Celsus, Aulus Cornelius
De re medica
£875
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 13 July 2022 from 10:00 BST
Description
Venice: Girolamo Scotto, 1566. 8vo (15.2 x 10.8cm), contemporary limp vellum, relined, 400 pp., old marginalia and underlining, binding marked, browning, later gift inscription to initial binder's blank, armorial ink-stamp to title-page, a few other marks [EDIT16 CNCE 10747; this edition not in Adams];
Capella, Galeazzo Flavio. De rebus nuper in Italia gestis. [Antwerp: Merten de Keyser], 1533. 8vo (14.5 x 9cm), 18th-century sprinkled sheep, 96 ff., italic types, bookplate and ownership inscription of John Stuart of Inchbreck (either the Scottish scholar of Greek, 1751-1827, or a relation), variable damp-staining, a few other marks [Adams C583];
Pythagoras. Poemata Pythagorae et Phocylidis. Basel: Johannes Oporinus, 1554. 8vo (15 x 9.4cm), 19th-century quarter sheep, 167 pp., contemporary marginalia and underlining, modern bookplate, browning, a few stains, part of front free endpaper excised, worming in gutter of final 3 quires affecting a few letters towards rear [Adams P2308];
and 11 others, continental books, 17th-18th century (these not collated), including: Leo Africanus, Africae descriptio ix lib. absoluta, Leiden: Elzevir, 1632 (24mo, contemporary vellum, engraved title); Blaise Pascal, Pensées, nouvelle édition augmentée, Paris, 1684 (12mo, contemporary calf); Henry Patullo, Essai sur l'amélioration des terres, Paris, 1765 (12mo, contemporary quarter sheep); Bodoni Press, Epigrammi francesi tradotti in versi italiani, 1798 (small 4to, contemporary boards); François Richard, Targa tes pisteos tes Romaikes Ekklesias eis ten diaphendeusin tes orthodoxias [graece], Paris: Cramoisy, 1658 (2 parts in 1 volume, 4to, contemporary vellum); Ovid, Le metamorfosi, Venice: Bernardo Giunta, 1584 (without text: engraved title-page and 15 plates only, in fair condition, 4to, later wrappers); and similar (14)
Footnote
Note: Adams records one earlier edition of Capella's work, printed at Nuremberg the previous year.