Anti-Lucretius, sive De Deo et natura, libri novem. . Eminentissimi S.R.E. Cardinalis Melchioris de Polignac opus posthumum; illustrissimi Abbatis Caroli d'Orleans de Rothelin curâ & studio editioni mandatum. ...
Cardinal Melchior de Polignac (1661-1742)
Category
Books
Date
1747
Materials
Place of origin
France
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3106588
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v.([4],xxx,[2],180p., [1] leaf of plates;[4],450,[2]p.) . port.. . 8vo.. Former shelfmarks: H.7.6-7 (in ink, on bookplate), Hh.4 (pencil), Hh.7.12-13 (pencil), Hh.7.22-23 (pencil), Aa.6.15-16 (ink, erased).. Provenance: Armorial bookplate in both vols.: The Honble. Charles Yorke [i.e. Charles Yorke (1722-1770, younger brother of the 2nd Earl of Hardwicke; Lord Chancellor, 1770].. Binding: Eighteenth-century mottled calf bindings; single blind fillet border; single gilt fillet on board edges; gold-tooled spines, with red gilt title and vol. no. labels. Edges stained red. Marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Cardinal Melchior de Polignac (1661-1742) Charles d'Orleans de Rothelin