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HOMER. Ilias. Greek text. [277] leaves; lacks the final blank * Ulyssea. Batrachomyomachia. Hymni xxxii [with the lives of Homer by Herodotus and Plutarch]. Greek text. [306] leaves. Together, 2 volumes, both ruled in red throughout. 8vo, 150x94 mm, late 18th-century red straight-grain morocco gilt, spines slightly faded; light soiling on titles, few minor stains at end of Volume 2; gilt edges. [Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, June 1517]; [Aldus Manutius, not before 31 October 1504]
Second Aldine edition of the Iliad, first Aldine edition of the Odyssey. According to Renouard the second edition was the most accurate of the 3 Aldines, less common than the first Aldine and seldom found complete. Renouard, pages 80(3) and 46(6); New UCLA 153, 86; Hoffmann II, 315.
