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Reprint, stapled. Condition: Gut. pp. 288-303. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of the ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - With dedication of the author for the I.C.T. collection. - Author's name handwritten on cover, otherwise good and very clean. - From the text: Lucy Hutchinson has a long-established reputation as the biographer of her husband, Colonel John Hutchinson, the parliamentarian who defended Nottingham against the royalists in the English Civil War and who was subsequently one of the regicides Few readers know her translation of Lucretius: all six books of the De rerum natura in 7,800 lines of heroic couplets, quite possibly the first complete English version. She translated the poem, she explains in a prefatory letter to Lord Anglesey, "out of youthfull curiositie, to understand things I heard so much discourse of at second hand" (fol. 2v); most likely in the early 1650s, when English intellectuals, stimulated by Gassendi's work in France, began to be seriously interested in Lucretius and Epicureanism. - Wikipedia: Lucy Hutchinson (16181681) was an English translator, poet, and biographer, and the first person to translate the complete text of Lucretius's De rerum natura (On the Nature of Things) into English verse, during the years of the Interregnum (16491660). Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 256 pages (viii, 248), appendix, indexes: publisher's maroon cloth, gilt-blocked titles on the spine; sepia half-tone pictorial dust-jacket: Very Good, no marks of previous ownership; unclipped jacket faded at the spine. Pictures show this actual book. A genuinely rare title.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: VG- (Very Good Minus). 1st Edition Thus. Maroon cloth with trace wear and slightly bumped spine ends and corners. Jacket in new archival mylar sleeve has trace edgewear and uneven sunning along spine and some edges; flaps not clipped. Binding sound, text clean. No prev owner names, stickers or stamps. Not ex-library. 246 pp.

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; viii, 246 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 18-20) and indexes. Translation of: De rerum natura. Subjects; Lucretius Carus, Titus. De rerum natura. Philosophy, Ancient ; Poetry. Philosophy, Ancient. Didactic poetry, Latin Translations into English. Physics Philosophy Poetry. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; viii, 246 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 18-20) and indexes. Translation of: De rerum natura. Subjects; Lucretius Carus, Titus. De rerum natura. Philosophy, Ancient ; Poetry. Philosophy, Ancient. Didactic poetry, Latin Translations into English. Physics Philosophy Poetry. 1 Kg.

Condition: As New. Envoi rapide Comme neuf avec sa jaquette. 15 6x2 6x23 4cm. 1996. Cartonné jaquette. 192 pages. As New.