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Di Tito Lucrezio Caro della Natura delle cose. Libri sei tradotti dal latino in italiano da Alessandro Marchetti. Dati nuovamente in luce da Francesco Gerbault interprete di S.M. Cma per le lingue italiana e Spagnola
by LUCREZIO, Caro Tito [Lucretius]
- Used
- very good
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Amsterdam: A Spese Dell'Editore 1754. Large 8vo. 2 vols, [8], 543 [pagination runs consecutively through both vols]. Bound in a contemporary full calf with lovely gilt panels on spine and lines and borders on boards. AEG. Illustrated with frontispieces and engraved titles in both vols, along with 6 plates and 12 head and tail vignettes. Bindings rubbed and chipped at extremities, hinges cracked, some chipping and loss to corners and spines, headbands missing. Bookplate on pastedowns of Thomas Philip Earl de Grey of Wrest Park, text and plates good and clean. A classic eighteenth century illustrated French Rococo work. Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius work De rerum natura, known in English as On the Nature of Things, here published in Italian. ITALIAN TEXT . Very Good. Full Calf. 1754.
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- Bookseller
- Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45207
- Title
- Di Tito Lucrezio Caro della Natura delle cose. Libri sei tradotti dal latino in italiano da Alessandro Marchetti. Dati nuovamente in luce da Francesco Gerbault interprete di S.M. Cma per le lingue italiana e Spagnola
- Author
- LUCREZIO, Caro Tito [Lucretius]
- Format/Binding
- Full Calf
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- A Spese Dell'Editore 1754
- Place of Publication
- Amsterdam
- Date Published
- 1754
- Size
- Large 8vo.
- Keywords
- Antiquarian,Engravings,Plates,Natural,History,LUCRECE,Titus , Lucretius Carus,Epicureanism
- Bookseller catalogs
- Philosophy and Religion; Poetry; Classics;
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Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA
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London, Greater London
About Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA
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Glossary
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- AEG
- All Edges Gilt. Describes a book in which the top, fore edge and bottom of the outside of the pages are decorated with gold...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
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