OPPIAN of Anazarbus and OPPIAN of Syria (C. RITTERSHUSIUS, translator).
Oppiani poetae Cilicis de venatione libri IV. De piscatu libri V.
Leiden, Franciscus Raphelengius, 1597. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With Raphelengius' (Plantin's) printer's device on the title-page, decorated woodcut initials, and the text is partially set in Greek script. Late 18th-century gold-tooled red morocco. [1], [1 blank], [86], 376, [32]; [8], 344, 164, [3], [1 blank] pp.
€ 2,500
A beautiful edition printed in Leiden, nominally published by Franciscus Raphelengius the elder, but in fact printed by his son Franciscus the younger and published by Christophe Raphelengius (1566-1600), grandsons of Christoffel Plantin, featuring parallel Latin and Greek texts, with commentary and translation by Konrad Rittershausen, a German publisher, jurist, and philologist. This work contains the Greek poems of Oppian of Anazarbus on fishing and those devoted to hunting by Oppian of Syria. The two poets were long confused.
With the ex libris book plate of Reinhold Dezeimer on the front pastedown and a manuscript inscription in brown ink on the verso of the second free flyleaf ("Chardon de la Rochette"). The binding shows very slight signs of wear, foxed and browned throughout. Otherwise in good condition. Adams O-207; Brunet IV 195; Leiden imprints, p. 78; Machiels O-69; STCN 840293046 (12 copies, incl. 1 incomplete); Thiébaud 696-7; Typ. Bat. 3873; USTC 423710.
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