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

250 251 250 c GAZTAÑETA ITURRIBÁLZAGA, ANTONIO DE. Norte de la Navegación hallado por el Quadrante de Reducción. Title in red and black within type ornament border. 11 (of 13) engraved plates; numerous text diagrams; 2 folding letterpress tables; lacks the plate to face 3Z1, and the map of the northwest coast of Africa to face 4B1. [13] (of [14]), 185, [1] leaves; lacks the engraved additional title. Folio, 278x201 mm, contemporary limp vellum, lacking ties; marginal worming not affecting text or engraved matter, dampstain in lower outer corner of last several leaves, contents otherwise generally clean, free endpapers lacking. Branded ownership mark of the Franciscan Convento de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe deValladolid (CCMF/BF-12020) on top and bottom edges. Seville: Juan Francisco de Blas, 1692 [800/1,200] first edition of a manual on the use of the quadrant for navigation, based on a 1671 work in French by Guillaume Blondel Saint-Aubin. Alden 1692/77 (for coordinate tables for the Americas on leaves 180-185); Palau 100794. 251 c GONZÁLEZ,DOMINGO. Relación del Martirio del B. P. F.Alonso Navarrete, de la Orden de Predicadores, y de su Compañero el B. P. F. Hernando de S. Joseph, de la Orden de S. Augustin, y del P. F. Pedro de la Asumcion de la Orden de S. Francisco, y del Padre Joan Bautista de la Compañia de Jesús en Japón. 55, [1] pages. 4to, 219x154 mm, worn contemporary limp vellum gilt with the arms of the dedicatee, Doña Antonia Girón, on covers, which also appear in woodcut on the title page; scattered marginal foxing and stains, small wormhole through blank outer margin of leaves in gathering C. Naples: CostantinoVitale, 1619 [800/1,200] Second edition of a report of the 1617 martyrdom of missionaries in Japan, first published with a Philippine imprint in 1618. Palau 104770; this edition not in Cordier or Streit-Dindinger. SBN locates 2 copies; none in OCLC or CCPBE.