THE SELECTED SPEECHES OF MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO 1780 LEATHER BOUND

[CICERO, M. T. [Marcus Tullius]; Merouille, Charles de Hallot [editor]]. M.T. Ciceronis Orationes Quædam Selectæ, Cum Interpretatione & Notis Quas In Usum Serenissimi Delphini Edidit P. Carolus Merouille, S.J. Quibus Præfigitur Vita Ciceronis Per Annos Consulares Digesta. His Adjiciuntur In Tres Orationes Notæ Quædam Non Inutiles Ex Asconio, P. Manutio, &c Decerptæ. Unà Cum Variantibus Aliquot Per Singulas Orationes Lectionibus. Huic Editioni Accesserunt Dialogi De Senectute & De Amicitia. London: Published by Excudebant R. & M. Brown. Impensis C. Bathurst, W. Strahan, B. Collins, B. Law, G. Keith, T. Longman, T. Caslon, G. Robinson, T. Pote, J. Johnson, R. Baldwin, H.L. Gardner, Feilding & Walker, J. Hayes, & W. Fox, MDCCLXXX [1780].

Tenth edition, corrected. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Octavo (220 x 135 x 50 mm.). Pp. [viii], xxx, 554, [16]. Latin text. Bound in contemporary full calf. Title-page printed in red and black. Head- and tail-pieces. Decorative initials. Rear index in double columns. The last page of text is a list of school books printed by C Bathurst. Condition: GOOD. Binding secure with slight wear to joints. Covers rubbed to extremities and spine ends with some abrasions to boards. Interior well-preserved with a little inking to title. Lacking the terminal blank leaf but otherwise compete. A sound copy.

Notes: Selections from the speeches and addresses of the Roman Marcus Tullius Cicero [ 106 BC - 43BC ], the text here being that of the original Delphin edition, and edited by Charles de Hallot Merouille.