![THEOCRITUS (c.310-250 B.C.). Idyllia, with scholia, in Greek. [Rome:] Zacharias Callierges for Cornelius Benignus, 15 January 1516. 2 parts in one volume, 8° (156 x 103mm). Greek type, privilege at end in roman type, woodcut diagrams, printer's device on title and publisher's device on last page [Vaccaro p.180], initial spaces with guide-letter. (Lacking k4.5 of the scholia, occasional light browning.) 17th-century vellum, flat spine with 18th-century red leather label. Provenance: early annotations in Greek and Latin (shaved) -- Biblioteca Altempsiana (Markus Sittikus von Hohenhems, Cardinal Altemps [1531-95] and his nephew Mark Sittich, Abp. of Salzburg [1574-1619]; title inscription) -- Chatsworth (bookplate).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2012/CSK/2012_CSK_07558_0079_000(theocritus_idyllia_with_scholia_in_greek_rome_zacharias_callierges_for011315).jpg?w=1)
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THEOCRITUS (c.310-250 B.C.). Idyllia, with scholia, in Greek. [Rome:] Zacharias Callierges for Cornelius Benignus, 15 January 1516. 2 parts in one volume, 8° (156 x 103mm). Greek type, privilege at end in roman type, woodcut diagrams, printer's device on title and publisher's device on last page [Vaccaro p.180], initial spaces with guide-letter. (Lacking k4.5 of the scholia, occasional light browning.) 17th-century vellum, flat spine with 18th-century red leather label. Provenance: early annotations in Greek and Latin (shaved) -- Biblioteca Altempsiana (Markus Sittikus von Hohenhems, Cardinal Altemps [1531-95] and his nephew Mark Sittich, Abp. of Salzburg [1574-1619]; title inscription) -- Chatsworth (bookplate).
First edition of the enlarged and corrected text, the first with the scholia, and the SECOND GREEK BOOK PRINTED AT ROME. Following important activity as a printer of Greek in Venice, Callierges was called to Rome with the support of the humanist Pope Leo X to help cultivate Greek learning there. He taught at the newly established Greek gymnasium in a house of Agostino Chigi, and his first two books, including Theocritus, were published for Chigi's chancellor, Cornelio Begnino. Adams T-460; Hoffmann III, 474-5; Legrand I, p. 49 ('Edition rare et très recherchée').
First edition of the enlarged and corrected text, the first with the scholia, and the SECOND GREEK BOOK PRINTED AT ROME. Following important activity as a printer of Greek in Venice, Callierges was called to Rome with the support of the humanist Pope Leo X to help cultivate Greek learning there. He taught at the newly established Greek gymnasium in a house of Agostino Chigi, and his first two books, including Theocritus, were published for Chigi's chancellor, Cornelio Begnino. Adams T-460; Hoffmann III, 474-5; Legrand I, p. 49 ('Edition rare et très recherchée').