Lucretius | Della natura delle cose, Amsterdam, 1754, 2 volumes, red morocco gilt by Louis Douceur

Titus Lucretius Carus

Della natura delle cose libri sei, tradotti dal Latino in Italiano da Alessandro Marchetti. Dati nuovamente in luce da Francesco Gerbault. Amsterdam: for the publisher, 1754

2 volumes, 8vo (223 x 138mm.), two engraved titles and two frontispieces by Le Mire after Eisen, six plates by Aliamet and others after Cochin and Le Lorrain, 12 head- and tailpieces by Baquoy and others after Eisen, Cochin and Vasse, contemporary red morocco elaborately gilt by Louis Douceur, with his ticket on rear flyleaf of volume 1, spines gilt in compartments with green morocco lettering-pieces, gilt edges, very occasional light foxing

A FINE SET. For another copy of this work in a similar Douceur binding, see Davis Gift 181.

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