VIRGILE. Lot n° 37

Opera vergiliana docte et familiariter exposita. Lyon, Jacques Sacon, 1517. In-folio, mottled vellum, title page on the spine, red edges (18th century binding). Remarkable illustrated post-incunabulum published in Lyon. The works of Virgil, printed in round letters, are framed with comments and notes by Josse Bade, Servius, Donatus, Beroaldo and others, typed in smaller type. Josse Bade's Virgil was originally published in Paris in 1500-1501; the text was not included in the first edition given by Jacques Sacon in 1499. The illustration consists of a fine architectural frame on the title, a full-page frontispiece showing Virgil and the muse Calliope among other characters on the second leaf, and 64 large woodcuts in the text, mostly mid-page, from Sebastian Brandt's Virgil, printed in Strasbourg in 1502 by Johann Grüninger. A fine and well preserved copy, without the second volume containing the Aeneid. Repair in the margin of the title, faint spotting. Baudrier, XII, 291 - Gültlingen, I, 244:169 - Mortimer, n°537 - Adams, V-468.