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LUCRETIUS CARUS, Titus. De Werken, Amsterdam: Sebastiaan Petzold, 1701, 8°, engraved frontispiece, engraved title vignette and 8 plates by Romeyn de Hooge (occasional browning or dampstaining), contemporary vellum [Gordon 501]; De Rerum Natura libri sex, edited by Havercamp, Leiden: J. van der Aa, 1725, 2 volumes, 4°, limited to 820 copies signed by the editor and publisher, title in red and black with engraved vignette, engraved frontispiece and 6 plates by Wandelaar after Frans van Mieris (occasional light browning, title repaired at upper margin), contemporary vellum [Gordon 503] Provenance: Casp. Hagenbuchii (title inscription dated 1730); De Rerum Natura, Paris: Ant. Coustelier, 1744, small 8°, engraved frontispiece and 6 plates by Duflos after van Mieris, engraved headpieces, contemporary red morocco, covers with triple gilt fillet, spine gilt (joints cracked) [Gordon 504] Provenance: H.A. Munro (bookplate); Sir Thomas Graham Jackson (bookplate); Della Natura delle Cose libri sei, translated by A. Marchetti, Amsterdam: 1754, 2 volumes, 8°, engraved titles (spotted), 6 engraved plates and engraved head-and-tail pieces after Cochin and others, later half calf [Gordon 505]; and 4 other illustrated volumes by Lucretius. (10)