4
Lucretius Tanaquil Fabri.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 147, no. 31, as above.
LUCRETIUS CARUS,
Titus.
De Rerum Natura Libri Sex. Quibus additae sunt conjecturae et emendationes Tan. Fabri cum notulis perpetuis. Et Praeterea Oberti Gifanii Vita Lucretii et De Gente Memmis ejusdem Prolegomena. Item D. Lambrini
[
sic
--
Ed.
] Index perquam necessarius.
Cantabrigiae: Ex officina
Joann. Hayes [Impensis
W. Morden],
1675.
Sm. 8vo. 250 leaves, title printed in red and black.
Graesse IV, 280.
This edition not in Ebert.
STC L3442.
Not in Bowes.
This may be the edition that Jefferson ordered in a letter dated from Paris, July 1, 1787, from the 2
d. Part of
Lackington’s catalogue for 1787, no. 6532, Lucretius,
4/6.
Tanaquil Faber, 1615-1672, French classical scholar, was famous for his editions of Greek and Latin texts. He was the father of Madame Dacier.
Hubert Van Giffen, c. 1533-1604, Dutch scholar.
Denys Lambin, c. 1520-1572, French scholar.
[4459]
5
Creech’s Lucretius.
2. v.
8
vo
1815 Catalogue, page 145, no. 57, as above.
LUCRETIUS CARUS,
Titus.
T. Lucretius Carus, Of the Nature of Things, in Six Books, Translated into
English Verse; by Tho. Creech, A.M. late Fellow of Wadham College in Oxford. In
Two Volumes. Explain’d and Illustrated with Notes and Animadversions; being a compleat System of the Epicurean Philosophy. [-Volume II. Containing the Fifth and Sixth Books. Explain’d and Illustrated with Notes and Animadversions.]
London: Printed by
J. Matthews for
G. Sawbridge, and sold by
J. Churchill and
W. Taylor;
J. Wyat, and
R. Knaplock [and others]
mdccxiv
. [1714.]
PA6483 .E5 C7 1714
2 vol. 8vo. 248 and 222 leaves, separate titles, continuous signatures and pagination, engraved frontispiece after M. Burghers, woodcut Minerva device on the general title; text in long lines, notes in double columns below. The preliminary matter includes
the Preface, the Life of Lucretius, Commendatory Poems to Mr. Creech, and other matter.
Entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue, with the price,
3f12.
For Thomas Creech, see no. 4459 above. The commendatory poems prefixed to this edition of 1714 are by Nahum Tate, Thomas Otway, Aphra Behn, John Evelyn and others.
[4460]
6
Lucretius
Lat.
Fr. par la Grange
2. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 147, no. 33, as above.
LUCRETIUS CARUS,
Titus.
Lucrèce, De la Nature des Choses. Avec des Notes. Par M. Lagrange.
Paris:
Potey, An
vii
[1799].
