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LUCRETIUS CARUS, Titus (ca 96-55 B.C.). Della natura delle cose. Translated by Alessandro Marchetti. Amsterdam [but Paris]: A spese dell’editore, 1754.
2 volumes, 8° (221 x 140mm). Engraved frontispieces and title pages by Le Mire after Eisen, 6 full page engraved plates including 5 after Cochin and one after Le Lorrain, 7 engraved vignette headpieces, 5 engraved vignette tailpieces. (Some occasional spotting.) Contemporary red morocco, gilt spines (spines with several skilful repairs, lightly rubbed at extremities). Provenance: Charles, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Prime Minister (bookplate) – William Charles de Meuron, Earl Fitzwilliam (bookplate) – Enrique F. Macagno (bookplate).
A RICHLY ILLUSTRATED AND HANDSOMELY PRINTED EDITION on large paper. The majority of the plates after Cochin, whose fine contribution towards this publication was never matched in his later work. Ray calls this edition ‘the model for the sumptuous rococo volumes of the ensuing twenty-five years’. Brunet III, 1222; Cohen/de Ricci 665-6; Ray, French 9.
2 volumes, 8° (221 x 140mm). Engraved frontispieces and title pages by Le Mire after Eisen, 6 full page engraved plates including 5 after Cochin and one after Le Lorrain, 7 engraved vignette headpieces, 5 engraved vignette tailpieces. (Some occasional spotting.) Contemporary red morocco, gilt spines (spines with several skilful repairs, lightly rubbed at extremities). Provenance: Charles, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Prime Minister (bookplate) – William Charles de Meuron, Earl Fitzwilliam (bookplate) – Enrique F. Macagno (bookplate).
A RICHLY ILLUSTRATED AND HANDSOMELY PRINTED EDITION on large paper. The majority of the plates after Cochin, whose fine contribution towards this publication was never matched in his later work. Ray calls this edition ‘the model for the sumptuous rococo volumes of the ensuing twenty-five years’. Brunet III, 1222; Cohen/de Ricci 665-6; Ray, French 9.
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