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Sale 470 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
Nov 2, 2016
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(HOMER) HOBBES, THOMAS
Homer's Odysses, translated by Tho. Hobbes of Malmsbury. With a l preface containing the vertues of an heroique poem. Written by the translator. London: Printed for J. C. for W. Crook at the Green Dragon without Temple-Bar, 1675.Contemorary full leather boards (16 cm. tall), untitled; rear board detached and front hinge starting. With bookplate of M. C. Lang as well as that of the Bibliotheca Homerica Langiana of the University of Chicago Library. Togeher with Matthew Arnold's work On translating Homer. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862.




