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

152 152 c LOVELACE, RICHARD. Lucasta. Posthume Poems [with Elegies sacred to the Memory of the Author]. Etched frontispiece portrait by Wenceslaus Hollar, in second state. [4], 107, [3], 14 pages, including etched frontispiece to the Elegies by William Faithorne on H6v; without the plate of Lucasta, lacking in most copies. 2 parts in one volume. 8vo, 144x96 mm, late 19th-century gilt-panelled blue morocco by Riviere & Son, spine darkened to brown, joints rubbed; contents washed with light residual toning, margins trimmed entering some headlines, portrait trimmed and mounted, title rehinged and restored in upper outer corner with 4 letters in facsimile, minor marginal restoration on next 2 leaves touching a few letters. Bookplate of Charles B. Foote; signature of William Augustus White dated [18]95. London:William Godbid for Clement Darby, 1659 [i. e., 1660] [5,000/7,000] first edition of the second and less common of Lovelace’s two collections of verse and translations. Hayward 98; Wing L3241. 153 c LUCANUS,MARCUSANNAEUS. Pharsalia. Edited with commentary by Filippo Beroaldo the Elder. Title in red and black with Bade printing press device within woodcut historiated architectural border. [6], 261, [1] leaves, including final blank. Folio, 312x214 mm, old limp vellum with spine title in ink, lacking ties, book block loose in binding; mostly light dampstaining in lower margins, scattered early underscoring and marginalia, title creased and frayed along fore edge, with old scored inscriptions; author’s name in ink on fore edge. Early marginalia and ownership inscription of Fray Thomas Cachaño. first beroaldo edition . [Paris]: Josse Bade for Jean Petit, (1514) [500/750]