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

47 c CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE. El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Edited with notes and biography of the author by Juan Antonio Pellicer. Etched chapter headpieces; engraved frontispiece inVolume 1; folding engraved map of Don Quixote’s travels in Volume 8, hand-colored in outline; frontispiece portrait of Cervantes in Volume 9. 9 volumes. 16mo, 134x90 mm, contemporary sheep gilt, worn, Volume 4 front joint chipped at bottom; scattered soiling and minor foxing, stain on Volume 1 fore edges not showing internally, dampstain in upper outer corners toward beginning of Volume 2, conspicuous worming in portions of last 3 volumes, mostly confined to margins but causing occasional text loss, contemporary owner’s signature on verso ofVolume 1 frontispiece, showing through on recto, and on title in the other volumes, map lightly offset with clean tear in corner. Madrid: Gabriel de Sancha, 1798-1800 [200/300] Palau 52031 (“linda edición, una de las más correctas y manejables que existen”). 48 c CLAUDIANUS, CLAUDIUS. Proserpinae raptus. Part 1 (of 2): complete poem with commentary by Aulo Giano Parrasio, lacking Apologia Jani contra obtrectatores. [72] (of [94]) leaves. Folio, 302x214 mm, old limp vellum with spine title in ink, missing piece from fore edge of front cover, lacking ties; conspicuous dampstaining at beginning and end, paper corrosion along fore edge of front endleaves and title, occasional marginal soiling and stains, inscription crudely inked out on front endleaf, ink blot and early Mexican inscription on title. (Milan: Giovanni Angelo Scinzenzeler et al., 1505) [250/350] 49 c CONGREVE,WILLIAM. The Mourning Bride, A Tragedy. [12], 56, 65-74, [2] pages, including half-title and final epilogue leaf. 4to, 216x159 mm, mottled sheep gilt by Wallis, joints worn and starting; contents washed with light residual toning, small stain in lower margin of title. Signature of Alfred White Weld dated 1948 (purchased at Swann sale 216, 21 October 1948, lot 127). London: Jacob Tonson, 1697 [250/350] first edition of Congreve’s only tragedy. Wing C5856. 50 c CONGREVE, WILLIAM. A Pindarique Ode, Humbly Offer’d to the Queen, on the Victorious Progress of Her Majesty’s Arms, under the Conduct of the Duke of Marlborough. To which is prefix’d, A Discourse on the Pindarique Ode. [6], 10 pages. Folio, 300x183 mm, modern ¼ calf; contents browned, outer and lower margins cropped partly affecting rule border on title. London: Jacob Tonson, 1706 [250/350] first edition of a poem celebrating the victory of allied forces under the Duke of Marlborough in the 1704 Battle of Blenheim. Foxon C376. 47