Live auction - Lot 902
Le tresor des vies de Plutarque, contenant plusieurs sentences notables & hare[n]gues des empereurs [...] tant Grecz que Romains [...]. Nouuellement recueillis [...] & enrichis des portraicts d’iceux empereurs.
Paris, Cl. Micard, 1577
€ 200 / 300
Live bidding (Drouot*) Live bidding (Invaluable*)Bidding is closed
Lot description
16mo: 221-[2, 1 bl.] ff. (stain on ff. 177-178 and in blank bottom margin at end).
Cont. limp overl. vellum, covers with blind-ruled border and central ornament, spine titled in ink, a.e.g. (head def., edges soiled). Very good copy.
Rare French anthology of Plutarch’s famous collection of biographies of Greek and Roman political and military leaders. Ill. with 31 woodcut medallion portraits. Woodcut mark on title. Ref. Pettegree 44135 [3]. - Not in Adams, BP16, Hoffmann, STC French (BL).