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Paris: Michel de Vascosan, 1565. Folio. 23.5 x 37cm. Full calf, 18th Century binding. A few defects on the extremities. 734, [25] leaves. Lacks the title page and the first 8 leaves. Signatures: b-z⁶ A-2Z⁶ ²2A-3Z⁶ ²3A-3G⁶ 3H-3I⁴ ²A-C⁶ D-E⁴A few pages with marginal stains....OCLC Number: 490486928...This second edition in French of Amyot is the translation that served as the basis for Thomas North's English version. Shakespeare used Plutarch as a primary source for Julius Caesar, Anthony and Cleopatra, and Coriolanus.... Plutarque - Les vies des Hommes illustres, Grecs & Romains, comparées l'une avec l'autre. [Paris, Michel de Vascosan, 1565]. In-folio plein veau (reliure du XVIIIeme), 734, 25 feuillets. Manque la page de titre et les 8 premiers feuillets.

A Paris : Chez Gilles Beys, rue S. Iaques, au Lis Blanc, M. D. LXXVIIII[ m1578]. Folio. 27 x 41cm. Contemporary calf with gilt coat of arms on covers; new half Sokoto goat spine, with original label preseved, by the artisan binder Sasha Mosalov. Preliminary pages repaired, some with waterstains. Very thick book = 9cm. [24], 1429, [68f] pp. 56 woodcut portraits en medallions of 65 subjects... OCLC Number:260354355...Notes: Printer's name from colophon.Signatures: ã⁶ A-6K⁶ 7L⁴.Includes indexes.Description: [24], 999, 1002-1429, [69] p. : ports. ; 42 cm. (fol.)Other Titles: Lives.Vies des hommes illvstres Grecs et RomainsResponsibility: comparees l'vne auec l'autre par Plutarque de Chaeronee. Translatees par M. Iacques Amyot conseiller du roy, &c. par luy reueuës et corrigees en infinis passages. Auec les vies d'Annibal et de Scipion l'Africain, traduites de Latin en François par Charles de l'Ecluse. Enrichies en ceste derniere d'amples sommaires sur chacune vie: d'annotations… Read More

Paris : Michel de Vascosan, 1559. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. [Editio princeps of Amyot's translation Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans.] Thick folio, 36.3 x 25 x 4.4 cm. Bound in contemporary mottled calf. Some restoration work to joints. All edges red. Collated: [8], 734, [26] leaves. Historiated initials, printers devices. First few leaves have marginal worming. Early signature of Doni Le Royer (sp?). <br> First edition of Plutarch's Lives by the scholar Jacques Amyot (1513-1593). Amyot was the teacher of Charles IX and Henri II, and famous as a Greek translator. - Mortimer. It is one of the masterpieces of French Renaissance prose - Montaigne called it "nostre breviaire." Amyot's French version was translated into English by Sir Thomas North (1535-1604) and soon became "Shakespeare's Plutarch", a major source for his Roman and Greek plays (Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Timon of Athens). <br> Refs.… Read More

Paris & Lausanne: Michel de Vascosan & François le Preux, 1575. Third Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Early French editions of Plutarch's Morals and Lives published in 1575 and 1574-5 respectively (originally published in 1572 and 1559). Uniformly bound in early (17th/18th century) acid calf, modest wear, surface scrapes, one corner bumped and soft, a few minor worm holes, tears, but intact and sound overall. Small dampstain to bottom of first first pages of morales, occasional minor stains, foxing, but generally very fresh. Endpapers worn, front joint cracked on morales and endpapers a little loose, bindings likely tightened, old manuscript notes to titles and final leaf on morales and early minor notes scattered in Lives. Minor dampstaining scattered and at the top edge towards the end of lives. (6), 668 ll, privilege, index. (16), 1336, index, final colophon leaf with printer's mark present. Graesse 5 367 (Lives), Adams 1625, 1643 (the 1574 ed.).… Read More