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

219 c   PETRARCA, FRANCESCO, falsely attributed to. Chronica delle Vite de Pontefici et Imperatori Romani. Title within woodcut border. 120 leaves. 8vo, 151x97 mm, later vellum boards; old institutional stamps on title, ink stain in blank outer margin of A3-8, light dampstaining in outer margins in second half of volume, early marginalia on index leaves and scrawls on last page, small piece torn from upper margin of penultimate leaf slightly affecting leaf number on recto. Bookplate of Giorgio di Veroli. (Venice: Francesco Bindoni & Maffeo Pasini, January) 1534 [150/250] 220 c   PHILLIPS, EDWARD. The New World of Words; or, Universal English Dictionary . . . Sixth Edition. Engraved additional title dated 1696. Folio, 328x201 mm, contemporary paneled calf, rebacked, endpapers renewed; frontispiece toned, scattered foxing and intermittent heavy browning of text, dampstaining in blank upper margins toward beginning. Armorial bookplate of Keane Fitzgerald, Queen’s College, Oxford. London: J. Phillips et al., 1706 [300/500] Dictionary first published in 1658, originally plagiarized from Thomas Blount’s 1656 Glossographia, and in later editions from Stephen Skinner’s 1671 Etymologicon Linguae Anglicae. 221 c   PLATINA, BARTOLOMEO. De vitis ac gestis summorum pontificum [and other texts]. [12], 320, [4]; 29 [i. e., 92], [10] pages. 2 parts in one volume. Folio, 310x200 mm, contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards with brass catches and clasps; occasional toning, title soiled with dampstain in lower margin and old signature. Unidentified woodcut armorial bookplate with monogram “G:I:F:V:M:V:T.” Cologne: Jaspar van Gennep, 1551 [250/350] Later edition of Platina’s 1479 collection of brief biographies of the Popes, reprinted here with his Dialogo de falso et vero bono and other writings. 220