Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 53

Price Realized: $ 562
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
HOMER. Opus utrumque Homeri Iliados et Odysseae . . . adjecta est etiam eiusdem Batrachomyomachia. Greek text with the scholia of Didymus, and the Homericae quaestiones and De antro nypharum of Porphyry; edited by Jacob Micyllus and Joachim Camerarius. [20], 394 [i. e., 410], [2]; 314, [2] pages, including leaf with printer's device at end of each volume. 2 volumes in one. Folio, 274x172 mm, contemporary pigskin over pasteboard blind-tooled to panel design with monogram M N O stamped in black on front cover, binding worn and stained, lacking board under front cover and front and rear endpapers; marginal dampstaining at beginning and end, small hole in blank portion of general title. Signature of the historian Joachim Johann Mader (1626-80) dated 1654 on general title, 19th-century stamp of I. H. F. Schlosser on verso; Mader's(?) interlinear Latin translation through first half of the Iliad. Hoffmann II, 316. Basel: Johann Herwagen, 1551