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LUCRETIUS CARUS, Titus. |
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THE EPICUREAN PHILOSOPHER, His Six Books DE RERUM NATURA Done into English Verse, With Notes. The Second Edition, Corrected and Enlarged. |
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Oxford, Printed by L. Lichfield...For Anthony Stephens. 1683. Engraved Frontispiece, pp. (xl), 223, 59. Contemporary calf, rebacked. Slight water staining at margins, mainly early and at the fore-edge, otherwise, a very good copy. |
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* Translated by Thomas Creech. A pencilled comment on the rear pastedown notes that this translation was highly praised by Mr Dryden.
Lucretius Carus (95-55 B.C.) was a contemporary of Varro and a poet and philosopher and, as Castiglioni notes, 'author of the most beautiful scientific work of classic Latinism, the De Rerum Natura, in which Lucretius discusses the mystery of life with the marvellous clarity of genius. Although he was not a physician, his famous work contains many advanced statements about anatomy and physiology, diet and hygiene, and the effect of climate; the sixth book gives the celebrated account of the Plague of Athens'. £255 £190 |
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PETTIGREW, Thomas, J |
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A HISTORY OF EGYPTIAN MUMMIES |
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and an account of the worship and embalming of the sacred animals by the Egyptians; with remarks on the funeral ceremonies of different nations, and observations on mummies of the Canary Islands, of the ancient Peruvians, Burman priests etc. FIRST EDITION. London, Longman etc., 1834. Subscription edition of 355. Large 4to. pp. xxi, (i), 264, (i - errata et corrigenda); 13 Plates (4 in colour including the Frontispiece - offsetting on title), all bar one by George Cruikshank; 7 of the uncoloured plates have patchy light browning/spotting. Contemporary brown boards (a little rubbed), rebacked with original backstrip laid down. Bookplate of Christopher Tower on front pastedown. |
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* Pettigrew (1791-1865) was born in London. He studied anatomy and was one of the original 300 Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons. He was distinguished as both surgeon and antiquary; his interest in embalming began in 1822. He was appointed the first surgeon, from 1822 to 1830, to the fore-runner of the Charing Cross Hospital where he lectured on physiology and anatomy; he was elected F.R.S. in 1827. £785 £600 |
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