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LUCRETIUS Carus

De rerum natura libri sex [Edited and annotated by S. Havercamp]
Lugduni Batavorum
apud Janssonios van der Aa
1725
€280 - €400

"2 vol. in-4to, (84), 659, (1); (2), 626, (18) pp, 453 col., ill. with an engraved title-page, engraved title-vignette and 6 copper plates, all by Wandelaar after Frans van Mieris. At the end of vol. 1: this is a limited edition of 820 copies, this is n° 676, signed by the editor Havercamp and by the publisher Janssonius van der Aa. Old calf bindings, red mottled edges, hinges repaired"

"Titus Lucretius Carus 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) Dibdin II, 202: ""This is not only a very splendid, but a learned and critical edition"". Provenance: Kirkleatham Library"