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

62 c DRYDEN, JOHN. Astraea Redux. A Poem on the Happy Restoration & Return of His Sacred Majesty Charles the Second. [3]-15, [1] pages; lacks initial leaf with royal arms on verso. Folio, 289x187 mm, 19th-century ½ sheep, spine badly worn, covers detached; minor marginal soiling. 19th-century catalogue cutting tipped to front free endpaper. Bookplate of Charles B. Foote. London: J. M. for Henry Herringman, 1660 [300/500] first edition of Dryden’s second book, hailing the restoration of the monarchy; his first, published the year before, had been an elegy on the death of Oliver Cromwell. Macdonald 5ai, second state of page 11; Wing D2244. 63 c DRYDEN, JOHN. The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards. [24], 24, 23- 67, [5]; [4], 73-175 pages. 2 parts in one volume. 4to, 213x162 mm, later 19th-century ½ red morocco gilt, spine darkened, joints scuffed; contents toned and heavily foxed, blank upper outer corner of title restored. Signature of William Augustus White dated 1902. [London]:T. N. for Henry Herringman, 1672 [800/1,200] first edition . Bartlett 382; Macdonald 76a; Wing D2256. 64 c DRYDEN, JOHN; and DAVENANT, WILLIAM, Sir. The Tempest; or, The Enchanted Island.A Comedy. [8], 81, [3] pages, including final blank. 4to, 216x161 mm, late 19th-century½ redmorocco gilt byRiviere &Son;occasional minor marginal foxing and soiling, repaired clean tear and small hole in Prologue leaf affecting a few letters on recto, blank lower outer corner off B2. Bookplate of E. M. Cox; signature ofWilliamAugustusWhite dated 1920. London:T. N. for Henry Herringman, 1674 [250/350] Second edition of the 1670 Dryden-Davenant adaptation of the Shakespeare play, and first with operatic revisions by Thomas Shadwell. Bartlett 161 note; Jaggard, page 462; Macdonald 73b; Wing S2945. 62 63