Sententiarum illustrium, Apophthegmatum, Similium, nonnullarum item piarum sententiarum collectio a Petro Lagnerio Compendiensi in lucem edita. P(ublii) Terentij, aliorumque, optimorum auctorum insigniores sententiae ... Nuper accessere Demosthenis sententiae ex Graeco ... traducta.
by CIC(ERO), M(arcus) T(ullius)
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Lyon, Jean de Tournes, 1585. Title within ornamental frame, woodcut device at the end. 510 pp., 9 unn. leaves (last blank). 12mo. Contemp. blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, brown-stamped center medallions on covers and four angle fleurons, spine in five compartments with fleurons (slightly rubbed and stained). Lyon, Jean de Tournes, 1585. Selected sentences of Cicero, together with sentences and adages culled from the plays of Terence and from the orations and letters of Demosthenes, in an edition prepared by Pierre Lagnier from Compiègne and published previously at Lyon in 1547. The binding is decorated with fleurons at the corners and by a central oval ornamental vignette. - With old ms. owner's inscriptions on first flyleaf and rear paste-down. Lower white portion of title leaf cut away. Some waterstaining to lower margins. - Not in STC, (French), Adams, or BN or Index aurel. CLASSICS ; ALTE DRUCKE ;
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- Bookseller
- Hellmut Schumann Antiquariat
(CH)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32203-203
- Title
- Sententiarum illustrium, Apophthegmatum, Similium, nonnullarum item piarum sententiarum collectio a Petro Lagnerio Compendiensi in lucem edita. P(ublii) Terentij, aliorumque, optimorum auctorum insigniores sententiae ... Nuper accessere Demosthenis sententiae ex Graeco ... traducta.
- Author
- CIC(ERO), M(arcus) T(ullius)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Lyon, Jean de Tournes
- Date Published
- 1585
- Keywords
- CLASSICS ; ALTE DRUCKE ;
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Hellmut Schumann Antiquariat
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