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

172 c RODRÍGUEZ, PEDRO JOSÉ, S. J. Apis Hyblaea . . . Utilia Pharmaca elaborandi per-breuis methodus neotericorum usui valde accomodata. [36], 343, [9] pages. 4to, 198x146 mm, contemporary limp vellum with spine title in ink and remnants of thong ties; occasional toning. Unidentified Augustinian branded ownership mark on top edges. Madrid: Diego Martínez Abad, 1705 [250/350] first edition of a pharmacopoeia by a physician and censor of medical books for the Sicilian Inquisition. Hernández Morejón VI, 361; Palau 273263. 170 171 170 c (OBREGÓN, CONGREGACIÓN DE BERNARDINO DE.) Instrucción de Enfermeros y Modo de aplicar los Remedios a todoGénerodeEnfermedades. [24], 152; 52 pages; lacks the portrait of Obregón. 2 parts in one volume. 4to, 203x145 mm, contemporary vellum boards with thong catches and one thong clasp (of 2), small piece of vellum missing from rear cover, book block loose in binding; contents heavily browned. Madrid: Bernardo Peralta, 1728 [200/300] Manual of nursing care with an appendix on ministering to the dying, first published in 1617. The long-defunct Third Order Franciscan congregation founded by Bernardino de Obregón (1540-99) was devoted to caring for the sick. This edition not in Palau. 171 c REDI, FRANCESCO. Osservazioni intorno alle Vipere. Title in red and black with engraved emblem of the Accademia della Crusca. 91, [5] pages. 4to, 234x171 mm, contemporary vellum boards, warped, with spotting along left side of front cover; binding and contents bumped in upper inner corner, 2 tiny wormholes through front free endpaper, half-title, and title, but an internally crisp and clean copy with wide margins. Bookplates of Franz Pollack-Parnau and Jean A. Bonna. Florence: All’Insegna della Stella, 1664 [800/1,200] first edition ; state of title with engraved (instead of woodcut) emblem. “Redi’s first work, the first methodical study of snake venom, marks the beginning of experimental toxicology”— Norman 1810. Garrison-Morton 102; Prandi 2. See also lot 272.