4to, [viii], 668 pp, Illustrated with 9 engraved plates, depicting sarcophagi and objects pertaining to ancient EGYPTIAN funerary practices. (Margins of the plates prof. repaired). The dedication leaf found after p 268 was probably intended to be in the initial gathering of the work, where it appears in some other copies. Lacking end of the index (pp. 669-680). The index lvs. that are present have been prof. repaired, but with some text loss. Damp staining in some quires, mouldy stains in about 2 quires. Sewn, modern limp vellum cover, but with old spine conserved. Not subject to return
First edition of Nardi's commentary on Lucretius - an important Galilean text and a book of curiosities illustrating Egyptian antiquities from the collection of Nardi and Fernando II de' Medici. The present work was the first complete edition of Lucretius' controversial poem on ancient atomism to be published in Italy after the Aldine edition of 1515 and after the prohibition of the Synod of Florence of 1517 to publish the text. Nardi's commentary here is considerably larger than the poem itself, comprising fifty ""animadversiones"" relating natural history, medicine, physics, and Lucretius's theory of atomism
