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Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. Original Edition. An edition of a masterful translation by Robert Fitzgerald first appearing in1981. A very nearly 'as new' copy - bright, fresh, unmarked, no wear except for a lower corner crease to the front cover. This book, while meeting the weight restriction, is too thick to qualify for Canada Post Lettermail - rate shown - therefore additional postage may be needed, the amount depending on destination, speed and other factors. We will notify enquiries, of the correct postage needed. We use three postal systems and shop them for the best rates - charging our cost - or less. This new rate may be accepted or declined. Image available. [We have available, at reasonable pries] Fine Prints from Dryden's Translations of the Aeneis, Pastorals and Georgics]. …

Hardback or Cased Book. Condición: New. The Trades Union Congress, 1868-1921; 0. Book.

1st Folio Society Edition. Near fine copy in the original cream linen cloth. Titles on spine with portrait on front panel. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Some very light surface stains evident on front panel. In a slipcase which has some light edge dulling. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 96 pages; 96p. : ill. ; 26cm. Subjects: Didactic poetry, Latin -- Virgil -- Translations into English. Agriculture -- Rome -- Poetry. 1 Kg.…

1st Edition in this form. Fine cloth copy in a very good, if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 145 pages; Description: 145 p. Subjects: Tibullus --Translations into German. Elegiac poetry, Latin --Translations into German. 1 Kg. …

PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Second printing with corrections (as stated upon copyright page). xii, 448 pages. Hardcover; H 22.25cm x L 14.25cm. Dust jacket rubbed with slight scuffing at edges and along front flap fold, light soiling to white rear panel. Green cloth with bright gilt stamping, slight scuffing at spine head, light mottling at tops of boards. Light staining to black top edge. Interior pages are clean and binding is firm. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. …

1st Folio Society Edition. Near fine copy in the original cream linen cloth. Titles on spine with portrait on front panel. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Some very light surface stains evident on front panel. In a slipcase which has some light edge dulling. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 96 pages; 96p. : ill. ; 26cm. Subjects: Didactic poetry, Latin -- Virgil -- Translations into English. Agriculture -- Rome -- Poetry. 1 Kg.…

1st Edition in this form. Fine cloth copy in a very good, if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 145 pages; Description: 145 p. Subjects: Tibullus --Translations into German. Elegiac poetry, Latin --Translations into German. 1 Kg. …

PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condición: AS NEW. Etat de NEUF / AS NEW condition 3906769356 9783906769356 1036D 5.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Hard. First American Edition. This is a VG hardcover first American edition in contemporary calf with gold rules and lettering on the spine. Volume 1 only. Latin text + English text + notes in English on each page. Photos on request.

Hard Cover. No Jacket. First Thus. HARDBACK NODustJacket, 1979, 1st Edition THUS, Fine/F- condition, NOJACKET, A nice clean copy, Bound Grey Decorated Genuine LEATHER cover and accented with 22kt gold, Gold Gilt lettering and Design as well as page edges GILT. Spine Cvr 4 Raised Bands with Gilt, Oversized 6.75 X 10 in. approx, Interior Nice Tight Clean , Nice Sound Binding, 397 pgs, NO marks, or bookplate, Acid-neutral paper, .RustOrange Silk Moire satin Endpapers and attached satin ribbon bookmarker. …

Condición: Good. First Edition. VELLEIUS PATERCULUS, Marcus (c. 19 B.C.-c. A.D. 30). Historiae Romanae. Edited by Friedrich Haase (1808-1867). Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1870. Editio altera (Second Edition), of Haase's revised Teubner recension, first published in 1851. Small octavo; xii, 124 pp. Contemporary quarter dark blue cloth over marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt; patterned endpapers. Text in Latin. Velleius Paterculus's surviving Roman history extends from the legendary aftermath of the Trojan War to A.D. 30. Particularly valuable for the late Republic and the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius, it was written by a Roman soldier, senator, and historian who had served under Tiberius. Haase's scholarly recension includes an extensive index of names and subjects. Contents generally clean and unmarked, and age-toning with scattered foxing, primarily to the preliminary leaves and title page. Binding remains sound and square. Boards rubbed; wear to the spine ends, corners and edges. A Good copy. [Attributes: Hard Cover.]. …

Condición: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered silver back and front. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains [xv], 272 pp with 2 maps, 6 figures, and 30 monochrome plates throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ROMAN EMPIRE (Romanum). …

