‎OPPIANUS APAMENSIS (fl. third c. AD) and OPPIANUS ANAZARBENSIS (fl. second c. AD). ‎
‎De venatione libri IIII. - De piscatu. Lib. V. cum interpretaione latina, commentariis, & Indice rerum in utroque opere memorabilium locupletissimo, confectis studio & opera Conradi Rittershusii ... & Scholia Graeca excerpsit.‎

‎Leiden, Ex Officina Plantiniana apud Franciscum Raphelengium, 1597. 8vo (170x100 mm). [44] ll., 376 pp., [16] ll. of index, [4] ll., 344 pp., 164 pp., [2] ll. text in Greek and Latin. printer's device on title. Contemporary vellum, spine with author's and editor's name penned in ink, green edges. Small patch in the spine expertly restored. ‎

Reference : B349232

‎Two famous texts on hunting and fishing in the original Greek with the Latin translations, the learned commentaries and scholia by the German philologist Konrad Rittershausen (1560-1613). Often attributed to one sole author they were in fact written by two different writers: the didactic poem Cynegetica was composed by Oppian of Syria in about 212 and Halieutica by Oppian of Anazarbe (today Korghos) in about 180. Jh. Chr. Funck, ms. owner's entry on title wit motto in Hebrew 'Fear God'. Souhart 359; Adams O-207; Schwerdt II, p. 50; Jagdbibliothek Lindner (2003), 1761. ‎