Poetarum omnium seculorum longe principis. Homeris Ilias, hoc est, de rebus ad Troiam gestis descriptio, iam recens carmine latino carmine reddita, Helio Eobano Hesso intreprete.

16mo: 408 ff. (dampstaining, somewhat cut short shaving marginalias, title sl. soiled, ff. 70-74 , 77-79, 93-94 and 353-54 strongly soiled, tear without lack in f. 169).

Contemp. calf, gilt oval medallion on covers, spine with raised bands (lacks to spine, corners of lower cover bumped).

Very rare Latin edition of Homer's Iliad by the German poet Hessus (1488-1540). Edition shared between the Paris printers Jacques Bogard, Jacques Gazeau and Charlotte Guillard. Our copy with the imprint "sub Sole aureo" of Charlotte Guillard (1485-1557), leading Paris woman printer. At her husband Rembolt's death in 1518 or 1519, she started running the "Soleil d'Or", the first printing house in France where Rembolt had been associated with Ulrich Gering. After the death of Claude Chevallon, her second husband, she ran her own business where she published circa 200 works until her death. With a preface of the translator to the Antwerp merchant Gaspar Schetz (1513-1580) and a postface in Latin verse by Schetz to Hessus. With a contemp. ms. motto on front flyleaf "Gaudet patientia duris".
Ref. Renouard, Imprimeurs et libraires parisiens, V:214. - BP16 112121. - STC French 229. - Pettegree (FB) 74133. - Not in Adams.