T. Lucreti Cari: De Rerum Natura, Libri Sex, with Notes and a Translation, Volume I: Text and Notes
by Lucretius & H.A.J. Munro
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Cambridge: Deighton Bell and Co. Used - Acceptable. 1873. Cloth. 8vo. xi & 695 pp. Some shelf wear and scuffing to boards, sunning to spine, tearing & fraying along joints. Corners bumped. Previous owners' inscriptions to ffep. Rear hinge starting. Binding cracked. Foxing and toning to pages. Underlining and margin notes to text. Altogether a sound working copy. (Subject: Ancient, Roman Literature.)
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- Bookseller
- Powell's Bookstores Chicago
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Q21254
- Title
- T. Lucreti Cari: De Rerum Natura, Libri Sex, with Notes and a Translation, Volume I: Text and Notes
- Author
- Lucretius & H.A.J. Munro
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Cambridge: Deighton Bell and Co
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- Acceptable
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- Cloth
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- Cracked
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- Shelf Wear
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