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EOBANUS HESSUS, Helius

Poetarum omnium seculorum longe principis Homeri Ilias, hoc est, de rebus ad Troiam gestis descriptio, iam recens Latino carmine reddita
Basel
Robert Winter
1540
€450 - €600

8vo, [10] - 617 - [2] - [24] pp. Beautiful woodcut initials. Woodcut printer's device at the end (depicting the goddess Athena and her emblems). Latin translation into hexameters of Homer's Iliad, by Eoban Koch, a Lutheran humanist. Some pale marginal stains, small tear repaired in p. 129. Ms. ex libris on title-page erased. Calf binding (spine renewed, old panel-stamped covers preserved, text on old fly-lvs also preserved)

Ref. VD16 H 4665. De laatste 24 pp. bevatten een ode van Gaspard Schetz aan de auteur. Gaspard Schetz was actief in de handel met Brazilië, hij kocht de titel van Baron van Wezemaal

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