P. Virgilii Maronis Opera ex antiquis monimentis illustrata
By: cura, studio & sumtibus Henrici Justice ...
Contributors: Justice, Henry, 1696 or 1697-1763; Pitteri, Giovanni Marco, 1702-1786, metal-engraver; Justice, William, -1779; Saxe, Christoph, 1714-1806; La Traverse, Charles de, 1726-approximately 1780, illustrator; La Traverse, Fidance de, illustrator; Condet, Herman, engraver; Plimpton, George A. (George Arthur), 1855-1936, former owner
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 1757
Place of publication: Hague]
Language: lat
Subjects: Illustrations
Notes: Engraved throughout, with title vignettes, ill., head- and tail-pieces and historiated initials by G.M. Pitteri after Fidance and C.F. de La Traverse; folded map (v. 2)--engraved by Herman Condet.

Vol. 5 has imprint "aere & sumtibus Guilielmi Iustice, Henr. f." and his dedication, dated "Hagae Comitum d. IV. Jul. MDCCLXV"; imprint dates from BN.

This impression is on paper with vertical chain-lines; also issued on large paper, with horizontal chain-lines. Cf. Brunet.

Entirely engraved.

Rare Book copy: From the library of George A. Plimpton, with his bookplates.

Brunet V, col. 1293

BN 212: 103, no. 287

Cohen-De Ricci, col. 1018

Gift; George A. Plimpton

Rare Book copy: All volumes bound in full red leather with gold-tooled spine and boards, marbled endpapers, gilt text edges, and green ribbon marker.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Bucolica. Georgica; title: v. 2-4. Aeneis; title: v. 5. Index / Christoph Gottlob Saxe.