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159714746Leiden 1597. 8vo. Franciscus Raphelengius Late 18th-century gold-tooled red morocco with the title lettered in gold on the spine gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins gilt edges purple front endpapers red silk reading ribbon. With Raphelengius' Plantin's printer's device on the title-page decorated woodcut initials and the text is partially set in Greek script. 2 parts in 1 volume. 1 1 blank 86 376 32; 8 344 164 3 1 blank pp. 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.l 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. ABE CAT Falconry & Hunting unknown