HOMER (?8th century B.C.). Opera. Edited by Herodotus, who has also appended the Life of Homer. Venice: Lucantonio Giunta,1537. 3 parts in 2 volumes, 8º (158 x 95mm). Woodcut device on title of volume I and on title and last page of part 1 in volume II. (Quire 2 misbound in part 3, last page in vol.II rather spotted and stained.) Early 19th-century red straight-grained morocco, flat spines gilt, red edges. Provenance: Dukes of Devonshire (Chatsworth bookplate).
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HOMER (?8th century B.C.). Opera. Edited by Herodotus, who has also appended the Life of Homer. Venice: Lucantonio Giunta,1537. 3 parts in 2 volumes, 8º (158 x 95mm). Woodcut device on title of volume I and on title and last page of part 1 in volume II. (Quire 2 misbound in part 3, last page in vol.II rather spotted and stained.) Early 19th-century red straight-grained morocco, flat spines gilt, red edges. Provenance: Dukes of Devonshire (Chatsworth bookplate).

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HOMER (?8th century B.C.). Opera. Edited by Herodotus, who has also appended the Life of Homer. Venice: Lucantonio Giunta,1537. 3 parts in 2 volumes, 8º (158 x 95mm). Woodcut device on title of volume I and on title and last page of part 1 in volume II. (Quire 2 misbound in part 3, last page in vol.II rather spotted and stained.) Early 19th-century red straight-grained morocco, flat spines gilt, red edges. Provenance: Dukes of Devonshire (Chatsworth bookplate).

THE CHATSWORTH COPY. Adams H-749; Camerini 407; Hoffmann II, p.315 ('Eine schöne , seltene u. geschäzte Ausg.’).