Titi Lucretii Cari De Rerum Natura. Libri Sex. Ex Editione Thomae Creech.
by Lucretius (Titi Lucretii Cari)
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About This Item
Glasgow: Foulis, 1749. (Glasguae, In Aedibus Academicis, Excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis, M.DCC.XLIX). . Small 8vo. Full mottled calf, spine gilt, marbled end papers. Wear to corners and joints, still sound, very good and internally very clean. Pictorial bookplate of J. Coolidge on the front paper, and he has also signed the title page. In pen on a blank preliminary leaf is written: "once Samuel Cary's!"; another small ownership signature is beneath it. The first Foulis edition, 1749. The ad leaf is present at the rear. Gaskell 135.
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- Bookseller
- William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop (CA)
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- 57082
- Title
- Titi Lucretii Cari De Rerum Natura. Libri Sex. Ex Editione Thomae Creech.
- Author
- Lucretius (Titi Lucretii Cari)
- Book Condition
- Used
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- Publisher
- Glasgow: Foulis, 1749. (Glasguae, In Aedibus Academicis, Excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis, M.DCC.XLIX).
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William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
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About William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
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