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

1 c   ADAMI, ANTONIO. Il Novitiato del Maestro di Casa. Title in red and black. 252, [4] pages. 8vo, 158x100 mm, contemporary limp vellum with spine title in ink, binding cocked, hinges partly cracked; light dampstaining in upper margins in second half of volume, few gatherings browned toward end, 17th- and 18th-century inscriptions on title and front free endpaper. Rome: Pietro’Antonio Facciotti, 1636 [400/600] first edition of a guide to managing the household of a cardinal. Cagle 1107. 2 2 c   AESCHYLUS. Tragoediae Septem. Greek text with Latin translation and notes by Thomas Stanley. [28], 886, [2] pages, including half-title and final blank; without plate apparently found in few copies. Folio, 295x197 mm, contemporary vellum boards panelled in blind with blind-stamped ara- besque centerpiece on covers, lacking ties, spine chipped at top, front joint cracked at bottom, thin vertical stains on front cover; dampstain in upper portion of opening leaves, occasional marginal foxing. London: James Flesher for Cornelius Bee, 1663 [800/1,200] first stanley edition and first of Aeschylus printed in England, which remained standard into the 19th century; issue with bookseller’s name in imprint. Hoffmann I, 36;Wing A684. 3 c   AESCHYLUS. The Tragedies. English translation by Robert Potter. xxviii, 519 pages, including half-title; lacks the 6-page subscribers’ list. 4to, 267x207 mm, modern panelled calf; show-through of text through most of volume, repaired clean tear in upper outer corner of Z1. Contemporary owner’s inscription (“John Hope / Advocate”) on half-title. Norwich: J. Crouse, 1777 [300/500] first collected edition in english , the first of Potter’s translations of the Greek tragedians. Hoffmann I, 50. Without the commentary by Potter published as a continuation the following year. 4 c   AESOP. Aesop’s Fables. With Instructive Morals and Reflections . . . design’d to promote Religion, Morality, and Universal Benevolence. Edited by Samuel Richardson. 25 engraved plates. [2], xxxiv, [2], 192 pages, including engraved title. 12mo, 167x95 mm, early 19th-century 1 / 4 roan, joints worn, top portion of spine off; margins trimmed entering bottom of some plates, scattered small stains and marginal soiling, short clean tears across B4 and B5, plates facing pages 8 and 165 loose, early owner’s inscription on front free endpaper, modern bookplate on front pastedown. London: S. Richardson for T. & T. Longman et al., [1753] [300/500] Third edition of Richardson’s 1739 revision of the translation by Sir Roger L’Estrange, “put out in a format and style designed for the use of children . . . a pioneer work in children’s literature” (DLB). EARLY PRINTED BOOKS LOTS 1 - 111