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

196 c   PASCOLI, ALESSANDRO. Il Corpo-Umano [with Giorgio Baglivi, Tractatus de fibra motrice]. 20 full-page engraved anatomical illustrations. [24], 156, [2], 157-339, [1], lxxxviii; 58, [2] pages, including half-title, engraved allegorical frontispiece, portrait of the author, and blanks T6 and ²G6. 2 parts in one volume. 4to, 208x151 mm, contemporary vellum boards; intermittent light marginal foxing and soiling. Perugia: Girolamo Costantini, 1700 [400/600] first editions of Pascoli’s anatomy textbook and Baglivi’s study of muscle fibers, which was also published separately. Heirs of Hippocrates 758; 737; Krivatsy 8641, 576. 196A c   PLINIUS SECUNDUS, GAIUS. Historiae mundi libri XXXVII. White-on- black woodcut historiated initials. [36], 671, [237] pages, including blank 3e6 and last leaf with printer’s device on verso. Folio, 370x252 mm, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, worn overall; occasional browning, dampstaining in upper inner of opening leaves, old scored signatures on title, worming in blank lower outer corners in second half of volume, lacks free endpapers. Basel: Officina Frobeniana, 1545 [400/600] 195