Item #002605 De rerum natura. Carus Titus LUCRETIUS.
De rerum natura.
De rerum natura.
De rerum natura.
De rerum natura.
De rerum natura.
De rerum natura.
De rerum natura.
De rerum natura.
De rerum natura.

De rerum natura.

Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, 1515.

2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #002605

January 1515. 8vo (155 x 97 mm). [7], 125, [2] leaves, including colophon leaf and final leaf with Aldine device on verso. Signatures: *8 (-*8 blank) a-q8 (-q7 blank). Bound by Moëns* in fine purple Jansenistic morocco, spine with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in first compartment, leather turn-ins with broad floral-ruled gilt decoration, purple moire endpapers, all edges and board-edges gilt, spine little sun-faded. Housed in a custom slipcase. Without the two blanks *8 and q7; some leaves at the beginning and the end expertly restored, leaf q6 with circular defect repaired with loss of some words of errata on verso; closed tear in leaf a2, paper washed with faded contemporary annotations, floral woodcut initials on separate paper snippets pasted into dedicated gaps. Provenance: Two elligible old stamps on title-page and a gothic initial "S" to 3rd flyleaf, center of one stamp with circular cut-out and backed by paper showing same initial. ----

Renouard, 74(11); Adams L1651; Gordon 6. - Sixth edition overall of De rerum natura, the second Aldine, and the first edited by Andrea Navagero (the first Aldine was printed in quarto format in 1500), dedicated to Alberto III Pio, Prince of Carpi, which Aldus had been the tutor. According to Renouard superior to the rare first Aldine edition of 1500. This was the last book published by Aldus Manutius the Elder, who died on 6 February 1515. "Democritus, a Green living ca. 400 B.C. first proposed a theory of structure of matter based on a-tom (not divisible) as the fundamental particle in nature. Lucretius' text in verse, On the Nature of Things, is the result of observation, report and conjecture rather than experimental investigation. Lucretius, a Roman, treats on lightning and thunder, volcanoes and water-spouts, pestilence and vulcanic fumes." (Dibner, Herals of Science, 74).
*Eugène Moens, was a bookbinder active in Paris between 1890 and 1914.

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