Full Leather. Condición: Very Good. Two volumes in one. Pp. 4 p.l., 277, [1] blank; [4], 307, [3] subscriber's list. With half-titles, but lacking final blank. Bound in recent full calf, bordered by a single blind fillet within a gilt roll tool, spine with blind-tooled panels between a single gilt fillet and dotted roll, raised bands, gilt label, new endpapers, marbled edges. Light toning to leaves, but overall a fine, fresh copy of the esteemed Foulis edition. "The folio edition presents us with the text of Burman, printed in a correct and magnificent manner." (Dibdin) Gaskell 639. Dibdin II 558.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Caii Velleii Paterculi quae supersunt ex historiae Romanae voluminibus duobus. Ex editione Petri Burmanni fideliter expressa, Glasguæ, in aedibus academicis excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis, M.DCC.LII. (1752), small 4to, 4¿ (w) x 6¿ (h) 251pp., recent calf reback, five raised bands with contrasting label, gilt title and bands, original calf boards, slight browning on title page, handsome binding. …

Condición: Fair. Parisiis : Apud Fredericum Leonard typographum Regis, Serenissimi Delphini, & cleri Gallicani, via Jacobaea, 1675. Sm 4to leather with 5 raised spine bands with gilt decoration to the compartments. 151pp. Latin. Frontis, title-page illustration of a lamassu with the above inscription "Virtute invidiam vince" meaning "overcome with envy", (Printer's Device of Frederic Leonard). Fair copy. Edges quite worn, corners scraped and lacking leather to all but the spine's upper compartment and portions of the lower. Boards rubbed and scratched. 4 previous owner's names/inscriptions to the front endpapers with a 4"x1.5" clip to the upper corners. And owner's name and stamp to the front pastedown with 2 additional inscriptions to the title page. 2 additional names to the rear endpapers. Light pencil marginalia. The paper remains fairly nice considering the books age with only minor browning/staining. Inquire if you need further information.…

LeatherBound. Condición: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 204. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1893 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 204.…

Leatherbound. Condición: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 204. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1900 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 204.…

Condición: Very Good. Hard back binding in fairly modern half brown leather covers, gilt and scarlet morocco title label to the spine. 3 volumes bound in 1. Thick 8vo. 8'' x 5¼''. Contains [xv] 280; [xvi] 464; [xvi] 163 printed pages of German text. Light foxing to teach title page and end papers and in Very Good clean and tight condition. Scarce complete three volume series published over a seven year period. Member of the P.B.F.A. PHILOSOPHY.…

