HELIODORUS

8vo, [xvi], 582, [33] pp, woodcut printer's mark (a crab holding a butterfly, with the motto: Matura). Text in two columns in GREEK and Latin translation. Contemporary vellum binding. 'The Aethiopica' tells the tale of Charicles - the beautiful daughter of the Ethiopian queen - who is kidnapped from her home by pirates and taken to Ethiopia, where she falls in love with the handsome Theagenes. We add: Lucius APULEIUS. Opera quae extant omnia cum Philippi Beroaldi comm. Lyon, veuve Ant. de Harsy [= Anne Thomas], 1614. 8vo, (16), 1103, (13) pp, same woodcut printer's mark. Vol. 1 only, lacking vol.
2. This volume contains the famous novel: ""Asinus aureus"" (The Golden Ass), the only Latin novel to survive in its entirety (including the famous story of Amor and Psyche). Damaged leather binding, spine is lost, covers are loose. (together: 2 volumes printed by Anne Thomas, widow of Ant. de Harsy)