1543 HOMER ILIAD antique 16th CENTURY VERY RARE EDITION transl by Helius Eobanus

Poetarum omnium seculorum longe principis Homeri Iliad, hoc est, de rebus ad Troiam gestis descriptio, iam recens Latino carmine reddita.

Paris, Jacques Bogard; 1543


52 Lvs.

A handsome marbled calfskin binding from the 17th century with a gold-embossed spine label, marbled endpapers.

- Not published by Adams and Pettegree & Walsby.
Not in the electronic catalog of the Bibliotheque nationale.-

Apparently a very rare edition of the first three books of the Iliad in the first Latin translation by one of the greatest Neo-Latin poets of his time, Helius Eobanus (real name Koch; 1488-1540), a native of Halgehausen in Hesse.
Eobanus's complete translation was published in Basel by Robert Winter in 1540.

Size about 4 by 6 1/4 inches

Text in Latin
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