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    Printed Books & Manuscripts including Americana

    New York, Park Avenue

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    20 November 1992

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    Lot 130

    [SYMONDS, JOHN ADDINGTON]. LUCRETIUS. De Rerum Natura. Libri Sex. With a Translation and Notes by H.A.J. Munro. Cambridge: Deighton Bell 1864. 2 vols., 8vo, original plum cloth, worn, vol. 1 shaken with some leaves loose, cloth slipcase. SYMONDS'S COPY, with his pencilled signature in each volume, his armorial bookplate in vol. 1, his very extensive pencilled annotations on about 165 pages in vol. 1 (plus pencilled markings on some of these and other pages), and a few pencilled underlinings in vol. 2. Pictorial bookplate of Alice M. Trusted in vol. 1. (2)

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    USD 330

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    USD 400 - USD 600

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    [SYMONDS, JOHN ADDINGTON]. LUCRETIUS. De Rerum Natura. Libri Sex. With a Translation and Notes by H.A.J. Munro. Cambridge: Deighton Bell 1864. 2 vols., 8vo, original plum cloth, worn, vol. 1 shaken with some leaves loose, cloth slipcase. SYMONDS'S COPY, with his pencilled signature in each volume, his armorial bookplate in vol. 1, his very extensive pencilled annotations on about 165 pages in vol. 1 (plus pencilled markings on some of these and other pages), and a few pencilled underlinings in vol. 2. Pictorial bookplate of Alice M. Trusted in vol. 1. (2)

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