[Classics]. Small-format paperback edition containing De amicitia dialogus by Tullius Cicero in the Paris edition of 1771 with engraved portrait on the antiporta, within burgundy morocco binding with triple border on the plates, friezes and title in gold on the spine, unghiatura à dentelles and gilt cuts. Also in the lot among others are Titi Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri sex in the critical edition by Giovanni Nardi of 1647, The Golden Ass by Lucius Apuleius of 1668, Della consolazione della filosofia by Boethius Severinus of 1572, and a fine miscellany of Aldine editions containing Rhetoricorum ad C. Herennium libri III by Cicero of 1546, De oratoree Orator Ciceronis ad M. Brutum also of 1546. (Quantity)

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