P. Vergilii Maronis opera

recensuit, commentariolo et indice instruxit Sixtus Colombo.

by Publius Vergilius Maro, Charles de La Rue, Virgil (pseud.) , Ruaeus, Carolus [de la Rue, Charles] (ed.) , Louis (engr.) Cossin, Virgil

Translations into ItalianPoetryLatin Didactic poetryLatin Pastoral poetryAeneas (Legendary character)Country lifeLatin Epic poetryAgriculture

4to. ff. [2] (blank), [1] (plates), [14] (prelims), pp. 246, 588, [192], ff. [2] (blank). Signatures: â4, ê4, î4, ô2, A-Z4, Aa-Gg4, Hh3, 2A-Z4, 2Aa-Zz4, Aaa-Zzz4, AAaa-DDdd4, EEee2, a-z4, aa4. Contemporary French calf. Gilt filet on boards’ edges. Gilded spine on 5 bars, red panel. Red edges. Signature “A.G.” on first blank. Manuscript note on second blank in French, stating this is a first edition because of its worn aspect and its engraving by Cossin. Engraved title vignette. Four headpieces, engraved initials. Full-page engraved pate (frontispiece) signed "L. Cossin Sculp." Publii Virgilii Maronis Æneis has distinct title page. Part I: Bucolica and Georgica with paraphrase in Latin prose and notes. Part II: Aeneis with paraphrase in Latin prose and notes. Part III: Index vocabulorum omnium quae in Eclogis, Georgicis et Aeneide Virgilii leguntur. </spa

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