M. Tullii Ciceronis De Officiis Libri III. Cato Maior, seu de Senectute. Laelius, seu de Amicitia. Paradoxa Stoicorum sex, ad M. Brutum. Fragmenta poematum, in quibus continentur Aratea. Aliorum vero poematum nomina sequens pagina indicabit. Postremo, accessit Qu. Fratris, de petitione consulatus liber singularis. Ex postrema D. Lambini emendatione. Accesserunt eiusdem Lambini annotationes, seu emendationum rationes. Apud Petrum Santandreanum, M.D.LXXX. Translated: Cicero’s Philosophical Works, Part Three. De Officiis (On Duties, three books); Cato Maior, or De Senectute (Cato the Elder, or On Old Age); Laelius, or De Amicitia (Laelius, or On Friendship); Paradoxa Stoicorum (Six Stoic Paradoxes, Addressed to Marcus Brutus); Cicero’s poetic fragments, including the Aratea; De Petitione Consulatus (On Canvassing for the Consulship), traditionally attributed to Cicero’s brother Quintus; and Denis Lambin’s annotations and explanations of his textual emendations.

M. Tullii Ciceronis De Officiis Libri III. Cato Maior, seu de Senectute. Laelius, seu de Amicitia. Paradoxa Stoicorum sex, ad M. Brutum. Fragmenta poematum, in quibus continentur Aratea. Aliorum vero poematum nomina sequens pagina indicabit. Postremo, accessit Qu. Fratris, de petitione consulatus liber singularis. Ex postrema D. Lambini emendatione. Accesserunt eiusdem Lambini annotationes, seu emendationum rationes. Apud Petrum Santandreanum, M.D.LXXX. Translated: Cicero’s Philosophical Works, Part Three. De Officiis (On Duties, three books); Cato Maior, or De Senectute (Cato the Elder, or On Old Age); Laelius, or De Amicitia (Laelius, or On Friendship); Paradoxa Stoicorum (Six Stoic Paradoxes, Addressed to Marcus Brutus); Cicero’s poetic fragments, including the Aratea; De Petitione Consulatus (On Canvassing for the Consulship), traditionally attributed to Cicero’s brother Quintus; and Denis Lambin’s annotations and explanations of his textual emendations.

A 1580 Geneva printing of major philosophical and moral works by Marcus Tullius Cicero, including De Officiis (On Duties), De Senectute (On Old Age), De Amicitia (On Friendship), the Stoic Paradoxes, poetic fragments including the Aratea, and De Petitione Consulatus (On Canvassing for the Consulship), traditionally attributed to Cicero’s brother Quintus. The volume is especially strong as a Renaissance humanist text, combining ethics, friendship, aging, Stoic thought, politics, and classical learning. Denis Lambin’s annotations reflect the scholarly effort to establish and explain Cicero’s text from earlier sources.

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. 1580. Geneva: Pierre de Saint-André. 12mo.(4.5" x 6.875") Vol III of 3 only. Continuous pagination from 5135 to 5459. Full contemporary pigskin with ornate blindstamp decoration to boards. Upper board with black stamped ABL and 1603, the year it was bound. Spine with four raised bands, old ink manuscript to first two compartments. All edges reddened. Engraved title page. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed. Covers soiled, stained. Blue ink library stamp of Kalmar Stadsbibliotek to foot of first and last free endpaper and title page. Old ink manucript to margins of many pages as well as the head of the first free endpaper with a fabulous drawing of a bust (see pic). Pages lightly toned (aged), realtively clean and neat.