M. Tullii Ciceronis De natura deorum libri tres. Cum notis integris Paulli Manucii, Petri Victorii, Joachimi Camerarii, Dionys. Lambini, Fulv. Ursini, & Joannis Walkeri. Recensuit, suisque animadversionibus illustravit ac emaculavit Joannes Davisius.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1723
Materials
Place of origin
Cambridge
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3007414
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 376 p. ; 8vo. Running number: 5258. Provenance: engraved booksellers' plate pasted onto front pastedown: portrait of Horace ('Hora pius') within a decorative surround, beneath which is a panel with the text 'This book is to be sold by J: Groenewegen &: A: vander Hoeck in the Strand' [i.e. John Groenewegen (fl. 1715-1728) and Abraham Vandenhoeck (d. 1750), booksellers in the Strand, partners 1721-1727 -- cf. BBTI]. Manuscript price on front fly-leaf: "0:5:-". Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled calf; gilt roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spine, with gilt title label. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Paolo Manuzio (1512-1574), editor Pietro Vettori (1499-1585), editor Camerarius, Joachim, editor Denys Lambin (1520-1572), editor Fulvio Orsini (1529-1600), editor John Walker (c.1674 - 1747), editor John Davies (1679 - 1732), editor