Pindar, Odes, Rome, Kallierges, 1515, later Italian calf

Pindar

Ολυμπια. Πυθια. Νεμεα. Ισθμια. Rome: Zacharias Kallierges [for Cornelio Benigno], (13 August 1515)

4to (225 x 160mm.), text in Greek, woodcut devices on title-page and on final verso, some printing in red, 2-line initials supplied in manuscript, with both blank leaves, quire A misprinted, eighteenth-century Italian speckled calf, spine gilt in compartments, occasional light foxing

THE FIRST GREEK BOOK TO BE PRINTED IN ROME. The editio princeps of Pindar's victory odes had appeared two years earlier in Venice, printed by Aldus Manutius, though without the scholia included here. Aldus and Kallierges were both renowned for the elegance of their Greek typefaces.

For another work printed by Kallierges, see lot 173 (Thomas Magister).

LITERATURE

Edit16 23572

PROVENANCE

John Ferguson, inscription on flyleaf dated Jan. 15 1889