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

272 272 c   VILLANI, GIOVANNI. Croniche . . . nelle quali si tratta dell’Origine di Firenze [etc.]. [10], 219, [1] leaves, including last leaf with printer’s device on verso. Folio, 314x218 mm, old limp vellum with spine title in ink, worn; occasional marginal soiling, dampstaining, and foxing, scattered worming in blank margins, few marginalia, repair in lower outer corner of title and next leaf. Venice: Bartolomeo Zanetti, 1537 [300/500] first edition of a 14th-century chronicle of Florentine history. Gamba 1027 note; Sarton III, 913-15. 273 c   [VOLTAIRE, FRANÇOIS-MARIE AROUET DE.] Group of 4 volumes. 8vo, various bindings, overall condition varies. Bookplates of Francis John Hughes. Bengesco 360, 1558, 2193, 1772. Vp, 1723-62 [300/500] La Ligue ou Henry Le Grand, Poeme Epique. viii, 231 pages. Contemporary calf, spine ends chipped, front joint partly cracked; marginal dampstaining at beginning and end. “A Geneve, Chez Jean Mokpak” [i. e., Rouen: Viret], 1723. first edition * Lettres écrites de Londres sur les Anglois et autres Sujets. [8], 228, [19] pages. Modern morocco; contents clean. “A Basle” [i. e., London?], 1734. first edition in the original french , preceded by the 1733 version in English * Recueil de Pièces Fugitives en Prose et en Vers. [4], iv, 223 pages. Contemporary calf gilt, few stains on covers; contents generally clean. Np, 1740 * L’A, B, C, Dialogue Curieux. vii, [1], 160 pages. Modern leather, scuffed, light discoloration on covers; contents heavily dampstained. “Londres, Chez Robert Freemann” [i. e., Geneva], 1762. first edition . 274 c   WHITGIFT, JOHN, Archbishop of Canterbury. The Defense of the Aunswere to the Admonition, against the Replie of T[homas]. C[artwright]. Title within woodcut ornamental border. [24], 812, [11] pages. Mostly printed in black letter. Folio, 285x190 mm, 19th-century 1 / 2 leather, worn; marginal foxing and dampstaining, title soiled and mounted, next leaf and last leaf restored in blank upper outer corner. London: Henry Binneman for Humfrey Toye, 1574 [500/750] first edition ; issue with the errata corrected. Whitgift’s refutation of the presbyterian views of the Puritan Thomas Cartwright formed part of an exchange of polemics provoked by Cartwright’s 1572 Admonition to the Parliament, “an attack on the very foundations of the Elizabethan church so extreme as to make it a seditious libel” (ODNB). STC 25430.5. E N D O F S A L E 274