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

113 114 113 c   ALBERTUS MAGNUS, attributed to. De laudibus Mariae. 300 leaves. Gothic type. Rubricated. Folio, 300x208 mm, 19th-century black leather over bevelled wooden boards, worn, endleaves renewed; dampstaining in upper margins through most of volume, scattered stains elsewhere, title soiled, blank corner off L6, last leaf reinforced in gutter, small piece excised from front endleaf. Ownership inscriptions and admonitory curses of the Franciscan monastery of Dorsten, North Rhein-Westphalia; armorial bookplates of Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843); signatures of the Rev. John Spratt of the Carmelite Convent of Dublin dated 1844; later pencil signature of C. A. Burnham. (Strassburg: Martin Flach, 1493) [2,000/3,000] Second edition of a work probably written in the mid-13th century by the Paris theologian Ricardus de Sancto Laurentio; the undated first edition was printed no later than 1473. HC(Add) 10767 = H 10768*; GW 616/10; BMC I, 152; ISTC ia00248000. 114 c   APPIANUS. Historia Romana. Latin translation by Petrus Candidus Decembrius. Part 2 (of 2): De bellis civilibus [and other texts]. [209] (of [212]) leaves, with c2r blank as issued: lacks initial blank, a8, and c8. Roman type. Woodcut white-on-black three-quarter border on a2r and ornamental initials throughout. 4to, 271x194 mm, modern blind-ruled leather; a2 trimmed and inlaid to size with soiling on recto and a few letters supplied in ink on verso, repair in blank upper margin of a10, scattered dark stains, early underscoring and partly cropped marginalia. (Venice: Bernhard Maler, Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein, 1477) [1,000/2,000] Second edition of Appian’s history of Roman wars after the first of 1472. Hain 1307*; GW 2290; BMC V, 244; Goff A928; ISTC ia00928000.