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PLUTARCH - The Lives of illustrious Greek and Roman men, com…
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61
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PLUTARCH - The Lives of illustrious Greek and Roman men, com…
See original version (French)
Estimate €150
Voluntary lot
Description
PLUTARCH - The Lives of illustrious Greek and Roman men, compared one with the other by Plutarch of Chæronee. Translatées de grec en françois par M. Jacques Amyot Conseiller du Roy &c, par lui revenuës & corrigees en infinis passages. Avec les vies d'Annibal et de Scipion l'Africain, traduites de Latin en François par Charles de l'Escluse. (Geneva), Jérémie des Planches, 1583. In-folio, (12) ff. 776 ff, (15) ff, light spotting, angular stain on title, contemporary brown calf, gilt thread on covers, medallion in centre, spine ribbed and decorated, headpieces and hinges remaindered. First Protestant edition of Amyot's translation. Printed in Geneva, it contains notes and comments by Simon Goulart, and is decorated with a hundred small portraits placed at the head of the biographies.
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