Sappho. Fragmenta et Elogia, quotquot in auctoribus antiquis Graecis et Latinis reperiuntur, cum virorum doctorum notis integris, cura et studio Johann Christoph Wolf. Qui vitam Sapphonis & indices adiecti. 5 Bl., XXXII, 253 pp., 13 Bl. Title in red and black. With stung frontispiece. 24.5 x 20 cm. Leather d. C. (stronger rubbed and bruised, back cover with flaws, Vdeckel dissolved) with gold plated gold plated RSchild. Hamburg, Abraham Vandenhoeck, 1733. VD18 11598522. Silence I, 285. Brunet V, 1472. Hoffmann III, 346. Dibdin II, 401. – Rare first separate print, hence the editio princeps of the handed down Carmina Sapphos with Greek-Latin parallel text, previously prints of her poems were only published in other collections and together with writings by ancient poets such as Anakreon and Alkäus. With extensive quotations from ancient sources and commentaries as well as notes by the editor Johann Christoph Wolf (1683-1739), professor at the Academic Gymnasium in Hamburg and librarian of the local city library. Beautiful quart print with the portrait of the poet as a frontispiece, surrounded by antique coins with representations of her conterfeis. – In places weakly tanned and only isolated small spots, front inner joint inconceivably reinforced with linen stripes.