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

214 c   PASSAVANTI, JACOPO. Lo Specchio di Vera Penitenzia. [16], 111 [i. e., 385], [7] pages. 12mo, 128x75 mm, early 18th-century red morocco gilt bound for the third Earl of Sunderland with center- and cornerpieces of massed floral tools and volutes outlined by narrow bands of inlaid black morocco on covers, corners bumped; margins trimmed without text loss, lower portion of title soiled, contents otherwise generally clean; brown morocco pull-off case, scuffed. Florence: Bartolommeo Sermartelli, 1585 [1,000/2,000] Later edition of a treatise on penance written by a Dominican preacher in the mid-14th century and first published in 1495. handsomely bound copy from the library of Charles Spencer (1674-1722), third Earl of Sunderland, sold as lot 9374 in the Blenheim Palace sale at Puttick & Simpson on 10 November 1882 to Quaritch, with their bookplate; offered in their 1883 Catalogue of the Fine Arts as item 13543 (“the finest binding ever executed for Lord Sunderland”). 215 c   PEPYS, SAMUEL. Memoirs . . . comprising his Diary from 1659 to 1669 . . . and a Selection from his Private Correspondence. Edited by Richard, Lord Braybrooke. 13 plates, including one folding. [2], xlii, 498, [2], xlix, [1]; [4], 348, [2], vii, [1], [3]-311 pages, including half-titles. 2 volumes. 4to, 295x225 mm, contemporary brown calf, spines attractively gilt with red leather lettering pieces, front joints starting, some scuffs and scratches on covers; heavy offsetting from plates onto facing pages, contents otherwise generally clean; cloth slipcase. Brackenburn bookplates of the novelist Sir Hugh Walpole. London: Henry Colburn, 1825 [500/750] first edition . Laid in are a one-page ALS dated 1834 from the editor, Lord Braybrooke, to an unnamed recipient (“My Lord”) on unrelated matters, and his clipped franked address dated 1829. 214