VIRGILE Les Géorgiques de Virgile, translated by Jacques Delille: with notes and variants Paris: Bleuet père, 1807. - Large in-4, red morocco, boards decorated in the Du Seuil style, ornate ribbed spine, interior gilt roulette, double endpapers, gilt edges (Petit succr de Simier). Very fine bilingual Latin-French edition of Virgil's Georgics in Jacques Delille's translation, printed on wove paper. It is illustrated with a portrait of Jacques Delille engraved by Vangelisty after Pujos and dated 1777, and 4 plates engraved by Beisson, Simonet and Viel after Gérard, Without the volume of "Bucoliques" often found with it. (A very fine copy bound by Petit. Spine and upper part of first cover faded. Used rubbing)
Estimate
€200 - €300
Result
€230
Buyer's premium
30%
VIRGILE
Les Géorgiques de Virgile, translated by Jacques Delille: with notes and variants
Paris: Bleuet père, 1807. - Large in-4, red morocco, boards decorated in the Du Seuil style, ornate ribbed spine, interior gilt roulette, double endpapers, gilt edges (Petit succr de Simier).
Very fine bilingual Latin-French edition of Virgil's Georgics in Jacques Delille's translation, printed on wove paper.
It is illustrated with a portrait of Jacques Delille engraved by Vangelisty after Pujos and dated 1777, and 4 plates engraved by Beisson, Simonet and Viel after Gérard,
Without the volume of "Bucoliques" often found with it.
(A very fine copy bound by Petit.
Spine and upper part of first cover faded. Used rubbing)
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