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APOLLONIUS of Rhodes. Argonauticon libri IIII. Greek text, edited with notes by Henri Estienne. [8], 240 pages. 4to, 260x170 mm, 18th-century red straight-grain morocco gilt with Cracherode arms on covers, spine faded; contents clean, early signature ('De Chatigny') on title. [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. From the libraries of the Reverend Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode (1730-99), bibliophile and British Museum benefactor, bound for him, with his ink monogram on front fly leaf; Castle Howard (sale, Hodgson, 3 February 1944, lot 177); J. R Abbey, with his bookplate and initialed and dated inventory number (sale, Sotheby's, 19 June 1967, lot 1629); and Bradley Martin, with his bookplate, (sale, Sotheby's New York, 14 June 1990, lot 3363).
