Oct 24, 2024 - Sale 2683

Sale 2683 - Lot 17

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
Homer, translated by George Chapman (1559-1634)
Homer's Odysses [and] Iliads.

[London]: Imprinted by Rich: Field for Nathaniell Butter, [1614? & 1611]



Folio, Odyssey bound first; engraved title page to the Odyssey mounted, toned and frail; lacking preliminary blank A1 & final blank R8; last signature damaged with extensive tape repairs to final leaf [Ii7] and corners torn away on several other leaves, along with other patched repairs; the Iliad lacking engraved title; preliminaries [*2-6] and all before A3; text begins on A3 recto with the preface to the reader; A6 of the Iliad with errata recto; lacking Gg8; bound in full modern leather; extensive contemporary annotations throughout both books; 10 1/4 x 7 in.

Odyssey: STC 13637; ESTC S118235; Pforzheimer 170; Iliad: STC 13634; ESTC S119234; Pforzheimer 169.

Rasmussen-Hines Collection of Shakespeare & Renaissance Literature.