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Published by Printed for Jacob Tonson, London, 1697
Seller: Liber Antiquus Early Books & Manuscripts, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. FIRST EDITION. An exceptional, and exceptionally large, "large paper" copy. This copy is complete with the engraved frontispiece, the extra plate depicting Vergil reading the Aeneid to Augustus, and all 101 of the magnificent engraved plates by W. Hollar called for in this edition: ten in the Bucolics, twenty in the Georgics, and seventy-one in the Aeneid. Bound in 17th-century paneled calf, very nicely rebacked in the 18th-century. The spine is separated into eight compartments, ruled and tooled in gold, by raised bands. There are two spine labels, one in red and one in green morocco, tooled in gold. The boards are framed by a single gold fillet. Internally, this copy is in superb condition with very little of the browning associated with this edition. The great majority of leaves are crisp, lily-white and wide margined. In fact, this is the largest, and cleanest copy that we have had the pleasure to handle. There are a few incidental marginal tears, only one of which -now mended- enters an engraving (opposite p. 261.) The final leaf is ink-stained. "Dryden's 'translation of Vergil'" says Pope, (whose own translation of Homer was inspired by Dryden's work) "is the most noble and spirited translation I know in any language." (Thomas) "The book was published by subscription, a system of joint-stock patronage now coming into vogue. [.] Dryden's correspondence with [his publisher] Tonson showed a good many bickerings during the publication. One cause of quarrel was Tonson's desire that the book should be dedicated to William III. Dryden honourably refused; but Tonson had the engravings adapted for the purpose by giving to Aeneas the hooked nose of William (Dryden, Letter to his son, 3 Sept. 1697)." (DNB) "Shakespeare probably knew at least the earlier books of the 'Aeneid' in Latin, while Milton's 'Paradise Lost' attempts to provide an English equivalent not only for Vergil's epic themes but even for his syntax, diction, and as far as possible, meter. But in Britain he was also particularly well-served by translations. In the seventeenth-century the epic was translated by Dryden." (Gian Biagio Conte's "Latin Literature, A History").
Published by Printed by Thomas Creede, London, 1607
Seller: Liber Antiquus Early Books & Manuscripts, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Bound in an exquisite binding of eighteenth-century mottled calf, highly polished and beautifully tooled in gold along the edges of the boards. The spine is separated into six compartments by the raised sewing supports, each of which, aside from that bearing the citron morocco label, is decorated with attractive floral tools. The large gilt armorial crest consisting of a Pegasus head and wings "LTHD" on upper cover, earl's coronet and "EDDE" on lower cover. The edges of the text block are stained a solid red. The binding is in exceptional condition, with only the slightest bit of wear. The text itself is in excellent condition. The text of the poem is set in Black Letter and is adorned with attractive woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces throughout. Creede's woodcut printer's device appears on the title page. Excellent. Provenance: Tollemache, Earls of Dysart, Helmingham (supralibros, engraved armorial bookplate on title verso, note on front pastedown in hand of Lionel Tollemache, fourth Earl). This is the fourth complete printing (first 1584) of the first complete English translation of Virgil's "Aeneid", translated by Thomas Phaer (c. 1510-1560), who was responsible for the first nine books, and Thomas Twyne (c.1500-1581), who translated the final three after Phaer's death. The Phaer-Twyne translation was preceded by Gavin Douglas' version in Scots (1553) and a fragmentary verse translation (books 2 and 4) by Henry Howard, Duke of Surrey (1557). "The complete translation of the 'Aeneid' by Thomas Phaer and Thomas Twyne has every reason to be considered the central English Renaissance 'Aeneid.' The publication history tells the story succinctly. Whereas no other translation of Virgil was printed in England more than twice until the 1650s (and only the Earl of Surrey's translation of Book 4 was printed more than once in England during this time), the translation by Phaer and Twyne went through eight editions, running from 1558 through to 1620. It influenced the translations by Richard Stanyhurst (1582), Sir John Harington (1604) and Sir Thomas Wroth (1620), and it was still one of the most important subtexts for John Vicars' 'The XII Aeneids of Virgil' (1632). Much as the translation by Annibale Caro came to dominate the market for Virgil in Italian, the Phaer-Twyne 'Aeneid' became the English standard. It was not until the eighteenth century that any English translation of Virgil's epic went