Plutarch of Chaeronea. - Les vies des hommes... - Lot 32 - Crait + Müller

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Plutarch of Chaeronea. - Les vies des hommes... - Lot 32 - Crait + Müller
Plutarch of Chaeronea. - Les vies des hommes illustres grecs et romains comparées l'une avec l'autre par Plutarque de Chéronée, translatées de grec en françois. Paris, Michel Vascosan, 1559. In-folio bound in brown calf, spine ribbed and decorated - One corner pierced, the other corners collapsed, leather gap on the lower cover, jaws split at head and tail, title page formerly restored, moisture rings on several leaves, folio 450 is mistakenly folioed 449 - [8], 734, [26] ff. (alphabetical table and privilege), large woodcut lettrines, numerous marginal handwritten annotations by several hands from the 16th and 17th centuries. A rare first edition of Jacques Amyot's first translation of Plutarch into French. Provenance: Château de Marcellus
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