M. Tuilli Ciceronis: De Officiis, Libri Tres: Cato Maior, Laeilus, Paradoxs, Somnium Scipionis, Ex Recensione Ioannis Georgii Graevii
by Cicero, Marcus Tullius & Graevius, Joannes Georgius
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- Used - Very Good
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About This Item
Amstelodami, P. & I. Blaeu. Used - Very Good. . Amsterdam: P. & I. Blaeu, 1688. Leather with gilt stamped lettering and decoration. Spine with raised bands, in six compartments. All edges gilt. 8vo. Unpaginated introduction & 452 pp & unpaginated index. Frontispiece. Text in Latin. Dibdin I-415. Moderate shelfwear and scuffing to boards, noticeable rubbing to extremities of spine, and a crease to spine. Binding is sound. Variable foxing and toning to pages which remain otherwise clean and unmarked. Altogether a copy in Very Good condition. (Subject: Ancient, Roman Literature.)
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- Powell's Bookstores Chicago (US)
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- Title
- M. Tuilli Ciceronis: De Officiis, Libri Tres: Cato Maior, Laeilus, Paradoxs, Somnium Scipionis, Ex Recensione Ioannis Georgii Graevii
- Author
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius & Graevius, Joannes Georgius
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Amstelodami, P. & I. Blaeu
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- Spine
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- Raised Band(s)
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- Gilt
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