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LUCRETIUS Carus

In Carum Lucretium poetam Commentarii a Ionne Baptista Pio editi: codice Lucretiano dilige(n) ter emendato...

Paris
Jehan Petit, Josse Bade
[1514]

€800 - €1.200

In-folio, [10] - CLXXXIIII - [6] ff, title printed in red and black, surrounded by an attractive woodcut frame with the bookseller's mark of Jehan Petit, in the centre. Beautiful criblé initials. Later binding in 3/4 leather

"This is the FIRST EDITION IN FRANCE of Lucretia's De Rerum natura (The Nature of Things), published by the Orléans humanist Nicolas Bérauld (1473?-1550?), with the commentary by the Italian humanist philologist Giovanni Battista Pio. Ref. Renouard, II, 252 ; Adams L-1650; Moreau II 901"

Humanism