FR EN
1 / 17
an old book with writing on it sitting on a tablean old book that is laying on a white surfacean open book with a picture of a man on itan old book is open on a table with a white backgroundan open book with a page in it sitting on top of a tablean old open book with writing on it sitting on a white surfacea book open on a table with a white backgroundan open book with a drawing of a lion on ita book open on a table with a white table clotha book open on a table with a white table clotha book open on a table with a white table clotha book open on a table with a white table clotha book open on a white surface with a picture of people on itan open book on a table with a white table clothbible open on a white table with a white backgrounda open book on a table with a white table clothan open book with a picture of a bird on the cover
Maître Philippe AMIGUES - Hotel des Ventes du Tarn

37 - 37- LECTIUS (Jacques, ed.), HOMER, HESIOD, ORPHEUS, etc.
See original version (French)

Estimate €100 - €150
Sale commission
Description
37- LECTIUS (Jacques, ed.), HOMER, HESIOD, ORPHEUS, etc.: ‘Poetae Graeci Veteres Carminis Heroici Scriptores qui extant, Omnes Homerus, Hesiodus, Orpheus…’ Aureliae Allobrogum [Geneva], Pierre de La Rouière, 1606. 2 parts in a substantial folio volume (approx. 35 × 22 cm), collated as 12 ff., 739 pp., 624 pp., 23 ff. Greek text accompanied by its Latin translation. The work brings together, in particular, the works of Homer, Hesiod, Orpheus, Callimachus, Aratus, Theocritus, Moschus, Bion, Apollonius of Rhodes, Oppian, Quintus of Smyrna, Nonnus, as well as numerous other poets and authors of Greek antiquity. Printed in Greek and Roman type, decorated with woodcut headpieces, initials and tailpieces. Old verse galleries, with some loss of text affecting several pages. Missing endpaper. Full contemporary parchment, with a handwritten title in brown ink on the spine. Binding showing some slight wear to the spine. Nevertheless, a fairly well-preserved copy. A RARE FIRST EDITION (complete with both parts of the 1606 edition) of this important anthology of ancient Greek poetry, compiled and edited by the Swiss humanist philologist Jacques Lectius (1560–1611).
See original version (French)
Auto-translation. Refer to original language for legal validity.
About the sale Antique and modern books – comic books
Auction location
Auction time 10/22/2026 at 10:30 AM
Pictures credits: Contact the Auction House
You may also like