(PROVENANCE) L'opere di Vergilio cioè la Bucolica, Georgica & Eneida nuovamente da diversi eccellentissimi auttori tradotte in versi sciolti Virgil (Vergilio or Virgilio)

The works of Vergil, namely the Bucolic, Georgic & Aeneid, again translated into blank verse by various most excellent authors. ***Uncommon copy. Missing the final leaf of the Aneid, otherwise complete.*** RECENT PROVENANCE: From the Virgil Collection of Craig Kallendorf (1954 - 2023), who owned the largest private collection of Virgil works (1,150 editions, not including Incunable books) in the world. Only a handful of prominent institutions like the British Library had larger collections. Eighty-nine of the books in his collection were the only known surviving copies, 71 only had one other known copy. He worked closely with Princeton University in helping to assemble, supplement and catalog its Junius Spencer Morgan Virgil collection. Craig Kallendorf was Professor of English and Classics at Texas A&M University. He was the author or editor of 27 books and more than 170 articles, book chapters, and reference work entries. HISTORIC PROVENANCE: Federico Caproni Born in Massone, Italy, a hamlet of the Trentino municipality of Arco and died in Vizzola Ticino, a municipality in the Varese area. Founder, together with his younger brother Giovanni Battista, of the Caproni Aeronautical Industries. He was a scholar of agricultural sciences. In the 1930s he purchased a large estate near Vizzola Ticino, undertaking an intense reclamation project that changed the uncultivated nature of the territory and allowed the construction of a modern agricultural company. His private library consisted of approximately 85,000 works, divided by subject. Caproni Aeronautical Industries (1908 - 1950) was a pioneering Italian aircraft manufacturer. Caproni was responsible for completing the first aircraft of Italian construction in 1911. During 1927, the Caproni Museum was established in Taliedo by Giovanni Caproni and his wife, Timina Caproni. It is the oldest aviation museum in Italy. ABOUT THE BOOK: Published in 1586 by Appresso Giacomo Cornetti in Venice. Text in Italian and in italic type. The Eclogues (Bucolics) are translated by Andrea Lori; the Georgics by Bernardino Daniello; each of the twelve books of the Aeneid has a different translator: Alessandro Sansedoni, Cardinale Hippolito de' Medici, Bernardino Borghesi, Lodovico Martelli, Thomaso Porcacchi, Alessandro Piccolomini, Giuseppe Betussi, Leonardo Ghini, Bernardetto Minerbetti, Lodovico Domenichi, Bernardino Daniello, and Paolo Mini. Bound in 19th century 1/4 mottled calf over mottled paper covered boards. Five compartment spine with smooth gilt bands with a gilt lettered black morocco spine label in compartment two and tooled gilt fleurons in the other compartments. All edges stained red. Octavo, 5.5" x 4", foliated [8], 28; 67, [1]; 279 leaves. 25 half-page woodcuts (some repeats). Cornetti's rose device on title page within scrolled cartouche, encircled with motto "Dabo omnibus gratum odorem"; ornamental initials; head- and tail-pieces. CONDITION REPORT: Missing the final leaf of the Aeneid otherwise textually complete. Renewed endpapers. Multiple leaves numbered incorrectly and a few leaves sans number by the printer (as it is with other copies). Margins trimmed. Spine is square, firm hinges and joints. Offsetting and darkened areas on board paper. Some minor rubbing and a nick along joints. Dusty top edge. Rubbed boards and edges. Corners gently bumped. An old cataloguing sticker at heel of spine. A few pages with professional paper restoration to a corner. Quite a bit of water dampening throughout with staining. Heavily darkened title page. Only a few pages with antiquarian marginalia. Signs of handling- a few pages with margin tears, some smudges, some creasing and a few bent corners. Front pastedown with the bookplate of Federico Caproni. FFEP affixed with the ex libris sticker "from the Virgil collection of Craig W. Kallendorf." Some pencil writing on the front endpapers.