[POST-INCUNABULA - FIRST COMPLETE TRANSLATION IN VERSE OF HO - Lot 230

[POST-INCUNABULA - FIRST COMPLETE TRANSLATION IN VERSE OF HOMER'S ILIAD] Poetarum omnium seculorum longe principis Homeri Ilias, hoc est, de rebus ad Troiam gestis descriptio, iam recens Latino carmine reddita, Helio Eobano Hesso Interprete. Basileae (Basel), Robert Winter, September 1540 [colophon]. In-8°, 19th-century red half-chagrin, spine with 4 nerfs decorated with gilt boxes (Verout). α⁶ A-Z⁸ Aa-Pp⁸ Qq⁶ Rr-Tt⁴ (Tt4 blank); [12] pp. including title, 617 pp., [24] pp. Original edition of the complete translation of the Iliad into Latin hexameters by Eoban Koch known as Helius Eobanus Hessus (1488-1540), one of Germany's greatest neo-Latin poets. Old handwritten bookplate on title Ordinis Eremitarum D. Augustini Lovenijetc. (From the Order of Hermits of Saint Augustine of Leuven). Armorial bookplate on vignette early 20th century Camille de Warenghien with his motto "vis unita fortior". Pretty vignette of an armed woman in fine. Some old handwritten notes in fine. Some rare freckling, paper slightly yellowed, light spotting mainly marginal in the second part. Collated complete.