Sale 2468 - Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, March 8, 2018

220 c PLINIUS SECUNDUS, GAIUS. The Historie of the World. Commonly called the Naturall Historie. English translation by Philemon Holland. General title within woodcut architectural border. [58] (of [60]), 614, [42]; [12], 632, [86] pages, including errata leaf at end; lacks initial blank. 2 volumes in one. Folio, 303x211 mm, disbound, with book block split in 2; dampstaining throughout, particularly conspicuous at beginning and end, some leaves toned or browned, scattered underscoring and cropped marginalia, clean tear in lower inner corner of I6, small stain on O2-3. 17th-century signature of Sir Roger Bradshaigh on title. London: Adam Islip, 1601 [500/1,000] first edition in english ; issue with Islip imprint. Norman 1719; Pforzheimer 496; STC 20029. 221 c PLINIUS SECUNDUS, GAIUS. Historia Natural. Spanish translation and commentary by Gerónimo de Huerta. Woodcut arms of the dedicatee, Philip IV of Spain, on titles. [56], 907, [1]; [16], 720, [15] pages, including woodcut portrait of the author; 6 full- page illustrations with multiple subjects showing creatures described in the text; full-page illustration of the creation of Eve; and double-hemispheric world map. 2 volumes. Folio, 293x204 mm, old vellum boards with spine titles in ink, vellum missing from upper outer corner of Volume 1 rear cover; contents toned with marginal dampstaining and soiling and occasional heavy browning, worming in lower outer corners through first half of Volume 1 minimally affecting text and illustrations, smeared ink blot on page 63, occasionally conspicuous worming through first half of Volume 2 with varying text loss, clean tear in A2. Unidentified Dominican branded ownership marks on top and bottom edges. Madrid: Luis Sánchez, 1624; Juan Gonçález, 1629 [1,500/2,500] first complete edition in spanish , following Huerta’s translations of books 7-8 in 1599 and book 9 in 1603. Pages 233-37 of Volume 1 deal with Mexico and Central America, 237-46 with Peru, and 247-48 with the region around the Strait of Magellan. The map depicts Tierra del Fuego as a single island roughly the size of New Spain. Alden 624/105; Palau 229069; not in Shirley or Burden. 222 c RUSSELL, WILLIAM HOWARD, Sir. The Atlantic Telegraph. 24 tinted lithographed plates; engraved chart. v, [1], 117, [5] pages, including chromolithographed title and 2 leaves of publisher’s ads at end dated November and December 1865. Folio, 288x205 mm, original gilt- and blind-blocked cloth, spine ends rubbed, short crack at top of front joint; leaf after title heavily foxed, only infrequent marginal foxing elsewhere. London: Day and Son, [1865] [500/750] first edition . Wheeler Gift 1622. 223 c SACROBOSCO, JOHANNES. Sphera volgare novamente tradotta [and other texts]. Italian translation by Marco Mauro. Full-page woodcut arms of Charles V on recto of first leaf; title within border of zodiac signs, with full-page allegorical depiction of the translator on verso; numerous text illustrations; full-page arms of the dedicatee, Juan Ortega de Carrión, on last page. [56] (of [58]) leaves; without the 2 unsigned leaves at end (errata and volvelle woodcut), often lacking. 4to, 206x146 mm, contemporary limp vellum; marginal foxing through most of volume, minor marginal repairs on verso of first leaf, lower outer corner of title torn and restored with slight loss to title border and woodcut on verso, stains in upper portion of last several leaves. Contemporary hand-drawn diagram of cardinal and intermediate directions on M1r and dense marginalia on N1r and N4v. From the library of Frank S. Streeter (sale, Christie’s, 17 April 2007, lot 455). (Venice: Bartolomeo Zanetti for Juan Ortega de Carrión, 1537) [800/1,200] first edition in italian of the standard astronomy textbook of the period, with added texts on cosmography and navigation. Alden 537/17 (for 2 woodcuts with globe showing America); Harvard/ Mortimer-Italian 452; Sander 4441. See also lot 121. SCIENCE, continued