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PINDAR (ca 522-443 B.C.). [Odes]. Olympia. Pythia. Nemea. Isthmia . - CALLIMACHUS. Hymni . -DIONYSIUS PERIEGETES. De situ orbis . - LYCOPHRON. Alexandra, obscurum poema , in Greek. Edited by Aldus Manutius Venice: Aldus Manutius and his father-in-law Andreas Asulanus, January 1513. Aldine 8 o (142 x 86 mm). Collation : * 8 1-23 8 24 4 . 188 leaves, including final blank. Types: 1:80 italic, 90 Greek. Woodcut anchor and dolphin device on title. (Some occasional pale spotting.) 18th-century calf, sides with the arms of Marco Foscarini stamped in gilt, red sprinkled blue edges (rebacked, corners renewed). Provenance : Marco Foscarini (1696-1763), Procurator of Venice and later Doge (binding, inscription in a later hand on flyleaf). EDITIO PRINCEPS of Pindar and Lycophron, second edition in Greek of Callimachus and Dionysius Periegetis. EDITIO PRINCEPS of Pindar's Odes and Lycophron's only surviving poem, second edition in Greek of Callimachus' Hymns and Dionysius Periegetis. Although his copy-texts were faulty, Aldus's edition served as the basis of most subsequent editions until the 19th century. "Pindar was such a famous name that there must have been demand for a printed text. He is, however, a difficult author, and it was not to be expected that the first editor would do much more than reproduce a current text with all its faults... Of the other texts...Callimachus probably appealed to advanced students only, while Dionysius and Lycophron... had been popular in the middle ages, the first as a text-book of geography, the second as a series of riddling prophecies by Cassandra" (Wilson, From Byzantium to Italy , Baltimore 1992, p. 147). Adams P-1218; Ahmanson-Murphy 92; Renouard 64.9.