Item 10527The Aeneid
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1979. Frontispiece, lxviii, 397p. Original leather with richly gilt boards and spine. Includes the original unused Easton Press bookplate loosely inserted.
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1979. Frontispiece, lxviii, 397p. Original leather with richly gilt boards and spine. Includes the original unused Easton Press bookplate loosely inserted.
Middletown, (Conn.): J. Riley, New York, 1808. Hardcover. Frontispiece, 120p, v, 59p. Original boards with modern brown cloth spine and paper label. Entirely untrimmed edges. Complete as issued with The Bees, from Latin of J. Vaniere: being the Fourteenth book of his Praedium Rusticum. Kallendorf EG1808.2. Old library pocked on.....
London: R. Reily for T. Osborne, 1746. Hardcover. xvi, [1]. 487p, 4p, [12]. Contemporary calf with gilt ruled spine and red title label. Eight engraved plates whereof two are foldout. Seems to lack one plate. Translated by John Martyn (1699-1768) botanist and author. Contemporary ownership signature on the inside front.....
Philadelphia: W. Poyntell, 1804. Hardcover. xx, 610p. Contemporary calf with a gilt ruled spine.The first edition of Virgil printed in America. Kallendorf #LW1804.4. Aside from a small crack in the upper front hinge, a really well preserved binding. Old signature on the inside front blank. Scattered foxing throughout. 8vo -.....
Amsterdam: Ex Officina Elseviriana, 1947. 382p.Publishers tan cloth over boards. Limited to 1000 numbered copies, whereof this is #387. The text follows the Dutch translation by Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679). A fresh clean copy.
Amsterdam: Jacob Wetstein, 1746. Frontispiece, [56], 519p: 706p: 707p: 358p, [372] Contemporary calf with richly gilt spines and marbled end papers. Nicely illustrated. Edited by the Dutch philologist Pieter Burman the younger (1713-1778). Dibdin II p552-553 gives it mixed reviews, but adds that "Ernesti has highly extolled the edition, calling.....
Stockholm: Anders Jac. Nordstrom, 1791. [8], 200p, 324p, 272p. Three volumes bound in one. Contemporary calf over marbelised boards. First complete edition of Virgil's work printed in Sweden and published as a school text. Edited by Carl Akerman who notes in his preface that the delay in the publication is.....