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

267 269 269 c   VALERIUS MAXIMUS, GAIUS. [Facta et dicta memorabilia.] Commentary by Oliverius Arzignanensis and Jodocus Badius. Woodcut initials of various sizes with later hand-coloring throughout. [6] (of [8]), 340 leaves; lacks the title . Folio, 303x208 mm, contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards with brass catches and one clasp (of 2), worn; occasional toning and light marginal foxing, early owner’s interlinear notes through approximately the first quarter of the text, worming in blank margins of last few leaves. Bookplate of Leopold Gruber (1733-1807) on blank verso of last leaf. [Paris]: Jodocus Badius & Jean Petit, (1513) [250/350] 270 c   VERGILIUS MARO, PUBLIUS. Opera; nunc emendatiora. Folding double- page engraved map of the itinerary of Aeneas (partly separated at folds). [40], 411, [45] pages, including engraved title and final blank. first elzevier edition , first printing * LUCANUS, MARCUS ANNAEUS. Pharsalia. [10], 328, [10] pages, including engraved title. Together, 2 volumes. 12mo, the first 126x67 mm, in contemporary red morocco gilt, spine ends worn, joints rubbed, contents browned; the second 130x77 mm, in 18th-century citron morocco gilt, contents clean. Leiden: Officina Elzeviriana, 1636; Amsterdam: Joannes Blaeu, 1643 [150/250] 271 c   VERGILIUS MARO, PUBLIUS. Opera. Edited with notes by Christian Gottlob Heyne. Etched title vignettes and divisional head- and tailpieces; 2 etched plates in first volume. vi, cclv, [1], 566; xciv, 820; [2], 730; [2], 259, [1], 704, [4] pages, including 2 leaves of errata dated 1810 at end of last volume. 4 volumes. 4to, 241x147 mm, contemporary red straight-grain morocco gilt, spines darkened and scuffed, joints worn but sound; varying foxing or browning. Bookplates of Revd. John Longe and Humphry and Mary Ward. London: T. Rickaby for T. Payne et al., 1793 [200/300] large - paper set . The preliminary matter in Volume 1 includes a survey of Virgil MSS. and an annotated bibliography of collected editions from the 1469 first edition to 1788.