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Heritage
L. Angeles
Feb. '94
$75.00

Lucretius Carus, Titus. (99 BC - 55 BC)
De rerum hatura. (On the Nature of Things)
Venice: Aldus Pius Menutius, Jan. 1515. 8 0
Ref: Renouard 74.11 Adams L - 1651 S.T.C. Italian 397
UCLA 112 + 12a Fletcher 123-125.
Cop: HEHL, BM (12846)

[8] ff. (including last blank), 125 ff., [3] ff (including penultimate
blank); altogether 136 leaves, Italic letter.
Aldine device on title page + on verso of last leaf.

Second Aldine ed. and the only one in pocket size to
be issued by the press. The last book to be published
before the death of Aldus the Elder in Feb. 1515.
This new ed. prepared by Andrea Navagero, is much more
accurate than the very rare 1500 one which had been
prepared by Girdamo Avanzio.

HEHL (131685) my leaf p2 (of 8). folio 114. Book 6. - folio 104 - 125.
Total - libro sexto.
No rub. gilt edge 125 folio, plus eriata pelage t pelagus 114 page 27 lines
pelagius - "belonging
to the ser"
Index De terrae motu 113 . 2
Cur tot aquis influentibus mare maius non fiat 114. 15
De Aetnae ignibus 114.47
De Nili incremento 115.60

Lib VI 114
ruled in red
p2