through more editions. "That this translation would become so successful would have been difficult to predict from its inauspicious beginnings. The initial translator, Thomas Phaer, was a physician and solicitor in the Marches of Wales. He published nothing else in verse and would have made an unlikely candidate for a great interpreter of Virgil. Nevertheless, in 1555 he began work, hoping to be the first to 'sette open' the gate so that future translators could follow. Although Phaer seems to have been aware of both the Middle Scots translation by Gavin Douglas and the two books by the Earl of Surrey, he presented his version of the Aeneid as the start of a new line of translations. By December 1557, Phaer had completed a version of Books 1-7. He had these printed in 1558. By April 1560, he had completed up to the end of Book 9. But late in that spring, he suffered a riding accident that ruined his hand and would soon cost him his life. "Before his death on 12 August, he sent all that he had finished of his translation - which was then up to line 286 of Book 10 - to William Wightman, a friend of his in Pembrokeshire. This friend fervently believed in Phaer's literary gifts and, after Phaer had passed away, he searched the deceased's house for any trace of remaining verses. But there was none to be found. In 1562, Wightman resigned himself to publishing what he had of Phaer's Virgil, hoping that another author might complete the project. Just over a decade later, the work was taken up by Thomas Twyne, who was a physician in London.
Published by The Cranach Press, Weimar, 1927
No. 105 of 225 copies (Nos. 201 to 225 were not for sale). There was also a German edition and a French edition. Folio. 116p. Printed on Maillol-Kessler paper hand-made from pure hemp fibre and linen, and sold by Emery Walker. Eric Gill designed and cut the title and lettering around and fourteen initials ornamented by Maillol. With forty-three illustrations drawn and cut in wood by Aristide Maillol (1861-1944). Set by Erich Dressler and Walter Tanz in Jensen roman and Johnston italic. Bound in full crimson crushed morocco with simple vertical gilt spine title of artist and author, t.e.g. (The binding is signed in blind on the rear turn-in which is hard to decipher, but we believe it to be W.L. Smith & Sons). The Book as a Work of Art, The Cranach press of Count Harry Kessler, no. 67; The Artist & The Book, no. 172. Occasional light spotting to the text, else fine with slight bumps to outer corners No. 105 of 225 copies (Nos. 201 to 225 were not for sale). There was also a German edition and a French edition.
Published by Typis Mannianis, Florentiae [Florence], 1741
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
FIRST EDITION. 260 x 175 mm. (10 1/8 x 6 7/8"). 2 p.l., xxxv, [1], 459 pp. With the half title. RICHLY GILT CONTEMPORARY SLATE BLUE MOROCCO with wide filigree frames formed by multiple decorative rolls, floral centerpiece composed of small tools, raised bands, gilt compartments with fleuron centerpiece surrounded by small tools, curling cornerpieces, one compartment with date "1743," another with gilt titling, gilt-rolled turn-ins, marbled endpapers. Engraved title, medallion portrait on printed title, historiated engraved headpiece and initial, engraved typographic specimen in the text, decorative tailpiece. Printed in red and black. Front pastedown with book label of Gulielmi [William] O'Brien and library label of Milltown Park Jesuit Library; title page with the library's ink stamp. Forbes Collection, p. 9; Updike I, 171; Dibdin II, 551; Schweiger II, 1174; Brunet V, 1291; Graesse VII, 341. â Tiny chip to head of front joint, extremities a little rubbed, the boards with variable fading, but the once-splendid binding solid and still glittering with gilt. Isolated minor marginal smudges or stains, but A VERY FINE COPY INTERNALLY, clean, crisp, and quite bright, with deep impressions of the type. This is Joseph Manni's intriguing attempt to give an exact textual and a convincing paleographical replication of the most important and complete ancient manuscript of Virgil, the famous "Codex Mediceus" in the Laurentian Library in Florence. As such, it is the first typographic facsimile of any manuscript, and qualifies as an important event in the history of printing. The manuscript is written in rustic capitals, which are imitated with some success in this typographic facsimile by a specially fabricated font of type; marginal and interlinear corrections are also included. The "Codex Mediceus" is of particular importance because it is complete except for the first part of the "Eclogues" (which are supplied here from another source) and because it is one of the few more or less precisely dated Latin literary manuscripts: a note in it says it was reviewed or corrected by Tucius Rufius Apronianus Asterius, who was one of the consuls in 494. This book is seldom found, as here, in an appealing contemporaneous binding.
