Vergil, Bucolica, Georgica, Venice, Giunta, 1531, later half calf

Publius Vergilius Maro

Bucolica, Georgica, Aeneis cum Servii commentariis accuratissime emendatis... Venice: Lucantonio Giunta, [March 1531]

4to (200 x 140mm.), containing the Eclogues and Georgics only, woodcut of Vergil presenting the Aeneid to Augustus on title-page, woodcut printer's device at foot of title-page, woodcut illustrations, early nineteenth-century half calf over patterned paper boards, lacking all of Aeneid and first leaf of Georgics (A1), slight staining and worming, some leaves cut close or slightly shaved at head, some leaves becoming loose

LITERATURE:

Edit16 34766; this edition not listed in Sander

PROVENANCE:

obscured inscription on title-page; Quirinus Candelorius ex Stavisiis[?], inscription on title-page dated 1803