Details
HOMER. Ομηρου Ιλιασ και Οδυσσεια μετα τησ εξηγησιοσ. Homeri Ilias et Ulyssea cum interpretatione, text in Greek and Latin, Basle: Johann Hervagius, 1535, 2 parts in one volume, 2°, printer's device to both titles and verso of final leaf of each part (closed tear to one page, mainly marginal dampstaining to a few leaves), contemporary blind-tooled vellum, clasps (lightly soiled), red edges. [Adams H748].
Provenance
Adolph van Voorst's (1597-1663) copy with numerous ink manuscript annotations throughout. Van Voorst, a Dutch physician who specialised in botany, was three times rector of the academy in Leiden. A manuscript note in Latin to verso of free endpaper identifies him as the author of these annotations; a 5-line quotation in Greek to free endpaper from Contra Apionem by Flavius Joseph; Hope family bookplate.