Lot no. 231
THEOCRITE. Εἰδύλλια, τουτέστι μικρά ποιήματα ἕξ καί τριάκοντα. Idyllia, hoc est parva poemata xxxvi. Venice, ex officina Farrea [Giovanni Farri], 1543. In-8, stiff vellum, smooth spine, speckled edges (18th-century Italian binding). A fine and rare Venetian edition of Theocritus' Idylls printed in Greek. It is decorated with two typographical marks on the first and last leaves and two calligrams interspersed in a woodcut on ff. 76v° and 78. Without the commentary volume published the same year by Zacharias Kalliergis. Some spotting, f. 5 stained, small lack in margin of last leaf. Last blank leaf missing. CNCE, 53989 - USTC, 858942.
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