Live auction - Lot 1008
[Plantin Press]
De rerum natura libri sex, ad postremam Oberti Gifanii Ic. emendationem accuratissime restituti […].
Leiden, Plantin Press (Fr. Raphelengius, 1595
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360
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Lot description
8vo: [48]-486-[2 bl.] pp. (some toning and spotting, blank top part of title cut off).
Contemp. overl. vellum, flat spine titled in ink (loosening at front). Good copy.
Leiden scholary ed. of Lucretius’ Latin philosophical classic by the Rhineland humanist Hubert van Giffen (Giphanius, 1534-1604), dedicated to Joannes Sambucus. Woodcut mark on title. Printed in italics.
Ref. TB 3250. - Adams L-1671. - Gordon (Lucretius) 103A. - STCN.
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