La prima [- seconda et ultima] parte delle vite [...]. Tradotte et novamente con le sue historie ristampate.

4to, 2 parts in 1 vol.: 303, 215-[1 bl.] ff. (last blank in part I lacking, soiling and some staining, one larger stain in lower margin of part II, small tears in f. clviii of 2d part).

Mod. half pigskin, red paper boards, flat spine with blind fillets, blue marbled edges. Good copy.

Rare Venice edition of the translation of Plutarch's "Lives" (of famous Greeks & Romans) by Battista Alessandro Jaconello, a native of Riete, Italian humanist in the service of the Spanish kingdom of Naples. Woodcut illustrations: titles within different ornamented borders (2nd dotted), 1 historiated initial, 2 endpieces (fig. the portrait of Andrea Gritti, 77th Doge of Venice), 51 ills in text. Followed after a blank leaf with the life of Marcus Brutus illustrated with 1 woodcut (16 ff.; dampstained, 2nd f. torn without lack). Printed in italics, in 2 cols. 2nd title in red & black. Ref. Edit 16 41051 and 74888. - Essling 598 b (2nd part). - Sander 5787-5788. - Hoffmann III:390/391. - Not in Mortimer, Adams, Machiels, STC Italian. Prov. Ms. entry crossed out on t.-p. of part I. - Marginalia in Italian in part I, underlinings.