(Opera:) Bucolica, Georgica, Aeneis. With argumenta Maurus Servius). Add: Maphaeus Vegius. Liber XIII Aeneidos, and additional texts.

Roman type. Mostly 62 lines commentary. 2 cols. [230] ff., opening p. blank (minor worming in lower margins). Folio (224 x 195 mm). 17th-century calf. Milan, Leonard Pachel and Ulrich Scinzeler, 1487. A complete copy of Vergil's main work of which only seven copies are known in the holdings of some important libraries in the world. This collection of poetry includes the most famous works in Latin literature: Bucolica (or Eclogues), the Georgica and the epic Aeneis. Added to the Aeneis is Book XIII by Maphaeus Vegius. The work opens with the life of the author and the commentary of Maurus Servius on f. (4r). At the end are an index ("Tabula"), and texts of the Appendix Vergiliana. This early edition of a fundamental text in the history of Western learning is a valuable piece of literary and printing history. It was edited and printed in a humanistic style of textual analysis and commentary. Leonardus Pachel was born in 1451 in Ingolstadt, Bavaria and in Milan he entered in 1472 the world of printers and publishers. With Scinzenzeler, also of Ingolstadt, he founded a printing press, which was among the most active in this city in those years.- First and last quire browned and stained mostly at the beginning, first quire leaves strengthened at upper margins, contemp. marginal annotations in first quire and large ones on verso of last leaf of first quire and very lightly in other leaves, binding slightly worn and mostly damaged at top and bottom of spine carefully repaired. Apart from some further small defects the present book is complete, clean and in good condition. We have been unable to locate another copy on the auction market since World War II. - GW M49835 (7 copies known, of which three are incomplt.); Pell Ms 11633; Goff V-179 (one incomplt. copy only, Univ. of Kansa, Spencer Libr.; Mambelli 57; CIBN V-130; IGI 10210; C 6056; not in BMC or Proctor. INCUNABLES ; CLASSICS ;