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

67 67 c   BERNARDUS CLARAVELLENSIS, Saint. Flores. [160] (of [162]) leaves, including blank a1; lacks initial and final blanks. Gothic type. Rubricated through gathering c. Folio, 287x210 mm, contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards with brass catches and clasps, with panel of lozenges formed by undulating vinework on front cover and by intersecting diagonal fillets on rear cover, rebacked, endpapers and leather clasp straps renewed; few small wormholes through first half of volume not impairing legibility, soiling and ink smudges on first few leaves, spotting across blank lower margin of a7v-a8r, toning on l1.8, o4.5, q4.5, and v3, few early marginalia, contents otherwise generally clean. (Cologne: Johann Koelhoff the Elder, 14[82]) [2,500/3,500] Second edition of a florilegium of writings by St. Bernard first printed circa 1470. HC 2926*; GW 3929; ISTC ib00389000 (52 holding institutions, including 4 in the U. S.). 68 c   BEROALDUS, PHILIPPUS. De felicitate opusculum. [36] leaves, including blank last preliminary leaf. Printer’s woodcut device on last page. Roman type, with 5-line heading on a1r printed in red. 3-line manuscript initial S in gold on red ground on recto of leaf after title; 5-line initial M in gold on blue ground on a1r. 4to, 199x144 mm, later 19th-century blind-ruled morocco, scuffed; marginal toning on first and last few leaves, title lightly foxed with stain in upper inner corner. 20th-century bookplate of Manuel Cervantes Rendón. (Bologna: Franciscus Plato de Benedictis, 1 April 1495) [4,000/6,000] first edition of a philosophical tract on happiness. HC 2969; GW 4132; BMC VI, 828; ISTC ib00482000. incunabula , continued