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THE NILE. SCORTIA, J. B. De natura et incremento Nili. Libri duo. In quibus inter disputandum plures aliae quaestiones physicae explicantur. Nunc primum prodeunt triplici indice locupletati. Lyon, H. Cardon, 1617.
8vo. (175x110 mm). (8) ll., 148 pp., (5) ll. Title with printer´s woodcut device, 3 geometric diagrams.
Some browning and staining.

WITHBOUND (as first work):
HALLOIX, P. Vita et documenta S. Iustini philosophi et martyris, scriptoris secundo sæculo nobilissimi. Duai, B. Bellère, 1622.
(8) ll., 376 pp., (12) ll. Printer´s device in woodcut. Lacking engraved portrait. With 17th century ownership inscription to title dated 1661, small marginal tear to final leaf. Browning.

Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards with 2 clasps, faint manuscript titles to spine in compartments, somewhat stained and rubbed, with a few tiny wormholes, blue-green edges.

I. De Backer-S. VII, 965.2, Wellcome I, 5878. First edition of Scortia´s detailed account of all aspects of the Nile.
II. De Backer-S. IV, 53, 4. First edition.

Auktionsnummer:

6069

Datum:

2020-12-10