(Auteur de l'antiquité) — Theophrastus.- HSixoi xapaKTnpta. Notationes morum. Isaacus Casaubonus recensuit, in latinum sermonem vertit, et libro commentario illustrauit. Editio altera recognita, & aliquot capitibus aucta ex Mss [...]. Lugduni...
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[Lyon], Antonium de Harsy (excudebat Guichardus Jullieron), 1599. In-8° : [24]-351-[1 bl.]-[44]-[2 bl.]-[1] pp. (browned, some foxing, thiny marginal wormholes, some marginal handwritten notes, stains -some strongs-pp. 301334). Modern imitation binding : flexible parchment with small flaps, flat spine with blind title and date, red edges (flyleaves renewed, very slightly trimmed). Second edition (1, ed. : 1592), with parallel text Latin-Greek and with five new Characters infirst edition, given by the humanist and scholar Isaac Casaubon (1559-1614). Work by the Greek philosopher and successor of Aristotle, Theophrastus (c. 371-c. 287) depicting humans faults : flattery, stupidity, impudence, superstition, arrogance, shyness, hypocrisy... Printer’s mark on title-page. # Adams T-574; # Machiels T-150; # Soltész T-147; # not in USTC nor in Baudrier. Provenance : Prof. Dr A. Szekers (label). fl Seconde édition donnée et augmentée par Isaac Casaubon des "Caractères" du philosophe grec Théophraste. Rel. pastiche moderne en plein vélin (bruni, qqs pet. galeries et trous de vers marg., gardes renouvelées).
