Bidspirit auction | [LITERATURE] - VIRGILIUS Publius Maro

[LITERATURE] - VIRGILIUS Publius Maro (70 - 19 BC) - 1510. An Unrecorded Edition Of Vergil’s Bucolics. Possibly The Only Copy Known, No Copies In Institutional Libraries - Virgilius, Publius Maro. Buccolica Virgilii cum commento. [at colophon:] Venundantur Rothomagi in officina Jacobi Le forestier iuxta divi Johannis ecclesiam. Rouen: Richard Goupil for Jacques Le Forestier, [c. 1510].  4to (190x135 mm), limp vellum from an ancient manuscript, leather ties, ff. [34]. Woodcut printer’s device at title-page and last leaf. Unrecorded edition of Vergil’s Bucolics printed in Rouen by Richard Goupil at the expenses of Jacques Le Forestier. Jacques Le Forestier was a printer and publisher in Rouen, who began his printing activities no later than 1493 and ended around 1509-1510, while Richard Goupil started printing around 1510: these dates allow us to assign this edition precisely. Condition: A neat repair to title, corresponding to the letter V of ‘Virgilii’; other minor traces of use but a crisp and tall copy. Provenance: 1. Many ownership inscriptions of various century and countries at first flyleaf (both recto and verso); among them it is possible to read, in the lower portion of the leaf a note of a certain M Williams from Nottingham; two other hardly readable inscriptions to the outer margin of title-page Conversio [...] est [...] Maynardi. References: Not in the BM STC, not in Adams, no other copy verifiable via KVK. Not on USTC and OCLC. Not in Malcolm Walsby, The Printed Book in Brittany, 1484-1600. •⁠> This lot is located in and ships from the UK. No export license is required for values under £65,000; above this threshold, a UK export license will be needed. Import duties and taxes in the destination country are the buyer's responsibility.