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POETAE - GREEK PRINTING
Poetae Graeci principes heroici carminis, & alii nonnulli, 2 vol. in one

22 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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POETAE - GREEK PRINTING

Poetae Graeci principes heroici carminis, & alii nonnulli, 2 vol. in one, title and prefaces in Greek and Latin, text in Greek, small woodcut device on title, with 3 blanks (cc6 and 3Z4 in volume one, 3T4 in volume 2), 2 leaves misbound but present, eighteenth century inscription "ex don Jacobi Impey M.D.", eighteenth century calf, lacks spine, worn [Adams P1699; Renouard, 126; Schreiber 160], folio (378 x 223mm.), [Geneva], Henri Estienne, for Huldrich Fugger, 1566

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"Unquestionably Henri Estienne's typographic masterpiece" (Schreiber).

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