Mar 07, 2019 - Sale 2501

Sale 2501 - Lot 271

Price Realized: $ 150
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
VERGILIUS MARO, PUBLIUS. Opera. Edited with notes by Christian Gottlob Heyne. Etched title vignettes and divisional head- and tailpieces; 2 etched plates in first volume. vi, cclv, [1], 566; xciv, 820; [2], 730; [2], 259, [1], 704, [4] pages, including 2 leaves of errata dated 1810 at end of last volume. 4 volumes. 4to, 241x147 mm, contemporary red straight-grain morocco gilt, spines darkened and scuffed, joints worn but sound; varying foxing or browning. Bookplates of Revd. John Longe and Humphry and Mary Ward. London: T. Rickaby for T. Payne et al., 1793

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large-paper set. The preliminary matter in Volume 1 includes a survey of Virgil MSS. and an annotated bibliography of collected editions from the 1469 first edition to 1788.