(25 cm), (6) 82 pp., colour frontispiece, 69 plates (pls.I-LXIX, some printed red & black), text illustrations. 320 lots. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Reproduced in colour as the frontispiece is the dedication copy on vellum to Lodovico il Moro of Philelphus Orationes cum quibusdam aliis eiusdem operibus (Milan c. 1483-1484) (returned to the market in the last of the J.R. Abbey sales, Sotheby's, London 19 June 1989, lot 3026); another highlight is an early manuscript (1468) on surgery, Guy de Chauliac ‘Segres de Dames défendus à reveler’ (reoffered in the same rooms, 18 February 1929, when bought by the Bolognese collector Vittorio Putti; cf. Anna Viganò, Patrizia Tomba and Luciano Merlini, ‘A manuscript worth a villa: Vittorio Putti's acquisition of the Guy de Chauliac manuscript’ in Acta Orthopaedica Scandinavica, volume 70, 1999, pp.531-535; link)  The splendid copy of the 1472 first edition of Dante (lot 263) “was knocked down to, or for, a London bookseller who was not allowed to take it out of the country” (report in The Times, London, 12 November 1925, p.760). The “prix d’expertise” had been determined by Fumagalli, librarian at the Brera, and were ridiculously low. ¶ Wrapper chipped, clean tear (2 cm). Good, unmarked copy.

(25 cm), (6) 148 (2) pp., folding colour frontispiece, 48 black & white plates, text illustrations (some in red & black). 325 lots. Inserted bifolium (conditions of sale); inserted List of estimates. Publisher’s printed wrappers. ¶ Unmarked copy in good state of preservation.