[...] Les vyes de huict excellens & renommez personnaiges grecz & romains, mises au parangon lune de laultre [...] [trsl. Georges de Selve].

Folio: [4]-123-[1 bl.] ff. (dampstained throughout, some outer margins rather heavily stained).

18th-c. brown morocco, covers gilt ruled with fillets and roll-stamps decorated with tools and with central monogram (unidentified), gilt decorated spine on raised bands, gilt roll-stamp on the boards, gilt inside dentelle, "Brokaat Papier" on inner covers and endpapers, gilt marbled edges (dampstained, joints split, light scratches).

First French edition of a translation by the ecclesiastic and diplomat G. de Selve of the selection of 8 lives (Themistocles, Furius Camillus, Pericles, Fabius Maximus, Alcibiades, Gaius Marcius, Timoleon of Corinth and Lucius Aemilius Paullus) from Plutarch's famous work. Ornamented initials, one dotted in the "Prologue". Ref. STC French 359. - BP16 111388. - Not in Adams, Soltész, Machiels. Prov. Gérard Michel de La Jonchère (armorial bookpl.). - Lt. Veydt, Bruxelles (stamp). - Ms. note in pencil "vente Veydt nov. 1920". - [Georges Petit].