Sale 2501 - Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, March 7, 2019

183 181 c   BROWNE, THOMAS, Sir. Pseudodoxia Epidemica . . . Third Edition. [12], 326, [10] pages. Folio, 273x176 mm, modern crude blind-ruled leather with title and author in ink on front cover, spine faded; clean attractive copy internally. Unidentified modern bookplate (“Halcyon / Lake Almanor / Burns”). London: R. W. for Nath. Elkins, 1658 [200/300] Third edition of Browne’s 1646 compendium of popular misconceptions, false beliefs, and superstitions. “This edition is not commonly found in its original form. More usually the sheets have been furnished with a general title-page dated 1659 and with other works added”—Keynes (Browne) 75. Heirs of Hippocrates 487 (original edition); Wing B5161 (this edition). 182 c   [BURTON, ROBERT.] The Anatomy of Melancholy . . . By Democritus Junior [pseud.] . . . Eighth Edition [sic]. [8], 46, [6], 434, [10] pages, including leaf of bookseller’s ads at end. Folio, 311x196 mm, contemporary calf, rebacked, endpapers renewed; contents toned or browned, margins trimmed without text loss, scattered rust spots, dampstaining in gutter of dedication leaf, hole through a few letters on M1. Bookplate of Trinity College, Cambridge, on title verso and duplicate stamp dated 1859 on last page; bookplate of J. E. B. Mayor and another unidentified (“Halcyon / Lake Almanor / Burns”) on front endpapers. London: (R. W. for) Peter Parker, 1676 [300/500] Later edition of Burton’s 1621 study of depression. Garrison-Morton 4918.1 (1621 original edition); Wing B6184 (this edition). 183 c   CARRÉ DE MONTGERON, LOUIS-BASILE. La Vérité des Miracles opérés par l’Intercession de M. de Paris . . . Troisième Édition. 20 engraved plates. [4], lxiv, 480; 252 pages, including half-title, with 2-leaf Avertissement bound between pages lxii and lxiii. 4to, 251x198 mm, modern 1/4 leather, spine faded; occasional toning of text, plates clean. “Cologne: Chez les Libraires de la Compagnie” [i. e., Amsterdam?], 1739 [100/200] Compilation of cases of miraculous healing alleged to have occurred at the grave of the Jansenist theologian François de Paris (1690-1727) in the cemetery of St. Médard until it was closed by order of Louis XV. The illustrations are mostly dramatic before-and-after images. Seligmann, The Mirror of Magic, pages 453-56.