Books and Manuscripts

[Homer] Hadrianus Junius
Copiae cornu sive oceanus enarrationum Homericarum, ex Eustathii in eundem commentariis concinnatarum
Basel: (Hieronymus) Froben, 1558. Two parts in one volume. Folio. (viii), 571, (1); 360, (88) pp. With a general title-page and separate title-page for the Odyssey. Froben's device on each title-page as well as verso of p. 571 and verso of rear blank. With woodcut initials and tail-pieces throughout. Full 18th-century tan diced russia, stamped in gilt, chipping and light wear to spine and corners; all edges gilt; marbled endpapers; Chatsworth book-plate on front paste-down; contemporary gift inscription of Henricus Botterius at bottom of title-page, dated August 27, 1595; contemporary inscription on verso of front blank; contemporary marginalia throughout, some marginalia at front erased; occasional light dampstaining in bottom corner of text. 

A handsome copy of Hadrianus Junius's Greek-language edition of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey containing the abridged commentaries of Byzantine Greek scholar Eustathius of Thessalonica, and with a preface by English scholar and president of Magdalen College, Oxford, Lawrence Humphrey. 

Rare to auction.