Accession number
PML 142058-30
Creator
Virgil.
Published
[Brussels : Apud J.L. de Boubers, Bruxellis, ca. 1804]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Engraved throughout, with title vignettes, ill., head- and tail-pieces and historiated initials by G.M. Pitteri after Fidance and C.F. de La Traverse (see Preface); folded map in v. 2 engraved by Herman Condet.
Imprint information from Brunet (ed. identified by new dedication).
Reprint of original ed., with new dedication to Francis I, Emperor of Austria, probably upon his hereditary installation as Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, in 1804 (determined from text).
The plates and illustrations are portraits, illustrations of ancient gems and coins, and a double-page map of the voyages of Aeneas (v. 2).
Vol. 1: [16], 139, [1] p., [11] leaves of plates; v. 2: [10], 130 [i.e. 131], [1] p., [6] leaves of plates; v. 3: [2], 142 p., [5] leaves of plates; v 4: [2], 155, [1] p., [5] leaves of plates; v. 5: [2], 3, [1], 2, [1], 87, [1] p.
Vol. 5, containing the index by "Christoph. Saxius," has title: Sive monumentorum per totum opus sparsorum index.
Library's copy lacks edition statement.
Imprint information from Brunet (ed. identified by new dedication).
Reprint of original ed., with new dedication to Francis I, Emperor of Austria, probably upon his hereditary installation as Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, in 1804 (determined from text).
The plates and illustrations are portraits, illustrations of ancient gems and coins, and a double-page map of the voyages of Aeneas (v. 2).
Vol. 1: [16], 139, [1] p., [11] leaves of plates; v. 2: [10], 130 [i.e. 131], [1] p., [6] leaves of plates; v. 3: [2], 142 p., [5] leaves of plates; v 4: [2], 155, [1] p., [5] leaves of plates; v. 5: [2], 3, [1], 2, [1], 87, [1] p.
Vol. 5, containing the index by "Christoph. Saxius," has title: Sive monumentorum per totum opus sparsorum index.
Library's copy lacks edition statement.
Description
5 v. in 3 : ill. (engravings), ports., map ; 24 cm
Provenance
Bookplates of Thomas Baring and Viscount Mersey; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Dark blue morocco, tooled in gilt and in blind, with dentelles (endpaper dated 1815).
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