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London: Typis Benj. Motte : Apud J. Nicholson, B. Tooke, J. Sprint & M. Atkins,. Good with no dust jacket. 1709. Leather. [10], clxii, 288, [88] pp. Added frontis illustrated plate. Red and black title page. Octavo in full leather. Spine in 5 compartments with gilt decoration, title panel missing. Smooth calf boards with blind stamped rectangular cartouche with fleurons at the corners. Corners bit rubbed, spine leather starting to crack. Interior no end papers, nice old signature on the second blank (unreadable) with a date of January 1730, text is clean and unmarked. Page cxxxiii/cxxxiv is out of order in the Prologue, but otherwise everything else is good. Entirely in Latin, nice printing. Text surrounded by commentary, followed by Index Vocab. The Delphin editions were designed to help the heir to the French throne - the Dauphin -- learn his Latin classics; each classic was edited, emended, commented upon and here, also put into an easier prose translation as well, by the most… Read More