May 15, 2012 - Sale 2279

Sale 2279 - Lot 7

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
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 woodcut showing Leander swimming the Hellespont, and another of Hero committing suicide after Leander drowns. 80 leaves. Small 8vo, 19th-century boards, binding slightly cocked; occasional soiling, few marginalia, restoration in blank portion of title and 2 other leaves, front endpaper lacking. (Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea Asolano, November 1517)

Additional Details

Second Aldine edition of Musaeus, containing the editio princeps of the poem attributed to Orpheus on gems and their properties. Hoffmann II, 605, and III, 30; Renouard, page 81; Sinkankas 4886.