This rare and stunning woodcut engraving was published in Sebastian Brant's edition of Virgil, the first illustrated edition of the great poet's works and one of the masterpieces of German Renaissance printing. The engraving depicts various livestock suffering from the plague of Noricum, as described in Book III of the Georgics. Published before the Aeneid, the Georgics is Virgil's work on agriculture. Brant (ca. 1457-1521) was a German humanist best known for his satire Das Narrenschiff (The Ship of Fools). Printed in Strasbourg at the workshop of Johannes Gruninger, which also produced a German-language Bible, an edition of Horace's Opera, and the Lorenz Fries edition of Ptolemy (1521), among many other publications of note. On a sheet of Latin text measuring 8.1 x 12.0".

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Condition: A

A dark impression with minor toning and faint dampstains in the margins.