Description
Lucretius Carus Titus (99-55 BC). T. Lucretii Cari, De rerum natura libri sex. With complete notes by Dionysii Lambini, Oberti Gifanii, Tanaquilli Fabri, Thomae Creech, and select notes by Jo. Baptistae Pii, and others, edited by Sigebert Havercamp, who also added his own and Abraham Preiger's annotations. Lugduni Batavorum, Apud Janssonios Van Der Aa. 1725.
Illustrated edition of De rerum natura, of which only 820 copies were printed for subscribers. Copy no. 58, hand-numbered and signed by the publisher on the verso of page 659 of the first volume. The frontispiece and the plates were engraved by Jan Wandelaar after designs by Frans van de Mieris the Younger. Cf. Brunet III, 1220; Dibdin II, 202; Ebert 12454; Schweiger II 576. In a waiting binding, 2 volumes in-4to. Pages [136], 659, [1]; [2], 626, [18], 453 columns, with 1 allegorical frontispiece and 6 numbered plates I-VI, copper-engraved, out of text.
Dimensions
In-4to (272x212mm). Pages [136], 659, [1]; [2], 626, [18], 453 columns, with 1 allegorical frontispiece and 6 numbered plates I-VI, copper-engraved, out of text.
Provenance
Private collection
Condition
Minor defects. Some small, marginal wormholes in signature 4K of volume I. Some signatures slightly browned.
