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MUSAEUS; and ORPHEUS.
Musaei opusculum de Herone & Leandro.
Orphei argonautica. Eiusdem hymni . . . de lapidibus.
Musaeus in Greek with Latin
translation on facing pages, the texts by Orpheus in Greek only. Large woodcuts on a8v
and b1r showing Leander swimming the Hellespont, and Hero committing suicide after
Leander drowns. 80 leaves.
BOUND WITH
:
OPPIAN.
Oppiani de piscibus libri V.
Eiusdem de venatione libri IIII.
Greek text, also including Latin translation of De pis-
cibus by Lorenzo Lippi. 166, [2] leaves, including blanks n7-8, colophon leaf, and final leaf
with Aldine device on verso. Together, 2 volumes in one. 8vo, 159x89 mm, contemporary
German blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, historiated roll border around center
panel with vertically arranged ornamental tools, ties lacking; minor stains on last leaf of the
first volume.
(
Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea of Asola,
November [December] 1517)
[8,000/12,000]
Second Aldine edition of Musaeus after the Aldine first edition in the original Greek circa
1495,
containing the
FIRST EDITION
of the poem attributed to Orpheus on gems and their
properties; bound with the
FIRST ALDINE
and
FIRST COMPLETE EDITION
of the writings by
Oppian on angling and on hunting with dogs, the former of these texts having been printed
separately in 1515 by the Giunta press in Florence. Renouard, page 81(8-9); New UCLA
159-60;
Hoffmann II, 605, III, 30, and III, 30.
SUPERB SAMMELBAND IN ORIGINAL
CONDITION
,
FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE BASEL SCHOLAR
-
PRINTER JOHANN HERWA
-
GEN
(1497-1558),
with his signature on the first title page.
