Live auction - Lot 1179

[Antiquity - Poetry]

MOSCHUS ; BION of SMYRNA ; AUSONIUS, Decimus Magnus

Eidyllia. Moschou Syrakousiou, kai Biônos Smyrnaiou [Graece]. Interpretatione latina ad verbum, et scholiis illustrata. Quibus accessit Ausonii elegans Eidyllion a Feder[ici] Jamotio versibus graecis expressum.

[Geneva], J. Crespin, [1569]


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16mo: 47-[1 bl.] pp. (title. sl. browning, min. soiling).

Sewn (loose).

Extr. rare third part of a bilingual collection of classical Greek poets, printed separately with its own title page, which contains the "Eidyllia" of Moschus and Bion of Smyrna and the "De vita humana" by Roman poet Ausonius (4th c.) and its Greek version by Frédéric Janot, Crespin's friend. Title within an elaborated Renaissance woodcut border.
Ref. Gilmont, Crespin, 69/5:3a. - GLN 15-16 1765. - Adams M-1841.- BnF.

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Lot 1179

Eidyllia. Moschou Syrakousiou, kai Biônos Smyrnaiou [Graece]. Interpretatione latina ad verbum, et scholiis illustrata. Quibus accessit Ausonii elegans Eidyllion a Feder[ici] Jamotio versibus graecis expressum.

MOSCHUS ; BION of SMYRNA ; AUSONIUS, Decimus Magnus

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