Les oeuvres morales et meslees [...]. Translatees du grec en françois par Messire Jaques Amyot [...]. Nouvellement reveuës et corrigees en ceste seconde edition en plusieurs passages par le translateur.

Folio: [6]-650-[47 (of 48)] ff. (last (index) f. missing; title underl., first inner margins and last outer margins strengthened, dampstaining, foxing, some sl. soiling or staining, sm. hole in text in f. 209, wormtrack in some inner margins, ff. &&&&&4 and 5 inverted, tears with some loss in last f.).

19th-c. three-quarter sheep, marbled paper boards, gilt-ruled spine with raised bands, red edges (def. and very rubbed, pastedowns and flyleaves renewed).

Second famous French translation by Amyot published the same year as the first (6 parts, 8vo). Title within a woodcut historiated border.
Ref. Adams P-1644. - Pettegree (FB) 44122. - STC German 706. - Cp. Hoffmann III:212 (1st Fr. ed.). - Not in VD16.
Prov. "L J Boosten" (ms. entry).