Lot n° 257

(Auteur de l'antiquité) - HOMERUS.- lÂiasf- OdvooEia. Батрахоџуоџахих, vßvoi, Iß[...]]. [En grec : (Strasbourg, Wolfgang Köpfel und Peter Braubach)], 1534. 2 vol. in-12° : 277-[3] [engr. title incl.], 251-[5]-[56] lvs (errors in...

Estimation : 500 / 600
Description
foliotation but copy complete, slightly yellowed, scattered foxing, dampstains, some marginal tears in vol. II). 19th Century binding : half calf, green paper boards encircled by a gilt roll-stamp, flat spines with gilt fillets and flower tools (joints partly split, dampstains on upper boards, small lacks, small labels stuck on the spines, blind stamped provenances on upper boards and flyleaves, handwritten notes on two flyleaves).
Second edition (1st ed. : 1525) of this early postincunabulum entirely in Greek containing the major works of Homer, including the Batrachomyomachia and the Homeric Hymns, edited by the protestant humanist from Marburg J. Lonicer (14971569). The second volum contains a biography of Homer by the Pseudo-Herodotus and the Pseudo-Plutarch. Work opening on a typographical title within a woodcut frame figuring famous characters of the Iliad (Achilles, Hector, Priam, Hecuba...); two large printer's marks of Köpfel at the end of volume I and of the Hymns. # Adams H-747; # Dibdin II-46; # VD16 H 4653 and H 4693; # USTC 663894 and 679245; # not in Soltész nor in Machiels. ^ Post-incunable contenant l'Iliade, l'Odyssée, les Batrachomyomachies et les Hymnes homériques, suivis par une vie d'Homère des pseudo Hérodote et Plutarque. Demi-veau du 19e s. (erreurs de foliotation mais ex. complet, lég. jauni, mouill., mors part. fendus).
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