Books and Manuscripts

Virgil
Opera Vergiliana...
Paris: Jodocus Badius and Jean Petit, 1512. Part one (of two) only (without the Aeneid). Folio. 5ff. (viii), CCVI. Title-page printed in red and in black and illustrated with a woodcut architectural border and with Petit's printer's device at center; text with woodcut initials. 18th century full brown diced russia, stamped in blind and in gilt, old and sympathetic rebacking, boards scuffed, scattered wear along extremities, joints dry and starting, old library number on paper label at head of spine; speckled edges, title in contemporary manuscript on fore-edge; marbled endpapers; armorial book-plate of Bibliotheca Suchtelen on front paste-down, book-plate of Edward John Kenney above same; faint contemporary ownership signature on fore-edge of title-page, partially shaved; old ownership signature at head of leaf 2; repairs in upper gutter of first four leaves; scattered spotting to text. Renouard 5; Kallendorf LW1512.2

An uncommon and early printed edition of the collected works of Roman poet Virgil, from pioneering Paris printers and scholars, Jodocus Badius (1462-1535) and Jean Petit. Featuring Virgil's the Bucolics, the Georgics, and other smaller works.

Jan Pietr Suchtelen (1751-1836), Dutch-born Russian bibliophile, nobleman, and ambassador to Stockholm.

“Very rare” according to Forbes, in Vergiliana in the Oliver Wendell Holmes Library (pp. 11-12). Rare to auction, this is the first copy to be offered, according to RBH, since 1998.