Bloomsbury Auctions

Lot 319
319. Descartes (René) le S pr i n C i p e S d e l a ph i l o S o p h i e, eC r i t S e n
lat i n, e t t r a d u i t S e n fr a n ç o i S pa r u n d e S e S am iS , third edition
in French, engraved additional pictorial title, title with woodcut
ornament, 20 folding engraved plates, errata f., ink signature to
upper margin of addditional title, pencil marginalia, some spotting,
occasional staining, bookplate partially removed from front
pastedown, contemporary limp vellum, some spotting, creased,
[Guibert p.122], 4to, Paris, Henry le Gras and Edme Pepingue,
1651. £300 - £400
320. Milan - La Scala.- in f o r m at i o n e p e r l a in S i g n e, & re g i a
Co l l e g i ata d i Sa n ta ma r i a d e l l a SC a l a d i mi l a n o, 10 ff., last
blank, drop-head title, note at head of first p., verso of last f. little
soiled, previously folded vertically, modern marbled boards,, folio,
(? Milan, c. 1660). £100 - £150
*** Unrecorded account of the church on the site of which La Scala
was founded in 1778.
Lot 321
321. Morin (Jean Baptiste) aS t r o l o g i a ga l l i C a, firSt e d i t i o n,
title in red and black and with woodcut printer’s device, woodcut
initials, full-page engraved portrait, woodcut diagrams in text,
lacking 5 ff. of index, occasional early ink marginalia or underlining,
occasional marginal water-staining, later half calf, corners
worn, rubbed, [Caillet 7784], folio, The Hague, A.Vlacq, 1661.
£350 - £450
*** Rare. Important work by one of the great French astrologerastronomers
which took thirty years to write and was published
posthumously. Morin discovered new ways to calculate longitude
and improved astronomical instruments as well as compiling
horoscopes of distinguished people including Richelieu and
Mazarin. The latter provided him with a pension.
322. Kempe (Martin) ph i l o l o g e m a d e oS C u l o, firSt e d i t i o n,
woodcut head-piece and initials, lacking final blank, unbound, 8vo,
Jena, typis & Sumtibus Bauhoferi, [1665]. £150 - £200
*** A rare little work on kisses.
323. Cicero (Marcus Tullius) ep i S t o l a r u m a d fa m i l i a r e S, li b e r
Se x t u S, 1667 ; Somnium Scipionis, ex Libro Sexto de Republica,
1666 ; Paradoxa, ad M. Brutum, 1669 § Ovidius Naso (Publius)
Metamorphoaeon, Liber I, 1666 ; Epistolae Selectae, 1664, 5 works
bound in 1 vol., interleaved with blank ff. throughout, and with more
blanks at end, early notes on two pp. of them, ownership inscription
on first title, later half calf, rubbed, rebacked, new endpapers,
4to, Paris, C. Thiboust (1st & 3rd ‘vidua Claudii Thiboust’).
£150 - £200
Lot 324
324. Elzevier.- Tacitus (Publius Cornelius)op e r a, 2 vol., engraved
additional pictorial title, printed titles with woodcut printer’s
devices, occasional light water-staining at foot, contemporary calf,
gilt spine in compartments, spines with ends chipped and creased,
corners a little worn, rubbed, [Willems 1479], 8vo, Amsterdam,
apud Danielem Elzevirium, 1672. £100 - £150
*** ‘bien exécuté et très recherchée’ (Willems).
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