Search Results: georgiques by virgil

Paperback. New.

Librairie Hachette, 1884. Troisieme tirage revu. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Re-bound by library. Half calf binding; gilt title on spine; stained pages; spine splitting; foxed pages. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1050grams, ISBN:

New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Geneve, 1777.. Good. 1777. Hardcover. French and Latin parallel text, hardback, 16mo, (iv),200pp, frontispiece and title vignette, foxing on frontis and endpapers, text clean, binding tight, marbled boards and half-leather, lacking the leather corners and spine scuffed; Good condition. .

Hardback. New.

New.

Geneva: Abbe` De Lille, 1785. Book. Fair. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. 213pp. Leather hard cover, text in french, corners a little damaged, gilt edges,a small bit of the spine is missing, but surprisingly in good conditions for its age..

Hardback. New.

Plomteux, 1771. Leather Binding. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. A delightful small 18th-century French edition of Virgil in a period binding. Bound in full brown 18th-century speckled calf, spine with raised bands, red morocco label, and gilt floral tooling, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers (some rubbing to spine tips, corners and edges; front outer hinge starting; ome wear to text edges; ink inscription). Remains of the bookplate of Charles Carron.

Imprimerie nationale, 1997-01-01. ACTES SUD. Hardcover. Used:Good.

Paris: Chez C. Bleuet, 1770. Troisieme edition (3rd). Full mottle calf bordered in gilt, five raised bands, morocco lettering piece, five compartments decorated in gilt, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers. Bound without the plates, else a very good handsome copy, some offsetting to text, binding rubbed at the extremities.. 347, [1] pp. Head and tail pieces. Lacking plates. 4to. Latin and French on opposite pages. An excellent translation, which first appeared in 1769, and made Delille (1738-1813) quite famous. The translation when through numerous editions in the following year and thereafter. Brunet IV, 1303 (1st). Mambelli 1275.

A Paris: Chez Bleuet, [1794]. 384pp. Parallel Latin and French text. With a half-title, an engraved frontispiece, and four engraved plates. Bound in contemporary tree-calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece, spine richly gilt. Lightly rubbed. Inked ownership initials to FEP, internally clean and crisp. A handsomely bound copy of a late eighteenth-century edition of French poet Jacques Delille's (1738-1813) translation of Classical Roman poet Publius Vergilius Maro's (70-19BC) agricultural epic, the Georgics. . 8vo.

Paris: Chez Claude Bleuet, 1770. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Small 8vo. [5], 2-298, [2] pp. Contemporary full mottled calf with the spine in six compartments, a red morocco label lettered in gilt on the spine, gilt decorations and rules on the spine; all edges marbled. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Publisher's device on the title page, with a few engraved head and tailpieces. New translation into French with notes by M. DeLille. Brunet 661. Graesse 359. The first edition of DeLille's Georgics. Brunet and Graesse are both highly complementary of this translation. Two small chips to the binding, boards moderately bowed.

Geneve, 1777. Hardcover. Near Fine. 16mo. 192pp. Engraved portrait. Contemporary full red calf ruled in gilt, and with elaborate gilt thistle spine devices, with green morocco(?) spine label gilt. Name neatly excised from bottom of the title page, small contemporary bookplate of "Fr. Gay", corners a little rubbed, a pleasing, near fine volume.

Geneva: Editio-Service, 1976.. Books I & II. 174 & 154 pp. Text in Latin and French; French translation by Jacques Delille. Illustrations in black and white by Aristide Maillol. 4to. Quality reprint of the 1937-1950 edition published in Paris by Philippe Gonin. Loose signatures in 2 paper folders, in a chemise, in a slipcase. [We also have original prints by Maillol].

Paris: Pierre de Tartas, 1959. A BEAUTIFUL LIVRE D'ARTISTE, ILLUSTRATED WITH 29 ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS, some in color and some in black & white, BY JEAN COMMERE. 4, 131 pp. Edition limited to 211 copies, of which this is ONE OF ONLY 50 COPIES WITH A SEPARATE FOLDER CONTAINING 9 ADDITIONAL LITHOGRAPHS: 6 planches refusées (5 double-page, one single-page) and proofs of three of the color lithographs from the book on Marais wove paper. This copy, furthermore, has A STUNNING DOUBLE-PAGE ORIGINAL PEN DRAWING BY COMMERE, WITH A PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION TO ANDRÉ FRIED. Signed by Commère and Pierre de Tartas (the publisher). Folio. Loose as issued in original wraps. FINE AND BRIGHT. Housed in the (somewhat worn) original cloth folding case.

Paris & Lyon: Cormon et Blanc, Libraires, 1838. Tall Thick 8vo. xcvi, 1112 pp. Printed in double-columns, divided into compartments on facing pages in Latin, Italian, Spanish, French, English & German. Half-calf over marbled boards, marbled endpapers, gilt lettrng & compartments on spine, raised bands (rebackd w/ original spine laid-bk down, mnr rubbng & scuffng to crnrs, cvrs), a very good clean copy. First edition, thus of this exceedingly scarce Polyglot edition of the works of Virgil, including the Bucolics, Georgics, and the Aeneid. In addition to the invaluable comparison provided by this multi-lingual edition, there is the excellent bibliography of all the important editions and translations of Virgil up to the early 19th century. Polyglot editions of theological and religious works are fairly common, but not for classical authors such as this work.

Paris: Philippe Gonin, 1937-1943 (achevé d'imprimer 21 mars 1950). 2 vols. 4to., (323 x 240 mm).Sheets loose as issued in matching chemises and slipcases. One of 750 numbered copies. The Artist and the Book, 175.....2 vol. in-4°.En ff., sous couv. impr. Sous chemises et étuis d'éditeurTirage à 750 ex. sur pur chanvre et lin à grandes fibres (n° 322). En 1937, sous l'impulsion de Gonin, Maillol reprit un projet ébauché en 1908 d'illustrer les Géorgiques. Il le termina en 1944 et ses nombreux bois seront imprimés en 1950 par Gonin.

Paris: Philippe Gonin, 1937-1943 [ie1950]. No.289 of 750 copies. 122 woodcuts Aristide Maillol. Printed on special handmade paper with Maillol’s watermark of a seated nude. 2 volumes. Sm. folio, unbound as issued in the original printed wrappers, housed in the original chemises, with title printed in black on the spines, and slipcases. A very good set accompanied by the original 4pp. prospectus with two original woodcuts.||Text in Latin with the French translation by L’Abbé Delille and Mme. Michel Roussier on hte facing pages. Maillol began work on this large project with Count Kessler of the Cranach Press in 1908 but failed to complete the woodcuts until just before he died in 1944. It was published posthumously by Gonin who frequently collaborated with Maillol. It is a spectacular book.With the original 4pp. prospectus with two original woodcuts inserted loose.|Artist & the book, 175 A beautiful rendering of the Georgics and one of Maillol’s most successful books