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Pandolfini

94 - Virgil. Whatever remains, along with these annotations and commentaries by numerous most learned men. Venice, Paganini, 1515., A fine Venetian incunabulum illustrated with the works of Virgil

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€3,000 - 4,000

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29%

Virgil. Whatever remains, along with these annotations and commentaries by numerous most learned men. Venice, Paganini, 1515., A fine Venetian incunabulum illustrated with the works of Virgil Virgil. All extant works, along with annotations and commentaries by numerous highly learned men. Venice, Paganini, 1515. Folio (312 x 210 mm); [7], CLXVII; [7], 236, [1] leaves. Two title pages with elegant woodcut frames on a criblé background, wood-engraved vignettes, numerous illustrated initials (6 leaves missing; foxing; tears restored in some cases with minor loss; some leaves shorter; signs of age.) Half-leather binding on cypress boards with traces of clasps (spine restored). This edition includes the complete works of the Latin poet, enriched with figurative vignettes and elaborate woodcut initials. The text is accompanied by commentaries from the most authoritative humanists of the sixteenth century: the *Bucolics* and the *Georgics* with commentaries by Servius, Donatus, Mancinelli, and Beroaldo; the *Aeneid* with those by Servius, Domitius, and Beroaldo Ascensio. An early post-incunabulum illustrated Venetian edition of Virgil’s works

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Auction details

Books, manuscripts, and autographs
Thursday, November 19
10:30 AM
Via Manzoni, 45
20121 Milan, Italy

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Pandolfini +39 0 55 23 40 888 libri@pandolfini.it
On Drouot for 1 year avec More than 11,000 lots published

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