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

78 76 c ESTEVAN,MARTÍN,S.J. Compendio del ricoAparato y hermosaArchitectura del Templo de Salomon y de la magestad y gra[n]deza del mismo Rey. Woodcut plan of the Temple on M6v. [8], 168, [24] leaves. 8vo, 139x98 mm, contemporary limp vellum with spine title in ink, spine darkened, book block loose in binding; bottom edges trimmed at slight angle, contents foxed with conspicuous dampstaining at end, title soiled with crude penwork decoration. Late 17th-century purchase inscription on colophon page. Alcalá de Henares: Juan Gracián, 1615 [300/500] first edition of a description of the Temple of Solomon based on biblical accounts. Palau 84135. 77 c EURIPIDES. Tragoediae octodecim. Greek text. [436] leaves. 8vo, 189x126 mm, contemporary panelled calf gilt, backstrip partly detached, missing portions at top and bottom; first gathering loose, dampstaining in upper margin of opening leaves, title lightly soiled with later monastic ownership inscriptions, contents otherwise generally clean. Hoffmann II, 68. Basel: Johann Herwagen the Elder, 1544 [400/600] Without the 1544 Herwagen edition of the scholia of Arsenius sometimes bound with the plays. Hoffmann II, 68. 78 c (FÊTE BOOK.) Baerle, Kaspar van [or Barlaeus, Caspar]. Blyde Inkomst der allerdoorluchtighste Koninginne Maria de Medicis, t’Amsterdam. 16 double-page or folding etched or engraved plates. [14], 76, [2] pages, including engraved portrait of Marie de’ Medici and final blank. Folio, 368x236 mm, 17th-century calf gilt; small stain in upper inner corner of front endleaves, title dusty, contents otherwise clean, with strong impressions of the plates; red edges. On the leaf preceding the title is an elaborate full-page calligraphic presentation inscription to the brothers Charles-François, Ferdinand-Henri- Joseph, and Jean-Joseph Vecquemans de la Verre, signed Jean Dooremans and dated Antwerp, 26 April 1737, with a drawing of theVecquemans family arms on the facing page. Amsterdam: Johan en Cornelis Blaeu, 1639 [1,500/2,500] Lot 78