Lot n° 114
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THEOCRITE / SIMMIAS of Rhodes. - Lot 114
THEOCRITE / SIMMIAS of Rhodes.
Theocriti aliorumque poetarum Idyllia. Ejusdem epigrammata. Simmiae Rhodii Ovum, alae, securis, fistula. Dosiadis Ara. Omnia cum interpretatione latina. In Virgilianas et Nas. imitationes Theocriti, observationes H. Stephani.
[Genève], chez Henri Estienne, 1579, in-12 bound in restored old basane. Copy slightly short of upper margin. Handwritten bookplate on title.
Estienne based this edition on the Poetae graeci principes of 1566, making several corrections. This is Henri Estienne's only Geneva publication of 1579. Among Simias's poems are the famous Greek rhopalic verse poems with their Latin equivalent, illustrated much later by Apollinaire under the name "Calligrammes". (Brunet V, 782).
From the same year of publication:
- PLUTARCH. Les OEuvres morales et meslées, translatées de grec en françois par Jacques Amyot, évesque d'Auxerre. Tome premier contenant 43 traittez descrits au feuillet suyvant l'Epistre.
A Paris, chez Jacques du Puys, 1579, in-12 bound in full old-fashioned basane, ribbed spine decorated with gilded fleurons, decorative shield on covers.
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