Lot 63
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VERGILIUS Maro, Publius (70-19 B.C.). Opera. Venice: Lucantonio Giunta, September 1532 - January 1533. 3 parts in one vol., 2° (323 x 217mm). 113 woodcuts in the text, most half-page or larger, printer's device to title-page and final verso, decorative initials throughout, text in double and triple columns, text with commentary surround. (Occasional paper repairs, including wormholes, a little light marginal spotting, a few ink spots.) Italian 19th-century mottled paper boards, mottled calf spine with orange morocco label (spine slightly wormed). Provenance: manuscript pointer in the form of an outstretched arm with pointed finger, the sleeve and ruff drawn in detail on a1r, occasional neat contemporary marginalia.
VERGILIUS Maro, Publius (70-19 B.C.). Opera. Venice: Lucantonio Giunta, September 1532 - January 1533. 3 parts in one vol., 2° (323 x 217mm). 113 woodcuts in the text, most half-page or larger, printer's device to title-page and final verso, decorative initials throughout, text in double and triple columns, text with commentary surround. (Occasional paper repairs, including wormholes, a little light marginal spotting, a few ink spots.) Italian 19th-century mottled paper boards, mottled calf spine with orange morocco label (spine slightly wormed). Provenance: manuscript pointer in the form of an outstretched arm with pointed finger, the sleeve and ruff drawn in detail on a1r, occasional neat contemporary marginalia.
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VERGILIUS Maro, Publius (70-19 B.C.). Opera. Venice: Lucantonio Giunta, September 1532 - January 1533. 3 parts in one vol., 2° (323 x 217mm). 113 woodcuts in the text, most half-page or larger, printer's device to title-page and final verso, decorative initials throughout, text in double and triple columns, text with commentary surround. (Occasional paper repairs, including wormholes, a little light marginal spotting, a few ink spots.) Italian 19th-century mottled paper boards, mottled calf spine with orange morocco label (spine slightly wormed). Provenance: manuscript pointer in the form of an outstretched arm with pointed finger, the sleeve and ruff drawn in detail on a1r, occasional neat contemporary marginalia.

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VERGILIUS Maro, Publius (70-19 B.C.). Opera. Venice: Lucantonio Giunta, September 1532 - January 1533. 3 parts in one vol., 2° (323 x 217mm). 113 woodcuts in the text, most half-page or larger, printer's device to title-page and final verso, decorative initials throughout, text in double and triple columns, text with commentary surround. (Occasional paper repairs, including wormholes, a little light marginal spotting, a few ink spots.) Italian 19th-century mottled paper boards, mottled calf spine with orange morocco label (spine slightly wormed). Provenance: manuscript pointer in the form of an outstretched arm with pointed finger, the sleeve and ruff drawn in detail on a1r, occasional neat contemporary marginalia.

THE MOST POPULAR ITALIAN ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF VIRGIL IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. The superb woodcuts are copied from the blocks designed for Johann Grüninger's Strasbourg edition of 1502. According to Essling (I,i, p.75) the woodcuts were first used in an edition printed by Giunta in 1515, but while he was unable to locate a copy he refers to the quantity and importance of the illustrations therein. Subsequently they were used by Giunta in editions of 1519 and 1522, making this edition their third surviving appearance. The commentaries are by Servius Maurus Honoratus, Tiberius Claudius Donatus, Valerius Probus, Antonius Mancinellus, Agostino Dati, Domitius Calderinus, Filippo Beroaldo, Angelo Poliziano, Christopherus Landinus and Giovanni Piero Valeriano Bolzani. Sander 7668; cf. Mortimer Harvard Italian, 525 (1544 edition).

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