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

186 c OVIDIUS NASO, PUBLIUS. Quae hoc volumine continentur: Annota- tiones in omnia Ovidii opera; Index fabularum, & caeterorum . . . Ovidii Metamorphoseon libri XV. [48], 204 leaves, including blank last preliminary leaf. 8vo, 153x95 mm, 18th-century 1 /2 sheep, worn; general title lightly soiled, light dampstaining in gutters at end; red edges. Renouard, page 78(9); Ahmanson-Murphy 142. (Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, February 1516) [400/600] 187 c OVIDIUS NASO, PUBLIUS. Le Trasformationi di M. Lodovico Dolce di nuovo ristampate. Title within woodcut historiated architectural border; 84 woodcut text illustrations; half-page woodcut zonal world map including the Americas on page 3. [16], 309, [3] pages, including last leaf with printer’s device on verso. 4to, 225x156 mm, modern vellum boards, covers slightly warped; marginal foxing through most of volume, scattered ink blots and dark marginal stains, title trimmed close to border with clean tear and scored inscription, minor restoration in blank margins of F8 and P1. Venice: Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1553 [800/1,200] Second edition, revised and corrected by Dolce, of his verse translation of the Metamorphoses originally published the same year. Harvard/Mortimer-Italian 342 (first edition). 188 c (PHILIP II, King of Spain.) Cervera de la Torre, Antonio. Testimonio auténtico y verdadero de las cosas notables que passaron en la dichosa muerte del Rey nuestro señor Don Phelipe segundo. [24], 156, [16] pages. 4to, 206x152 mm, old limp vellum, lacking ties, horizontal crack across backstrip; contents browned with scattered mostly minor stains, old indistinct stamp in lower margin of title. Valencia: Pedro Patricio Mey, 1599 [400/600] first edition of a work lauding the reign and achievements of Philip II of Spain. Palau 54107. 187