HOMER, Hesiod, and others.

£8,500 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Poetae graeci principes heroici carminis, & alii nonnulli. First edition. "This is unquestionably Estienne's typographic masterpiece" (Schreiber). Estienne's edition of the Greek epic poets based on the collation of the ancient scholia and variants of all available manuscripts "created the basis of the modern vulgate of Homer" (Silver, Ronsard and the Hellenic Renaissance in France). The collection 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, and others. From the celebrated library of Louis Henri de Loménie (1635-1698), comte de Brienne, with his gilt arms on the covers. After his death his collection was dispersed by his son and sold by the London bookseller James Woodman in 1724.

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