(Auteur de l'antiquité) - PLUTARCHUS.- Graecorum Romanorumque illustrium vitae [...]. Basileae, apud Mich. Isingrinium (ex aedibus Mich. Isingrinii), 1553. In-f° : [24]-392 lvs (light dampstains, some foxing or stains, marginal tear repaired in lf....
Estimation :
500 / 600
Description
392). Hybrid binding : calf on wooden boards with brass clasps, blind stamped boards with fillets and ornemental roll-stamps, gilt decorated ribbed spine, title with pen on the fore-edge (joints and parts of the boards repaired, spine renewed in 17th Cent., rubbed, one clasp lacking, flyleaves and pastedowns renewed).
Famous work of the Greek philosopher (46-125) edited among others by Lapo da Castiglionchio the Younger (c. 1405-1438), Leonardo Giustiniani (1388-1446) and Francesco Barbaro (c. 1398-1454). Contains more than 50 biographies, several opposing a Greek to a Roman, often followed by a short comparison between them. Decorated with initial letters (ornemental or historiated) and the printer's marks on title-page and on the back of last leaf. Copy in a fresh condition # Soltész P-707; # Machiels P-1028 (ed. 1547); # USTC 684432; # VD16 ZV 12595; # not in Adams. ▲ Provenance : Dr Charles Groffier (ex-libris). ^ Fameux ouvrage du philosophe grec donné e.a. par L. da Castiglionchio le Jeune, L. Giustiniani et Fr. Barbaro. Plein veau sur ais de bois hybride (claires mouill., rel. frottée, restaurations : dos, mors, partie des plats et coiffes).
Famous work of the Greek philosopher (46-125) edited among others by Lapo da Castiglionchio the Younger (c. 1405-1438), Leonardo Giustiniani (1388-1446) and Francesco Barbaro (c. 1398-1454). Contains more than 50 biographies, several opposing a Greek to a Roman, often followed by a short comparison between them. Decorated with initial letters (ornemental or historiated) and the printer's marks on title-page and on the back of last leaf. Copy in a fresh condition # Soltész P-707; # Machiels P-1028 (ed. 1547); # USTC 684432; # VD16 ZV 12595; # not in Adams. ▲ Provenance : Dr Charles Groffier (ex-libris). ^ Fameux ouvrage du philosophe grec donné e.a. par L. da Castiglionchio le Jeune, L. Giustiniani et Fr. Barbaro. Plein veau sur ais de bois hybride (claires mouill., rel. frottée, restaurations : dos, mors, partie des plats et coiffes).
