May 04, 2023 - Sale 2635

Sale 2635 - Lot 294

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 700
Virgil, trans. John Martyn (1699-1768)
Georgicorum Libri Quatuor. The Georgicks of Virgil, with an English Translation and Notes.

London: Printed for the Editor by Richard Reily, 1741.

First edition, large quarto, illustrated with thirteen full-page colored plates including maps, farming implements, botanical illustrations, and a chart of constellations, (some colored by hand, others with printed stipple color); bound in full contemporary Italian parchment over stiff boards, 11 1/4 x 9 in.

ESTC T67044.