CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS

Epistolarum libri XVI ad familiares ut vulgo vocantur, ex recesione Joannis Georgii Graevii. 2 vols.

Amsterdam, Apud. Danielem Elsevirium & Hackios, 1676 & 1677.

8vo. Two volumes uniformly bound in contemporary full vellum with yapp edges. Title and author in contemporary hand to spines. Light soiling and miscolouring to extremities. Stamp and previous owner's names to pasted down front end-papers. Very few occassional underlinings in text and frontispiece missing some of paper in outer margin, otherwise a good and clean copy. Vol. 1 with Elzevir printing-device to title-page and vol. 2 with Hackios' printing-device. (19), 434, 78 pp. + 2 frontispieces; 416, (104) pp.


Fine Elzevir-edition of Cicero's Familiarium Epistolarum - a series of letters by Cicero to Roman public figures. They are widely regarded as being the most reliable source of information for the period leading up the fall of the Roman Republic.

Willems 1525

Order-nr.: 60352


DKK 2.500,00