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HOMER. Ulyssea. Batrachomyomachia. Hymni xxxii [with the lives of Homer by Herodotus, Plutarch, and Dio Chrysostom]. Greek text. 251, [1]; [56] leaves. 2 parts in one volume. 8vo, 150x87 mm, 18th-century Scottish red morocco richly gilt-tooled to design of concentric double-fillet lozenges incorporating snake, flower, leaf, and drawer handle tools, spine in 6 compartments, lettered in 2 with title in Greek and floral tools in the rest, gilt decorated paper endleaves with elaborate pattern of floral sprays, front joint restored at top and bottom, rear joint starting; minor repairs in blank margin of title, a3, and last 4 leaves, scattered washed marginalia, few headlines shaved at end. Bookplate and embossed stamp of Giannalisa Feltrinelli. (Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, June 1517])
Second Aldine edition of the Odyssey, Batrachomyomachia, and Homeric hymns, bound with the lives of Homer belonging in the first volume of this edition. Renouard, pages 80(3); New UCLA 153; Hoffmann II, 315.
