VIRGILE. - Lot 122

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VIRGILE. - Lot 122
VIRGILE. The Works of Virgil, translated from Latin into French and newly printed, revised and corrected after the previous printings. With the Histories put and posed each one in its place so that one will be able to see in the book, which are very entertaining. Se vend à Paris, chez Arnoul Langelier, imprimé chez Jean Petit, 1540, 2 parts in one volume in-4 bound in full later speckled calf, smooth spine decorated with fleurdelisé patterns, boards decorated with a cold decoration. 2 folios of illustrated title and preamble, followed by 76 leaves + 125 leaves with two columns, illustrated with 158 woodcuts including a large one on the title page of the "Enéydes". Small stain on one leaf, slight marginal halos, central and marginal reinforcement on the first endpaper, which includes handwritten notes written at the time, and some skilful restorations to the title and preamble leaves, ff.XXII, and ff.VII and LXXII of the Aeneidae. Leaf XXXI (F1) is missing as well as the end blank leaf bearing the mark of the printer Jean Petit.
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