Author: VIRGIL

1893 Personal Note from French Author, Joseph de Pesquidoux, Son of Countess Olga

By: Joseph De Pesquidoux, The Gascon Virgil

Price: $119.99

Publisher: France, : 1893

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 0010235

Binding: Ephemera

On offer is a note written by one of France?s great writers, Joseph de Pesquidoux, Count of Pesquidoux in 1893, nicknamed the ?Gascon Virgil?. In this note, Pesquidoux references his mother, Countess Olga, by name and a book that she has just published titled Miel et Dard ? a book of short and sometimes caustic sayings. His note is a request to an unnamed recipient, an excerpt of which follows: Je prie au directeur [] d'envoyer a [] ci-dessous tous les articles qui parcitrout du le livre de Miel et Dard par la Comtesse Olga. .....[Translation: I am asking the Director of [] to send to [] below...
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Publii Virgilii Maronis Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis, illustrata, ornata, et accuratissime impressa.

By: VIRGIL

Price: $2,385.99

Publisher: London, J. & P. Knapton and W. Sandby : 1750

Seller ID: 000883

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Superb 1750, J. & P. Knapton and W. Sandby, London, first edition thus; two volumes: pp [xlviii], 239; 288. 58 plates - complete. Title pages printed in red and black. Calf backed marbled boards, spine with gilt emblems in compartments and gilt lettered black morocco labels. Save for light edge-wear and some of the hinges cracking but nothing horrible this set would be Fine.; LATIN; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; TROJAN WAR, AENEAS, DIDO, TROY, ROME,MYTHOLOGY, GREECE, ROMAN, ROME, GREEK, CARTHAGE, ILIAD, DARDANIANS, HOMER, PRIAM, HECTOR
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1920s Diary Handwritten by a Young Man in Love

By: Virgil B. Wiley

Price: $1,355.99

Publisher: Washington, DC, : 1921

Seller ID: 0010050

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair with no dust jacket

On offer is a fascinating journal written by Virgil B Wiley, who is thoroughly enthralled by a young woman of his acquaintance. Wiley lived in Washington, DC, and the diary entries suggest that he is a young man in his twenties. We learn that he worked an unspecified office job and was later employed as a teacher. The journal is actually a ledger book measuring 12 inches by 8 inches. There are 300 numbered pages and the book is 100 percent complete. The covers are in good shape. While the binding is intact, it has a crack on the inside. The stitching, however, is quite firm. The pages are in g...
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Author: VIRGIL

1893 Personal Note from French Author, Joseph de Pesquidoux, Son of Countess Olga

Publii Virgilii Maronis Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis, illustrata, ornata, et accuratissime impressa.

1920s Diary Handwritten by a Young Man in Love