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LUCRETIUS CARUS, Titus (?96-55 B.C.) De rerum natura. Verona: Paulus Fridenperger, 28 September 1486.
Median 2° (331 x 203mm). Collation: a-m8 (a1 blank, a2r text, m7v-8 blank). 96 leaves, 40 lines (41 lines after quire b). Type: 1:112R. 2- to 4-line Initial spaces, the first with guide-letter. (Repairs along inner margin of leaves of first and final quire, some neat repairs in lower inner margin of most leaves, small wormhole in text from l1, turning into 3-4 in last 4 leaves, closed in the last leaf of text.) Old wooden boards (rebacked in calf, lacking clasps). Provenance: Viscount Mersey, Bignor Park (book label) — sold, Christie’s, 16 December 1991, lot 139.
Second edition, and the only book signed by Fridenperger, printer at Verona. ‘Democritus, a Greek living ca. 400 B.C. first proposed a theory of structure of matter based on the a-tom (not divisible) as the fundamental particle in nature. Lucretius’ text … is the result of observation, report and conjecture rather than experimental investigation’ (Dibner, Heralds 74). HCR 10282; GW M19142; CIBN L-256; Klebs 623.2; BMC VII 953; Bod-inc L-182; Goff L-333.
Median 2° (331 x 203mm). Collation: a-m8 (a1 blank, a2r text, m7v-8 blank). 96 leaves, 40 lines (41 lines after quire b). Type: 1:112R. 2- to 4-line Initial spaces, the first with guide-letter. (Repairs along inner margin of leaves of first and final quire, some neat repairs in lower inner margin of most leaves, small wormhole in text from l1, turning into 3-4 in last 4 leaves, closed in the last leaf of text.) Old wooden boards (rebacked in calf, lacking clasps). Provenance: Viscount Mersey, Bignor Park (book label) — sold, Christie’s, 16 December 1991, lot 139.
Second edition, and the only book signed by Fridenperger, printer at Verona. ‘Democritus, a Greek living ca. 400 B.C. first proposed a theory of structure of matter based on the a-tom (not divisible) as the fundamental particle in nature. Lucretius’ text … is the result of observation, report and conjecture rather than experimental investigation’ (Dibner, Heralds 74). HCR 10282; GW M19142; CIBN L-256; Klebs 623.2; BMC VII 953; Bod-inc L-182; Goff L-333.
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