SUITE GRAVÉE. VIRGILE. ANTIQUITY. LANG (Georg Jacob), EIMMAR - Lot 111

SUITE GRAVÉE. VIRGILE. ANTIQUITY. LANG (Georg Jacob), EIMMART (Georg Christoph). Erneuertes Gedächtnüs Römischer Tapferkeit an den unvergleichlichen Virgilianischen Helden Aeneas...In Nürnberg, bey L. Loschge, 1688. Two parts in one small oblong in-4 volume. Nineteenth-century half blond basane with corners, spine ribbed, red title and green date, red edges. Rare black copper-engraved suite illustrating Virgil's Aeneid. Published in Nuremberg. It is composed as follows: [3] f. (1st title, "Peplus virtutum romanarum..." and 2nd title, "Erneuertes...", then Vorrede), [12] f. (sign. A-C 4, containing the summary of the 12 books of the Aeneid in Latin and German), 51 copper-engraved plates: [1] title, [1] frontispiece, 49 figures after the letter in black. Bound at the beginning of the volume: "Joannis Samuelis Schoderi... De Publ. Virgilii Mar. Editione Luminosa, Communi Iuventutis Sacratae Bono Imaginum formis recens exhibita, Epistola Praemonitoria...", same address and date, 48 pp. including title. Ex libris in pen "Richard M. Jones" (signature dated 9. 14. 1881). VD17, 663890 E, with here the [3] f. placed in the middle. Binding rubbed, corners worn, boards detached; some russetting, tiny worm holes in foot margins, paper gap in margin of last page.