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 3008740.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 2, plates. ill... 8vo. Accession no. 5416.2. 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)