Published by Robert Estienne, 1532
Seller: Athenaeum Rare Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. P. Virgilii Maronis Opera. Mauri Servii Honorati grammatici in eadem commentarii. Castigationes. (Paris, Robert Estienne, 1529-32). Folio (320 x 218 mm). [13], 707, [62], [6], 205, [24]. Roman type. Small woodcut printer's device to collected titlepage, full-page woodcut printer's device to the Castigationes. Woodcut criblé initials throughout. 19th century half calf over marbled boards with vellum-tips, spine divided by blind-ruled raised bands into seven compartments, gilt-lettered and ruled red morocco label in second compartment, gilt-lettered direct to tail of spine. Mild soiling and browning to edges of leaves, occasional marginal annotations and marking to text in an early hand. Overall a fine and wide-margined copy in a simple yet attractive binding. The first work from Robert Estienne's press to contain the three sizes of Roman type attributed to Claude Garamont, and an early example of the magnificent full-page printer s device of the scholar at the olive tree with the full tag noli altum sapere, sed time ("be not high-minded, but reverent"), which first appeared in his Bible of 1527/8. The Castigationes of Pierio Valeriano Bolzani (1477-1558), first printed in Rome in 1521, were originally issued by Estienne in 1529, and the unsold copied were included with the 1532 Virgil (as indicated on the collected title-page and thus not strictly, as often claimed, two works bound as one). Bolzani was a prominent Italian humanist, tutor to the nephews of Leo X (Giovanni de' Medici), and secretary to Cardinal Giulio de' Medici (the future Clement VII). Bolzani published widely (including a treatise on the vicissitudes of the intellectual life), but is most famous for his early work on Egyptian hieroglyphs, following upon the discovery in the 15th century of the Hieroglyphica of Horapollo. While editions of Virgil were legion in the first hundred years of printing, Estienne's 1532 Virgil stands out for the quality of the text-including the first critical edition of the commentary of Servius-as well as the beauty of the typography. While austere in some regards (Estienne's editions of Classical texts lack the florid woodcut illustrations that were popular in certain quarters), Esitenne's main audience were the humanists and scholars of the nascent French renaissance, and his role in advancing humanist learning would soon be rewarded when François 1er appointed him Royal Printer. Renouard 37/12 and 30/14.
Published by Apud Simonem Benard, Ex Typographia Dionysii Thierry, Paris, 1682
Seller: Liber Antiquus Early Books & Manuscripts, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. A very fine copy, bound in contemporary mottled calfskin, the spine elaborately and richly tooled in gold. The spine is separated into compartments by raised sewing supports. The second compartment bears a large red morocco label beautifully tooled in Roman capitals: "RUAEI VIRGILIUS". The boards are framed by two decorative rules. The binding is in excellent condition with only light wear, the corners lightly bumped. Internally, the text is in very good condition, with occasional light foxing and toning. There is a small dampstain in the gutter in the first two signatures of the Aeneid. The engraved frontispiece, with a central scene showing Arion and the dolphin (an allusion to the Dauphin) and a medallion portrait of Vergil, is just a trifle foxed. Engraved vignettes introduce the Bucolics, Georgics & Aeneid. A pleasing copy of the Delphin Virgil, edited by the great Jesuit orator and classicist Charles de la Rue (Carolus Ruaeus) (1643-1725). The "Delphin Classics" were dedicated to Louis de France, "le Grand Dauphin" (1661-1711). The series was the work of thirty-nine scholars and was edited by Pierre-Daniel Huet, who was working with Jacques Bousset, tutor to the Dauphin. SECOND EDITION of the Delphin Vergil; this issue was printed "Ex Typographia David Roger 1689.".