First Edition. Good copy in a contemporary binding of polished calf. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat worn and dulled as with age. Generalized surface marks and scuffs to boards. Remains of a small gilt-blocked leather label to spine. Raised bands and spine compartments uniformly tooled in gilt. Gilt-tooled coat of arms on front and rear panels with gilt decorative borders. Some surface staining evident to on back panel. Front and rear hinges starting. Internally, pages are very clean, with some dust-toning and light tanning evident in margins as with age. There is some marginal water staining evident in the last few pages of the index - text unaffected. Considering the age of this title, it remains particularly well-preserved overall. Further scans, images etc. and additional bibliographical material available on request.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 151 pages; Physical description: [30], 151, [89] p., frontis. ; 25cm. Subjects: History, Ancient -- Rome -- History -- Early works to 1800. Notes: With engraved frontispiece depicting a ship and a dolphin (emblem of the Dauphin), signed: "L. Cossin sculp." Woodcut title vignette with motto 'Virtute invidiam vince' (printer's device), initials, head- and tailpieces. Language: Latin. Referenced by: BM STC French, 1601-1700, V166. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Good copy in a contemporary binding of polished calf. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat worn and dulled as with age. Generalized surface marks and scuffs to boards. Remains of a small gilt-blocked leather label to spine. Raised bands and spine compartments uniformly tooled in gilt. Gilt-tooled coat of arms on front and rear panels with gilt decorative borders. Some surface staining evident to on back panel. Front and rear hinges starting. Internally, pages are very clean, with some dust-toning and light tanning evident in margins as with age. There is some marginal water staining evident in the last few pages of the index - text unaffected. Considering the age of this title, it remains particularly well-preserved overall. Further scans, images etc. and additional bibliographical material available on request.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 151 pages; Physical description: [30], 151, [89] p., frontis. ; 25cm. Subjects: History, Ancient -- Rome -- History -- Early works to 1800. Notes: With engraved frontispiece depicting a ship and a dolphin (emblem of the Dauphin), signed: "L. Cossin sculp." Woodcut title vignette with motto 'Virtute invidiam vince' (printer's device), initials, head- and tailpieces. Language: Latin. Referenced by: BM STC French, 1601-1700, V166. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Bound in 16th c. blind-tooled quarter-pigskin over wooden boards with 2 clasps (one clasp slightly defective, binding soiled and stained, with scratches to the boards and loss to the pigskin at the foot of spine.) All four works annotated in Latin with some Greek by a 16th c. reader (slightly trimmed at outer margin), with headlines and occasional notes in red by a 15th c. reader. The 16th c. reader has also neatly added Antonio Mancinelli?s prefatory poems (argumenta) on the opening leaf of both the Juvenal and the Persius. Texts with scattered soiling and light foxing. Persistent damp-stain in the upper margin of the volume (generally mild but darker in places) and another dampstain in the lower margin of the second work, leaving a tideline in some gatherings. Other minor points as follows: in the first work (Virgil) there are a few wormholes in the opening gatherings and a hole in upper blank margin of leaf a2 (not affecting the text). Gatherings r and F with some browned leaves; 2 lvs. with light ink spots; other spots in lower margin of gatherings E-G. Second work: first leaf soiled, dampstain in the lower outer corner of some gatherings. Third work (Persius): minor ink stain to a7-8, a few leaves foxed. Fourth work (Terence): first leaf of text heavily foxed, last leaf foxed and soiled. I. Virgil In addition to Virgil?s works (Georgics, Eclogues, and Aeneid), the continuation of the Aeneid written by Maffeo Vegio (1407-1458), and the ancient commentary by Servius, this edition also contains the spurious poems referred to collectively as the ?Appendix Virgiliana?, as well as the collection of obscene and explicit poems, addressed to or spoken by the phallic garden-god Priapus, known as the ?Priapeia? ISTC iv00180400 (locating 13 copies, none in North America); Copinger (Incunabula Virgiliana) 66; Copinger (Hain supplement) 6058; Davies & Goldfinch 64; C(IVir) 66; Kallendorf (Early Printed Virgil Editions from 1500-1800) 33; Mambelli 76; IGI 10225; IBE 6128; Madsen 4113; Oates 2144; Pr 5518; BMC V 544;BSB-Ink V-130;GW M49838 II. BOUND WITH: Juvenal [Juvenalis, Decimus Junius] (60-130) Satyrae. Comm: Domitius Calderinus. Add: Domitius Calderinus: Defensio adversus Brotheum Venice: Bartholomaeus de Zanis, 3 Oct. 1487 Folio: [62] lvs. Collation: a?i6,k8. Complete with the final blank. The Satires of Juvenal, with a preface, commentary, and life of Juvenal by the Veronese humanist Domizio Calderini (1447-1478), as well as Calderini's attack on his fellow humanist N. Perotti, and his defense against charges of plagiarism leveled against him by Angelo Sani Sabino. ISTC ij00652000; Goff J652; HC 9699*; Zehnacker 1375; IGI 5591; IBP 3317; SI 2337; CCIR J-85; Sajó-Soltész 1996; Madsen 2405; Sallander 1814; Ernst(Hildesheim) II,IV 37; Voull(B) 4244; Kind(Göttingen) 412; Walsh 2251; Bod-inc J-303; Sheppard 4159; Pr 5154; BMC V 430;BSB-Ink I-686;GW M15819 III. BOUND WITH: Persius Flaccus, Aulus (34-62) Satyrae. Comm: Johannes Britannicus and Bartholomaeus Fontius Venice: Petrus de Quarengiis, Bergomensis, 13 Apr. 1495 Folio: [48] lvs. Collation: a8, b-h6, g4. Complete. The satires of Persius with Renaissance commentaries by Giovanni Britannico and Bartolomeo Fonzio. ISTC ip00357000; GW M 31404. BSB-Ink P 252. Schweiger II, 706. Hain/Cop. 12739 IV. BOUND WITH: Terence [Terentius Afer, Publius ] (ca. 195 ? ca. 159 BCE) Comoediae. Prelim: Petrarca, Vita Terentii; Epitaphium Terentii Parma: Genexius del Cerro, 31 July 1481 Folio: [72] lvs. Collation: a8, b6, c8, d6, e8, f6, g8, h6, i6, k6, l4. Complete. The comedies of the African playwright and former slave Terence. It includes Petrarch?s life of the author and the ancient, first-person account of Terence?s life, the ?Epitaphium Terentii.? FOUR INCUNABULA BOUND IN ONE VOLUME, the Virgil bound first, followed by editions of the satirists Juvenal (60-130) and Persius (34-62), and the comic playwright Terence (ca. 195 ? ca. 159 BCE). See below for full descriptions.…

