Ciceronis Tulliius (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo. Newer re cased tan boards, red leather spine label, 1024pp, 174pp, large woodcut vignette on title page, as well as ornamental tail pieces, pages foxed and damp staining with some heavy soiling, remnants of tissue guard stuck to gutter (p. 135- 173,)Affecting some text, some light, red underlining, outer edges of textblock somewhat soiled. Some Foxing, Very Good. The text includes the pseudo-Ciceronian Consolatio attributed to Carlo Sigonio (1583) who discovered th 'lost philosophical work' which is printed here along genuine fragments, Cicero's collected works, and De Petitione Consultatus. Consolatio is a philosophical work written by the grieving author to assuage the guilt of his daughter Tullia's death. Cicero was a Roman statesman who was mentored by the Stoic philosopher Diodotus. Orphanotrophei was a renowned Orphanage press in Halle run by the Francke Foundation, an 18th century orphanage and printing press of scholarly works in Germany.…