[Rarebooks] fa: OCCELUS LUCANUS - TIMEE DE LOCRES - ARISTOTE - Batteux 1768 - French Binding

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Listed now, auction ending Sunday, October 4. Images and more details can be found at the URL below or by searching for the seller name arch_in_la. 

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Ardwight Chamberlain
Ann Arbor, MI, USA


Charles Batteux, trans.: Ocellus Lucanus, De la Nature de l'Univers. Timee de Locres [Timaeus of Locri], de l'Ame du Monde. Lettre d'Aristote [Aristotle] a Alexandre, sur le Systeme du Monde. Avec la Traduction Francoise & des Remarques, par M. l'Abbe Batteux... Paris: Saillant, 1768. First edition; 8vo (20 cm) in early/period mottled calf, spine tooled and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers and page edges; viii, 188; [6], 130; [6], 150, [2] pp.

Three works in one, each with a separate half-title and title-page. Text in Greek and French. Some bumping/wear to the corners, rubbing to the spine, light scuffing to the boards, otherwise a fine copy, the contents bright, clean and crisp, with just a hint of toning and cockling to the page edges, in a handsome French binding of the period. The front free-endpaper bears an early ink inscription (possibly by the translator?) to someone whose name appears to be "de Visconti": "...on trouver un morceau[?] sur Timee de Locres par un savant archiologique[?]."