Quarto. (iv), 168p. Dedicated to Count Agostino Negri. Illustrated by Antonio Vecchia with vignette title and four plates engraved by Crisoforo Dall'Acqua. In a contemporary binding of full green polished calf with stripped paper end leaves, the spine in 6 panels with gilt decorations and the initials "V. G. over T", the covers with borders of flowers and trailing vines and a central coat-of-arms inlaid in red leather with the initials "G. B. C." surmounted by a gilt crown. Binding with old wear, but quite sound and presentable, title page with minor soiling, remainder bright.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Bound in contemporary alum-tawed pigskin over beveled wooden boards, (binding rubbed and soiled, one clasp broken.) The binding is signed a dated "C.B. 1540". The boards are ornately tooled in blind with decorative rolls: sheaves of wheat, ornate urns, and female personifications of the virtues Justice, Prudence, Chastity and Honor (represented by Lucretia). This volume, announced as "Pars prima" on the title, contains the full texts of Virgil's Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid, as well as the commentary of Servius. In his letter to the reader (on the verso of the title page) the publisher, Johann Walder, explained that a second volume, with the annotations and commentaries of learned scholars, was soon to follow. However, no such volume ever materialized. The edition is based on that of Giovanni Battista Egnazio (Cipelli) (1478-1553), Italian orator, author, and professor of eloquence in Venice from c.1520-50, whose edition was printed at Venice in 1507. Walser has included Egnazio's original introduction and letter to the reader. The text of the Virgilian poems is surrounded on three sides by the ancient commentary of Servius (4th c. A.D.), a work of indispensable value for our understanding -and reconstruction- of Virgil's text. Walder's printer's device (a parrot sitting on a branch) appears on the title page and the final leaf. The text is decorated with small, very fine woodcut historiated initials. Eclogues 6 through 9 have been annotated by a sixteenth-century reader. Internally a fine copy with wide margins and only minor blemishes as follows: title a little soiled and with neat inscriptions, a few small marginal stains in gathering a, small rust marks on leaves Z3 and 4, a few other trivial marginal stains on scattered leaves, and a small round oil stain and a light dampstain to the final five leaves. Title with stamp of the Oratoire de France, École de Théologie. 19th c. ownership inscription on flyleaf. There is a 16th c. ownership inscription on the title page, "Iohannes Conradus ab Ulm, Scaphusianus". This is certainly the Swiss reformer Johann KonradUlmer, of Schaffhausen (1519-1600), who went to Basel to study in 1537, lodging with the theologian and classicist Simon Gyrnaeus. It is in Basel that Ulmer would have purchased this copy of Virgil. The annotations in the Eclogues are almost certainly his.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. A very fine, complete copy, bound in 17th century French blind-ruled calfskin, the spine ruled and tooled in gold with attractive floral ornaments; red morocco label in second compartment, board edges also tooled in gold. With discreet repairs at the head and foot of spine, some signs of wear to the extremities and boards, corners bumped. Two parts in one volume with titles printed in red and black within fine architectural woodcut borders. Illustrated with 207 large woodcut illustrations (64 in the first part and 143 in the second part.) A full-page woodcut of Virgil with the muse Calliope appears on the recto of 1. Fore-edge of title discreetly strengthened on verso. Owner's stamp (Emmanuel Michel.) at foot of title, a second stamp on the blank margin of the following leaf., 17th c. inscription on title. The woodut illustrations were made for Grüninger's 1502 edition of Virgil (the first illustrated Virgil.) The book, edited by Sebastian Brant, was extraordinary in the number and variety of its illustrations. "Grüninger's artist applied to the work a skilled hand and a lively imagination The blocks must have passed to Saçon at Lyon shortly after the printing of the Strasbourg 1515 edition of Thomas Murner's German translation of the 'Aeneid,' described in Murray's catalogue of German books, vol. 2, no. 426 The block of Virgil and Calliope is from the title page of the 1502 edition."(Mortimer) This edition is illustrated with 208 of the original 214 woodcuts made for the 1502 edition. Subsequent to this edition, the number of woodcuts decreased (due to breakage and wear.) In the 1529 edition, for instance, the number had decreased to 196. An entirely new set of woodcuts (copies of the originals, though of lesser quality) was created by the Giunta firm at Venice in 1519. "The subtle detail of [the] woodcuts would certainly escape the spectator who could not read the text and seem, rather, calculated to appeal to one whose familiarity with the poems would allow him to appreciate precise visual allusions. In several cases, Brant's work incorporates details drawn from the commentators' interpretations. As a humanistic scholar, he is said to have placed the stamp of his own thorough knowledge of Virgil upon the book by providing master sketches for the illustrators."(Eleanor Winsor Leach). FIRST LYON BADIUS EDITION. The third edition with the original woodcuts.…

