COUSTELIER'S DELIGHTFUL LUCRETIUS FIRST PRINTING PARIS 1744 IN RED MOROCCO.
Titi Lucretii Cari De Rerum Natura Libri Sex. Accedunt Selecta Lectiones dilucidande Poemati apposita.
Lutetiae Parisiorum, Sumptibus Ant. Coustelier, 1744.
Small octavo, pagination: xxxvi, 288, fine engraved frontispiece, 6 engraved plates, and 6 engraved headpieces by Van-Mieils, engraved by Duflos, finely bound in mid 19th Century English full dark red morocco, panelled in blind with raised bands, inner gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, minor rubbing only, a fine copy.
FIRST COUSTELIER EDITION, also issued under the imprint of Barbou in 1754, but here in its original version, one of the more delightful typographical productions of the French press in this small pocket format so popular at this period, and in an unusually tasteful mid Victorian binding [with ownership on one Frank Evans of Oriel College, Oxford]. Cohen p. 664.
Price: £145.00
Titi Lucretii Cari De Rerum Natura Libri Sex. Accedunt Selecta Lectiones dilucidande Poemati apposita.
Lutetiae Parisiorum, Sumptibus Ant. Coustelier, 1744.
Small octavo, pagination: xxxvi, 288, fine engraved frontispiece, 6 engraved plates, and 6 engraved headpieces by Van-Mieils, engraved by Duflos, finely bound in mid 19th Century English full dark red morocco, panelled in blind with raised bands, inner gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, minor rubbing only, a fine copy.
FIRST COUSTELIER EDITION, also issued under the imprint of Barbou in 1754, but here in its original version, one of the more delightful typographical productions of the French press in this small pocket format so popular at this period, and in an unusually tasteful mid Victorian binding [with ownership on one Frank Evans of Oriel College, Oxford]. Cohen p. 664.
Price: £145.00
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