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

81 c GARIBAY Y ZAMALLOA, ESTEBAN DE. Illustraciones Genealogicas de los Catholicos Reyes de las Españas y de los . . . de Francia y de los Emperadores de Constantinopla. Title within woodcut architectural border; 130 genealogical tables, 4 of which are oversize vertical folding tables included in the pagination; large woodcut portrait of the author at end. 297 [i. e., 299], [5] pages, including colophon leaf and final blank; lacks A3. Folio, 386x276 mm, old limp vellum, worn and stained, lacking ties; occasional toning or browning and marginal foxing, marginal worming generally not impairing legibility, lower outer corners dog-eared in first half of volume, dampstain in blank lower outer margin of title, next leaf heavily frayed in blank margins, worming in blank outer margin of pages 39-60, clean tears in folding tables and some fraying along outer edges. Madrid: Luis Sánchez, 1596 [800/1,200] first edition of an exhaustive genealogical study linking the ruling houses of Spain, France, and the Byzantine Empire in support of a Spanish claim to the French throne. Palau 100105 (calling for 2 portraits). 82 c GELLIUS, AULUS. Noctes Atticae. Title within woodcut historiated architectural border incorporating vignette of Cleopatra committing suicide; woodcut historiated border on page 1; numerous woodcut white-on-black historiated or decorated initials. [24], 202, [26] pages. Folio, 285x197 mm, contemporary limp vellum with spine title in ink, lacking ties, spine worn with small hole at top; dampstaining overall at beginning and end, confined to lower inner corners in between, occasional browning, scattered marginalia, ink blots, and small stains, portion torn from blank outer margin of last leaf. Mexican Jesuit ownership inscriptions on title; branded ownership mark of the Seminario Conciliar de México on bottom edges. (Cologne): Eucharius Cervicornus (for Godefridus Hittorpius, 7 March), 1526 [300/500] 81 82