Varia: Four Early Continental Books, 1553-1798.
Including: Bartolomeo Peregrino's (d. 1591) Opus Divinum de Sacra, ac Fertili, Brescia: Ludovicum Britannicum, 1553, quarto, woodcut to title, lacking text leaf B3, bound in half leather with speckled paper boards, 8 1/4 x 6 in.; [together with] René Descartes's Les Principes de la Philosophie, Paris: Chez Nicolas le Gras, 1681, fourth edition, quarto, added engraved title, illustrated with twenty folding engraved plates after the text, one folding woodcut, and text illustrations, bound in full contemporary parchment tooled in blind, 9 x 6 3/4 in.; William Emerson's The Principles of Mechanics, London: Printed for G.G. & J. Robinson, 1794, fourth edition, quarto, forty-three folding engraved plates, modern half leather with marbled paper boards, 8 3/4 x 6 3/4 in.; [and] Barthez's Nouvelle Méchanique des Mouvements de l'Homme et des Animaux, Carcassonne: Pierre Polere, 1798, quarto, bound in full contemporary marbled sheepskin, smooth spine tooled in gilt with red gilt lettering piece, corners worn, 10 1/8 x 8 in. (4)

Provenance: from the Stephen White Collection.