HOMER. Ilias Homeri. Das ist Homeri XXIIII. Bücher Dessgleichen die 12. Bücher Aeneidos dess Publii Virgilii Maronis In artliche teutsche Reimen gebracht, von Johann Sprengen. Augsburg: Christoff Mangen, Eliae Willer, 1610. 2 parts in one volume, 2° (305 x 196mm), double column, engraved portrait of the translator on title-verso (occasional worming in the fore-margins affecting a few sidenotes at beginning of part 2, last leaf with a marginal tear and mounted, lightly browned). Mid-19th-century German half vellum (rubbed). Provenance: O. Reuss, 1852 (signature on fndpaper). FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST TRANSLATION OF THE ILIAD INTO GERMAN. The second part contains Spreng's new translation of the Aeneid. Hoffmann II, p.337.