HOMERE

HOMERE. The Iliad and the Odyssey. Lugduni, Sebastianum Gryphum, 1541. 2 volumes, new edition of Lorenzo Valla’s translation, illustrated with the printer’s mark on the title and verso of the last leaf. Bound in later full red long-grain morocco, with gilded frieze framing the boards, 5-ribbed spine, red author’s piece, green title page. Rebound copy. Handwritten ex-libris “”Phtelamus”” on the Odyssey covering an old ex-libris and crossed-out ex-libris on the Iliad, label of the Cost. Mametti, bookplate “”Sic vos non vobis mellificatis apes”” [Debie?] and episcopal bookplate.