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

57 c DANTE ALIGHIERI. Il Dante. Con argomenti, & dechiaratione de molti luoghi, novamente revisto, & stampato. Partly tinted woodcut medallion portrait of the author on title. 539, [3] pages, including final leaf with printer’s device on verso. 16mo, 121x71 mm, old mottled sheep, spine darkened and brittle, joints starting; margins trimmed just touching some sidenotes toward beginning, mostly moderate foxing and soiling, few minor stains. Lyon: Jean de Tournes, 1547 [800/1,200] 58 c (DIAMOND NECKLACE AFFAIR.) Authentic Adventures of the Celebrated Countess de la Motte. Including the Fraudulent Transaction with Cardinal de Rohan. Translated from the French. To which is added, A Narrative of her Escape to London, as stated by herself. [4], xii, 163, [1] pages, including half-title. 8vo, 174x98 mm, contemporary plain wrappers; infrequent light marginal foxing; uncut. Ownership inscription of Mary Tucker dated 1788 on title. London: Printed for the Translator, and sold for him by E. Johnson, 1787 [400/600] first edition in english , issue with Johnson imprint, of the account of a notorious scandal at the court of Louis XVI, in which the self-styled Comtesse de Valois manipulated the Cardinal de Rohan into purchasing a diamond necklace for Queen Marie Antoinette, which the Comtesse and her husband then broke up and sold. 57 58