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ALDINE PRESS. HOMER. Works [in Greek, edited by Aldus Manutius]. Venice: Aldus Manutius 31 October 1504. 2 vols., 8vo, vol. 1 ( Iliad ): 159 x 99 mm. (6 1/4 x 3 7/8 in.), late sixteenth- or early seventeenth-century laced-case binding of vellum over flexible pasteboard, later manuscript lettering on spine (title repeated in two different hands), the Lives of Homer bound in at front, occasional slight soiling, minor dampstaining to quires O-V, upper fore-edge corners of first few leaves ink-stained causing acid damage; vol. 2 ( Odyssey , etc.): 162 x 102 mm. (6 3/8 x 4 in.), late nineteenth-century sheep, covers panelled in gilt and blind, spine defective, joints split, title-leaf rehinged and foremargin restored, scattered soiling and mostly marginal staining, both volumes with edges gauffred and gilt in the sixteenth century . FIRST ALDINE EDITION, reprinted from the 1488 Florentine editio princeps with few corrections, with the lives of Homer by Herodotus, Plutarch and Dion, Greek and italic types, woodcut anchor and dolphin device on titles, spaces for initials with guide letters. Adams H-741; Renouard Alde , p. 46.6. Provenance : Iliad : Pasted down on the first blank page (I1r) is a niello-manner engraving (22 x 37 mm.) of a triton and a nereid by the early sixteenth-century engraver Peregrino da Cesena, signed with his crossed P monogram (Passavant V, p. 211, no. 29; cf. The Illustrated Bartsch , 25:24-29), "Di. Iacopo" inscribed above in a sixteenth-century hand -- Neat Greek marginalia and inscription on front free endpaper in an eighteenth- or nineteenth-century hand -- John L. Blacks(?), 1860, inscription on front flyleaf, list of textual errors apparently in same hand on lower flyleaf. Odyssey : early price annotation on title -- Copious marginalia and underlinings in French and Greek in a twentieth-century hand -- Cortlandt Field Bishop (both volumes), morocco bookplates (sale, American Art Association, New York, part 1, 5-8 April 1938, lot 1010). (2)