Lot 08022

“ΟΜΗΡΟΥ ΙΛΙΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΟΔΥΣΣΕΙΑ και εις αυτάς σχόλια, ή εξήγησις, των Παλαιών / HOMERI ILIAS & ODYSSEA, Et in easdem Scholia, sive Interpretatio, Veterum. Item Notae perpetuae, in Textum & Scholia, Variae Lectiones, &c. cum Versione Latina emendatissima. Accedunt Batrachomyomachia, Hymni & Epigrammata, unà cum Fragmentis, & Gemini Indices. Totum Opus cum Plurimis MSS. Vetustissimis, & Optimis Editionibus Collatum, Auctum, Emendatum, & Prifcae Integritati Restitutum. Opera, Studio, & Impensis, Josuae Barnes”, Cambridge: Cornelium Crownfield, 1711.

COMPLETE in two Large 4to Volumes, pp. [15], CXXVI, [2], 1-432, 431-937, [104, index] + [7], 1-272, 275-643, [3], 110, [1], [89, index]. A Fine First edition of Joshua Barnes’s Homer in Greek and Latin, with the folding frontispiece in volume 1.

This edition contains considerable prefatory material, including three traditional Lives of Homer, the Contest of Homer and Hesiod, and the first book of the Homeric Questions of Porphyry.

Contemporary full leather, front cover of Vol. 1 detached along with the 3 first leaves, front cover of Vol. II almost detached, external wear. Clean and tight inside.