Apr 24, 2006 - Sale 2076

Sale 2076 - Lot 261

Price Realized: $ 575
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
LUCRETIUS CARUS, TITUS. De rerum natura libri sex. With notes by Denis Lambin, Thomas Creech, et al.; edited by Sigebert Havercamp. Engraved additional title and 6 plates by Jan Wandelaar after Frans van Mieris. [136], 659, [1]; [2], 626, [18], 453 columns. 2 volumes. 4to, contemporary calf gilt, needs rebacking; occasional browning or foxing, light dampstaining along top edges; institutional bookplates. 19th-century bookplate and signatures of William Ellis Wall, with his(?) annotations on Volume 1 front free endpaper. Leiden: apud Janssonios van der Aa, 1725

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first havercamp edition, limited to 820 numbered sets, signed by him