M. Tulli Ciceronis de natura deorum, Libri III, complete in two volumes

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 nearly two decades in the making of his sifting and weighing of texts and examples. Arthur Stanley Pease was a Professor of Latin at Harvard University, and he was renowned for his comprehensive editions of Cicero’s works, particularly De Divinatione (done prior) and then this edition of Cicero's De Natura Deorum. Pease was also a leading scholar on Virgil and other ancient Roman figures and writers. Tomus I: viii [2], 4-537 pp.; Tomus II: frontis matter, 540-1257 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.