VIRGILE.
Opera, nunc emendationa. Leiden, Elzevier, 1636. Small in-12, long-grained red morocco, boards framed with a border drawn by a roulette between two double fillets crossing in the corners, spine decorated with a thousand-dot decoration in the boxes, inner twisted roulette, lining and endpapers of green moire, gilt edges (Thouvenin).
First Elzevirian edition, the text of which has been revised by Daniel Heinsius, decorated with a title-frontispiece (Willems, n°450.)
Beautiful binding by Thouvenin.
From the libraries of Henri Beraldi (bookplate, not listed in the first catalog of his sale) and R. Zierer (bookplate).
Missing the map of Aeneas' navigation opposite p. 92. Minor spotting and small russet mark on p. 189.
