Anti-Lucretius, sive, De Deo et natura, libri novem / Melchioris de Polignac opus posthumum ; Caroli d'Orleans de Rothelin cura et studio editioni mandatum.

Parisiis : Apud Hippolytum-Ludovicum Guerin & Jacobum Guerin ..., 1747.

2 volumes (4 unnumbered pages, xxx, 2 unnumbered pages, 180; 4 unnumbered pages, 181-450 pages) : portrait (engraving) ; 22 cm (8vo)

Brunet, IV, 777.

Fusil, C.A. L'anti-Lucrèce de Cardinal de Polignac (1918)

Gordon, C.A. A bibliography of Lucretius (1962), pp. 297-399.

Portrait of Polignac by H. Rigaud, engraved by J. Daullé; head- and tail-pieces by C. Eisen.

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Smitskamp. Note: Frontispiece (port.) wanting. Binding: Contemp. calf, with gilt armorial stamps on both covers of the Society of Writers to the Signet; their inscription on t.p., with MS note "Fenel ex dono, aug. 1747". Library callmarks on front free endpaper verso and on printed book label. Contemp. inscription on final free endpaper: De Leslie.