ESTIENNE, HENRI, editor.
HOMER & OTHERS. Poetae graeci principes heroici carminis. Geneva: Henricus Stephanus II, 1566.
2 volumes. Folio (343 x 212 mm). Printed in Greek. *6 **4 A-D8 E4 a-2b8 c6 Aa10; a-g4; 2A-2Z6 3A-3R6 3S-3T4. 18th century mottled calf, rebacked. Some light occasional foxing, but generally clean, a few brief instances of dampstain, title-page bound close, covers mostly detached and binding inexpertly repaired with leather strips at bands.
This typographically-splendid collection of Greek heroic poems devotes much of its space to the work of Homer, but also includes the work of Hesiod, Theocritus, Callimachus, Aratus of Soli, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, etc. Adams P-1699.
2 volumes. Folio (343 x 212 mm). Printed in Greek. *6 **4 A-D8 E4 a-2b8 c6 Aa10; a-g4; 2A-2Z6 3A-3R6 3S-3T4. 18th century mottled calf, rebacked. Some light occasional foxing, but generally clean, a few brief instances of dampstain, title-page bound close, covers mostly detached and binding inexpertly repaired with leather strips at bands.
This typographically-splendid collection of Greek heroic poems devotes much of its space to the work of Homer, but also includes the work of Hesiod, Theocritus, Callimachus, Aratus of Soli, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, etc. Adams P-1699.
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