Sale 2521 - Early Printed, Travel, Scientific & Medical Books, October 24, 2019

66 c   ALBERTUS MAGNUS. De min- eralibus. [28] leaves. Gothic type. Folio, 288x206 mm, later stiff wrappers with damp- stain on front cover and remnant of shelf label; scattered minor stains and marginal soiling, neat early marginalia mostly nam- ing stones and gems discussed in the text, engraved and metalcut decorative matter excised from 16th-century printed books mounted in upper and lower margins on recto of first leaf with adhesive discoloration on verso. Purchase inscription in Italian dated 1588 on front flyleaf. wide - margined copy . (Pavia: Christophorus de Canibus, 18 June 1491) [3,000/5,000] Second edition of a work written in the mid- 13th century and first printed in 1476, “one of the best and most comprehensive of the western medieval lapidaries” (Adams). H 521* bis; GW 687; ISTC ia00280000 (23 holding institu- tions, including only the Library of Congress and National Library of Medicine in the U. S.);Adams, The Birth and Development of the Geological Sci- ences, page 144; Schuh,Albertus Magnus 2. INCUNABULA LOTS 66 - 83