Di Tito Lucrezio Caro della natura delle cose libri sei.. Tradotti dal latino in italiano da Alessandro Marchetti. Dati nuovamente in luce da Francesco Gerbault...
Lucretius (c.99-55 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1754
Materials
Place of origin
Netherlands
Collection
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
NT 3008740
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v., plates. ill. 8vo. Accession no. 5416.1-2. Catalogued from Barber catalogue. Provenance: Bequest of James de Rothschild, 1957. Provenance: 1897 Waddesdon catalogue, p.50. Binding: mid eighteenth-century French red morocco gilt; dentelle border of small tools incorporating several straight-stemmed flowers, a strawberry in the corners, fronds and tassels. Flat spine with two-coloured olive lettering- and numeration-pieces and flowers in other panels. Light blue headband and silk marker, edges gilt, peacock-tail marbled endleaves. Although many copies of this book were bound by Douceur, these do not appear to be his tools.
Makers and roles
Lucretius (c.99-55 BC) Alessandro Marchetti (1632-1714)