Live auction - Lot 894
[Plantin Press]
De rerum natura libri sex [...] ab Oberto Gifanio Burano iuris studioso restituti.
Antwerp, Chr. Plantin, 1566
€ 400 / 500
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Lot description
8vo: [48]-477-[1-2 bl.] pp. (sm. dampstain in bottom margin of final quires).
Cont. gold-tooled leather, gilt spine on 5 raised bands (rebacked, rubbed). Good copy.
Re-issue, with only the date changed, of the 1565 ed. of the Roman poet Lucretius by the Dutch humanist Hubert van Giffen (1534-1604). Woodcut mark on title. Printed in italics. Ref. BT 2001. - Voet (Plantin Press) 1590. - Adams L-1664. - Gordon (Lucretius) 103*. - Sorgeloos 314. Prov. Mod. bookpl.