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

227 c SENECA, LUCIUS ANNAEUS. Proverbios. Latin text with Spanish translation and commentary by Pedro Díaz de Toledo.Title in red and black within woodcut border. [8], 82 leaves. Folio, 302x202 mm, contemporary limp vellum with early manuscript endleaves, small portions of backstrip missing, ties lacking, rear pastedown renewed; contents heavily dampstained with occasional browning, title chipped along edges. Mexican Jesuit ownership inscription on title; branded ownership mark of the Seminario Conciliar de México on top edges. Medina del Campo: (Guillermo de Millis for) Adrian Ghemart, 1555 [400/600] Originally published in 1482, the translation by Díaz was the first Spanish version of a classical text to appear in print. Palau 307853. 224 c SENECA, LUCIUS ANNAEUS. Tragoediae. With commentary by Gellio Bernardino Marmita, Daniel Caietanus, and Josse Bade, edited by Desiderius Erasmus.Title in red and black with Bade printing press device within woodcut historiated architectural border; woodcut criblé initials of various sizes. [6], 267, [1] leaves. Folio, 322x214 mm, old limp vellum with spine title in ink and remnants of thong ties; occasional marginal foxing and soiling, name of Erasmus and old inscriptions inked out on title, clean tear in i2, dark stain through leaves 100-117 and 173-184, blank lower portion of last leaf excised and restored. [Paris]: (Josse Bade, 5 December 1514) [500/750] 225 c SENECA, LUCIUS ANNAEUS. Tragoediae. [4], 207, [5] leaves. 8vo, 161x92 mm, later vellum boards; early underscoring throughout, scattered foxing, soiling and dark stain on title, last several leaves gnawed along fore-edge, partly in- distinct long inscription on last page; gilt edges, gauffered to ropework pattern. 19th- century armorial bookplate ofT.Merritt Fox. (Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, October 1517) [300/500] first aldine edition . Renouard, page 80(4); Ahmanson-Murphy 155. 226 c SENECA, LUCIUS ANNAEUS. Naturalium quaestionum libri VII. [6], 130, [6] leaves. 8vo, 192x119 mm, later 17th-century vellum boards, spine darkened with shelf label removed; foxing at beginning and end, scattered partly cropped marginalia, contents otherwise relatively clean; green edges. Ownership inscription of Gregory Bernard Keen dated Rome 1870. (Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, February 1522) [600/900] only aldine edition . Renouard, page 96(10); Ahmanson-Murphy 217. 226