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HESIOD (fl. c.700 B.C.). Opera, in Greek. Edited and with Scholia by Vettore Trincavelli (1491-1563). Venice: Bartholomaeus Zanetti for Giovanni Francesco Trincavelli, June 1537.
4 (205 x 145mm). Dedication in italic type, text in Greek cursive type. Title device (a smaller, reversed verion of a device attributed to Titian), woodcut headlines and initials, headline, initial and incipit on r printed in red. Full-page woodcut of farm implements and other tools, 2 text diagrams. (Light stain on title.) Contemporary blindstamped pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, tooled with saints' rolls, two fore-edge clasps. Provenance: Jos. Ant. Pflaum, 1791 (inscription on pastedown).
Hesiod is one of the earliest known Greek poets. His Works and Days includes practical advice on the cultivation of vines and the care of wine. Adams H-470; Brunet III, 140; Mortimer, Harvard Italian, 233; Simon, Bib. Bacchia, II, 345; Sander 3380.
4 (205 x 145mm). Dedication in italic type, text in Greek cursive type. Title device (a smaller, reversed verion of a device attributed to Titian), woodcut headlines and initials, headline, initial and incipit on r printed in red. Full-page woodcut of farm implements and other tools, 2 text diagrams. (Light stain on title.) Contemporary blindstamped pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, tooled with saints' rolls, two fore-edge clasps. Provenance: Jos. Ant. Pflaum, 1791 (inscription on pastedown).
Hesiod is one of the earliest known Greek poets. His Works and Days includes practical advice on the cultivation of vines and the care of wine. Adams H-470; Brunet III, 140; Mortimer, Harvard Italian, 233; Simon, Bib. Bacchia, II, 345; Sander 3380.