Ciceronis, M. Tullii (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

De Officiis Libri Tres [cum] Cato Maior, Laelius, Paradoxa, Somnium Scipionis [= On Duty: Three Books [with] Cato Major, Laelius de Amicitia [= On Friendship], Stoic Paradoxes, the Dream of Scipio]

Amstelodami: P. & I. Blaeu / Wolfgang, Ianssonis-Wasbergios, Boom, 1688. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [14], 1-452, [14] pp. Later (ca. 1800) sheep with gold borders and gold floral decorations on each board, spine in six compartments with gold lettering and gold rules on the spine; all edges gilt. Brown endpapers and pastedowns. With a green ribbon bookmark bound in. Illustrated with an engraved title page. Woodcut publisher's device on the title page. With woodcut initials and tailpieces. Edited and reviewed by Joannis Georgii Graevii, with notes from the scholar. Also with notes and commentary from Lambinius, Aldus Manutius, and from several other classical scholars. Added to this text are the discussion of Favonius Eulogius Rhetorius of Carthage on Cicero's Dream of Scipio, the treatise of Celio Calcagnini on Cicero's De Officiis, the defense of Cicero by Marcus Antonius Majoragi against the criticisms of Calcagnini, and Grissioli's treatise on Cicero's De Officiis, with Grissioli's response to Calcagnini's criticisms of Cicero. Dibdin 415. Moss 308. An attractive collection of various works of Cicero: his book on moral obligation, a brilliant treatise on political science and government. This volume also contains Cicero's essays on old age, friendship, Stoic philosophy, and his Dream of Scipio. Cicero's Dream of Scipio is part cosmology, part Stoic philosophy, part existential thought, as Scipio Aemilianus considers what actually matters in the world during his tour of the heavens. First published in the late fifteenth century, this 1688 edition was reprinted in 1691 and in 1710. Very Good or better. Item #000015187

A touch of rubbing to the spine, a small private person's label (nineteenth century) on the front pastedown.

Price: $750.00