HOMÈRE

[The Odyssey and The Iliad]. The Odyssey of Homer translated from Greek into French by Claude Boitel Paris, Veuve Matthieu Guillemot, 1617 A BEAUTIFUL COLLECTION OF THE ILIAD AND THE ODYSSEY IN THE TIME OF THE ASTRYUS: IN STRICTLY MOSAICKEN BINDING OF THE TIME [with:] The Iliad of Homer prince of the Greek Poets, with the continuation of it. Together the Ravissement d'Helène, sugiect de l'histoire de Troie. The whole of the translation and invention of the Sieur du Souhait. Paris, Pierre Chevalier, 1620 2 works in 2 volumes in-8 (176 x 104mm). The Odyssey is dedicated to Cardinal de La Rochefoucauld (1) : first edition of Claude Boitel's translation of The Odyssey; (2) : the first edition of François du Souhait's translation of The Iliad dates from 1614 (1 and 2): Woodcut headbands, endpapers, and initials COLLATION: (1): a4 A-Z 2A-Z 3A-B8 3C4; a8 e8 A-Z 2A-Z 3A-Z 4A-L8, with the last leaf blank ILLUSTRATION: (1): title frontispiece and 7 copper engravings; (2): title frontispiece and 3 copper engravings, all by Léonard Gaultier and printed on full page MOSAIC AND UNIFORM BINDINGS STRICTLY OF THE PERIOD, PROBABLY FROM LYON. Brown morocco, large gilt decoration with small irons, diamond pattern and spandrels, mosaics of medallions of red and lemon morocco, framed with a repetition of an iron and bordered with double filets, long spines richly mosaicked with horizontal titling in the upper box, homogeneous endpaper with an imperial watermark with double-headed eagles, gilt edges PROVENANCE: Abraham Perrin (1751-1831, Neuchâtel; armorial bookplate on both volumes) -- Giorgio Nicodemi (1891-1967; bookplate on both volumes), Italian art historian (1): marginal paper loss in N1, small stain in O1.2, a few browned quires; (2): small paper loss in the margin of I3, small tear without loss in 4I2-4, a few quires lightly browned, especially towards the end BIBLIOGRAPHY: not in Brunet WEBOGRAPHY : on François du Souhait : https://l.20-bal.com/istoriya/10604/index.html?page=9