Apr 09, 2015 - Sale 2379

Sale 2379 - Lot 74

Price Realized: $ 1,235
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
HOMER. Ilias. Latin translation by Andrea Divo; with life of Homer by Herodotus in Latin version by Konrad Heresbach. Title within woodcut architectural border. [20], 277 [i. e., 275], [3] leaves, including colophon leaf and 2 blanks at end * Odyssea. Latin translation by Andrea Divo; with Batrachomyomachia and Homeric hymns in Latin versions by Aldus Manutius and Georgius Dartona. Title within woodcut architectural border. 251, [9] leaves, including colophon leaf at end (but with 8-leaf index misbound between leaves 184 and 185). Together, 2 volumes. 8vo, 159x99 mm, late 18th-/early 19th-century 1/2 vellum with morocco lettering pieces; conspicuous stains on 2f5-8 in first volume, scattered marginal stains elsewhere, partly repaired wormholes in blank upper and lower margins in middle of second volume. Venice: Jacobus à Burgofranco, 1537; 1537

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first divo editions. Adams H770; Hoffmann II, 333.