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

83 c (GÓNGORAYARGOTE, LUIS DE.) Pellicer de Osau Salas yTovar, José. Lecciones Solemnes a las Obras de Don Luis de Góngora y Argote. [23] (of [25]) leaves, 836 columns, [12] leaves, including engraved portrait of the author, with leaves in first preliminary gathering bound out of order; lacks portrait of Góngora and final preliminary leaf with note to readers. 4to, 197x144 mm, contemporary limp vellum with spine title in ink, soiled and worn, lacking ties; occasional toning, some passages of text inked out, dark marginal stains toward beginning and at end, preliminary 3†2 loose. Madrid: Imprenta del Reino for Pedro Coello, 1630 [200/300] first edition of a commentary on Gongora’s Polifemo, Soledades, Panegirico, and Piramo y Tisbe. Palau 216700. with the signed inscription of carlos de sigüenza y góngora on title verso, noting that this copy was expurgated by order of the Mexican Inquisition. Sigüenza y Góngora (1645- 1700) was royal cosmographer of New Spain, professor of astrology and mathematics at the University of Mexico, and the first important Mexican scientist. See DSB XII, 431. 84 c (GREEK ANTHOLOGY.) Epigrammata ex libris Graecae anthologiae. Latin translation by Florent Chrétien of excerpts from the Greek Anthology. [4], 115, [1] leaves, including final blank. 8vo, 154x97 mm, late 17th-century calf gilt, cover corners worn through; contents clean. Booklabels of Jean Furstenberg and Helmut Friedlaender. Paris: Robert Estienne III, 1608 [250/350] first chrétien edition . Schreiber 279. 85 c GUILLERMUS,Parisiensis. Operu[m] summa. Titles in red and blackwithinwoodcut historiated borders; woodcut criblé and other white-on-black decorated initials throughout. [10], 171, [1]; 37, [1]; [8], 318 leaves, including blanks y4, 2c6, B2, and 2D4; lacks last leaf (blank or with device?). 3 parts in 2 volumes, bound in one. Folio, 277x202 mm, old limp vellum, spine stained; light marginal dampstaining through most of volume, mainly in outer corners, with slight paper corrosion along edges, opening leaves dog-eared and wormed in gutters with slight loss to sidenotes. Early Franciscan inscription on verso of first title; branded monogram and stigmata ownership marks of the Convento de las Llagas de San Francisco de Puebla (CCMF/ BF-12049, BF-12048) on top edges; signature of Florencio M. Álvarez dated Puebla 1891. [Paris: Nicolas des Prez and] (François Regnault, 1516) [500/750] 83 84