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Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
VERGILIUS MARO, PUBLIUS. Opera quaecunque extant. Commentary by Servius, Aelius Donatus, Antonio Mancinelli, Filippo Beroaldo, Domizio Calderini, Agostino Dati, and Josse Bade. Titles within woodcut white-on-black strapwork border; 2 woodcut text illustrations; woodcut white-on-black strapwork and other ornamental initials throughout. [7] (of [8]), 168; [7] (of [8]), 237 (of 238) leaves; lacks a8 (blank?) and blanks 2A8 and 2a8. Printed in upright italic type. 2 parts in one volume. Folio, 297x200 mm, late 18th-/early 19th-century vellum boards, recased, endpapers renewed; varying and occasionally quite heavy browning, dark dampstaining in gutter of opening leaves, few small wormholes through approximately 50 leaves toward beginning not impairing legibility, scattered dark stains, general title soiled with minor restoration along fore edge, small hole in K1 affecting a few words. (Venice: Alessandro Paganini, 1515)
