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HOMER. [Works, in Greek.] Printer's Aldine-inspired woodcut anchor device at end of each volume. [322]; [282] leaves. 2 volumes. 4to, 196x135 and 190x135 mm, later 17th-century Dutch vellum boards with red leather lettering pieces, turn-ins sprung, Volume 1 front hinge cracked, hole in fore edge of Volume 2 rear cover; titles and last page in each volume soiled, early underscoring and marginalia throughout Volume 2; sprinkled edges. Presentation inscription from Johannes Coster to Cornelius Midlum dated 1654 in Volume 1; signature and collation note of G. J. Wright dated 1723 in both volumes; signature of Alexander Murray on Iliad title; armorial bookplates of George Hay-Drummond, 12th Earl of Kinnoull (1827-97). Louvain: Thierry Martens, 1523
first edition in the original greek published outside italy, from the press of the scholar-printer Martens, who pioneered the printing of Greek in the Low Countries. Adams H744 (incomplete); Contemporaries of Erasmus II, 394-95; Hoffmann II, 315; Nijhoff-Kronenberg 1106, 3181; Reynolds & Wilson, page 178.
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