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Cicero on Duties 1656 Elzevir Press

Cicero on Duties 1656 Elzevir Press

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M. T. Ciceronis de Officiis Libri Tres. Cato Major, Vel De Senecture. Laelius, Vel De Amicitia. Paradoxa Stoicorum Sex. Somnium Scipionis. Cum Optimis Ac Postremis Exem Plaribus Accurate Collati. Amstelodami, Ex Officina Elzeviriana. 1656.

 

The Three Books of M. T. Cicero On Duties. Cato the Elder, or On Old Age. Laelius, or On Friendship. The Six Stoic Paradoxes. The Dream of Scipio. Carefully Compared with the Best and Latest Editions. Amsterdam, From the Elzevier Press, 1656.


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Size: 74 x 127 mm (approx.)


 

Condition: 

[t.p., pp.3-234, (4), 4pp.]

 

Full dark brown calf binding, rubbed and scuffed with a small fragment of the backstrip lacking from the bottom. Both boards attached with rubbing along joints, hinges worn. Shelf and edge wear. Page edges toned, top edge darkened as often. Ink inscriptions to endpapers and insides of boards. Lacking pastedown and some blanks. Text block very clean with occasional foxing. Edge tears to the top corners of the last two leaves of text following rear blanks, the last leaf of which has ink transferred onto it. Ink inscription to rear blank dated 1674. 

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