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MURET, Marc-Antoine. M. antonii mureti orationes. Quotquot extant omnes, additionibus quo ad per marginum angustias fieri potuit, illustratae...

Parisiis [i.e. Paris]. Apud Johannem Hulpeau, in monte D. Hilarii, 1573.
[2], 184pp, [1].

[Bound with:] MURET, Marc-Antoine. M. antonii mureti variarum lectionum libri VIII... Parisiis [i.e. Paris]. Apud Johannem Hulpeau, in monte D. Hilarii, 1574. [2], 175pp, [17].

16mo. Contemporary calf, gilt supralibros to both boards, A.E.G. Extremities heavily worn and marked, without spine panel, surface loss to boards, corners bumped. Early inked ownership inscriptions of P. J. Gilbert to FFEP and title page of first mentioned work, later ink-stamp of Bibliotheca Heberiana to recto of FFEP, loss to lower corner of leaf I of first mentioned work, minute worm-trail to foot of gutter throughout the majority of text-block.
Two rare editions of works by French humanist and classical scholar Marc-Antoine Muret (1526-1585). Widely celebrated for the elegance of his Latin prose style, Muret first rose to prominence lecturing at the University of Rome, having fled to Italy in 1554 after being condemned for sodomy and heresy. A highly competent textual critic, he secured a favourable reputation throughout Europe, primarily due to his Variae lectiones which contain annotations and expositions of many passages from ancient authors. His works were immensely successful, being issued by a plethora of publisher's in innumerable editions across the Continent well in the eighteenth-century.

Richard Heber (1773-1833), English landowner and bibliophile; a founding member of the Roxburghe Club, Heber acquired books for his magnificent library, which Dibdin estimated to have exceeded 100,000 volumes by his death and dispersed over 216 days. This item was separately lotted as no. 4719 in the first part of that sale (1834), where it sold for one shilling.
Not in Adams.
£ 450.00 Antiquates Ref: 24943