CICÉRON

First edition prepared by Johann Georg Graevius. One unsigned frontispiece. First title page in red and black. Paul Manuce's commentaries form a separate section at the end of the first and second volumes.
Contemporary rigid full vellum binding. Smooth Jansenist spine. Title and volume number in black ink. The vellum of the first volume has lost its brightness. Good copy.
Graevius was a celebrated German philologist who produced several critical editions of the works of Cicero and other authors from Antiquity. Cicero's letters to Atticus are among the most famous of the Roman rhetorician, Atticus being an intimate friend for whom Cicero maintained a lively and sincere affection. Of...

Libri de re rustica M. Catonis, M. Terentii Varronis, M. Iunii Moderati Columelle, Palladii Rutilii : quorum summam pagina sequens indicabit [with] Macrobii Aurelii Theodosii Viri consularis, in Somnium Scipionis M. Tulii Ciceronis Libri duo, Et Saturnaliorum Lib. VII. Cum scholiis & indicibus Ascensianis [with] De die Natali. Censorini opusculum, de die natali, ad Q. Cerellium
Venundantur Iodoco Badio Ascensio [Josse Bade] | [Paris] 1529 et 1524 pour les deux textes suivants | in-folio (20.5 x 31.5 cm) | A6 A8 a-t8 v6 x8 et Aa6 †4 A-O8 et Aa10 | contemporary stiff vellum
First Parisian edition of the Libri de re rustica with a frontispiece-title showing a scene in a...