ALESSIO Piemontese (pseudonym of Girolamo Ruscelli). The Secretes of the Reverende Mayster Alexis of Piemount, conteinying many excellent remedies against dyvers diseases ... translated out of French into Englishe by Wyllyam Ward [the first part], London: [Henry Sutton], 1559, small 4°, second edition, printed in black letter, large and small woodcut initials in mixed styles, with 2 page address from "The translatour to the Readers" at end (title slightly soiled and creased, E6 torn with some loss at foot of page, occasional dampstains, a few headlines cropped) [STC 295]; The Second (Third and Fourth) Part of the Secrets of Maister Alexis of Piemont, by him collected out of diuers excellent authors, and newly translated out of French into English by William Ward, London: Peter Short for Thomas Wight, 1595, [but part II J. Kyngston for N. Englande: 1560], small 4°, printed in black letter, title pages with publisher's device, woodcut initials (part II with a supplied title page from the 1595 editions and lacking two preliminaries, part III lacking 2F1 and 2F8, part IV lacking final leaf of text and most of the table at end, verso of 2P8 in part IV with ink-smudges at margins, 2U6 with burn hole causing loss, some old staining and browning in all three parts) [STC 300 & 312], the four parts bound in two volumes, 19h-century morocco with bookplate of Thomas Upham Coe, g.e.; sold not subject to return.