Cicero, Marcus Tullius

M. Tullii Ciceronis Libri De Divinatione Et De Fato

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Typis Academicis, sumptibus Cornelii Crownfield Cantabrigiæ [i.e. Cambridge] 1721 First Edition Recensuit, & suis Animadversionibus Illustravit Ac Emendavit Joannes Davisius Coll. Regin. Cantab. Præsidens. Accedunt Integræ Notæ Paulli Manucii, Petri Victorii, Joachimi Camerarii, Dionys. Lambini, et Fulv. Ursini, Una cum Hadriani Turnebi Commentario in Librum de Fato. 8vo. [227 x 138 x 38 mm]. [4]ff, 379, [2] pp. Bound in contemporary sprinkled calf, the covers tooled in blind with a double fillet border and panel with floral ornaments at the outer corners. The spine divided into six panels with gilt compartments, lettered in the second on a red goatskin label, the others tooled with acorn and bud centres and scroll corners, the edges of the boards tooled with a gilt roll, plain endleaves, red sprinkled edges. (A little rubbed and the surface of the spine slightly worn). Title slightly foxed and a few trivial spots but a very good copy. It is on large paper, being about an inch taller than ordinary copies - though ESTC does not make a distinction. First edition of two philosophical works of Cicero as edited by John Davies, a younger friend of the great classicist Richard Bentley. This is the fourth of six editions of Cicero's philosophical works edited by Davies and printed at the Cambridge University Press; they were intended as a kind of supplement to the celebrated edition of Cicero's prose compiled by Graevius. The printed dedication is addressed to Thomas Parker (1667-1732), first Earl of Macclesfield, and this is the dedication copy with the Shirburn Castle South Library bookplate, shelfmarks 161.a.29, and the small Macclesfield blind stamp on the first three leaves.

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