Oct 13, 2022 - Sale 2617

Sale 2617 - Lot 205

Price Realized: $ 23,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 8,000
Homer trans. George Chapman (1559-1634)
The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. Never before in any Language Truely Translated.

London: Printed for Nathaniell Butter, [circa 1611.]



Small folio, engraved title page by William Hole; lacking initial blank and blank Gg8 (with visible stub), with the addition of the bifolium containing sonnets to Sir Edward Philips, and Viscounts Cranborne and Rochester bound after Gg7; bound in full near-contemporary English calfskin, tooled in blind, neatly rebacked, ex libris Sam. Cooper, circa 1780 with dated signature on ffep; contents not washed or pressed and likely not trimmed more than once; ex libris Percival F. Hinton (1896-1977), with bookplate; Quaritch collation note signed "F.W." inside back board, 11 x 7 in.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.