Cicéron - De la vieillesse et de l’amitié - 1698
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Cicero, author; De la vieillesse et de l’amitié, a single-volume French edition of Cicero’s philosophical works, 348 pages, 17 x 10 cm, in good condition, original language French.
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CICÉRON (Marcus Tullius) / DU BOIS (Guillaume)
The Books of Cicero, On Old Age, and On Friendship, with the Paradoxes by the same author: translated into French from the Latin edition of Graevius. With Notes, & Summaries of the Chapters. By M. Du Bois of the French Academy. Second edition. With Latin on the side.
In Paris, at Jean-Baptiste Coignard, Printer Ordinary to the King, rue S. Jacques, at the Golden Bible, 1688 (M. DC. LXXXVIII.). With the privilege of His Majesty.
One volume in-12. Bilingual edition (Latin text and French translation facing). Ornamented with an engraved frontispiece, headbands and initial capitals. Copy dedicated to Monseigneur Boucherat, Chancellor and Keeper of the Seals of France.
Full brown morocco of the period, spine with raised bands ornamented with gilt compartments featuring floral and geometric motifs, title-piece in brown morocco. Speckled edges. Period binding rubbed with wear to the headcaps, corners and joints. Interior generally fresh, enhanced by a pretty engraved frontispiece vignette and scattered old handwritten notes on the guards and the title page.
Precious seventeenth-century classic edition containing Cicero’s major philosophical treatises (Cato Maior de Senectute and Laelius de Amicitia), as well as his Paradoxa Stoicorum. The translation and critical apparatus are the work of the academicien Guillaume Du Bois, after the illustrious Latin edition by Graevius.
Fine copy.
CICÉRON (Marcus Tullius) / DU BOIS (Guillaume)
The Books of Cicero, On Old Age, and On Friendship, with the Paradoxes by the same author: translated into French from the Latin edition of Graevius. With Notes, & Summaries of the Chapters. By M. Du Bois of the French Academy. Second edition. With Latin on the side.
In Paris, at Jean-Baptiste Coignard, Printer Ordinary to the King, rue S. Jacques, at the Golden Bible, 1688 (M. DC. LXXXVIII.). With the privilege of His Majesty.
One volume in-12. Bilingual edition (Latin text and French translation facing). Ornamented with an engraved frontispiece, headbands and initial capitals. Copy dedicated to Monseigneur Boucherat, Chancellor and Keeper of the Seals of France.
Full brown morocco of the period, spine with raised bands ornamented with gilt compartments featuring floral and geometric motifs, title-piece in brown morocco. Speckled edges. Period binding rubbed with wear to the headcaps, corners and joints. Interior generally fresh, enhanced by a pretty engraved frontispiece vignette and scattered old handwritten notes on the guards and the title page.
Precious seventeenth-century classic edition containing Cicero’s major philosophical treatises (Cato Maior de Senectute and Laelius de Amicitia), as well as his Paradoxa Stoicorum. The translation and critical apparatus are the work of the academicien Guillaume Du Bois, after the illustrious Latin edition by Graevius.
Fine copy.
Details
Number of books
1
Subject
Philosophy
Book title
De la vieillesse et de l’amitié
Author/ Illustrator
Cicéron
Condition
Good
Publication year oldest item
1698
Height
17 cm
Edition
Other edition
Width
10 cm
Language
French
Original language
Yes
Number of pages
348
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