Plutarch, Vite de gli huomini illustri Greci et Romani, Venice, 1587, 2 volumes, vellum

Plutarch

Vite... de gli huomini illustri greci et romani, nuovamente tradotte per Lodovico Domenichi & altri. Venice: Felice Valgrisi, 1587

2 volumes, 4to (209 x 150mm.), woodcut device on title-pages, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, woodcut medallion portraits within woodcut frames at start of each life, seventeenth-century vellum, blue edges, lower corner of eee5 torn, slight staining towards end of first volume

One of Domenichi's numerous translations of classical works into Italian, first published in 1555. Appended are a few further lives, of Pomponius Atticus, Plato, Aristotle and Charlemagne, in the manner of Plutarch.

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Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane (1775-1860, later tenth earl of Dundonald), armorial bookplates