No. 105 of 225 copies (Nos. 201 to 225 were not for sale). There was also a German edition and a French edition. Folio. 116p. Printed on Maillol-Kessler paper hand-made from pure hemp fibre and linen, and sold by Emery Walker. Eric Gill designed and cut the title and lettering around and fourteen initials ornamented by Maillol. With forty-three illustrations drawn and cut in wood by Aristide Maillol (1861-1944). Set by Erich Dressler and Walter Tanz in Jensen roman and Johnston italic. Bound in full crimson crushed morocco with simple vertical gilt spine title of artist and author, t.e.g. (The binding is signed in blind on the rear turn-in which is hard to decipher, but we believe it to be W.L. Smith & Sons). The Book as a Work of Art, The Cranach press of Count Harry Kessler, no. 67; The Artist & The Book, no. 172. Occasional light spotting to the text, else fine with slight bumps to outer corners No. 105 of 225 copies (Nos. 201 to 225 were not for sale). There was also a German edition and a French edition.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Bound in an exquisite binding of eighteenth-century mottled calf, highly polished and beautifully tooled in gold along the edges of the boards. The spine is separated into six compartments by the raised sewing supports, each of which, aside from that bearing the citron morocco label, is decorated with attractive floral tools. The large gilt armorial crest consisting of a Pegasus head and wings "LTHD" on upper cover, earl's coronet and "EDDE" on lower cover. The edges of the text block are stained a solid red. The binding is in exceptional condition, with only the slightest bit of wear. The text itself is in excellent condition. The text of the poem is set in Black Letter and is adorned with attractive woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces throughout. Creede's woodcut printer's device appears on the title page. Excellent. Provenance: Tollemache, Earls of Dysart, Helmingham (supralibros, engraved armorial bookplate on title verso, note on front pastedown in hand of Lionel Tollemache, fourth Earl). This is the fourth complete printing (first 1584) of the first complete English translation of Virgil's "Aeneid", translated by Thomas Phaer (c. 1510-1560), who was responsible for the first nine books, and Thomas Twyne (c.1500-1581), who translated the final three after Phaer's death. The Phaer-Twyne translation was preceded by Gavin Douglas' version in Scots (1553) and a fragmentary verse translation (books 2 and 4) by Henry Howard, Duke of Surrey (1557). "The complete translation of the 'Aeneid' by Thomas Phaer and Thomas Twyne has every reason to be considered the central English Renaissance 'Aeneid.' The publication history tells the story succinctly. Whereas no other translation of Virgil was printed in England more than twice until the 1650s (and only the Earl of Surrey's translation of Book 4 was printed more than once in England during this time), the translation by Phaer and Twyne went through eight editions, running from 1558 through to 1620. It influenced the translations by Richard Stanyhurst (1582), Sir John Harington (1604) and Sir Thomas Wroth (1620), and it was still one of the most important subtexts for John Vicars' 'The XII Aeneids of Virgil' (1632). Much as the translation by Annibale Caro came to dominate the market for Virgil in Italian, the Phaer-Twyne 'Aeneid' became the English standard. It was not until the eighteenth century that any English translation of Virgil's epic went through more editions. "That this translation would become so successful would have been difficult to predict from its inauspicious beginnings. The initial translator, Thomas Phaer, was a physician and solicitor in the Marches of Wales. He published nothing else in verse and would have made an unlikely candidate for a great interpreter of Virgil. Nevertheless, in 1555 he began work, hoping to be the first to 'sette open' the gate so that future translators could follow. Although Phaer seems to have been aware of both the Middle Scots translation by Gavin Douglas and the two books by the Earl of Surrey, he presented his version of the Aeneid as the start of a new line of translations. By December 1557, Phaer had completed a version of Books 1-7. He had these printed in 1558. By April 1560, he had completed up to the end of Book 9. But late in that spring, he suffered a riding accident that ruined his hand and would soon cost him his life. "Before his death on 12 August, he sent all that he had finished of his translation - which was then up to line 286 of Book 10 - to William Wightman, a friend of his in Pembrokeshire. This friend fervently believed in Phaer's literary gifts and, after Phaer had passed away, he searched the deceased's house for any trace of remaining verses. But there was none to be found. In 1562, Wightman resigned himself to publishing what he had of Phaer's Virgil, hoping that another author might complete the project. Just over a decade later, the work was taken up by Thomas Twyne, who was a physician in London.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. A very fine copy, bound in contemporary mottled calfskin, the spine elaborately and richly tooled in gold. The spine is separated into compartments by raised sewing supports. The second compartment bears a large red morocco label beautifully tooled in Roman capitals: "RUAEI VIRGILIUS". The boards are framed by two decorative rules. The binding is in excellent condition with only light wear, the corners lightly bumped. Internally, the text is in very good condition, with occasional light foxing and toning. There is a small dampstain in the gutter in the first two signatures of the Aeneid. The engraved frontispiece, with a central scene showing Arion and the dolphin (an allusion to the Dauphin) and a medallion portrait of Vergil, is just a trifle foxed. Engraved vignettes introduce the Bucolics, Georgics & Aeneid. A pleasing copy of the Delphin Virgil, edited by the great Jesuit orator and classicist Charles de la Rue (Carolus Ruaeus) (1643-1725). The "Delphin Classics" were dedicated to Louis de France, "le Grand Dauphin" (1661-1711). The series was the work of thirty-nine scholars and was edited by Pierre-Daniel Huet, who was working with Jacques Bousset, tutor to the Dauphin. SECOND EDITION of the Delphin Vergil; this issue was printed "Ex Typographia David Roger 1689.". …

