Old Masters, British & European Paintings Part I - 03 Sep 2025

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Publius Vergilius Maro

£800 - £1,200

£1,016

Publius Vergilius Maro
The Georgicks of Virgil, London: Richard Reilly, 1741; The Bucolicks of Virgil, London: T. Osborne, 1749
First editions, together 2 volumes, translated by John Martyn, list of subscribers, engraved portrait frontispiece, 16 engraved plates, including 5 hand-coloured maps (one folding) and 5 colour-printed botanical plates, finished by hand, uniform contemporary mottled calf, joints cracked, ends of spines slightly chipped, 4to

Provenance:
Samuel James Waring, 1st Baron Waring (1860–1940), industrialist and Chairman of the furniture store Waring and Gillow;
The Library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven

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