Mar 09, 2017 - Sale 2438

Sale 2438 - Lot 207

Price Realized: $ 3,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
[RUSCELLI, GIROLAMO, attributed to.] The Secretes of the Reverende Maister Alexis of Piemount [pseud.]. [6], 117, [11] leaves. bound with: The seconde parte of the Secrets. 75, [5] leaves. and: The thyrde and last parte of the Secretes. [1], 75 [i. e., 74], [9] leaves. and: A verye excellent and profitable Booke conteyning . . . experienced Medicines . . . the fourth and finall Booke of his secretes. [32], 52, 57, 50 [i. e., 51] pages. Together, 4 volumes in one, mostly printed in black letter. 4to, 173x128 mm, later vellum boards with gilt centerpiece on covers, soiled, rear cover stained; margins trimmed entering some headlines, sidenotes, early marginalia, and type ornament border on Volume 4 title, varying marginal soiling and dampstaining, scattered ink blots, piece of lined paper mounted on blank verso of last leaf in Volume 1, last few leaves in Volume 3 heavily soiled and dampstained with marginal repairs not impairing legibility. London: Henry Bynneman for John Wight, 1568; [1568?]; Henry Denham for John Wyght, (1566); John Wyght, 1578

Additional Details

Mixed but complete set of English versions of one of the most popular Renaissance collection of formulas, comprising the fourth edition of the first volume and second edition of the rest. The first 3 volumes were translated by William Ward, the fourth by Richard Androse. DSB XV, 491-92; Duveen, page 16; STC 297, 302, 306, 310.