Gk.7.17(01)
[De rerum natura]
T. Lucretii Cari poetae, nec minus philosophi vetustissimi, De rerum natura libri sex. Ad verorum exemplarium fidem accuratè castigati.
Portion of title: De rerum natura libri sex
Portion of title: T. Lvcretii Cari poetae, nec minvs philosophi vetvstissimi, De rervm natvra libri sex
Basileae : Apud Henricum Petrum, Mense Augusto, anno MDXXXI. [1531]
[8], 150, [2] leaves ; 15 cm. (8vo)
"T. Lucretii Cari vita per Petrum Crinitum Florentinum": t.p. verso - leaf 3.
Errata: verso leaf [151].
Pagination: leaves 140, 143 incorrectly numbered 134, 120.
Signatures: A-V⁸.
Includes printer's device on last leaf verso; decorated initials; printed marginalia.
19th-century bookplate of Georgius Klok of Frankfurt am Main on front flyleaf of sammelband.
Ex dono label of Joseph Frederick Burrell, dated 1983, on front flyleaf of sammelband.
Bookplate of the Pömer family, by H.S. Behman and illustrated in Hollstein, on front pastedown of sammelband. Information provided from typed letter/report on loose card inserted between rear pastedown and textblock, signed by Alan Thomas, antiquarian bookseller.
Ms. inscription dated 1534 on rear pastedown. What seems to be the same hand writes publication details on last leaf verso.
Ms. initials on title page: H.H.
Sammelband. ?Early modern ?calfskin over woodboards. Covers decorated with blind-tooled roll to form a border, blind fillets to form two concentric panels with flower tools in between; three vertical rolls fill the inner panel; metal clasps and corner-pieces. Spine with three sewing supports, undecorated. Textblock trimmed; one parchment bookmark remains. Endpapers of undecorated paper; two flyleaves at both ends of the textblock.
Bound with two other items, shelfmarks Gk.7.17(02)-(03): (2) On Virgil's Bucolics; (3) the Iliad in Latin.
Former ECL shelfmark: DDl.6.1.
Petri, Heinrich, 1508 - 1579 printer.
Burrell, Joseph Frederick, 1909 - 1983 former owner.
Thomas, Alan G. bookseller.
Switzerland Basel.
lat
B51406