P. Vergilii Maronis opera

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">4to. ff. [2] (blank), [1] (plates), [14] (prelims), pp. 246, 588, [192], ff. [2] (blank). Signatures: â4, ê4, î4, ô2, A-Z4, Aa-Gg4, Hh3, 2A-Z4, 2Aa-Zz4, Aaa-Zzz4, AAaa-DDdd4, EEee2, a-z4, aa4. Contemporary French calf. Gilt filet on boards’ edges. Gilded spine on 5 bars, red panel. Red edges. Signature “A.G.” on first blank. Manuscript note on second blank in French, stating this is a first edition because of its worn aspect and its engraving by Cossin. Engraved title vignette. Four headpieces, engraved initials. Full-page engraved pate (frontispiece) signed "L. Cossin Sculp." Publii Virgilii Maronis Æneis has distinct title page. Part I: Bucolica and Georgica with paraphrase in Latin prose and notes. Part II: Aeneis with paraphrase in Latin prose and notes. Part III: Index vocabulorum omnium quae in Eclogis, Georgicis et Aeneide Virgilii leguntur.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">The first of the four editions of Virgil issued within the original series of the Delphin classics (64 vols., 1674-1730).