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APOLLONIUS of Rhodes. Argonauticon libri IIII. Greek text, edited with notes by Henri Estienne. [8], 240 pages. 4to, 250x178 mm, contemporary limp vellum, worn with stains on front cover; intermittent minor worming in blank margins, marginal soiling on preliminaries, early interlinear annotations on first several leaves of text. Booklabel and mounted catalogue cutting of William Salloch on rear pastedown. [Geneva]: Henricus Stephanus, 1574
first estienne edition of the 3rd-century B.C. epic on the quest of Jason and the Argonauts for the Golden Fleece. Renouard (Estienne) I, 141(1); Schreiber 188; Hoffmann I, 207.
