PLUTARCHUS Les oeuvres morales & meslees (...) [rev. trsl. from the Greek Jacques Amyot]. 1575Paris,M. Vascosan (& F. Morel),folio, old mottled calf (rubbed, sm. def., some corners bumped), spine on 6 raised bands with gilt labels, sp. edges,...
Estimation :
800 / 1200
Adjudication :
850 €
Description
[6]-668-[88] ff. (1st ff. marginally dampstained). Good copy.
Rev. ed. (1st 1572) of the French trsl. of Plutarch's philosophical essays by the scholar J. Amyot (1513-1593), teacher of Charles IX and Henri II, famous as a Greek translator. It is one of the masterpieces of French Renaissance prose - in fact a greater scholarly performance than the "Lives", but less succesful. The printing was done by Vascosan and his son-in-law Morel. Index in 3 cols. Cont. ownership entries on title of i.a. "Ludovici de Thesut" (1538-1623), author of "Melanges historiques", 1589, and of another member of this Châlons family, "Caroli Benigni de Thesut". Bookseller's stamps. Ref. Pettegree FB 44127. Dumoulin, Morel 254. Hoffmann III:385. STCFrench (BL London) 358. Not in Adams. Joined : Idem - Les vies des hommes illustres Grecs & Romains, comparees l'une avec l'autre (...) [trsl. from the Greek Jacques Amyot] [and] Les vies de Annibal & de Scipion l'Africain [trsl. from the Latin Charles de l'Escluse]. Lausanne, Fr. Le Preux, 1574, folio, uniformly bound with the "Oeuvres morales", [16]-1336-[44] pp. (title soiled, occ. spotting). Very good copy. New ed. (1st Paris 1559) of the famous French trsl. of Plutarch's "Lives" by J. Amyot. Ill. with 50 small circular woodcut portraits within a border of type ornaments. It is one of the masterpieces of French Renaissance prose - Montaigne called it "nostre bréviaire". 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). The present ed. adds 2 similar lives translated from Latin by Carolus Clusius (1526-1609). Woodcut mark on title and at the end. Provenance identical with the "Oeuvres morales". Collector's stamps and notes Empain Gérard. Ref. Pettegree FB 44125. Cp. Adams P-1625 (1575 issue). Not in Hoffmann, STCFrench (BL London), BN Paris. (2 vol.)
Rev. ed. (1st 1572) of the French trsl. of Plutarch's philosophical essays by the scholar J. Amyot (1513-1593), teacher of Charles IX and Henri II, famous as a Greek translator. It is one of the masterpieces of French Renaissance prose - in fact a greater scholarly performance than the "Lives", but less succesful. The printing was done by Vascosan and his son-in-law Morel. Index in 3 cols. Cont. ownership entries on title of i.a. "Ludovici de Thesut" (1538-1623), author of "Melanges historiques", 1589, and of another member of this Châlons family, "Caroli Benigni de Thesut". Bookseller's stamps. Ref. Pettegree FB 44127. Dumoulin, Morel 254. Hoffmann III:385. STCFrench (BL London) 358. Not in Adams. Joined : Idem - Les vies des hommes illustres Grecs & Romains, comparees l'une avec l'autre (...) [trsl. from the Greek Jacques Amyot] [and] Les vies de Annibal & de Scipion l'Africain [trsl. from the Latin Charles de l'Escluse]. Lausanne, Fr. Le Preux, 1574, folio, uniformly bound with the "Oeuvres morales", [16]-1336-[44] pp. (title soiled, occ. spotting). Very good copy. New ed. (1st Paris 1559) of the famous French trsl. of Plutarch's "Lives" by J. Amyot. Ill. with 50 small circular woodcut portraits within a border of type ornaments. It is one of the masterpieces of French Renaissance prose - Montaigne called it "nostre bréviaire". 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). The present ed. adds 2 similar lives translated from Latin by Carolus Clusius (1526-1609). Woodcut mark on title and at the end. Provenance identical with the "Oeuvres morales". Collector's stamps and notes Empain Gérard. Ref. Pettegree FB 44125. Cp. Adams P-1625 (1575 issue). Not in Hoffmann, STCFrench (BL London), BN Paris. (2 vol.)
