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66 - CICERO and MONGAULT, Abbé. Letters from Cicero to Atticus, w…
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CICERO and MONGAULT, Abbé. Letters from Cicero to Atticus, with commentary. Paris, J. Barbou, 1787. In-12 (16.5 x 10 cm), mottled calfskin, plain spine decorated with panels, mosaic panels indicating the title and volume number. Contemporary binding. 4 vols.: xvi–512 pp. – 421 pp. – 461 pp. – 517 pp. Scuffing to the binding; the top cap of volume 4 is worn away. A few pinholes. A new, revised and corrected edition of Cicero’s letters, in the highly regarded translation by Nicolas-Hubert Mongault (1674–1746), first published in 1701. With the Latin text taken from Graevius’s edition, set side by side with the French translation. Voltaire said of Mongault in his *Siècle de Louis XIV*: “The best translation ever made of Cicero’s Letters is his. It is enriched with judicious and useful notes.” It was François Petrarch who brought to light the version of Cicero’s *Letters to Atticus* preserved in a manuscript discovered in 1345 in the chapter library of Verona, of which he had a copy made. This copy was used in major editions of these works, such as that by Paolo Manuzio in the 16th century. A fine copy.
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Auction time 11/02/2026 at 2:00 PM
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