(HOMER.) Eustathius, Archbishop of Thessalonica. Parekbolai eis ten Homerou Odysseian. Greek text. Printer's woodcut device on title. [2], 1379-1970 pages. Folio, 296x195 mm, 20th-century calf; margins trimmed without text loss, stains on title, intermittent foxing or browning, insignificant worming in blank upper margin of last several leaves. Bookplates of the Marchese di Salsa Malaspina, the Earl of Dudley, Albert May Todd, Benjamin Hartshorne Trask, and Francis Howard Fobes. (Rome: Antonio Blado, 1549)
first edition. Third volume (Odyssey only) of an important 12th-century Homeric commentary published in 4 volumes from 1542 to 1550, including the full text of both epics. The Iliad takes up the first 2 volumes; the fourth is an index. Adams E1107; Hoffmann II, 116; Harvard/Mortimer-Italian 176; Sarton II, 395.
