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Virgilius Maro, Publius. Opera. Nic(olaus) Heinsius e membranis compluribus iisque antiquissimis recensuit.

Tile in red and black. With partly coloured folding map and some woodcut end-pieces. LXXVI, 420, 97, (7) pp. Large 8vo. 18th-century green half leather with red spine label. – Patavii (Passau), Josephus Cominus, 1738.

Accurate edition of Virgil’s works, done by the Dutch scholar Nikolaes Heinsius the younger. A beautifully printed edition with remarkable end-pieces such as a bee, a crane or an owl. The map shows the mediterranean sea which was navigated by Aeneas. – Spine gilt-stamped „Comino 1738“. Boards rubbed, corners bumped. Inside very clean. – Best.-Nr. 27191