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LUCRETIUS Carus

De rerum natura libri sex
Antverpiae
Ch. Plantin
1566
€360 - €450

8vo, [48] + 478 pp, text in Latin and Greek. Printer's device on title page Some underlinings and annotations in ink, Greek quote on title page. Some old damp staining, small hole in p. 417. Limp vellum binding, richly gilt tooled, all edges gilt

"Text-edition by Obertus Gifanius Buranus. Re-issue of the 1565 edition. Ref. Belgica typographica 221 ; Voet nr. 1590: Lucretius Carus, Titus was a roman poet and philosopher, probably 94 till 55 BC. His only preserved work is De rerum natura. Cf Gordon - A bibliography of Lucretius, London, 1962 (Soho Bibliographies, no 12)"