Edition : First Basel Edition, Expertly restored contemporary full vellum; rebacked expertly saving the original spine, spine raised with five bands and gilt lettered title on morocco label on two; edges sprinkled red; endpapers renewed. , Text in Latin. Some in Greek. Vergilius Maro Publius Bucolica, Georgica, and Aeneis, commentary of Tiberius Claudius Donatus and Maurus Servius Honoratus, with introductory texts by Hiob Magdeburg, Diomedes Grammaticus, and the editors Christopherus Caseanus and Matthias Marcus Dabercusius. This rare edition, with one copy in Berlin?s ?Monumenta Germaniae Historica? and another at the University of Basel, is not listed in most reference books. The Roman poet Publius Vergilius Maro (c.70?19 BC) wrote three of the most famous poems in Classical Latin literature the Eclogues or Bucolics, the Georgics, and the Aeneid. A number of minor poems, collected in the Appendix Vergiliana, are sometimes attributed to him. Virgil is traditionally ranked as one of Rome's greatest poets. His Aeneid has been considered the national epic of ancient Rome since the time of its composition. Virgil's work has had wide and deep influence on Western literature, most notably Dante's Divine Comedy, in which Virgil appears as Dante's guide through Hell and Purgatory. Following his death, Augustus ordered Virgil's literary executors, Lucius Varius Rufus and Plotius Tucca, to disregard Virgil's own wish that the poem be burned, instead ordering it published with as few editorial changes as possible. As a result, the text of the Aeneid that exists may contain faults which Virgil was planning to correct before publication., Size : folio (269x180mm). , Illustrated with initial woodcuts throughout; majority of text in two attractive concentric rectangular frames generally extending over two pages, with the outer in Italic font for commentary and the inner poetry in Roman type. , Unobtrusive, faded ink note in contemporary hand on title; marginalia also at a2 r&v, a4r&v, a6r, c1r. , References : VD16 V 1354; Hieronymus/Petri, Nr. 337; a rare edition ? not in Adams; , [124], 974.; collation: *1r with title, *2-6, **4, tt6, ttt6, tttt6, ttttt5; t5; ttttts4; a-b6, c8; a-z6, A-Z6, Aa-Zz6, Aaa-Lll6, Mm8. An attractive example in very good condition with text clean and crisp; upper cover stained; title expertly repaired; second leaf with marginal reinforcements; small marginal tears at b2, c1,4,5&8; O3&4; R1; small marginal dampstain at c1; marginal soiling at Y4; faint spill not affecting legibility at Q3.…