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

112 c   LUTHER, MARTIN. Ein Schrifft . . . wider den Eisleben. [8] leaves. 4to, 181x144 mm, modern pigskin, soiled; contents clean. [Magdeburg: Christian Rödinger], 1549 [400/600] posthumous first edition of an attack on the Protestant reformer Johannes Agricola of Eisleben (1494- 1566), whose antinomian views had brought him into conflict with Luther over a decade before. 113 c   MAGNUS, OLAUS,Archbishop of Upsala. A Compendious History of the Goths, Swedes, &Vandals, and other Northern Nations. [12], 342 [i. e., 238] pages. Folio, 275x174 mm,contemporary calf,worn,rebacked with morocco,free endpapers renewed;contents browned with scattered rust spots, blank upper outer corner off 2A3. Bridgewater Library bookplate; signature of Charles Singer dated 1951. London: J. Streater for Humphrey Mosely et al., 1658 [300/500] first edition in english of a work on the peoples, customs, folklore, and natural history of Scandinavia, originally published in 1555 in Latin.Wing M257. 114 c   MANNINGHAM, HENRY. A Compleat Treatise of Mines. 21 folding engraved plates. xix, [1], 168 pages. 8vo, 211x131 mm, crude modern leather; occasional light foxing or soiling of text, plates generally clean, later owner’s signature on title. London: Charles Say for J. Nourse and P.Vaillant, 1756 [200/300] Second edition of a 1752 work on mine warfare based on Pierre Surirey de Saint-Rémy’s Mémoires d’Artillerie, with translated excerpts from related writings by Jean-Florent de Vallière and Bernard Forest de Belidor. 111 c   LUDOLPHUS DE SAXONIA. La primera[-segu[n]da] parte del Vita Christi Cartuxano. Spanish translation by Ambrosio Montesino. Volumes 1 and 2 (of 4). [7] (of [8]), 242 [i. e., 252]; 264 leaves; first volume lacks the title . Together, 2 volumes. Folio, 300x209 mm, old limp vellum with spine titles in ink, thong ties lacking on first volume, present on second; marginal soiling and dampstaining through most of first volume and occasionally in second, first volume has first 2 leaves of table of contents crudely remargined entering text and illustrations, upper outer corner off penultimate leaf affecting text, and last leaf torn and crudely mounted with text loss. (Seville: Juan Cromberger, 1537-43) [400/600] Popular commentary on the life of Christ composed in Latin in the 14th century, first published circa 1472, and translated into Catalan, Dutch, French, and Portuguese by the end of the 15th century. Montesino’s Spanish version first appeared in 1502. Palau 131079 note. 111