Author: Silius Italicus: (Lemaire, Nicolaus Eligius, ed.:)
Title: Punicorum libri septemdecim.
Description: Parisiis [Paris]: Colligebat Nicolaus Eligius Lemaire. 1823. 2 vols., 8vo., pp.xiii, [i], 688; viii, 678. Complete in 2 vols., text and apparatus in Latin. Occasional spots of foxing, very good. Contemporary half vellum, gilt spines with red title and volume labels, marbled boards, edges and endpapers. Binding not quite identical to Propertius [54771] but very much in the same spirit. Spines slightly greyed, chips to label edges and a bit of loss to vol. I label, very good. Volumes in the "Bibliotheca Classica Latina sive Collectio Auctorum Classicorum Latinorum cum Notis et Indicibus". 'In directing our notice to the voluminous but judiciously selected compilation of Lemaire, we cannot forbear bestowing upon it a hearty tribute of eulogy.... We may safely pronounce it a performance in every respect creditable to both the spirit, learning, and perseverance of the individuals in immediate connexion with it, and also to the genius and reputation of the nation at large. The editions of the different Roman authors selected, are those of the most approved classical scholars in France, Germany, and Holland. The type is in the very best mould of the widely celebrated Didot Press' (North American Review, July 1834). The project was almost entirely finished at the time of that review, with just the Lucretius (published 1838) still to come.

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