VIRGILE. Opera. Amsterdam : Ex officina Elzeviriana, 1676. - In-12, 138 x 76 : (24 ff.), 387 pp. (16 ff. last two blank), 1 map. Red morocco, triple gilt fillet and gilt fleur-de-lys on the corners of the boards, ornate ribbed spine, red morocco lining with gilt border, gilt edges on marbled boards (period binding). Willems, 1523. Sought-after edition of Virgil's works, published by Nicolas Heinsius (1620-1681 ). Printed by Daniel Elzevier, it has, according to Willems, the advantage of an extreme correctness: "The text is so pure, that it served as a basis for that of Burman, and for most of those which appeared since. It is illustrated with a beautiful engraved title and a folding map of Aeneas' navigation. Precious copy, of very first issue, that is to say with twenty-four introductory leaves and without the epistle to the king. It is entirely ruled in red and in a lined binding of the period realized in the workshop of the gilder of Luc-Antoine Boyer. It contains the 3, V and A irons, specific to this workshop, listed by Isabelle de Conihout and Pascal Ract-Madoux in Reliures françaises du XVIIe siècle, chefs-d'œuvre du musée Condé (2002, p. 110). It also has important provenances . First of all, that of J. T. Payne, the last bookseller of the famous English bookshop Payne, founded in 1750 and which continued until 1850. The note "J. T. Payne 1850" is found at the top of the first white endpaper. It was later acquired by the politician and bibliophile Anatole Lebas de Gyranfy, baron de Claye (1851-1903), author of numerous bibliophilic articles under the pseudonym of Eylac, and then by the baron Roger Portalis (1841-1912), great bibliophile and author of the famous dictionaries on the engravers and drawers of the 18th century, by the bookseller Édouard Rahir (1862-1924) and finally by the historian and academician Jacques Lacour Gayet (1883-1953). A very well preserved copy despite some wear and tear. Provenance: J. T. Payne, with handwritten note on the first white endpaper - Baron Anatole de Claye, with bookplate - Roger Portalis, with bookplate - Édouard Rahir, with bookplate - Jacques Lacour Gayet, with bookplate.