Lot 322
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Virgil. Bucolica Georgia et Aeneis ex Cod. Mediceo-Laurentiano Descripta, ab Antonio Ambrogi Florentino S.J. Italico versu reddita, Rome, Excudebat Joannes Zempel prope Montem Jordanum Venantii Monaldini, 1763-65, 3 vols., large paper copy, folio, parallel text in Latin and Italian, engraved title vignette, 2 engraved frontispieces, dedication plate, engraved map, 2 facsimile plates, 87 engraved illustrations, engraved head and tail pieces and initials (occasional light spotting), contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt (extremities rubbed). [Brunet V, 1306; Schweiger II, 1177; Mambelli 417: 'Edizione Monumentale divenuta rara'] (3)

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Virgil. Bucolica Georgia et Aeneis ex Cod. Mediceo-Laurentiano Descripta, ab Antonio Ambrogi Florentino S.J. Italico versu reddita, Rome, Excudebat Joannes Zempel prope Montem Jordanum Venantii Monaldini, 1763-65, 3 vols., large paper copy, folio, parallel text in Latin and Italian, engraved title vignette, 2 engraved frontispieces, dedication plate, engraved map, 2 facsimile plates, 87 engraved illustrations, engraved head and tail pieces and initials (occasional light spotting), contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt (extremities rubbed). [Brunet V, 1306; Schweiger II, 1177; Mambelli 417: 'Edizione Monumentale divenuta rara'] (3)

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Ambrogio's first edition with engravings by Pietro San Bartoli already printed in the edition of the Codex Vaticanus of 1741.

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