Published by John Baskerville, Birmingham, 1771
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
First Edition
Second edition of Baskerville's first ("perhaps finest") book; 4to, pp. [10], 432; contemporary full mottled calf neatly rebacked, preserving the old red morocco label on spine; a bit of spotting to the prelims, but a very good copy nonetheless. This second edition, virtually identical, was (surreptitiously?) printed by Baskerville ca. 1771, which is identified by the positioning of the letter J in Johannis in the imprint. The first edition has the J between the B and the I in Birminghamiae; in the second edition it is to the left of the B. Gaskell 2: "The second edition, unlike the first, is a rare book.".
Published by Gedrukt by Kornelis Dyvoort, Stads Drucker, Tot Gouda, 1671
Seller: Stony Hill Books, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Small quarto measuring approx. 8x6 inches [20x15 cm] bound in full vellum-covered boards, 4 leaves, 1-300 pages, [4] pages "Redestryd"; series title page for "Uitsteeckendste Wercken" of Virgil precedes the regular title page [photos]; binding square and tight, pages clean and unmarked, engraved portrait of Virgil before page 1; I cannot find this edition in WorldCat, some occasional ownership marks, but nothing offensive; scarce.
Published by heirs of Marchio Sessa, Venice, 1604
Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. A-D8 E4 F-N8 A-Z8 2A 12 2B-2Q8 2R10. 322 II. Woodcut initials and illustrations. Folio (209 x 195 mm). 18th century morocco, spine gilt, gilt dentelles, a. e. g. A few minor paper flaws and 2 repairs at margins at end, else fine. A handsome edition in a very attractive and well-preserved binding.
Published by London: T. Rickaby for T. Payne et al., 1793
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 4 volume set. Large paper set, 24 x 15 cm. Bound in contemporary red, straight-grain, morocco leather. Gilt ruled. 5 raised spine bands. All edges gilt. Minor shelf wear / rubbing to bindings. Engraved frontispieces, title vignettes, as well as two additional engraved plates in vol. 1. Collated: vi, cclv, [1], 566; xciv, 820; [2], 730; [2], 259, [1], 704, [4] pages. Contents: T.1 Bucolica Et Georgica; T.2 Aeneidos, Lib. I.-VI; T.3 Aeneidos, Lib. VII.-XII; T.4 Carmina Minora. Minor foxing, browning, mostly to prelims. Bookplate of Revd. John Longe, Coddenham, Suffolk (1765-1834). Later book plate of Humphry and Mary Ward (1851-1920). John Longe, Coddenham, Suffolk (1765-1834). Later book plate of Humphry and Mary Ward (1851-1920). Mary Ward was a British novelist and founding President of the Women's National Anti-Suffrage League. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.
Published by Foulis Press, 1778
Seller: Athenaeum Rare Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Folio (370 x 250 mm), 6, 277, 307. Roman type. Late 19th / early 20th century green crushed morocco by Period Binders of Bath, spine divided by gilt-tooled raised bands into six compartments, compartments with double-gilt fillets enclosing a broken fillet and stylised floral motif, boards with matching double gilt fillets enclosing a broken fillet with elaborate fleur-de-lys at corners, inner dentelles double ruled and gilt-tooled. Spine slightly faded, lacking half-titles and list of subscribers, occasional light foxing and browning to page edges. Peter Burmann the Elder (1668 1741), and his nephew peter Burmann the Younger (1713 1778), were a dominating force in European Classical scholarship in the 18th century, and were responsible for the publication of many variorum editions of Latin texts. At his death, Peter Burmann the Elder left his edition of Virgil unfinished, and it was brought to completion and published by his nephew at Amsterdam in 1746. As typical of all Foulis editions, the bare text is printed, without any scholia or commentary. A gracious folio Virgil from the fabled Foulis press in a resplendent binding. Gaskell 639.
