Sale 2501 - Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, March 7, 2019

15 c   BENTIVOGLIO, GUIDO, Cardinal. Della Guerra di Fiandra. [8], 254, [14]; [2], 169 [i. e., 167], [7]; 238, [10] pages, including half-title and engraved additional title. 3 parts in one volume. 4to, 262x179 mm, contemporary limp vellum; endpapers discolored, contents otherwise generally clean; 1 / 2 calf folding case. 19th-century stamp of the New-York Historical Society on additional title and last page. Venice: Giunti, e Baba, 1645 [200/300] 16 c   BENTIVOGLIO, GUIDO, Cardinal. The History of the Wars of Flanders. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author; 19 engraved portraits in text, 3 of them mounted; double- page folding engraved map of the Low Countries. [8], 387, [19], 57 pages. Folio, 302x196 mm, contemporary calf, recased with endpapers renewed, joints cracked, cords intact; occasional browning and marginal foxing, small hole through L2 not impairing legibility, conspicuous stain along blank outer margin of 2P3. Armorial bookplate of Tho. Heneage of Cadeby, and unidentified modern bookplate (“Halcyon / Lake Almanor / Burns”). Wing B1912. London: Dorman Newman, 1678 [200/300] 17 c   BEUST, JOACHIM VON. Enchiridion de arte bene beateque moriendi. Title in red and black within woodcut historiated border. [2], 123, [7] leaves. 12mo, 128x78 mm, contemporary vellum boards, lacking ties; contents toned with occasional marginal dampstaining, early underscoring, early owner’s annotations on endpapers, rear free endpaper lacking. Leipzig: Johann Beyer, 1593 [150/250] 15 17