16mo. [38], 287pp, [21]. Title within decorative woodcut border. Eighteenth-century red straight-grain morocco, ruled and lettered in gilt, gilt dentelles. Rubbed, spine dulled. Early ownership inscriptions and initials to title page.

The first sextodecimo edition of French classical scholar Denys Lambin's (1520/21-1572) Lucretius; issued, with emendations by Adrien Turnèbe (1512-1565), due to demand following the success of 1564 quarto with the intention, as the publisher states in his prefatory remarks 'facile foras circumferri'.

Lucretius' only known work, De rerum natura - an epic philosophical poem on Epicurianism - is one of the earliest extant attempts at logical explanation of the universe.