Oct 23, 2012 - Sale 2291
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Sale 2291 - Lot 104

Price Realized: $ 5,040
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
QUINTUS of Smyrna. Derelictorum ab Homero libri quatuordecim [with TRYPHIODORUS, De Trojae excidio, and COLUTHUS, De raptu Helenae]. Greek text. [172] leaves. 8vo, 159x94 mm, 19th-century green pebble-grain morocco gilt, spine faded; contents clean; red edges. Armorial bookplate of Michael Tomkinson (1841-1921) of Franche Hall, Worcestershire. [Venice: Aldus Manutius, circa 1505]
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first edition in the original greek of 3 verse epics on Homeric subjects composed between the 4th and 6th centuries, the first on events following those of the Iliad, the second on the capture of Troy, and the third on the abduction of Helen. Renouard, page 261(14); New UCLA 95; Hoffmann III, 337.