Apollonius Rhodius. Argonauticon libri IIII, Greek text with surrounding commentary, woodcut device on title, head-pieces and initials, some light foxing, contemporary limp vellum, soiled, upper cover slightly wormed, [Adams A1316; Renouard 141; Schreiber 188], 4to, [Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1574.

⁂ Important and finely printed edition. Estienne's dedication is to the Dutch humanist Gerard Falckenburg.

Provenance: Thomas B. Criss (book-plate on recto of the front endpaper); Helmut Nathan Friedlaender (book-plate on front pastedown; The Helmut N. Friedlaender Library, Part ii, 24 april 2001, lotto 293). On verso of the front endpaper an old annotation 'Huetius Dem. Ev. prop. 4, c. 7. par. 1. Apollonii Scholiastes, vel potius Scholiastae [... ]', referring to a passage of the Demonstratio evangelica by Pierre-Daniel Huet, "Adde mysteria Cabirorum, non ex Phrygia proecta, nec à Cabiris Phrygiae montibus, quod tradit Apollonii Scholiastes, vel potius Scholiastae [...] sed è Phoenicia" (Demostratio evangelica, Paris 1679, pp. 81-82), which confirms the use, throughout the centuries, of the ????????????? as a geographical source.