Nov 08, 2007 - Sale 2127

Sale 2127 - Lot 232

Price Realized: $ 900
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
VERGILIUS MARO, PUBLIUS. Bucolica Georgica et Aeneis. Latin text with Italian translation and commentary by Antonio Ambrogi, S.J. 4 engraved plates; text illustrations, head- and tailpieces, and historiated initials throughout. Half-titles. 3 volumes. Folio, 427x294 mm, 19th-century 1/2 black morocco gilt, spine ends and joints rubbed, cover edges worn, Volume 2 front hinge split; some light marginal dampstaining, small embossed institutional stamp at top of titles, card pocket on rear pastedowns, ink blot in outer margin of L3 in Volume 3; bookplates. wide-margined set. Rome: Joannes Zempel for Monaldini, 1763

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Handsomely printed edition. Ebert 23723; Schweiger III, 1179.