Upcoming Highlights: Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books At Auction March 7 Complete Catalogue Early manuscripts, incunabula, and post-incunabula lead the sale. These include a richly illuminated manuscript prayer book in Latin and French from the second quarter of the sixteenth century and Books of Hours in Latin and Dutch from the mid-fifteenth century, as well as a fully illuminated Parisian printed Book of Hours circa 1518. Nearly two dozen incunabula range from St. Thomas Aquinas’s Quaestiones de duodecim quodlibet, Venice, 1476, to Johannes Herolt’s Liber discipuli de eruditione Christifidelium, Cologne, 1496, bound with Pelbartus de Themeswar’s Sermones Pomerii quadragesimales, Hagenau, 1499. Science highlights include first editions of Johann Stoeffler’s In Procli Diadochi sphaeram mundi commentarius, Tübingen, 1534, and Georg Agricola’s De ortu & causis subterraneorum, Basel, 1546, containing some of his most important writings on geology, mineralogy and mining. The medical section features a selection of pamphlets printed from 1736 to 1741 with color mezzotints by Jan Ladmiral, among the earliest medical illustrations in color. Illuminated Manuscripts Lot 168: Illuminated Prayer Book in Latin and French, France, 1530-40s. Estimate $20,000 to $30,000. Lot 167: Illuminated Book of Hours in Latin, France, mid-15th century. Estimate $15,000 to $20,000. Medical & Scientific Books Lot 227: Georg Agricola, De ortu & causis subterraneorum Lib V., first editions, Basel, 1546. Estimate $6,000 to $9,000. Lot 188: Frederick Ruysch, Icon durae matris in concava [convexa] superficie visae, with two color mezzotints by Jan Ladmiral, first edition, Amsterdam, 1737. Estimate $4,000 to $6,000. Lot 197: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, Eine Neue Art von Strahlen, Würzburg, 1895. Estimate $3,000 to $5,000. Additional Highlights Lot 57: Pietro Carrera, Il Gioco de gli Scacchi, first edition, Militello, 1617. Estimate $4,000 to $6,000. Lot 259: William Lithgow, The Totall Discourse, of the Rare Adventures, and Painefull Peregrinations of Long Nineteene Yeares Travayles, London, 1632. Estimate $2,000 to $3,000. Lot 212: Michel de Nostradamus, The True Prophecies or Prognostications, first complete edition in English, London, 1672. Estimate $2,500 to $3,500. Lot 54: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha . . . Nueva Edición, first Ibarra edition, Madrid, 1780. Estimate $8,000 to $12,000. Complete Catalogue Buying at Swann Selling with Swann Complete Auction Schedule Share Facebook Twitter November 20, 2018Author: Swann CommunicationsCategory: Books & Manuscripts Tags: auction Book of Hours books Early Printed Books Frederick Ruysch Georg Agricola Illuminated Manuscripts Jan Ladmiral Latin medical illustrations mezzotints Michel de Nostradamus Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Pietro Carrera Prayer Book Previous Records & Results: 19th & 20th Century Literature Next Rockwell Kent & The League of American Writers Recommended Posts Why do old books use F’s instead of S’s? Early Printed Books April 9, 2020 Early Modern Women’s Books: Scholar Sarah Lindenbaum on Gift Books Focus On Women May 1, 2023 Upcoming Highlights: 19th & 20th Century Literature Books & Manuscripts March 29, 2019