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

207 c   MOCENIGO, ANDREA. Bellum Cameracense. [188] leaves. 8vo, 152x102 mm, 17th-century stiff wrappers, spine darkened and worn, covers soiled, book block partly loose in binding; title heavily spotted with old signature and restoration in blank lower inner corner, contents otherwise generally clean. (Venice: Bernardino deiVitail, 1525) [500/750] first edition of a history of the 1508-16 series of Italian wars in which shifting alliances fought for territorial control in northern Italy, with the League of Cambrai initially formed by Pope Julius II against the Venetian Republic giving way to the Holy League against the French. Adams M1518; Alden 525/11 (for reference to Hispaniola on q8v). 208 c   MORE, HENRY. An Antidote against Atheism . . . Second Edition corrected and enlarged. [32], 398, [4] pages, including blank U8. 8vo, 171x107 mm, modern panelled black leather, raised bands and cover edges rubbed; occasional soiling, worming not impairing legibility in gutters of gatherings G through I. London: J. Flesher for William Morden, 1655 [200/300] Second edition of an apologetic work first published in 1653. “More sought to use arguments for the existence of God that would be acceptable to any rational person . . . based on the nature of the human mind and the evidence of the phenomena of nature” (ODNB). Wing M2640. 209 c   MORE,THOMAS, Sir. A Dialogue of Cumfort against Tribulation. Woodcut portrait of More after Holbein on *8r. [8], 216, [4] leaves. Mostly printed in black letter. 8vo, 138x89 mm, late 17th-/early 18th-century panelled sheep, rebacked in the 19th century, quite worn overall; contents browned and dampstained,margins trimmed touching some sidenotes, title chipped along bottom edge, last 2 contents leaves chipped along fore edge. Antwerp: John Fowler, 1573 [1,000/2,000] Second edition of a dialogue on human suffering set during the 1526 Ottoman invasion of Hungary, written during More’s imprisonment in the Tower of London prior to his execution and first published in 1553. Gibson 53; Luborsky & Ingram/STC18083. 207 209