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

192 c PORTA, SANCHO. Sermones hyemales de tempore. Title within woodcut border incorporating small vignettes. [2], 205, [1] leaves. 4to, 189x138 mm, disbound, first gathering loose; contents toned with intermittent marginal dampstaining, dog-earing at end. Unidentified branded ownership mark on top edges. (Lyon: Johann Clein, 1517) [400/600] Without the Sermones aestivales printed the same year by Clein. Palau 233152. 193 c [PRÉVOST D’EXILES, ANTOINE-FRANÇOIS, Abbé.] Histoire du Cheva- lier des Grieux, et de Manon Lescaut. [4], 11, [1], 302; [2] (of [4]), 252 pages, in- cluding half-title in the first volume, lacking in the second. 2 volumes. 12mo, 161x96 mm, later 18th-/early 19th century leather, misdated on spines, spines and periphery of covers darkened; scattered marginal foxing and minor stains, soiling on half-title and in- significant worming in blank outer margins of gathering A in Volume 1, contemporary signature and stamp on page 1 in Volume 2. Booklabels of the biographer Lytton Strachey. Amsterdam: aux Dépens de la Compagnie, 1753 [400/600] Unillustrated piracy of the author’s definitive edition of the same year. Prevost’s classic love story was first published as the final volume of his Mémoires et Avantures d’un Homme de Qualité in 1731 and separately in numerous editions from 1732 onward. Tchemerzine (1977) V, 222 note. 194 c PUFENDORF, SAMUEL. De rebus a Carolo Gustavo Sueciae rege gestis commentariorum libri septem. 12 engraved portraits; 115 double-page plates with 116 subjects,mostly city plans and views and scenes of land and naval battles,including giant panorama of Stockholm on 13 joined sheets measuring approximately 365x4415 mm, depicting the procession and naval salute for the funeral of King Charles X Gustav of Sweden. [12], 626, [2]; 53,[11] pages,including half-title,engraved additional title,and leaf of binder’s directions at end. Folio, 372x226 mm, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, front cover detached; intermittent foxing or heavy browning of text,some plates toned.Armorial bookplate ofThomas Dowdeswell Esqr. of Pull Court,Worcestershire; booklabels of Pull Court Library and Helmut Friedlaender. Nuremberg: Christoph Riegel for Johann Leonhard Knorz, 1696 [5,000/7,000] 192 193 Lot 194