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

249 249 c   [SELBY or READE, RICHARD WILFRID.] Bonifacius VIII. e familia Caietanorum principum Romanus pontifex. R.P. Ioannis Rubei [pseud.] Congregationis Angliae, Ordinis S. Benedicti monachi . . . opus in duas partes divisum. Folding engraved plate of the tomb of Boniface VIII. [4], lii, 383 [i. e., 390], [2] pages, including engraved architectural additional title. 4to, 229x160 mm, contemporary red morocco gilt-tooled to panel design with concave center- and cornerpieces on covers, rebacked retaining original backstrip, front joint worn, few stains on rear cover; contents clean apart from scattered pencil underscoring and two stains in blank outer margin of approximately the last 20 leaves. Rome: Corbelletti heirs, 1651 [250/350] first edition of a biography and defense of Pope Boniface VIII (d. 1303) by an English Benedictine agent at the papal court, also known as John Wilfrid, or Wilfrid Selby (d. 1657). Gillow, A Literary and Biographical History . . . of the English Catholics V, 490. The author William Beckford’s copy, sold as lot 1534 in the third Hamilton Palace Library sale at Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge on 9 July 1883. 250 c   SOPHOCLES. Electra of Sophocles: Presented to Her Highnesse the Lady Elizabeth; With an Epilogue shewing the Parallell in two Poems, The Return, and The Restauration. By C[hristopher] W[ase]. Engraved portrait of Charles I; lacks the etched portrait of princess elizabeth stuart . [24], 57, [1], [2], 12 pages. 8vo, 162x108 mm, contemporary sheep, worn; marginal dampstaining through much of volume, portrait soiled with small repair in blank outer margin and old signature on verso showing through on recto, dark stain in blank outer margin of leaf after title. The Hague [i. e., London]: for Sam. Brown, 1649 [300/500] first edition of the first English translation of a Sophoclean play, published after the execution of Charles I, with a dedicatory panegyric to his daughter Princess Elizabeth and two appended poems expressing loyalty to the Stuart house and indignation at her treatment. Wing S4690; not in Hoffmann.