Live veiling - Lot 930
Ilias ad verbum translata, Andrea Divo Iustinopolitano interprete [and] Odyssea ad verbum translata [...]. Eiusdem Batrachomyomachia [...] Aldo Manutio interprete. Eiusdem Hymni deorum XXXII. Georgio Dartona Cretense interprete.
Paris, Chr. Wechel, 1538
€ 250 / 400
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2 vols, 8vo: [3]-277-[12], 250-[8] ff. (occ. soiling or marg. dampstaining).
16th-c. gilt calf, covers with gilt central ornament and corner pcs within blind triple ruled border, gilt spines on 5 raised bands, a.e.g. (rubbed, tanned, spines repaired, joints splitting). Good copy.
Repr. of the Venice 1537 ed. of these Renaissance Latin versions of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssea. Woodcut mark on titles and at the end of the Odyssea. Printed in italics. Ref. Moreau V: 936-937. - Adams H-773. - Pettegree FB 74117 & 74122. - BP16 108944. - STC French (BL) 228. Prov. Louvain monastic ownership entries on title and at the end of each vol. (dated "1703").