Published by Johannis Baskerville, Birmingham, 1766
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
8vo, pp. [2], 388; engraved frontispiece; contemporary red straight-grain paneled morocco, gilt-lettered direct on smooth gilt-decorated spine, interlocking gilt border on covers, a.e.g.; pages foxed, a little wear at the extremities, but in all a nice copy with a painting on the fore-edge of a country manor house atop a knoll, surrounded with trees; the painting seems a trifle faded, but it is likely 19th century, possibly done at the time this book was given as a prize to William Semicot Brickwell, Trinity College, Oxford, 1818. With a later engraved bookplate of R. Nash Brickwell. Gaskell 34.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
3 Volumes. Romae 1763-65. Numerous partial page copper plates including initials; map, 16.75 x 11.5", old polished calf with gilt spines; labels, xcii, 211; C, 336, XXIV; 343 w/index, EX-LIBRARY, bookplates only, hinges tender, spine labels defective,s pines well worn, covers worn with some leather peeling, some text soiling & spottind but mostly clean.
Published by typis excudit J.F. Dove, veneunt apud Ricardum Priestley, Londini, 1821
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
4 volumes, royal 8vo (identified by Lowndes as the Large Paper issue), contemporary full tree calf, covers with ornate gilt borders, smooth spines in 6 compartments, red morocco labels in two, a.e.g.; joints starting, minor wear at the spine ends; Vol. 1 front board reattached; but all in all a handsome set. Volume 1 is Bucolica et Georgica; vols. 2 & 3 comprise The Aenid; and vol. 4 the Carmina Minora and index. Lowndes IV, 2728.
Published by Apud Andream Wechelum, Paris, 1572
Seller: BLACK SWAN BOOKS, INC., ABAA, ILAB, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.
Full Leather. Condition: Very Good binding. Two 16th century edictions of classical texts, Virgil's Georgics and Bucolics, printed by Andreas Wechelus who was active in Paris as a printer and bookseller from 1554 to 1573, and then in Frankfurt. In an early, if not contemporary, calf binding with boards double-ruled in blind to the perimeters with embossed with a decorative device in the centers. The title pages with Wechsel's printed device featuring Pegasus. There is a significantly later title label at the spine, and the holes from clasps. Pastedowns are of printed waste paper. Lacking endsheets. The Georgics dedicated to Charles, Cardinal of Guise and Lotharingen. Very Good binding.
Published by Hackius, 1661
Seller: Athenaeum Rare Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Opera Omnia cum Notis Selectissimis Variorum Servii, Donati, Pontani, Farnabii, etc. (Amsterdam, Hackius, 1661). 8vo (190 x 125 mm). [16], 1015, [37]. Roman type, engraved title page, decorative initials. Full 19th century hard grained red morocco extra gilt. Spines divided into six compartment by raised gilt-ruled bands. Compartments elaborately tooled in gilt, gilt lettered direct in second compartment and foot of spine. Boards double-ruled in gilt with extensive gilt-stamped floral border and elaborate central lozenges. Board edges with gilt hatching, richly-tooled inner dentelles with a triple border. All edges gilt. Spine slightly darkened, corners lightly bumped. A notable 17th century Dutch Variorum edition of Virgil in a lavish 19th century binding.
Published by Horse Press, 1995
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Four volumes. Hardcover, bound in full calf, recased. Prior owner name and institutional markings on the first blanks and title pages; occasional light foxing. Marginal ink spot on volume two fold-out map and facing page. [M21-BasRep].
