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

1 c   ALCYONIUS, PETRUS. Medices legatus de exsilio. [70] leaves, including blanks e7-8. 8vo, 204x129 mm, remboîtage of old limp vellum; light dampstaining in first half of volume, blank lower margin of title excised and restored, early 19th-century owner’s bibliographical note on flyleaf facing title. Bookplate of Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843); signatures of Cornelius Paine, George H. Powell dated 1891, Hugh Tempest Sheringham dated 1897, and Philips Burns dated 1946. (Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea Asolano, November 1522) [2,000/3,000] first edition of 2 imaginary dialogues on the subject of exile, set in 1512 and conducted by Giovanni and Giulio de’ Medici (later Popes Leo X and Clement VII), who were then exiled from Florence, with their nephew Lorenzo. Renouard, page 95(8); Ahmanson-Murphy 215.