HOMÈRE

First printing of this important Romantic publication issued in 10 parts in 8 volumes.
Literary contributions by Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann "Le conseiller Krespel", Charles Dickens "Le baron de Grogzwig", Matthias Emmich "Geneviève de Brabant", Sâvitrî "Episode du Mahabharata", Homer "Le combat des rats et des grenouilles", Gottfried August Bürger "Lénore", Paul Gavarni "Madame Acker", Marie de France "Lai des deux amants" and "Lai du Bisclaveret", Ludwig Tieck "La réconciliation", Henri Blaze "Rosemonde" correctly containing 34 pages, which identifies the first printing as opposed to the...

Edition illustrated with 14 original woodcuts by Henri Laurens, one of 125 numbered copies on Montval laid paper, the only issue after 25 Japan or China.
Fine copy despite minor worming of no consequence to the first endpapers and half-title page.

New edition. Publisher's marks on the title page and on the verso of the final leaves of each volume. A few historiated initials. Printed in italics.
Bound in full red morocco, c. early 19th century, smooth spine decorated in gilt, red morocco title piece, endpapers c. 1800, lower joint cracked at the head with a loss of 2 cm, some traces of rubbing, two areas of abrasion on the upper cover, a small loss to the title page of the Odyssey, a few millimeters over 3 cm in the upper margin.
Translation of the Odyssey by Volaterrano, accompanied by the Batrachomyomachia by Aldus Manutius and the Hymns by Iodocus Valaraeus. The Life of Homer by Herodotus is translated by Conrad...

Strasbourg edition in Greek with the Latin opposite. Text in italics. Printer's mark on the title page. Edition brought together by Hubert Van Giffen, with his preface. A version of the Illiade appears with the same date from the same publisher.
Full pigskin binding with contemporary engraving. Spine in Jansenist compartments with the title in black ink and the date at the bottom. Top board with the figure of Justice in the centre in a medallion capped with 4 characters (Fides, Spes, Cha-Caritas-, Amor) Faith, Hope, Charity and Love, followed by a framing border of Renaissance rinceaux and portraits in medallions. The figure of Fortune on the second board, with the same decor. Metal...

HOMER & Sebastian CASTELLIO
Homeri opera graeco-latina, quae quidem nunc extant, omnia Stated the third edition, revised and expanded, reprinted from the 1561 edition from the same publisher. Printer's device to title. Colophon on verso of final leaf: “Basileae, Ex Officina Haeredum Nicolai Brylingeri, Anno Salutis M. D. LXVII Mense Martio”. In Greek and Latin, double column, Latin on the left, Greek facing. Index in triple column at front of work. The preface is preceded by an epigram from the Basle humanist Heinrich...