POETAE GRAECI -- Poetae Graeci principes heroici carminis, & alii nonnulli. Homerus, Hesiodus, Orpheus Callimachus [and others]. [Geneva:] H. Estienne and H. Fugger, 1566. 2 volumes in one, 2º (363 x 216mm). With the blank 3T4. Small woodcut title device. (Light browning.) Contemporary German blindstamped half pigskin and black-dyed vellum, 3 black spine labels, green edges (extremities worn). Provenance: indistinct 16th-century inscription on the rear endpaper -- Basil Zölner, Leipzig 1604 (inscription on front endpaper) -- 'Simon' (indistinct title signature) -- Beilby Thompson (Escrick bookplate).

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POETAE GRAECI -- Poetae Graeci principes heroici carminis, & alii nonnulli. Homerus, Hesiodus, Orpheus Callimachus [and others]. [Geneva:] H. Estienne and H. Fugger, 1566. 2 volumes in one, 2º (363 x 216mm). With the blank 3T4. Small woodcut title device. (Light browning.) Contemporary German blindstamped half pigskin and black-dyed vellum, 3 black spine labels, green edges (extremities worn). Provenance: indistinct 16th-century inscription on the rear endpaper -- Basil Zölner, Leipzig 1604 (inscription on front endpaper) -- 'Simon' (indistinct title signature) -- Beilby Thompson (Escrick bookplate).

'UNQUESTIONABLY HENRI ESTIENNE'S TYPOGRAPHIC MASTERPIECE' (Schreiber). Adams P-1699; Renouard 126; Schreiber 160.

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