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

10 10 c APPIANUS of Alexandria. Los Triumphos de Apiano. Spanish translation by Juan de Molina. Title in red and black with woodcut arms of the dedicatee, Marqués Rodrigo de Mendoza; woodcut border on first page of dedication, another on colophon page with printer’s mermaid device at top. [12], 143 [i. e., 145] leaves; lacks final blank. Folio, 281x182 mm, 19th-century ¾ morocco gilt, raised bands, cover edges and corners worn; title lightly soiled and reinforced in blank lower outer corner on verso, blank lower outer corner of +3 and L8 restored, dampstain in outer margin of +4, partial dampstaining on D3.6 marginalia imperfectly washed out of lower margin of A2, K4, and M4, small ink stains on O2. Bookplate of the Mexican historian and bibliographer Joaquín García Icazbalceta (1824-94). (Valencia: Juan Joffre, 20 August 1522) [800/1,200] first edition in spanish of Appian’s history of Roman wars and conquests. Hoffmann I, 220; Palau 13810. 11 c APULEIUS, LUCIUS; and BEROALDO, FILIPPO. Commentarij a Philippo Beroaldo conditi in Asinu[m] aureu[m] Lucij Apuleij. Text of Apuleius printed within commentary by Beroaldo on each page. Woodcut historiated architectural border on a2r. [238] (of [240]) leaves; lacks the title and final blank. Folio, 302x215 mm, 18th-century sheep-backed paste-paper boards, bottom of spine chipped; conspicuous marginal dampstaining throughout, extensive contemporary underscoring and marginalia. (Venice: Simon Bevilacqua, 29 April 1501) [250/350] Second edition of Beroaldo’s commentary on the Golden Ass, first published the year before. Sander 483.