ARISTOPHANES

4to: 214 [= 218]-[1 bl., 1] pp. Woodcut mark on title and at the end. (some marginal soiling). 17th-c. gilt sheep, covers with gilt frames, corner pieces & central arms, richly gilt spine with 5 raised bands and morocco label, gilt sides, red sp. edges (rubbed, head and tail def., top corners def.). Very good copy. Aristophanes' Plutus in Greek together with the new Latin version by the Bourges humanist Charles Girard, dedicated to Jeanne de Navarre (1528-1572). Ref. BP16 1133636. - Adams A-1728. Prov. Tournon Jesuit PRIZE BOOK, prize-leaf pasted on front endpaper, awarded 1679 to 'Josephus Genissiere' and signed by 'Stud. Praef. Franc. Ligier'. Bound with - IDEM - Aristophanis facetissimi comoedia Lysistrate. Paris, Chrétien Wechel, 1540. pp. 524-567, i.e. final quires RR-YY of Aristophanes' 'Comoediae undecim' of 1540). Greek text only. Woodcut mark on title and at the end