Published by apud G. Hamilton & J. Balfour, Edinburgh, 1755
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
8vo, 2 volumes; pp. [4], 209, [3]; [5], 212-447, [3]; contemporary speckled calf with gilt borders and spine in 6 compartments, red morocco label in 1, marbled edges and endpapers; joints just starting, armorial bookplate of Hugh Rose Young of Kilravock. A very good, handsome set.
Published by Venice: Hippogryphium., 1578
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Condition: Good. Folio. Woodcut on title page and at the head of each chapter. 389 leaves, lacking folios 386 and 388. Printed by Petrus Dusinellus. Calf-backed boars.
Published by Henry Justice, The Hague, 1765
First Edition
Hardcover (Full Leather). Condition: Very Good Condition. J.L. de Boubers (illustrator). First Edition. Full contemporary paneled calf, marbled endpapers, page edges painted yellow. front hinges rubbed and cracked but intact, one lettering piece lacking and the other cracked, spines a bit dry. Slight foxing occasionally but generally fine internally and entirely engraved throughout. Full page plates, head and tail pieces, and vignette illustration throughout. Folding map in volume II. Five volumes bound in two. The first Justice edition of Virgil, engraved throughout in imitation of John Pine's Horace (1737) and published at Justice's great expense between 1757 and 1765 (the final work done after Justice's death in 1763.). Justice was a prolific book collector and occasional book thief - the latter got him expelled to the colonies in 1736 and later commuted to life in exile on the continent. His wife (the travel writer Elizabeth Justice) wrote a thinly disguised autobiographical novel about the difficulties of living with a man who would rather destroy their lives than quit buying books (Amelia, or the Distressed Wife, 1751). Size: Octavo (8vo). Illustrator: J.L. de Boubers. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Poetry. Inventory No: 047101.
Published by J.L. De Boubers, n.d., Bruxellis, 1800
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
First Justice edition, 5 volumes, 8vo, contemporary full straight-grain morocco, gilt-lettered direct on gilt-paneled spines; engraved throughout, and printed on rectos only, with title vignettes, head- and tail-pieces, and historiated initials by G.M. Pitteri after Fidance and C.F. de La Traverse; folding map in vol. II engraved by Herman Condet; vol. V has imprint "aere & sumtibus Guilielmi Iustice, Henr.F." and his dedication, dated The Hague, 1765; spine a little darkened, but overall a very good set, each volume with the engraved bookplate of William Everett. The last volume is an index by Chr. Saxius; it also contains Justice's dedication of the work to Catharine II the Great of Russia. A reimpression of the original edition of 1757-1765, with de Boubers' imprint added at foot of the title-pages.
Published by Paris: Thierry., 1668
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Condition: Good. 4to. 266, 116 pp. Engraved frontispiece by Landry after Baroc. Includes the letter by Bochart. Contemporary calf with coat of arms. Spine defective, else very good, with rubbed extremities.
Published by Plantin, 1575
Seller: South Willington Book Cartel, WILLINGTON, CT, U.S.A.
Association Member: SNEAB
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Virgil, Publius Maro Vergilius Maro, P. Virgilius Maro, Et in eum Commentariones, & Paralipomena Germani Valentis Guellii.Appendix, cum Josephi Scaligeri Commentarius & Castigationibus. Antwerpiae Ex officina Christophori Plantini, Architypographi Regii. M.D.LXXV. [12], 630, [16]; 98, [4] pages. Folio, contemporary calf with scrapes. Covers re-attached, spine replaced with coated cloth. Errata list after index of main work, Separate title page, pagination and signing for the Scaliger work. Marbled end-papers and edges. A great early scholarly edition, with extensive commentary accompanying each passage. "The folio edition of 1575 is magnificent and valuable, containing, for the first time, the commentaries of Valens, Guellius, and an appendix of the Corrections of Joseph Scaliger." - Dibdin II, pages 546-47; Adams V506.
