Author: CICERO.
Title: De re publica quae supersunt edente Angelo Maio.
Description: Roma, In Collegio Urbano apud Burliaeum, 1822. Sm-4to. (24x14, 4cm). lvi, 356 pp. With folding plate of Scipio and company, portrait of Pius VII, and folding plate with facsimiles of the Vatican palimpsest. Halfcalf. (edges split, binding damaged, a bit browned; later endpapers) - mediocre copy. ¶ First edition of the famous Mai-edition, with the palimpsest fragments he discovered in an Augustine manuscript in the Vatican Library. "Der Sinn des Fehlendes ist von Mai an vielen Stellen sehr scharfsinnig errathen und die Fragm.sind aus enfernten Andeutungen geordnet und glücklich ergänzt." (Schweiger II/209)

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