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

111 110 c   WALPOLE, HORACE. Anecdotes of Painting in England. 100 engraved plates. xiii, [1], 168, [22]; [2], 158, [58]; [2], 155, [11]; x, [2], 151, [9] pages. 4 volumes * A Catalogue of Engravers who have been born or resided in England. 9 engraved plates. [4], 128, 14, 20, [7] pages, including leaf of binder’s directions.Together, 5 volumes. 4to, 221x177 mm, late 18th-/ early 19th-century uniform calf gilt, all 4 volumes of the Anecdotes rebacked retaining original backstrips, Catalogue of Engravers spine ends chipped and covers detached; intermittent foxing, varying and occasionally heavy offsetting from plates, marginal dampstaining at end of first volume of the Anecdotes. Contemporary signature of John Brooks on titles. Strawberry Hill: Thomas Farmer, 1762-71; 1763 [i. e., 1764] [300/500] first editions . Arntzen & Rainwater H127. Hazen, Strawberry Hill 10. 111 c   WEERDT, JODOCUS DE. Parnassi bicipitis de pace vaticinia, chronographicis, retrogradis, acrostichis, & anagrammatis explicata. Shaped text within woodcut figures on pages 96-97 and 101-105. 128, [2] (of [4]) pages, including penultimate leaf with approba- tion and colophon; lacks last leaf with printer’s device. 4to, 222x170 mm, contemporary vellum boards, soiled; occasional toning. From the Sack- ner Collection ofVisual and Concrete Poetry. Antwerp: Officina Plantiniana (Balthasaris Moreti), 1626 [250/350] first edition of a 2-part collection of panegyrics and predictions on contemporary figures and events in the form of elaborate chronograms, acrostics, and other forms of word play.The first part reprints the author’s 1609 Concordiae Belgicae panegyricus parnassicus, on the truce concluded that year between the Span- ish-ruled Catholic Southern Netherlands and the Protestant Dutch Republic. END OF EARLY PRINTED BOOKS