Cicéron - M. T. Ciceronis De officiis libri tres - 1677

Cicero. M. T. Cicero's De officiis, three books. Amsterdam, Ex Officina Elzevirana, 1677, 234 pp. A volume in-12 (140 x 80 mm), full calf, gilded border framed around the boards, plain decorated spine (binding later, 19th century). Binding damaged, wear and rubbing on the boards and spine, corners split and re glued, title piece missing, loss of paper on the title-frontispiece in the upper corner, the margin and the lower corner, fragile paper in the corners with loss of paper in the upper corner of about half the pages. No foxing. Third Elzevir edition of this collection Written as a treatise addressed to his son, De officiis lays out the moral principles that should guide a person in his personal, social, and political life. The volume also gathers several of Cicero's philosophical works: Cato the Elder or On Old Age, Laelius or On Friendship, the Paradoxes of the Stoics, and the Dream of Scipio.

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