1722 UNIVERSAL LIBRARY or COMPLEAT SUMMARY of SCIENCE – FULL LEATHER Very Clean
This is a superbly informative and very clean volume one of Curzon’s ‘The Universal Library or, Compleat Summary of Science, Containing Above Sixty Treaties’. The volume covers a multitude of subjects from chemistry to cooking and ‘dyet’, games, meteors, religion and women Etc.. The volume is in very good clean condition, well bound in full leather, though the binding to the front cover is a little fragile, please see detailed photos. There is a neat inscription to the title page with a personalised stamp and a few scholarly remarks to a few pages in pencil. Please see my other rare historical and antiquarian books listed.
1722 Pliny the Younger Caecilii Secundi Epistolae Et Panegyricus ROMAN WORKS
Caecilii Secundi Epistolae Et Panegyricus. Epistolae (Letters) and Panegyricus are the two surviving works by the Roman author and magistrate Pliny the Younger (c. 61–112 CE). Together, they provide one of the most intimate and detailed looks into Roman aristocratic life, politics, and culture during the late 1st and early 2nd centuries AD.