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Ορφεως αργοναυτικα υμνοι και περι λιθων. Orphei Argonautica hymni et de lapidibus curante Andrea Christiano Eschenbachio Noribergense cum ejusdem ad Argonautica notis & emendationibus. Accedunt Henrici Stephani in omnia & Josephi Scaligeri in hymnos notae.

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First Eschenbach edition, presenting the ‘Argonautica Orphica’, an anonymous fourth-century Greek epic probably based on the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius, which had been rediscovered in the fifteenth century by Constantine Lascaris, alongside the Orphic Hymns and the Lithica, describing the properties of gemstones.

The Nuremberg-born Eschenbach (1663–1722) had lectured at Jena in 1687, then spent a period immersed in the libraries at Wittenberg, Helmstädt, and Wolfenbüttel, and in Holland, where he edited the present work. He later returned to the Orphic poems with a critical study in 1702 (see ADB).

Provenance:
The bibliographer, collector, and bookseller John Carter (1905–1975), known for his exposure, with Graham Pollard, of Wise’s forgeries, in An Enquiry into the nature of certain nineteenth century pamphlets (1934); his popular bibliographical lexicon, ABC for Book Collectors (1952 and oft reprinted); and, with Percy Muir, the hugely influential exhibition and catalogue Printing and the Mind of Man (1963 and 1967 respectively). His library was sold at Sotheby’s in 1976.

STCN 840517734.