[OVIDIUS] - SABINUS, Georgius

16mo: [32]-550-[2 bl.] pp. Woodcut mark on title. (usual toning, minor spotting). Contemp. overl. vellum, flat spine titled in ink, remains of ties. Good copy. Very rare commentary on the Metamorphoses by Georg Sabinus (1508-1560). Ref. VD17 23:754013L (Wolfenbüttel only). Prov. Ownership entry on title. We add: Ta sozomena ton palaiotaton poieton georgika, boukolika, kai gnomika [Greek] = Vetustissimum authorum Georgica, Bucolica, & Gnomica poemata quae supersunt. Coloniae Allobrogum (Genève), apud Johan. Vignon, 1612. 3 parts in 1 vol. in 16mo, each part with a woodcut title. The end of part 2 is bound at the end of part 3. Anthology of ancient Greek poetry edited by Jean Crespin. Parallel Greek and Latin text. The commentary on Theocritus by "Is. Hortibonus" is, of course, by Isaac Casaubon (1559-1614). Scarce, only 1 copy in USTC (Luzern). Bound in half sheep, first hinge broken (together: 2 vol.)