Author: Lucretius, Carus Titus: [Philippe, ?tienne Andr?:]

Title: De Rerum Natura libri sex. Accedunt selecta lectiones dilucidando Poemata apposita.

Publication: Lutetiae Parisiorum [Paris]: Typis Josephi Barbou, 1754.

Description: 12mo., pp.xxxvi, 288 + 7 finely engraved plates, including frontispiece. Woodcut initials, typographic and engraved head- and tail-pieces, ample margins. A few small marks (possibly wax?), but clean and bright. Contemporary tan mottled calf, spine gilt with red morocco label, plain gilt ruled borders, a.e.g., gilt dentelles, turquoise marbled endpapers. Lightly rubbed, upper joint neatly repaired, upper corner of rear board slightly frayed, very good indeed.

An attractively printed pocket edition from Barbou's series of classical texts. The frontispiece and six plates are reduced versions of those from Havercamp's 4to edition of 1725 (Gordon, 503), skillfully reproduced by Claude Duflos from van Mieris's originals. Each book also has an engraved headpiece above its first lines. Text from Philippe's Parisian edition of 1744.

Bibliography: Gordon, 504B; Schweiger II, 576

Reference Number: [54921]

Price: £350

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