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volume VI, an early contribution by Fielding: ‘A dialogue between a Beau’s Headand his Heels’, as well as songs by Gay, Prior, Pope, Theobald, and settings byHandel, Daniel Purcell, Pepusch, Galliard etc.122. WELSER, Marcus. Opera historica et philologica, sacra et profana. Inquibus historia Boica, res Augustanæ, conversio & passio ss. martyrum, Afræ,Hilariæ, Dignæ, Eunomiæ, Eutropiæ, vitæ s. Udalric, & s. Severini, narratioeorum, quæ contigerunt Apollonio Tyrio, tabulæ Peutingerianæ integræ…continentur. Nuremberg, W. M. & J. F. Endter, 1682.Folio (325 x 200 mm), pp. [xx], 68, [40], 908, [92], with an engraved allegoricalfrontispiece, a portrait, a full-page illustration, 14 double-page and two foldingmaps; light stain in lower margin of first few leaves; a very good copy incontemporary vellum, slightly soiled. £3500First collected edition of the works of the Augsburg polymath, Marcus Welser (1558– 1614), including an extensive biographical introduction by Christoph Arnoldwhich refers to Welser’s involvement in the controversy over sunspots betweenGalileo and the Jesuit Christoph Scheiner (Welser printed Scheiner’s obsvervationsin 1612 and sent them to Galileo, who wrote back with his rebuttals, published inhis Istoria e dimonstrazioni intorno alle macchie solari e loro accidenti comprese in trelettere scritte all’ illustrissimo signor Marco Velseri, 1613), and a study of the‘Peutinger Table’, a road map of the late Roman empire and one of the few extantexamples of Roman cartography (once in the library of Konrad Peutinger, 1465–1547, who had married a member of the Welser family), here illustrated on twelveconsecutive double-page engravings.