Sale 2488 - Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, October 16, 2018

220 221 c   YRIARTE [or IRIARTE], TOMÁS DE. La Música, Poema . . . Segunda [sic] Edición. 6 etched allegorical plates by Manuel Salvador Carmona and Joaquín Ballester after Gregorio Ferro. [20], 126, xl pages. 8vo, 224x144 mm, contemporary mottled sheep gilt, worn, with paper label, lacking original lettering piece; text relatively clean, minor marginal foxing and stains on plates, worming through blank lower margins of last several leaves and lower outer corner of rear cover. Madrid: Imprenta Real, 1784 [100/200] Third edition of a book-length poem on the elements, types, and purposes of music originally published in 1774, praising the works of Haydn in the final canto. New Grove IX, 327; Palau 121148. 222 c   ZAMOYSKI, JAN. De senatu Romano libri duo. [16], 647, [36] pages. 8vo, 154x96 mm, 19th-century 1 / 2 leather; contents toned or browned, wormtrail through last several index leaves affecting some text. Ownership inscription of the Collegium Sancti Caroli dated 1657 and 19th-century stamp of the K. K. Studienbibliothek, both of Salzburg. Strassburg: Lazarus Zetzner, 1608 [300/500] Second edition of a 1563 treatise on Roman government by the Polish statesman and military leader (1542-1605).