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[LUCRETIUS (TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS)].: Titi Lucretii Cari. De Rerum Natura. Libri Sex. Accedunt Selecta Lectiones dilucidande Peomati apposita
Lutetiae Parisiorum, Typis Josephi Barbou, 1754 12mo., on laid paper, with an engraved frontispiece, 6 engraved plates and engraved headpieces to each of the six books, text in Latin throughout; contemporary full speckled calf, sides with double frame border in gilt, back with five multiple gilt rules, second compartment with leather label lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled with an elaborate gilt roundel, gilt doublures, blue sprinkled edges, marbled endpapers, backstrip mildly frayed at head and tail, joints lightly rubbed else a remarkably fresh, crisp, clean copy. With the early twentieth century trade ticket of George Gregory of Bath on front paste-down. The engraved frontispiece and plates are reduced but very skilful copies by Cl. Duflos of Van Mieris' plates in Havercamp's quarto edition of 1725. The type is entirely reset. There are occasional verbal variations, for example, 'Relligionem' for 'Religionem' on p.85; the headline 'Liber Quartus' [for 'Liber Quintus'] on p.211 is a misprint. Nice copy of an attractively illustrated edition. Gordon, 504B.
Offered for GBP 140.00 = appr. US$ 229.04 by: Island Books - Book number: 9147