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ALDINES - Homer. Iliad (graece). With old ankolor. Woodcut printer's mark on title and at end. Venice, Aldus Manutius Heirs and Andreas Torresanus, April 1524. cl.-8°. 16, [40], 277 ll., [1] pp. 18th century leather binding with gilt spine label (rubbed and scuffed, small worm marks to spine cover). Edit16 CNCE 22952 - Adams H 745 - Ebert 9938 - Renouard 98.1 - Aldinen Collection Staatsbibliothek Berlin, no. 392. - Third Homer edition by Aldus, based on the second of 1517, but with some additional errors. Like all editions of the famous printing house a typographical masterpiece. - Also includes the Homerites of Herodotus, Plutarch, and Dio Chrysostom. - Titles stained and with backed margins, the first few leaves with backed wormholes in the upper white margin; lightly browned throughout and somewhat fingerstained in places. Few marginalia, printer's marks each with discreet scribbles by old hand.

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