Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 55

Price Realized: $ 500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
(HOMER.) Tryphiodorus. The Destruction of Troy; being, The Sequel of the Iliad. English translation and notes by James Merrick. [22] (of [24]), lxxxviii, 151 pages; lacks the half-title. bound with: Ilii excidium. Greek text with metrical Latin version by Nicodemus Frischlin; edited by Merrick. [8], 112 pages. Together, 2 volumes in one. 8vo, 216x133 mm, 19th-century 1/2 leather, spine ends and joints rubbed; title of the first work browned, with signature of the Earl of Crawford dated Haigh Hall, 1825, index leaves of the second work toned. Bibliotheca Lindesiana bookplate. Oxford: at the Theatre, (1739); (1741)

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first edition in english, together with the first edition of Merrick's recension of the Greek text. Hoffmann III, 566-67.