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Homer. Ilias. Latinis versibus expressa à Raymundo Cunichio Ragusino, Rome: Giovanni Zempel, 1776 [and:] Odyssea. Latinis versibus expressa à Bernardo Zamagna Ragusino, Siena: Pazzini Carli brothers, 1777, 2 works, each with half-title, title-page printed in red and black with engraved portrait vignette of Homer, engraved initials, and head- and tailpieces, Iliad additionally with engraved arms to f4 verso, Odyssey lacking front free endpaper and with tide-mark to lower outer corners, Iliad bound in contemporary half vellum, patterned paper sides, folio (36.8 x 23.2 cm), Odyssey in contemporary vellum, slightly soiled, head of spine defective, folio (33.8 x 21.8 cm), together with: Terence, Comoediae nunc primum Italicis versibus reddiate cum personarum figuris aeri accurate incisis ex MS. codice bibliothecae Vaticanae, Urbino: Girolamo Mainardi, 1736, title-page in red and black with engraced vignette after Fililppo Barigioni, engraved head- and tailpieces and vignettes throughout the text, 6 full-page, the tailpieces signed Domenico Miserotti, lower outer corner of title-page torn away affecting part of imprint, contemporary vellum, marked, wear to extremities, vellum lifting in places, folio (39.6 x 26 cm) (Qty: 3) Provenance: George John Carnegie (1843-1911), 9th Earl of Northesk (bookplates); Samuel Gurney (1885-1968), descendant of the Norwich banking family (book-labels). First editions of these two attractively produced Latin translations of Homer. Although printed a year apart in different cities they are typographically uniform, and a notice on the final page of the Iliad refers to the impending publication of Zamagna's version of the Odyssey.