Olympia, Pythia, Nemea, Isthmia. Caeterorum octo lyricorum carmina [...]. Omnia graecè & latinè. Pindari interpretatio nova est, eáque ad verbum : caeteri partim ad verbum, partim carmine sunt redditi.

2 parts in 1 vol., 16mo: 270 [= 272]-[2 bl.], 196-[4] pp. (title soiled with sm. holes, sl. dampstaining, with mould spotting, strong on some pp., tiny marg. wormholes).

17th-c. overl. Dutch vellum, flat spine, red edges (front flyleaf missing).

Parallel Latin-Greek collection of Greek poetry, most by Pindarus but also by Saphho, Alcaeus, Ibycus..., translated and edited by Henri Estienne (1st 1560, Paris, H. Estienne II). Plantin's mark on titles.
Ref. Voet 2056.
Prov. Various 17th and one 19th-c. ms. entries, one declaring himself the real possessor of the book.
Joined: Petit, Pierre - De Amazonibus dissertatio, quâ an verè extiterint, necne, variis ultro citroque conjecturis & argumentis disputatur [...]. Editio secunda, auctior & correctior. Amsterdam, J. Wolters & Y. Haring, 1687. 12mo. 19th-c. red paper carboard. Early critical treatise by Petit on the mythic tribe of warrior women believed to have lived in Asia Minor in Antiquity. Corrected re-issue of the 1st ed. of the same year. Engr. title and in-text ill. mostly of coins (fold. map missing). (2 vol.)