Epistolarum libri XVI ad T. Pomponium Atticum

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 this correspondence, 454 letters remain (out of the 813 letters by Cicero that have come down to us). For this edition, Graevius assembled all the major critical annotations from the earliest editions, those of Aldo Manuce, Denis Lambin, Gronovius, Isaac Casaubon... The mass of commentaries occupies the greater part of the pages.