M. Tulli Ciceronis de Divinatione (Volumes I and II) by Cicero; Arthur Stanley Pease (editor) - 1979

Illinois: University of Illinois, 1920. Soft cover. Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Dark grey thick printed paper covers. Yapp edges on the covers (overlapping the edges of the page edges) are a bit chipped, chipping at the base of the spine. pretty tidy internally, foxing and toning on the title, some marginal foxing, toning to the pages, signature at the top of the title page. Pages; (4), 169-338. Continued from part 1. Latin text with English notes.

Darmstadt, Germany: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft WBG. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Large 8vo 9" - 10. Scarce in the trade in this state and condition. Good-looking, structurally sound set of two Imperial octavo hardcover format copies, being a reprint edition of the 1958 edition. Sunned a bit along edges, but light blue cloth over boards still intact, and gilt lettering to front covers and to spines still clean and distinct. From the personal library of the noted English historian of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, Professor Peter Morris Green, now of Iowa City, Iowa, 99 years old, nearly blind, but still working, in this case on a new translation and with annotations, of Herodotus, his favorite historian. Texts in Latin and English. The set commemorates the two thousandth anniversary (in 1955) of the publication of Cicero's Natura Deorum. Pease's Preface lays out the interesting back-story of its publication and its place in the intellectual genealogy, a journey… Read More