Homer. Odyssea Graece et Latine, item Batrachomyomachia, Hymni, et Epigrammata. Edidit Samuel Clarke. 2 parts in 1 volume (pagined throughout). 2 Bl., 374 p.; 1 Bl., pp. 375-784, 19 Bl. (l. w.). 24 x 18,5 cm. Calfskin d. C. (spotty, damaged and infested, joints bursted, capitals broken) with RSchild. London, John and Paul Knapton, 1740. Shut up 158. See Graesse III, 328. Lowndes II, 1096f. – First edition of the extensively commented bilingual text edition by the English philosopher and theologian Samuel Clarke (1675-1729); the printing of the Iliads took place already there in 1729. – The stinged frontispiece is missing. A little flecky, title and fl. Sentence stamped.