Philippe Quartier Ed (1 results)
More imagesPublished by Dionysium Thierry, Paris 1685
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Leather. Condition: Very Good. A smart copy of this Delphin Cicero, edited by the Jesuit Philippe Quartier for the Dauphin, presenting Cicero's "Letters to Friends" with extensive notes and indexes. In a full calf binding, sympathetically rebacked with later calf. An ad usum Delphini edition of Cicero"s Epistolae ad Familiares,…edited with interpretation and notes by Philippe Quartier, a Jesuit scholar, for the use of the Dauphin. The ad usum Delphini series was produced under Louis XIV for the education of his son, Louis, le Grand Dauphin. These editions supplied classical texts with Latin commentary, explanatory notes, and indexes, designed to make major Greek and Roman authors. Cicero"s Letters to Friends are among the central surviving sources for the political and private world of the late Roman Republic, covering the years around Caesar, Pompey, civil war, and exile. A smartly produced Delphin Cicero, an intimate record of late Republican politicsand one of the great surviving records of public and private life in the late Roman Republic. Signatures: aÌ4 eÌ4 iÌ4 oÌ4 uÌ4 2aÌ2 A-4H4 (-4H4). Collated, complete. In a full calf binding, sympathetically rebacked with later calf, endpapers renewed.Externally, smart. Rubbing and bumping to calf boards with slight loss to extremities and surface. The odd scuff and handling mark. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean if slightly age toned with the odd light spot, heavier to fore edge. Ink mark to title page. Archival repair to fore edge of A4. Small 1 inch closed tear to fore edge of D2. Very Good. None Stated (illustrator). book.
