Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Title: M. Tullii Ciceronis Epistolarum Ad Quintum Fratrem Libri Tres, Et Ad Brutum Liber Unus
Description: Hagae-Comitum [The Hague], Apud Isaacum Vaillant, 1725 . Leather. A smart, collected edition of the epistles of Roman lawyer and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero, with extensive accompanying critical notes. Printed in the original Latin, and with a double-column footnote commentary throughout.A smart early eighteenth century edition of Cicero's letters to Brutus and his brother, Quintus, offering fascinating insight into life in the Roman Republic. A manuscript containing Cicero's letters to Atticus, Quintus, and Brutus was rediscovered by Petrarch in 1345. This rediscovery is often credited for initiating the fourteenth century Italian Renaissance, and for the founding of Renaissance humanism.With an engraved title page vignette depicting a sailing vessel flanked by two merpeople, as called for by Jisc.With the stamp of St. Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate, to the title page.A smart copy of the great orator's works. In a full calf binding, with gilt detailing to back strip. Significant rubbing to boards and joints. Paper residue to head of front board. Hines strained, but firmly held. Lacking front and rear free endpapers. Library pocket to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages age toned, with spotting throughout, most concentrated to page perimeters. Good . Ill.: None. Good .
Keywords: Cicero epistles oration roman history epistles None
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Title: M. Tullii Ciceronis Epistolarum Ad Quintum Fratrem Libri Tres, Et Ad Brutum Liber Unus
Description: Hagae-Comitum [The Hague], Apud Isaacum Vaillant, 1725 . Leather. A smart, collected edition of the epistles of Roman lawyer and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero, with extensive accompanying critical notes. Printed in the original Latin, and with a double-column footnote commentary throughout.A smart early eighteenth century edition of Cicero's letters to Brutus and his brother, Quintus, offering fascinating insight into life in the Roman Republic. A manuscript containing Cicero's letters to Atticus, Quintus, and Brutus was rediscovered by Petrarch in 1345. This rediscovery is often credited for initiating the fourteenth century Italian Renaissance, and for the founding of Renaissance humanism.With an engraved title page vignette depicting a sailing vessel flanked by two merpeople, as called for by Jisc.With the stamp of St. Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate, to the title page.A smart copy of the great orator's works. In a full calf binding, with gilt detailing to back strip. Significant rubbing to boards and joints. Paper residue to head of front board. Hines strained, but firmly held. Lacking front and rear free endpapers. Library pocket to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages age toned, with spotting throughout, most concentrated to page perimeters. Good . Ill.: None. Good .
Keywords: Cicero epistles oration roman history epistles None
Price: GBP 240.00 = appr. US$ 342.72 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 860F3
- Book number: 860F3
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