Antique Books and Printed Collectibles 52

An exceptional auction of antique books, maps, manuscripts, and other historic works on paper, spanning more than five centuries. Highlights include a 1611 first English edition of Homer?s Iliads translated by George Chapman, Sebastian M?nster?s richly illustrated Cosmographia, a rare 1594 work by Albrecht D?rer, a 1529 illustrated Latin Bible, and Girolamo Mercuriale?s 1601 De Arte Gymnastica, a pioneering treatise on sports medicine. The catalog also features an extensively illustrated 1763 gazetteer of the Americas, Captain Cook?s voyages with maps and plates, early English and Continental Bibles, post-incunabula, Aldine Press editions, illuminated Persian and Thai manuscripts, and a rare 1856...