Author: Cicero, Marcus Tullius: (Ernesti, Johann August, ed.:)
Title: Opera Omnia [...] cum Notis et Clave Ciceroniana.
Description: Halis Saxonum [Halle an der Saale]: In Orphano Tropheo, 1773-77. 5 vols bound as 8, 8vo., pp. LXXXVI; XVI, 734, [ii] + frontispiece + portrait of Ernesti opposite p.1; XXII, [ii], 847, [i]; [iii], 852-1696; XVI, 510, [ii]; VIII, 513-1166, [ii]; VIII, 736; [iii], 740-1200; XVI, 910, [ii]. Woodcut vignette to title-page, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. Some foxing and toning though vol. 4 parts 1 and 2 are less affected, occasional spots and smudges, vol. 4 part one with a few paper flaws to fore-edges, final vol. with a small strip torn from the upper margin pp.III-IV but not affecting text. Contemporary half tan calf, raised bands gilt ruled, red and green title labels, brown sprinkled paper boards, edges sprinkled red. A bit rubbed, corners fraying, very good. Vol.1 [Rhetorica]; vol.2, pars 1-2 Orationes; vol.3, pars 1 Epistolæ ad diversos - vol.3, pars 2 Epistolæ ad Atticum, Q. fratrem et Brutum; vol.4, pars 1 Opera philosophica; vol4, pars 2 Opera philosophica. Accedunt fragmenta scriptorum deperditorum; [vol.5] Clavis Ciceroniana. The third and the 'more critical and profound' of Ernesti's editions of Cicero. '"No man, since the restoration of literature", says the Bibl. Crit. Amst., "has more contributed towards the illustration of Cicero than John Augustus Ernesti"....The third edition is more particularly valuable, as presenting us in each volume with some account of the editions of the various works of Cicero, and a few additional notes and emendations of the text' (Dibdin). Dibdin (4th edn.) I 403. Schweiger II 109. Dibdin (4th edn.) I 403. Schweiger II 109.

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