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TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS.
De rerum natura libri sex.
Birmingham, Baskerville, 1772. 4to. Bound in a somewhat worn contemporary full calf binding with richly gilt spine. Five raised bands and gilt title label to spine. Edges of boards gilt. Cracks to upper and lower outer hinges. Slight loss to capitals. Tears to edges and corners. Internally clean. (2),280 pp.
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Baskerville's magnificent quarto edition of Lucretius' (ca. 99-55) 'De rerum natura'.
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5 book(s) with the same title
DE RERUM NATURA LIBRI SEX, CUM INTERPRETATIONE ET NOTIS THOMAE CREECH... EDITIO NOVA EMEDATIOR.
1770 Basilae, Chez Emanuelem Thurneyse, 1770. Poems of Lucretius in Latin. Titus Lucretius Carus was an Epicurean poet of the late Roman Republican era. , 370pp, (94pp) + index de vocabulaire , tres belle reliure plein veau dos lisse avec une piece de titre rouge pour le titre et l'auteur . .
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Titi Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri sex. Accedunt selectae lectiones dilucidando poëmati appositae. (Curante Stephano Andrea Philippe).
Paris, (Lutetiae Parisiorum), Typis Josephi Barbou, 1754.
12mo. XXXVI,288 p., frontispiece and 6 plates. Later half morocco. 17.5 cm (Ref: Gordon 504B; Ebert 12455; Brunet 3,1220; cf. Schweiger 2,576 for the ed. of 1744; Graesse 4,280) (Details: Nice copy. Red morocco, first half 20th century. Back with 4 raised bands, with gilt fillets and lettering. Marbled boards and endpapers. Thick paper, wide margins, untrimmed. Fine engraved frontispiece and plates designed by Frans van Mieris junior, engraved by Cl. Duflos for Coustelier in 1744, and used again by Barbou for this edition. For an explanation of these mythological plates see the bibliography of Gordon, p. 244. Woodcut printer's mark on the title, depicting an old man who stands in the shade of a vine-entwined elmtree, symbolising the symbiotic relationship between scholar and publisher. The motto is enigmatic: 'Non solus', probably indicating the interdependency of publisher and scholar. Occasional engraved headpieces and woodcut initials. Includes also a tricolour bookmarker. At the end 30 pages filled with 'Variae Lectiones') (Condition: Some negligible wear to the corners; a hardly visible dent at the lower edge of the front board) (Note: The Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius was much admired in the age of Enlightenment. 'Virtually every major figure of the period was in some way influenced by Lucretius'. (S. Gillespie and Ph. Hardie, Cambridge Companion to Lucretius, 2007, p. 274). He acted as shield-bearer and mouthpiece of the Greek philosopher Epicurus by explaining in his didactic poem 'De rerum natura' Epicurus' physical theories 'with a view to abolishing superstitious fears of the intervention of the gods in the world and of the punishment of the soul in an after-life'. (OCD 2nd ed. p. 623) This is a line for line re-edition of the Lucretius edition of 1744, published in Paris by A. Coustelier. It was edited by the French scholar Étienne André Philippe de Prétot, 1707-1787. He taught history and geography at the Royal Academy in Paris, and produced for the publisher Coustelier a great number of editions of Latin classics, especially poets and historians. He published also on Roman history, and on geography. He was not an accomplished philologist, so he borrowed the texts for his editions from standard works. In this case he used the text of the edition of the Dutch classical scholar S. Haverkamp, 1684-1742, which was published in quarto, Leiden 1725. Dibdin calls the edition of Haverkamp 'not only a very splendid, but a learned and critical edition'. (Dibdin 2,202/3). Ernesti calls it 'splendissima' (Ernesti, 1,83). Mr. Philippe not only borrowed the text, but his edition is also adorned with the same charming plates as that of Haverkamp, only expertly reduced) (Collation: frontispiece, a8, b4, c6; plate, A8, B4, C8, plate, D4, E8, F4, G8 (plate after G5), H4, I8, K4, L8 (plate after L1), M4, N8, O4, Plate, P8, Q4, R8, S4, T8 (plate after T1), V4, X8, Y4, Z8, Aa4) (Photographs on request)
TITI LUCRETII CARI DE RERUM NATURA LIBRI SEX [cura M. Maittaire, cum poetae vita ex Petro Crinito et Lilio Gregorio Gyraldo]
Londini J. Tonson et J. Watts 1713 in-16 plein-veau 1 volume, reliure plein veau brun moucheté in-seize (binding full calfskin in-16) (15,3 x 9 cm), RELIURE D'EPOQUE, dos à nerfs (spine with raised bands), décoré "or" et à froid (gilt and blind stamping decoration), titre frappés "or", pièce de titre sur fond bordeau avec 1 filet "vague" "or" de part et d'autre du titre dans en encadrement de trois filets "or", entre-nerfs à fleuron "or" dans un encadrement d'un filet large "or", filet à froid de part et d'autre des nerfs, léger manque de cuir à la coiffe de tête, mors fendu mais la reliure est bien solide, roulette "or" sur les coupes (gilt fillets on the cuts) avec léger manque de dorure (blurred gilding), toutes tranches lisses jaspées rouges, orné d'un frontispice de LAGUERRE gravé sur bois en noir par Louis du Guernier + une vignette en bas du titre gravée sur bois en noir + de nombreux front-de-chapitres lettrines et culs-de-lampes HISTORIES gravés sur bois en noir (Each chapter has a beautiful woodcut), ( (XX) + 216 + 199 p. d' index) pages, 1713 Londini : ex off. J. Tonson et J. Watts Editeur,
Lucrèce (en latin Titus Lucretius Carus) est un poète philosophe latin du Ier siècle av. J.-C. (peut-être 98-55), auteur d'un seul ouvrage en six parties, le De rerum natura (De la nature des choses, quon traduit le plus souvent par De la nature), un long poème passionné qui décrit le monde selon les principes d'Épicure......Cest essentiellement grâce à lui que nous connaissons l'une des plus importantes écoles philosophiques de l'Antiquité, l'épicurisme, car des ouvrages dÉpicure, qui fut beaucoup lu et célébré dans toute lAntiquité tardive, il ne reste pratiquement rien, sauf trois lettres et quelques sentences. ..........Bel Exemplaire....RARE.......en bon état malgré le petit défaut signalé (very good condition in spite of the small defect indicated). bon état
T. Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri sex. Ex recensione bipontina edidit J.A. Amar.
Paris (Parisiis), Apud Lefevre Bibliopolam, 1822.
316 p. Half calf 12.5 cm (Back gilt, and with 4 raised bands; front flyleaves inscribed by an elegant hand; head & tail of spine chafed; corners bumped)
De rerum natura libri sex ex editione Gilberti Wakefieldi, cum notis et interpretatione in usum Delphini, variis lectionibus, notis Variorum, recensu editionum et codicum et indice locupletissimo accurate recensiti.
London, Curante et imprimente A.J. Valpy, 1823.
3 volumes: 1751;96 p. Contemporary black morocco. 22 cm (Backs gilt and with 5 raised bands. Marbled boards. Bindings worn at the extremes. Endpapers foxed. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Stamp on the verso of the title) (Heavy set, may require extra shipping costs)
