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  • FINE PRINTING IN VERY FINE GILT TOOLED FULL MOROCCO
    De Rerum Natura. (On the Nature of Things (or) On the Nature of the Universe). by LUCRETIUS. (Titus Lucretius Carus).
    LUCRETIUS. (Titus Lucretius Carus).
    De Rerum Natura. (On the Nature of Things (or) On the Nature of the Universe).

    London: Richard Taylor, 1832. Full morocco, 11 inches tall. A superb c.1835 full red morocco with gilt raised bands, ornate floral gilt tooling to the panels and a wide gilt roll and fillets to the boards. Gilt dentelles and all edges. With this work Lucretius was a great influence on the Augustan poets and on philosophers of the Enlightenment constructing a new Christian humanism. In the original Latin.

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