May 01, 2014 - Sale 2348

Sale 2348 - Lot 86

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
HOMER. Ilias. Latin translation by Andrea Divo; with life of Homer by Herodotus in Latin version by Konrad Heresbach. [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. 251, [1] (of [9]) leaves, including colophon leaf at end; lacks +SUPERSCRIPT8 (index). Together, 2 volumes. 8vo, 153x96 mm, 17th-century English red morocco gilt; margins trimmed slightly entering top of title borders, contents generally clean apart from foxing on Volume 2 colophon leaf; gilt edges. Venice: Jacobus a Burgofranco, 1537; 1537

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