[Guillaume ROYHIER]. HOME. La Batrachomyomachie..., ou est racontee et descrite la bataille des Grenouilles, & Souris, Traduit nouvellement de Grec en vers François. Small booklet in-4, red Jansenist chagrin, 5-rib spine, interior roulette and fillets, gilt edges ( René Aussourd). Baudrier, IV-382 // Not in Brunet, III-291 // USTC, 41101. (18 f.) / A-D4, E2 / 130 x 186 mm. Rare translation by Guillaume Royhier of a Homeric poem: The Battle of the Rats and the Frogs. Guillaume Royhier, born in 1529, was mayor of Dijon in 1581-1582 and again from 1584 to 1587. The Batrachomyomachie, a comic epic often fancifully attributed to Homer, closely parodies the Iliad, and recounts in decasyllables a fight between rats (here mice) and frogs. It has been widely translated since the 16th century. Very rare edition. Only three copies are known to exist, one in the BnF, one in the Lignerolles catalog (II, 756) and this one. A few stains, some old handwritten annotations on the title and in the margins, underlining in ink.