Lectius Jacobius (ed.), “ΟΙ ΤΗΣ ΗΡΩΙΚΗΣ ΠΟΙΗΣΕΩΣ ΠΑΛΑΙΟΙ ΠΟΙΗΤΑΙ ΠΑΝΤΕΣ / POETAE GRAECI VETERES CARMINIS HEROICI […] Homerus, Hesiodus, Orpheus, Callimachus, Aratus, Nicander, Theocritus, Moschus, Bion, Dionysius, Coluthus, Tryphiodorus, Musaeus, Theognis, Phocylides, Pythagore aurea carmina cum fragmentis alioru, Apollonius Rhodius, Oppianus, Cointus Smyrnaeus, Nonni Dionysiaca…”, Aureliae Allobrogum [Geneva], Petrus de la Rouiere, 1606. Folio, pp. [22], 739, [1], 624, [46]. First edition of the most complete published corpus of classical Greek Alexandrian and Byzantine epic poetry, edited by Jacobus Lectius. Text on two columns in Greek language translate in Latin. Woodcut vignettes on title page & colophon. Very beautiful decorated woodcut initial letters, headpieces and endpieces. Contemporary binding: full leather with blind-stamped decorations, spine with raised bands, red edges. External wear, heavily rubbed spine and extremities, joints teared at upper & lower edges. Internal wear, soiled, waterstaining & spotting throughout.