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

180 180 c [MONCRIF, FRANÇOIS-AUGUSTIN PARADIS DE.] Les Chats. 9 etched plates after Coypel, including 2 folding; folding letterpress genealogical table showing the descendants of Brinbelle, the Ottoman Sultan’s favorite cat. [2], 204, [16] pages. bound with : [SIGRAIS, CLAUDE-GUILLAUME BOURDON DE.] Les Rats. 2 etched plates. [4], xvi, 140, [13] pages, including half-title and final leaf of errata. Together, 2 volumes in one. 8vo, 192x119 mm, contemporary mottled sheep gilt; scattered marginal foxing not affecting plates, light offsetting from frontispiece onto title in second work. Paris: Gabriel-François Guillau, 1727;“Ratopolis,” 1737 [1,000/2,000] first editions of the first books devoted to cats and rats , respectively, each in the form of a series of letters on the lore of the species. Cohen de Ricci 721, 954. 181 c MORIN, JEAN. Masoret ha-Brit. Exercitationes biblicae de Hebraei Graecique textus sinceritate . . . pars prior. [16], 458, [2] pages, including final license/ errata leaf. 4to, 228x169 mm, old mottled vellum boards, wormed at top and bottom of spine and along top edge of front cover; contents toned with occasional foxing and heavy browning, dampstain in upper outer corner of opening leaves. Stamps of Francisco Plancarte y Navarrete (1856-1920) as Bishop of Campeche and Bishop of Cuernavaca. Paris: AntoineVitré, 1633 [250/350] first edition . all published in this form of a work of biblical criticism in which Morin maintained that the text of Septuagint was more reliable than that of the Hebrew Bible. A revised version in 2 parts was published posthumously in 1660.