Published by Uitgeverij Orion, Brugge, 1978
Hardcover (Full Leather). Condition: Near Fine Condition. Ianchelevici (illustrator). One of 750 custom bound by P.A.J. VAN DAALEN in green morocco stamped to resemble a tree trunk, green woodgrained endpapers, illustrations, often double page, by Ianchelevici. Gilt lettering on spine. Signed by the translator and illustrator. A few faint marks to binding, smudge to colophon page in margin, housed in a leather clamshell box with modest wear and sunning. Size: Folio. Illustrator: Ianchelevici. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: 047312.
Published by apud G. Hamilton & J. Balfour, Edinburgh, 1743
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
12mo, pp. 7, [1], 335, [1], 19, [1]; contemporary full crimson straight-grain morocco, double gilt rules on covers, gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 2, a.e.g., gilt turn-ins; lightly rubbed, but near fine. Engraved armorial bookplate of "Kinnaird.".
Published by B. Giunti et Fratelli, Venice, 1581
Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Later binding, vellum spine. Title mounted. Dampstaining to later portions.
Published by Gul. Pickering, Londini, 1821
Seller: G. W. Stuart, Jr., ABAA(emeritus), Yuma, AZ, U.S.A.
8.3 cm. tall, octavo, contemporary polished quarter red roan, red cloth, top edge gilt, complete with the frontispiece, and both the printed and the engraved titles, as well as the tipped in corrigenda slip at end, very nice. This is the rarest of all the Diamond Classics. According to Spielmann, all but 100 copies perished in a fire at the printer's. It furthermore is rare to find an absolutely complete copy as this. In fact, the Bell copy lacked the printed title which of course our copy has. Keynes Pickering, page 93; Spielmann 502. Very rare.
Published by impensis Gul. Pickering, Londini, 1821
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
First Pickering edition, issued in his Diamond Classics series and printed in Diamond type by C. Correll; 48mo (8 cm.), pp. 283, [1]; generally fine in contemporary and probably original pebble-grain green morocco gilt, a.e.g., ribbon bookmark. One of the rarest of Pickering's Diamond Classics; most of the edition burned in a fire. Pickering's first book in the Diamond Classics series was his Horace of 1820. Editions of Virgil and Cicero appeared in the following year (the Virgil being first) and in 1822 he published Petrarch and Tasso. Terence and Dante followed in 1823 and Horace was reprinted in 1824.The series continued, later including English authors, until 1831. Keynes, p. 93.
Published by John and Robert Pine, London: 1774., 1774
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. pp. 15, 144, 3 + Plus numerous full-page and folding engraved plates. Illustrated throughout with engraved vignettes, culs-de-lampe, etc. Normal foxing and off-setting. Tall 8vo. [221 x 135 mm.] Contemporary full leather binding, worn. Lacks original spine label. Generally, Very Good. "Containing only the Bucolics and Georgics, this work was left unfinished by old Pine, and was published by his son Robert" - Dibdin II, p. 561. Probably, in realit y, somewhat scarcer than Pine's justly famous Horace.**PRICE JUST REDUCED! W153 Language: eng.
Published by sumtibus Caspari Fritsch, Leipzig
Seller: Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA, El Cerrito, CA, U.S.A.
Varietate lectionis et perpetua adnotatione illustratus a Chr. Gottl. Heyne. Accedunt indices. Editio novis curis emendata et aucta. 1799-1800. 6 vols. complete (lxii776; lxxxviii, 740; 724; 576; vi, 538; 798p.), b/w illus., a.e.g., uniformly bound in black bucrkram with gilt spine lettering. Contents: v. 1, Bucolica et Georgica. v. 2, Aeneidis libri I-IV. v. 3, Aeneidis libri V-VIII. v. 4, Aeneidis libri IX-XII. v. 5, Carmina minora. v. 6, Indices.