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

140 141 140 c   LACTANTIUS, LUCIUS CAECILIUS FIRMIANUS. Divinarum institutionum libri VII [and other texts]. Title within woodcut historiated architectural border. [20], 433, [3] pages, including last leaf with printer’s device. 4to, 229x142 mm, contemporary blind- tooled pigskin over pasteboard, soiled and worn, spine darkened, lacking ties; minor worming in blank lower margins, early underscoring and marginalia, old signatures and scrawls on front free endpaper, soiling and early inscription on title, crude hand-coloring at top of title border and on printer’s device. (Basel: Andreas Cratander, February 1521) [300/500] 141 c   LATIMER, HUGH. Fruitfull Sermons. [6], 331 [i. e., 330] leaves. Mostly printed in black letter. 4to, 185x135 mm, mid-19th-century panelled calf, spine and joints worn; contents soiled with dampstaining in upper margins, scattered early marginalia, several leaves trimmed in blank lower margin, repaired tear in G2 slightly affecting text, X1 trimmed in outer margin entering sidenotes, hole in 2F6 causing loss of several words, blank outer corners of last leaf restored. Bookplate of Francis Hopkinson, LL.D., F.S.A., his notes and tipped-in tracing of Latimer’s handwriting on front free endpaper. London: Valentine Sims, 1584 [800/1,200] Fifth collected edition of the sermons of a leading figure of the reform movement in England, who was burned at the stake following the restoration of Catholicism under Queen Mary. STC 15281.