Virgil. Aeneis, cum commentariis Servii Donati, adnotationes sunt additae Christophori Landini, Augustini Dathi & Philippi Beroaldi, Venice, [colophon: in aedibus Lucaentonii Iuntae Florentini], 1533, folio, Roman type with commentaries around text, 72 woodcut illustrations, floral initials (title soiled at margins, B2 holed with some loss, D1 to E3 wormed at lower margin affecting some catchwords, light marginal soiling, final leaves with old waterstain), late 19th-century morocco [Not in Adams, Mambelli or Mortimer]; and 2 other 16th-century folio vols. (3)
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Virgil. Aeneis, cum commentariis Servii Donati, adnotationes sunt additae Christophori Landini, Augustini Dathi & Philippi Beroaldi, Venice, [colophon: in aedibus Lucaentonii Iuntae Florentini], 1533, folio, Roman type with commentaries around text, 72 woodcut illustrations, floral initials (title soiled at margins, B2 holed with some loss, D1 to E3 wormed at lower margin affecting some catchwords, light marginal soiling, final leaves with old waterstain), late 19th-century morocco [Not in Adams, Mambelli or Mortimer]; and 2 other 16th-century folio vols. (3)
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The woodcuts derive from the 1502 edition (see note to the previous lot).
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