Peter Bichsel   Fine Books

Homer. Homeri omnium poetarum principis Ilias, Andrea Divo Iustinopolitano interprete, ad verbum tranlsata. Herodoti Halicarnassei libellus, Homeri vitam fidelissime continens, Conrado Heresbachio interprete.

With woodcut printer’s device (repeated) and some woodcut initials. (16), 266 leaves. Small 8vo. Contemp. limp vellum with new ties. – Venice, (Melchiorre Sessa, after 1537).

Authoritative Venice edition of Andrea Divo’s translation of Homer’s „Ilias“, first published in 1537. The edition is introduced by Homer’s life by Herodot, translated from the Greek into Latin by the German philologist Conrad Heresbach (1496-1576), who worked for Erasmus and Froben in Basel in the early 1520ies. The book was published without printer’s name or date. The cat depicted in the printer’s device refers to Melchiorre Sessa, active between 1506 and 1549. – Old name on title, clean copy. – Best.-Nr. 27077