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

77 c   [DU FAIL, NOËL.] Les Contes et Discours d’Eutrapel. Par le feu Seigneur de la Herissaye, Gentil-homme Breton [pseud.]. [4], 223 [i. e., 219], [1] leaves. 8vo, 164x100 mm, late 18th-century black straight-grain morocco gilt with pink silk doublures and endleaves, spine ends, raised bands and joints scuffed; scattered light foxing. Bookplate of Francis John Hughes. Rennes: Noël Glamet, 1597 [800/1,200] Collection of satiric tales of Breton life first published in 1585. Alden 597/20 (for reference to the discovery of Canada by the Breton Jacques Cartier); Tchemerzine (1977) III, 110a. The author William Beckford’s copy, with a couple of notes in French in his hand on the front flyleaf; sold as lot 2669 in the first Hamilton Palace Library sale at Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge on 11 July 1882. 78 78 c   ELIAZAR BAR-ISAIAH [pseud. of Paul Isaiah]. Vindication of the Christians Messiah . . . Written by Eliazar Bar- Isaiah P. a Jew born, but now a converted and baptized Christian. English and Hebrew text. Title within type ornament border. [14], 66 pages. 4to, 175x138 mm, later brown wrappers, missing portions of backstrip, front cover chipped and loose; upper and lower margins trimmed affecting only bottom of title border, stain on fore edges slightly showing internally, 2 small ink blots on preliminaries. London: Gartrude Dawson, 1653 [500/750] first edition of an anti-Judaic tract by an apostate Jew from Eastern Europe who had a brief career in England as a religious con artist until his death in 1656. Wilfred S. Samuel, “The Strayings of Paul Isaiah in England, 1651- 1656,” Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England, Volume 16 (1945-1951), pages 77-87; Roth, Magna Bibliotheca Anglo- Judaica, page 277; Wing E333 and V500A. 77