Apr 23, 2007 - Sale 2111

Sale 2111 - Lot 292

Price Realized: $ 270
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
TRYPHIODORUS. The Destruction of Troy; being, The Sequel of the Iliad. Translated from the Greek . . . With Notes. By J[ames] Merrick. [24], lxxxviii, 151 pages, including half-title. bound with: Ilii excidium, cum metrica Nicomedi Frischlini versione, et selectis virorum doctorum notis . . . et suas annotationes adjecit, Jacobus Merrick A.B. [8], 112 pages, including half-title. Together, 2 volumes in one. Large 8vo, contemporary calf with morocco lettering piece, joints cracked, cords intact; stain on fore edges of second half of volume. Signature of H. Randolph of Magdalen College, Oxford, dated 1771. Oxford: at the Theatre, (1739); (1741)

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first edition in english, bound with the first edition of Merrick's recension of the Greek text, including the metrical Latin version by Nicodemus Frischlin. Hoffmann III, 566-67.