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

185 183  (NOSTRADAMUS, MICHEL DE.) Moyen pour connoitre l’Amitié ou Inimitié des Personnes, procedant des Influences Célestes qui les enclinent [etc.]. Small text woodcuts of zodiac figures. 22 pages; lacks last (blank?) leaf. 12mo, 128x85 mm, modern crude patterned paper wrappers; contents toned with dampstain in upper inner corners throughout, margins trimmed occasionally affecting pagination. “Sur l’Imprimé, à Lyon, chez Clément Guynand,” 1687 [80/120] Apparently unrecorded astrological chapbook ascribed to “Michel Crespin Nostradamus” on A2r. Not in Chomarat, Benazra, OCLC, or CCFr. 184 c (NUMISMATICS.) Agustín, Antonio. Diálogos de Medallas, Inscripciones, y otras Antigüedades. Engraved portrait of the author and 53 numismatic plates on 27 leaves showing over 500 medals. [12], 470 pages. 4to, 205x150 mm, contemporary limp vellum with one thong catch and clasp (of 2); marginal worming not affecting text or illustrations, infrequent minor foxing and stains, restoration in blank outer margin of leaf after title. Madrid: Joseph Francisco Martínez Abad, 1744 [150/250] Second edition of a work first published in 1572. Palau 4098. 185 c OSUNA, FRANCISCO DE. Primera [Segunda] parte del libro llamado Abecedario spiritual: q[ue] trata d[e] las circu[n]stancias d[e] la sagrada pasio[n] del hijo de dios. Titles in red and black within woodcut historiated architectural border. 180; 195, [1] leaves, including colophon leaf at end. 2 volumes in one. 4to, 192x141 mm, contemporary calf over pasteboard decorated with concentric medallion rolls around panel of gilt fleurons and thistle tools on covers, and thistle tools and cinquefoils on spine, remnants of thong ties, vertical streak of white paint on spine; varying and occasionally heavy browning, some passages of text inked out (see below), some sidenotes shaved, lower outer corner off k5, q7, and s8 with slight text loss in first part, conspicuous worming in lower inner corner of gatherings h through m in second part occasionally entering text; red edges, with author’s name in ink on fore edges. Branded ownership mark of the Convento de San Francisco de México (BF-12053.01) and another unidentified mark on top edges. (Medina del Campo: Pedro de Castro for Juan de Espinosa, 20 September 1544); (Juan de Junta for Juan de Espinosa, 30 January) 1545 [500/750] Third edition of first and second parts, originally published in 1528 and 1530; 3 further parts were published. Expurgated copy, by order of the Mexican Inquisition, with the inscription of Fray Antonio Benegas dated 27 June 1716. Palau 206815, 206819 (“es muy rara esta edición por el expurgado ordenado”).