Nov 12, 2013 - Sale 2330

Sale 2330 - Lot 50

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
VERGILIUS MARO, PUBLIUS. L'Eneide. [8], xxiii, [1], 273, [1]; 295, [2] pages, including errata leaf at end. 2 volumes. 8vo, 215x141 mm, contemporary sheep gilt with morocco lettering pieces, spines damaged at top and slightly wormed at bottom. Bookplates of Emilio Pitaluga. Parma, 1790-93

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first edition of an Italian version of the Aeneid by Clemente Bondi. Brooks 400. with an als from bondi, in Italian, to the Parma bookseller Jacques Blanchon, requesting him to send a copy of his Vergil translation to Domenico Antonio Pacchioni in Reggio. One page, 4to, with integral address leaf. Mantua, 3 August 1791.