th-centuryvellumboardswith morocco lettering piece,spine darkened;contents generally clean apart from scattered underscoring and marginalia. 19th-century armorial bookplate of Colonel & Mrs. Forbes Leith ofWhitehaugh. (Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, January 1522) [400/600] only aldine edition . Renouard, page 96(9); Ahmanson-Murphy 209. 135 c JUSTINUS, MARCUS JUNIANUS. Historiarum Philippicarum epitome. Edited with notes by Jacques Bongars. [16], 337, [19]; 162, [1] pages, including colophon leaf at end. 2 parts in one volume. 8vo, 165x100 mm, 17th-century morocco gilt with arms of the Collège Lemoine (Olivier 1239) on covers and prize inscription dated 1673 on front pastedown; occasional toning and light marginal foxing, scattered early underscoring, typewritten catalogue note tipped to front free endpaper. Paris: Denis Duval apud Jacques du Puys, 1581 [300/500]