- OVID. Publii Ovidii Nasonis libri de / Ponto cum luculentissimis co[m]- / mentariis reverendissimi Domini Bartholomaei Me- / rulae Apostolici Protonotarii in lucem nuper ca - / stigatissime emissi. Necnon copiosissimus / index qui omnia vocabula : omnes hysto- / rias & quaeq[ue] scitu dignissima secundu[m] / litterarum ordinem diligentissime / complectitur, & id quidem / cum textu Aldi / Manutii. Milan, Agostino da Vimercate, 30 April 1523, in-4, LXX ff. each, including the title, included in a large engraved frame, signatures A - I, all in 8, except I (in six), modest fawn half-basin with corners, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, lacking the title-piece, edges speckled with red (18th c. binding). Spine trimmed, spine rubbed, corners bumped, slight loss of paper with loss of some letters on the first three leaves. Among the works of the Roman poet, the De Ponto (the Pontics) is the one that has known the least number of separate editions (in general, it is joined to the Tristes, composed like our collection during the exile of Tomis): our edition takes up the very first separate version of this poem, which appeared in 1507 at the address of Venice, already with the commentary of Bartolomeo Merula, and had already been reprinted at the address of Milan in the same year, 1507, and then in 1512. Agostino da Vimercate was a typographer active in Milan and Turin from 1513 to 1524. He worked almost exclusively for the Da Legnano brothers and for Nicolo Gorgonzola (as here), without any particular mark; he probably died of the plague epidemic that ravaged Milan in 1524. Very fine title-page with a Renaissance frame; in the centre, below the title, a large woodcut depicting a scribe, frontally, in an architectural setting in perspective. Graesse V, 79. No copy of this edition in the CCF: only the B.N.U.S. in Strasbourg has copies of the 1507 and 1512 editions.