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Eobanus Hessus, Helius. Poetarum omnium seculorum longe principis Homeri Ilias, hoc est, de rebus ad Troiam gestis descriptio, iam recens Latino carmine reddita. Paris, Jacques Bogard, 1543. 8°. 52 fol. pp. Handsome 17th-century marbled calf binding with gilt-stamped spine label (slightly rubbed). Not in Adams and Pettegree & Walsby. Not in the electronic catalog of the Bibliothèque 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 (Koch; 1488-1540) from Halgehausen in Hesse. Eobanus' complete translation was published by Robert Winter in Basel in 1540. - Name stamp "Germain Lemaistre P" on the last leaf.
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Eobanus Hessus, Helius. Poetarum omnium seculorum longe principis Homeri Ilias, hoc est, de rebus ad Troiam gestis descriptio, iam recens Latino carmine reddita. Paris, Jacques Bogard, 1543. 8°. 52 fol. pp. Handsome 17th-century marbled calf binding with gilt-stamped spine label (slightly rubbed). Not in Adams and Pettegree & Walsby. Not in the electronic catalog of the Bibliothèque 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 (Koch; 1488-1540) from Halgehausen in Hesse. Eobanus' complete translation was published by Robert Winter in Basel in 1540. - Name stamp "Germain Lemaistre P" on the last leaf.
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