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HOMER.
Ulyssea. Batrachomyomachia. Hymni xxxii
[
with the lives of
Homer by Herodotus, Plutarch, and Dio Chrysostom]. Greek text. 251, [1]; [56] leaves.
2
parts in one volume. 8vo, 150x87 mm, 18th-century Scottish red morocco richly gilt-
tooled to design of concentric double-fillet lozenges incorporating snake, flower, leaf, and
drawer handle tools, spine in 6 compartments, lettered in 2 with title in Greek and floral
tools in the rest, gilt decorated paper endleaves with elaborate pattern of floral sprays, front
joint restored at top and bottom, rear joint starting; minor repairs in blank margin of title,
a3, and last 4 leaves, scattered washed marginalia, few headlines shaved at end. Bookplate
and embossed stamp of Giannalisa Feltrinelli.
(
Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, June 1517])
[3,000/5,000]
Second Aldine edition of the Odyssey, Batrachomyomachia, and Homeric hymns, bound with
the lives of Homer belonging in the first volume of this edition. Renouard, pages 80(3); New
UCLA 153; Hoffmann II, 315.
