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

129 128 c JACOBUS DE VORAGINE. Sermones pulcherrimi variis scripturarum doctrinis referti de sa[n]ctis per anni totius circulum concurrentibus. Woodcut criblé initials throughout. Gothic type, 2 columns, 45 lines. [284] leaves. 8vo, 157x100 mm, later limp vellumwith spine title in ink and remnants of thong ties;marginal soiling and dampstaining,minor worminginblanklowerinnercorners,blankloweroutercorneroftitletornoff,papersealmounted in lower margin.Ownership inscription of the Convento de Santa Bárbara (de Puebla?) on title and branded ownership mark (cf. CCMF/BF-12056) on top and bottom edges.AdamsV1016. [Paris, circa 1510?] [250/350] 129 c JOACHIM, Abbot of Fiore, and ANSELM, Bishop of Marsico, attributed to. Vaticinia, sive prophetiae . . . Vaticinii, overo Profetie. Latin and Italian text, edited with notes by Pasqualio Regiselmo. 34 engraved illustrations by Girolamo Porro. [72] leaves, including engraved title with partial hand coloring and 2 blanks at end. Each page printed within type ornament border. 4to, 208x144 mm, contemporary limp vellum, chipped along top edge of front cover and fore edge of rear cover, lacking ties; marginal soiling through much of volume, small hole in B1 just touching image on verso, illustrations on B2v and B4v mounted, clean tear in C4.With additional prophecies in contemporary manuscript on 2 rear endleaves. Bookplate of Charlotte and Arthur Vershbow. Venice: Girolamo Porro, 1589 [1,500/2,500] first bilingual edition , and first illustrated by Porro, of a collection of cryptic predictions concerning the Papacy ascribed to the 12th-century Italian mystical theologian Joachim of Fiore and possibly fictitious 13th-century Bishop Anselm. At the end is an Oraculum Turcicum prophesying the downfall of the Ottoman Empire, with an illustration captioned in Turkish. Caillet 5541; Sarton II, 332-34.