1773-1787 M. Tullii Ciceronis Opera Omnia in Usum Serenis

Description

Scarce

Offering the complete works of Roman statesman, lawyer and scholar, Marcus Tullius Cicero.

Mixed imprints. With the title pages for the collection all dated 1787, but with earlier dates printed to additional title pages for the works.

Comprising Cicero's rhetoric, speeches and prose. Edited with notes and references by Pierre-Joseph Thoulier d'Olivet, Abbot of Olivet, a French abbot, writer, grammarian and translator.

With the phrase 'Serenissimi Delphini' to the title pages (translating to 'for the use of the most serene Dolphin'). Originally used to signal classical texts that had been censored for the education of the son of King Louis XIV. Later, the Latin expression was used pejoratively to describe a work adapted to make it accessible to a wider audience.

Very scarce to find this work complete in sixteen volumes.

With an engraved portrait frontispiece to Volume I. 

Comprising the following: 

Vol I - Rhetoricorum, Tomus Primus. Title page dated 1782.
Vol II - Rhetoricorum, Tomus Secundus. Title page dated 1782.
Vol III - De Oratore. Title page dated 1783.
Vol IV - Philosophicorum, cum Delectu Commentariorum, Tomus Primus. Title page dated 1773. 
Vol V - Philosophicorum, cum Delectu Commentariorum, Tomus Secundus. Title page dated 1773.
Vol VI - De Officiis. Title page dated 1782.
Vol VII - Orationum, Tomus Primus. Title page dated 1781. 
Vol VIII - Orationum, Tomus Secundus. Title page dated 1782 
Vol IX - Orationum, Tomus Tertius. Title page dated 1782 
Vol X - Orationum, Tomus Quartus. Title page dated 1782
Vol XI - Epistolarum ad Familiares, Tomus Primus. Title page dated 1774.
Vol XII - Epistolarum ad Familiares, Tomus Secundus. Title page dated 1774.
Vol XIII - Epistolarum ad Atticum, Tomus Primus. Title page dated 1773.
Vol XIV - Epistolarum ad Atticum, Tomus Secundus. Title page dated 1773.
Vol XV - Historia, et Index Grecus. Title page dated 1773.
Vol XVI - Index Latinus, Nominum, et Rerum. No second title page.