Homer's Ilias [Iliad]: by Homer; Johann Heinrich Voss - 1844 Sterotyp-Ausgabe. Mit einer Karte von Troja

x, 666 pp. Small octavo [6¼ x 5¼ inches], 33 Stereotype plates and a fold-out map of Homeric Troy. Some plates exceed the height of the text block and are folded at the bottom, one has become worn at the bottom (not returned to its folded position for some while). The book has been rebacked at some point with a nice quarter-leather gilt lettered rounded spine. The marbled paper-covered boards still show some of the original leather on the worn fore-edge corners. An appealing volume with clean text and numerous attractive plates, Very Good. Voss originally published his translations of the Odyssey and Iliad in 1781 and 1793 and they are still being reprinted.
"Singe den Zorn, o Göttin, des Peleiaden Achilleus, Ihn, der entbrannt den Achaiern unnennbaren Jammer erregte, Und viel tapfere Seelen der Heldensöhne zum Aïs Sendete, aber sie selbst zum Raub darstellte den Hunden, Und dem Gevögel umher. So ward Zeus Wille vollendet: Seit dem Tag, als erst durch bitteren Zank sich entzweiten Atreus Sohn, der Herrscher des Volks, und der edle Achilleus."