LUCRETIUS Carus, Titus (96?-55 B.C.). Della natura delle cose, libri sei tradotti dal latino in italiano da Alessandro Marchetti. Amsterdam [Paris]: for the editor, 1754. 2 volumes, 8° (226 x 138mm), 2 engraved frontispieces and titles by Lemire after Eisen, 6 plates after Cochin and Le Lorrain, 7 vignettes after Cochin and Eisen and 5 culs-de-lampe after Cochin, Eisen and Vassé (occasional light discolouration and offsetting), contemporary French green morocco, with wide rococo border, gilt edges (some extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Jean Jourdan, surgeon (late 18th-century book-label and signature in volume II) -- Jean Hersent (bookplate). This book 'became the model for the sumptuous rococo volumes of the ensuing twenty-five years' (Ray). Cohen-de Ricci 665-66 'Les illustrations de ce livre sont fort belles'; Ray 9. (2)