Lot 4672
  • 4672

Plutarch (46?-120?).

Estimate
400 - 500 GBP
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Description

  • Omnium quæ exstant operum... Cum latina interpretatione Cruserii & Xylandri. Paris: typis Regiis, apud Societatem Græcarum Editionum, 1624, 2 volumes, (412 x 258mm.), 42, [2], 150, [10], 1076, 114, [44]; [8], 13-80, [48], 1164, [2 (blank)], 84pp., illustration: a few woodcut diagrams in text, binding: contemporary calf, sides ruled in blind, spines gilt in compartments with palmettes and leafy frondes, [Hoffmann iii, p. 340], lacking 2 preliminary leaves in volume 2 (*5-6)
Aristotle (384-322 B.C.). Opera omnia quæ extant, græcè & latinè... Adriani Turnebi, Isaaci Casauboni, Iulii Pacii studio emendatissima... authore Guillelmo Du Val. Paris: typis Regiis, apud Societatem Græcarum Editionum (Antoine Estienne), 1629, 2 volumes, (388 x 244mm.), [32], 184, 1251, [37]; [4], 131, [1 (blank)], 3-1104, [32]pp., binding: contemporary panelled calf, spines gilt in compartments with drawer-handle tools, [Hoffmann i p. 292] 



together 4 volumes, folio, title-pages printed in red and black, parallel Greek and Latin text, illustration: engraved portraits of the authors on title-pages, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, bindings all rubbed, upper cover of  volume 1 of Aristotle detached

Condition

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