Sale 2457 - Early Printed Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, October 17, 2017

124 ● PINDAR; et al. Olympia, Pythia, Nemea, Isthmia. Caeterorum octo lyricorum carmina. Greek text with Latin translation. 576; 432 pages. 2 parts in one volume. 24mo, 117x56 mm, later 17th-/ early 18th-century vellum boards; margins trimmed without text loss, contents toned. Stamps of St. Mary Magdalene Church, Breslau, on verso of titles, and P. Prevost on endpapers. [Geneva]: Henri Estienne, 1560 [1,000/2,000] FIRST ESTIENNE EDITION of the Greek lyric poets. GLN-2153; Hoffmann III, 97; this edition not in Schreiber. FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE PHYSICIAN AND HISTORIAN ACHILLES PIRMIN GASSER (1505-77), with his ownership inscriptions dated Augsburg 1561 on the titles, extensive marginalia, monogram on the last page of the second part, and transcription of the Greek text and a Latin translation of the poem on health attributed to Ariphron of Sicyon on the rear endleaves. The donor V. F. noted in Gasser’s ownership inscriptions is conceivably his friend and fellow bibliophile Ulrich Fugger (1526- 84), patron of Henri Estienne and the only Protestant convert in the Fugger banking dynasty of Augsburg. ESTIENNE PRESS, continued